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constants in his spiritual journey. The sources on which he regularly drew remained quite traditional ones: the Scriptures, the fathers of the church, the breviary, the liturgy, the lives of the...

Correspondence: (July 1995)

CORRESPONDENCE There'll always be.... Palo Alto, Calif. To the Editors: No doubt your recent comments about the beauty and mystery of British postal addresses ["Et Cetera," June 2] will open the...

Embattled parish: (February 1990)

REPORT FROM EL SALVADOR EMBATTLED PARISH GRINGO MAGI FIND JESUS The old man who helped the three of us out of the van in front of the Cristo Salvador parish church in the Zacamil area of San...

Religious Book Week Choices (February 1980)

mannerisms are just slightly off. In the film, though not in the film. He ought to be, since it's better than his novel. In the book, there is an irony in the fact that the acceptance of Chance...

ELI WIESEL'S SONG: LOST & FOUND AGAIN (July 1974)

T HE MYSTERY of the coming of Mes- siah, the belief that history moves toward a culmination and fulfillment, is one thing Jews and Christians share in common, even though they...

MAYDAY FOR AMERICA (May 1970)

MAYDAY FOR AMERICA Mobilizing the outraged ROBERT McAFEE BROWN Geneva It is one week, as I write, since Mr. Nixon ordered the invasion of Cambodia. That week seems a lifetime, a lifetime of...

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (November 1969)

MARY DALY ON THE CHURCH one has then moved out of the "old en- Questions Q In this period of change and vironment" of Catholic...

AN ECUMENICAL BOON?: (September 1968)

'Humanae Vitae' AN ECUMENICAL BOON? ROBERT McAFEE BROWN With one stroke of the pen, Pope Paul has cut through and resolved the most vexing ecumenical problem of all: what is to be our...

DELEGATE'S EYE-VIEW: (August 1968)

DELEGATE'S EYE-VIEW ROBERT McAFEE BROWN While introducing the report of the Committee on Faith and Order, Bishop Lesslie Newbigin told a story about a passenger on a train bound for Dublin. The...

STOP HUMPHREY! (July 1968)

STOP HUMPHREY! I am willing to concede the likelihood, if not the inevitability of a Nixon nomination, appalling as that strikes me, for I see no indication that the Republican party has recovered...

DECALOGUE AND DIALOGUE: (April 1968)

A Protestant Viewpoint DECALOGUE AND DIALOGUE ROBERT McAFEE BROWN There is a story about a Navy chaplain who preached a series of sermons on the Ten Commandments. Each Sunday a huge seaman...

THE CHURCH AND VIETNAM (October 1967)

willing to take the position that the burden of government policy should tend to fall on those most able to bear it, not on those who can least afford it. The costs of inflation may be likened to...

WHAT PRICE AGGIORNAMENTO?: (September 1967)

A Protestant Viewpoint WHAT PRICE AGGIORNAMENTO ? ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN As Adam...

PAUL VI'S SECULAR ECUMENISM (May 1967)

protest in regard to foreign policy, and intellectuals have no acknowledged role in the nation's affairs. The only advantage we do have, and it is an important one, is the right to organize and...

A LOSS TO US ALL: (April 1967)

linger, Abbe de Lamennais, or Cardinal Newman. The which he owes so much and to which he could have given parallel, sadly, must be drawn from more recent days and so much. is...

CATHOLIC BISHOPS AND VIETNAM (March 1967)

one only, make the public witness of a silent vigil in front of the White House. I find it hard to see how any of these activities (save, to the most diffident, the last one) could possibly cause...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE U.S. BISHOPS (February 1967)

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE U. S. BISHOPS Robert McAfee Brown, professor of religion at Stanford and regular columnist for Commonweal, wrote this letter February 3, after returning from the recent...

PIGSKIN ECUMENISM (February 1967)

A Protestant-Catholic Viewpoint PIGSKIN ECUMENISM ROBERT McAFEE BROWN & MICHAEL NOVAK "A liberal Catholic," the bishop suggested, "is one who doesn't care whether Notre Dame wins or loses." By...

THE COUNCIL-ONE YEAR LATER (January 1967)

Comments by three Protestant Observers THE COUNCIL—ONE YEAR LATER Albert C. Outler Just as before Vatican II, it was hard to imagine a reformation in the Roman Catholic Church, so also, after...

USING COUNCIL DOCUMENTS (May 1966)

opposition, the Peking regime will assume China's Security Council seat. Had it held that seat during the Kashmir conflict, for example, it could, and no doubt would have wreaked havoc with...

PAUL TILLICH (January 1966)

The university is crucial SPANISH STUDENTS REBEL 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GABRIEL JACKSON The Spanish universities have been plunged in their current state of extreme tension for about...

CREEDS AND CONFESSIONS (November 1965)

A Protestant Viewpoint CREEDS AND CONFESSIONS ROBERT MeAFEE BROWN What is the relationship of a church to its creedal and confessional statements? To what degree is a church bound to...

ECUMENICAL QUALMS (September 1965)

d Protestant viewpoint ECUMENICAL QUALMS O O _9 O _9 O _9 O _9 O _9 O _9 ROBERT MeAFEE BROWN As the ecumenical situation continues to develop in a variety of ways, it is clear that we confront...

CONCORD AT LEXINGTON (June 1965)

A Protestant viewpoint O O O O O O O O O _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 CONCORD AT LEXINGTON ROBERT MeAFEE BROWN The recent Consultation on Church Union held at Lexington, Kentucky, may have had more...

ECUMENICAL ESCALATION (March 1965)

A Protestant Viewpoint ECUMENICAL ESCALATION •••••••••••••• ROBERT MC AFEE BROWN The conclusion of the third session of the Council was, as I suggested in my last column, a matter of some...

Apprehensions About the Council (December 1964)

will lead them if they can find no human guidance. Efforts to frustrate the messianic mission cannot succeed; they may produce a bloody slaughter—the Innocents die as Jesus died—but the saving act...

Protestantism and Authority (October 1964)

A Protestant Viewpoint Protestantism and Authority ROBERT McAFEE BROWN WHERE, for the Protestant, is authority located? The Catholic answer to this question is probably almost automatic: in "the...

The New Encyclical (September 1964)

mal message ... simply to fulfill our duty of revealing our mind to you." The Pope admitted candidly that the ideas he put forth in it were not fully developed and referred to the encyclical as a...

Ecumenism Behind Bars (September 1964)

and elementally wrong at the very core of existence, something that no revolution, no matter how com-prehensive, could remedy. IT IS the residue of alienation, still persistently pres- ent in...

An Open Letter to the American Bishops (June 1964)

An Open Letter to the American Bishops ROBERT McAFEE BROWN Venerabiles patres et carissimi fratres in Christo: By what right do I, a non-Roman Catholic, presume to offer you advice—which is...

Postscript on 'The Deputy' (May 1964)

A Protestant Viewpoint Postscript on 'The Deputy' ROBERT McAFEE BROWN ANYONE WHO wishes to comment on Rolf Hochhuth's "The Deputy" and who does not live in New York labors under the...

An Ecumenical Pioneer (February 1964)

A Protestant Viewpoint An Ecumenical Pioneer ROBERT McAFEE BROWN ONE OF MY first public appearances with Father Gus-tave Weigel, S.J., was at St. Peter's College in Jersey City. We were on a...

A Protestant Assessment (December 1963)

The Vatican Council A Protestant Assessment ROBERT McAFEE BROWN NEXT Wednesday, December 4, Deo volente and the Council fathers consenting, the Pope will promulgate the constitution On the Sacred...

Reformation Sunday in Rome (November 1963)

ROBERT McAFEE BROWN Reformation Sunday in Rome A Protestant Viewpoint AS I WAS riding into Rome from the Fiumcino Airport, I fell into conversation with two English priests who were coming to do...

What the Pope Said (November 1963)

A PROTESTANT VIEWPOINT What the Pope Said ROBERT McAFEE BROWN ONE OF THE traffic signs in Geneva near the World Council of Churches, which I visited before arriving in Rome for the Vatican...

The Race Race (October 1963)

A Protestant View The Race Race ROBERT McAFEE BROWN 1963 WILL go down in history as the year of the test-ban treaty, and, perhaps even more significantly, as the year of major civil rights...

The Rock Book: A Protestant Viewpoint (July 1963)

The Rock Book-II A Protestant Viewpoint ROBERT McAFEE BROWN FROM TIME to time since this column was inaugurated, Protestant correspondents have urged me to "get with it," and start raising...

Voice of the Good Shepherd (June 1963)

mark of honor his own church can bestow upon him. So we non-Catholics share with our Roman Catholic brethren in their sorrow, for it is also our sorrow. And it is assuaged only by the recognition...

The Coming of Kung (April 1963)

in the neighborhood," he says, "you just wouldn't get him." Other domestic peace corps volunteers will follow the stream of migratory workers in California, serving as teachers' aides and...

Monoliths: Existent and Non-Existent (March 1963)

A PROTESTANT VIEWPOINT Monoliths: Existent and Non-Existent ONE OF the most familiar and understandable Catholic perplexities about Protestantism is occasioned by the latter's bewildering...

Prayer and Unity (February 1963)

posed that negotiators agree to submit the matter to a both sides of the dispute in bargaining on terms of a vote of the workers with-and this was an outright con- general...

Catholic Journal, Protestant Columnist (January 1963)

A PROTESTANT VIEWPOINT Catholic Journal, Protestant Columnist I APPROACH the task of writing a column for The ignorant of things Protestant as Protestants are of...

Rules for the Dialogue (February 1960)

Catholic-Protestant Relations Rules for the Dialogue EDITORS" NOTE: Dr. Brown is a member of the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in New York and is on the editorial board of Christianity...

Of Note: A Lamentable "Protestant" Strategy (April 1957)

OF NOTE A LAMENTABLE "PROTESTANT" STRATEGY WRITING IN Christianity and Crisis (537 West 121st Street, New York 27, N.Y.), the Rev. Robert McAfee Brown of Union Theological Seminary takes issue...

Types of Anti-Catholicism (November 1955)

A PROTESTANT VIEW Types of Anti-Catholicism ROBERT McAFEE BROWN A S the nation at large has been reminded during the recent spate of "Reformation Sunday" sermons, addresses and rallies,...

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