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AuthorAthanasius, Sister Mary
AuthorAtkins, Anselm
AuthorAtkins, Arthur
AuthorAtlas, James
AuthorAtlas, John
AuthorAtteva, Richard
AuthorAttivater, Donald
AuthorAttiwater, Donald
AuthorAttwater, by Donald
AuthorAttwater, DonaId
AuthorAttwater, Donald
Paid articleMonks of Unity (January 1960)
EFFORTS TOWARD REUNION Monks of Unity by DONALD ATTWATER I T HAS TAKEN the summoning of an Ecumenical Council, and the papal declaration that among the subjects of its deliberation will be the...
Paid articleLives of the Saints (July 1957)
Lives of the Saints DONALD ATTWATER THE FIRST best seller in the history of book publishing was James of Voragine's Legenda Sanctorum which was first printed, in Latin, in 1470. Under the name of...
Paid articleThy Servant, Our Queen (May 1953)
"Thy Servant, Our Queen" DONALD ATTWATER INGS are few enough in these days; and those who have the royal crown conferred on them by a Christian religious rite are even fewer. The sovereigns of...
Paid articleAmericans Abroad: the Missionary Approach (January 1952)
FROM ENGLAND Americans Abroad'." Missionary Approach A LITTLE time back a nice young American ,from the Mi&dle West, studying economics in England, spent some time .as a lodger "m the home of...
Paid articleAppeal to the People (October 1951)
The second da.rrger is the possibility of inverting man's place in the u.n,iverse. This is the danger of hu,ma,ntism. We have been endlessly speaking of human righ,ts, as though there was not...
Paid articleThe Present State of Religion (August 1951)
The Present State of Religion SOME 75 years ago an observer of English life prophesied that no cathedral would ever again be built in England. Since that Jeremiah gave tongue, three great...
Paid articleBritain Seen by an American (July 1951)
Britain Seen by an American A SHORT time back an American writer—whom I will call Dr. Smith—in an American Catholic review gave a survey of his experience of England in general and London in...
Paid articleHilaire Belloc, Grand Old Man (June 1951)
282 FROM ENGLAND Hilaire Belloc, Grand Old Man GEORGE BERNARD SHAW often hit the headlines of the daily press with some piece of audacious wit or cutting contempt for general opinion. Hilaire...
Paid articleA Matter of Private Enterprise (June 1951)
A Matter of Private Enterprise WHEN Hollywood's Robert Montgomery was over here some time back 'he had the choice of finishing a series of radio talks to America with an interview with either...
Paid articleAnglo-American Relations (May 1951)
FROM ENGLAND A nglo-A merican Relations SOME little time back The Commonweal remarked editorially that "the battle for Europe requires of the United States a far better...
Paid articleThe Festival of Britain (April 1951)
The Festival of Britain FOR a long time now the Festival of Britain has been a fruitful source of domestic jokes over here. Some of the jokes are none too friendly towards the undertaking, and...
Paid articleFarms, Schools and Churches (March 1951)
FROM ENGLAND Farms, Schools and Churches THE London publishing house of Kegan Paul & Company publishes a series portentously called The International Library of Sociology and Social...
Paid articleBeveridge and the BBC (March 1951)
FROM ENGLAND Beveridge and the BBC I HAVE from time to time found it difficult to persuade some Americans that radio in Great Britain is not nationalized, in the sense of being a monopoly operated...
Paid article"Any Questions?" (December 1950)
FROM ENGLAND "Any Questions?" AMONG the weekly radio features in the southwestern section of England is one called "Any Questions?" Half a dozen men (not always the same men), well mixed as regards...
Paid articleVoice of the Simple (December 1950)
FROM ENGLAND Voice of the Simple WALKING recently in the crowded streets of London, an American expressed regret that he could not stay longer in England and learn something of the people at large;...
Paid articleLondon's East End (November 1950)
FROM ENGLAND London's East End AN ever-recurring topic in The Commonweal is the problem of American minorities, especially Negroes and Jews: and I find that even well-informed Americans sometimes do...
Paid articleA Hundred Years After (September 1950)
602 THE COMMONWEAL FROM ENGLAND A Hundred Years After IN THE year 1559 all the bishops, save one, of the Catholic Church in England and Wales refused to accept Queen Elizabeth's...
Paid articleNo More Crusades (September 1950)
FROM ENGLAND No More Crusades SEVERAL PEOPLE who are kind enough to read this column have inquired why I do not write about political things, at least one of them hinting that I am riddling...
Paid articleVictorian America (August 1950)
FROM ENGLAND Victorian America THIS COLUMN is supposed to be concerned primarily with Great Britain and her people. This month I devote it to some light reflections on an aspect of Americans...
Paid articleFestival of Makers (June 1950)
FROM ENGLAND Festival of Makers ON THE first Monday in August there will assemble at Caerphilly in South Wales thousands of Welsh men, women and children, from their own country and England and...
Paid articleThe Minor Vices (June 1950)
FROM ENGLAND The Minor Vices ANY "serious-minded" visitor from England to the United States or vice-versa can hardly escape making comparative observations of the addiction of the people of...
Paid articleThe Scope of a Catholic Paper (February 1950)
February 24, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 529 Europe than with anyone Labor is likely to pro- has proposed or done. Partly, no doubt,...
Paid articleIN TRUST FOR A PEOPLE (September 1948)
In Trust for a People DONALD ATTWATER GREAT BRITAIN is a tiny country. The total area of England, Wales and Scotland is only a little more than that of the State of Minnesota. It is a highly...
Paid articleThe Church in Eastern Europe (September 1946)
September 27, I946 THE COM the tall, thin, 6a-year-old scholarly author bears in his breast one of the most generous hearts in the world. Called the second saint of the Congress after Gandhi,...
Paid articleThe Church in Eastern Europe (September 1946)
The Church in Eastern Europe The formative aspects of its long history Donald Attwater Ig"]['~ YF YR hyn sydd o'r hynfu": that is a I Welsh proverb meaning "What is, grows from what was." And...
Paid articleTHE INNER FORUM (March 1946)
532 THE COMMONWEAL March 8, 1946 The Inner Forum The Ukrainian Tragedy HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII has addressed a letter to the Ruthenian Catholic clergy and people on the occasion of the...
Paid articleTHE PELIGIOUS SITUATION IN EASTERN POLAND (May 1945)
May II, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 87 policy. Finally the different moments, the sequence in time of the liberation of men's minds, have left existing also a varying personal experience, and these...
Paid article"Behold a Great Priest..." (March 1945)
52* The Inner Forum ''Behold a Great Priest . . ." TWICE during the past several months this column has been devoted to our Catholic citizens of Ukrainian origin. And it would not be fitting...
Paid articleBLACK AND WHITE IN ENGLAND (January 1945)
January 5, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 299 Black and White in England DONALD ATTWATER IT WAS well known even before the war that here in Great Britain the general line on colored people (in so far...
Paid articleMediation Rounf Mr. Paulding: The Problem of Oue Society: Ezra Pound (December 1944)
172 THE COMMONWEAL December 1, 1944 Communications MEDITATION ROUND MR. PAULDING Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales. TO the Editors: I have never met Mr. Paulding. 1 know nothing...
Paid articleCHRISTIAN REVOLUTIONARIES (March 1944)
Christian Revolutionaries DONALD ATTWATER THERE is an English proverb, "Give a dog a bad name, and hang him." It is an old dodge, which can be found in action throughout recorded history. It was,...
Paid articleTHE INNER FORUM (January 1944)
The Inner Forum More Greek Rite Catholics UNFORTUNATELY it cannot be assumed even at this time of day that all Latin-rite Catholics in America are as well informed as they should be about their...
Paid articleRELIGION IN ENGLAND (May 1943)
115 Religion in England What it means to most Englishmen. By Donald Attwater IN THE ISSUE of this review of September 25, 1942, writing about educational work in his Britannic Majesty's armed...
Paid articleBLACKFRIAR'S SCHOOL (April 1943)
36 THE COMMONWEAL April 30, 1943 the Air Force, and quite literally sent to college. They may take courses lasting...
Paid articleENGLAND'S ACRES AT WAR (August 1942)
England's Acres at War Tractor and plow are freeing ships. By Donald Attwater OF ALL the materials and goods of every kind utilized or consumed by the people of the U.S.A. every year, only one...
Paid articleBYRON AND THE MONKS (August 1941)
Byron and the Monks Armenian was one of the poet's little-known avocations. By Donald Attwater REVIEWING recently the "Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature," Harry Binsse commented on the...
Paid articleTHE "WAR" BEHIND THE WAR (July 1941)
The "War" Behind the War What military efforts can do and what they can't. By Donald Attwater WHATEVER the ultimate causes, and even the proximate occasions, of the present world conflict, there...
Paid articleLETTER FROM ENGLAND (April 1941)
638 THE COMMONWEAL April 18, 1941 H. C. F. BELL. Letter from England By DONALD ATTWATER THE DISCUSSION that has been going on for so long in THE COMMONWEAL among its contributing editors and...
Paid articleIN MEMORIAM ERIC GILL (February 1941)
In Memoriam: Eric Gill f November 17, 1940 By Donald Attwater I T IS POSSIBLE that before these lines are in print the public will be able to read Eric Gill's own account of his life, for three...
Paid articleENGLISH CATHOLIC "FASCISTS"? (January 1941)
English Catholic "Fascists"? What are they said to be, and how have they built up the picture? By Donald Attwater F ROM time to time there are references in the press of the United States to what...
Paid articleTHE INNER FORUM (October 1940)
534 THE COMMONWEAL October 18, 1940 Sullivan, Paul Horgan and Morley Callaghan-for between...
Paid articleCHRISTIANS IN CHRIST'S LAND (December 1939)
rYF yr hyn sydd o'r hyn fu, says the Welsh proverb: "What is grows from what was"; an obvious truth, a platitude, but none the less frequently forgotten. When confronted, for example, by the...
Paid articleBOLSHEVIST PERSECUTION MARCHES WEST (November 1939)
AN "ECCLESIASTICAL GEOGRAPHY" of the USSR would furnish many of as with considerable surprises. We are so used to thinking of Russia as the great stronghold of Eastern Orthodoxy (and rightly)...
Paid articleA FOURTH CENTURY MODERN (May 1939)
A Fourth Century Modern The perennial problem of riches and poverty affected Saint John Chrysostom much as it affects contemporary Christians. By Donald S AINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, who...
Paid articleRURAL COLLEGES IN ENGLAND (March 1939)
[540] Rural Colleges in England By DONALD ATTWATER PEOPLE who know about these things (and it is more than a matter of statistics) tell me that England is, relative to her size,...
Paid articleWELSH NATIONALISM (January 1939)
Welsh Nationalism By DONALD ATTWATER THE NATIVE inhabitants of Wales are the purest surviving representatives of the people who lived in what is now England and Wales before the...
Paid articleWAR AND YOU AND I (November 1938)
[61] War and You and I By DONALD ATTWATER TODAY war, and even preparations for possible war, present problems to the individual with an insistence unknown in the past. Since 1914...
Paid articleIn England-Recently (October 1938)
66o THE COMMONWEAL October 21, 1938 And even to the extent that the increase of women workers does represent the decrease of a certain number of men workers, the statement of the fact carries no...
Paid articleTHE POSITION OF THE "ORTHODOX" (June 1938)
The Position of the "Orthodox" By DONALD ATTWATER ALTHOUGH relative to the total populalation the number of dissident Eastern Orthodox in the United States is not large, nevertheless that number...
Paid articlePassing the Buck (October 1936)
PASSING THE BUCK By DONALD ATTWATER THERE are principles in Communism, especially in its Marxian interpretation, which make it necessary that Christianity should...
Paid articlePeople, Press and Propaganda (July 1936)
337 PEOPLE, PRESS AND PROPAGANDA By DONALD ATTWATER WHAT I said about the press in the last issue of The Commonweal is of equal effect where individual people are concerned, for in...
Paid articlePeople, Press and Propaganda (July 1936)
317 PEOPLE, PRESS AND PROPAGANDA By DONALD ATTWATER IT is often asked: "What exactly is the value to the Church of the Catholic press? What is the ideal Catholic ...
Paid articleThe Church of the Codex (May 1934)
THE CHURCH OF THE CODEX By DONALD ATTWATER A FEW weeks after the uncovering of its ancient frescoes had brought the Church of the Holy Wisdom at Constantinople into the news, general attention was...
Paid articleThe Church of the Mosaics (January 1934)
347 THE CHURCH OF THE MOSAICS By DONALD ATTWATER THE EXPERT labors of Mr. Thomas Whittemore and the generous donations of the Byzantine Institute of America for the uncovering of the mosaics...
Paid articleBirthplace of Saint Patrick (March 1931)
FOR A long time now the birthplace of Saint Patrick has been a matter of keen controversy, though perhaps it is known to but few Irishmen that their great apostle was certainly not of Irish birth...
Paid articleThis Talk about Art (July 1929)
311 THIS TALK ABOUT ART By DONALD ATTWATER THE Church has always been the mother of the arts. Reduced from its oratorical form to the limitations of historical fact, this statement means that...
Paid articleConditions in Palestine (January 1927)
318 THE COMMONWEAL January 26, 1927 CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE By DONALD ATTWATER T O THOSE who know something of the real history of Europe and have the traditional Christian conscience of...
Paid articleOn the Contemplative Life (September 1926)
404 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 ON THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE ...
AuthorAtwell, Henry
AuthorAUBREY, EDWIN E.
AuthorAubrey, Stephen
AuthorAuden, W. H.
AuthorAUDETTE, GENE
AuthorAufhauser, J.
AuthorAUGER, (REV.) GEORGE
AuthorAugur
AuthorAugust, Kayla
AuthorAuld, Madeleine Swift
AuthorAultman-Moore, Virginia
AuthorAUMAN, MICHAEL
AuthorAuschwitz, Benedict at
AuthorAuslander, Joseph
AuthorAUSPERK, MICHAEL D.
AuthorAusten, Richard
AuthorAUSTIN, D. ANDREW
AuthorAustin, Mary
AuthorAvakian, Tanya
AuthorAVALLONE, ANTHONY F.
AuthorAvery, Claribel Weeks
AuthorAvery, Theodore M. Jr.
AuthorAvineri, Shlomo
AuthorAwad, Habib J.
AuthorAwad, Joseph
AuthorAwner, Max
AuthorAyers, William R.
AuthorAylward, Francis
AuthorAYLWARD, RICHARD A.
AuthorAyo, Nicholas
AuthorAyres, Bill
AuthorAyres, Edward L.
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