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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...

What is bothering me (January 1994)

11111111 What is bothering me JOHN COGLEY I'll tell you what is bothering me. How does a writer keep himself from getting such a vested interest in certain ideas that he feels called upon...

THE SILVER AND THE GOLD (November 1973)

THE SILVER AND THE GOLD JOHN COGLEY Growing up Catholic in Chicago June 10, 1955 ¥ ran across this sentence in Leslie Fiedler's collection ¦*• of essays An End to Innocence: "We have...

What Do the People Say? (October 1968)

THE C R I S I S - - - l l WHAT DO THE PEOPLE SAY? 0 0 _9 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 In the light of Humanae Vitae and the authority crisis in the Archdiocese of Washington and elsewhere, a...

THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION (June 1967)

THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 9 Catholic universities [ace the [ate o[ the papal states JOHN COGLEY Recently, in a speech to the National Council of Catholic Men, Bishop...

A Conversational Letter (September 1964)

Western cultural influence in the country. Thus the Bucharest magazine Lumea (World) ventured to publish the translation of Walter Lippmann's critical assessment of Senator Goldwater. Translations...

The Bishops and the Thinkers (September 1964)

publicity. The demonstration for Bobby Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention, which dwarfed any for President Johnson, showed not only the depth of sentiment that the Kennedy name evokes but...

Understanding the Conservatives (June 1964)

HERE AND THERE Understanding the Conservatives Rome I HAVE BEEN trying to understand the conservative party in the Church, which for a person like me is not easy. So much conservative activity...

"Pacem in Terris" a Year Later (June 1964)

HERE AND THERE "Pacem in Terris" a Year Later POPE JOHN'S last encyclical, Pacem in Terris, has had more universal appeal and general impact than any other of this century's remarkable papal...

Honesty vs. Loyalty Oaths (May 1964)

Spectacle in Vietnam THERE ARE many, many things a political leader can do to win the support of the people. Some, such as effective programs of social reform, are both practical and moral. Others,...

190 J.F.K.-A Final Word (May 1964)

HERE AND THERE J.F.K.—A Final Word Rome FROM THE BEGINNING, I was an almost scandalously faithful supporter of John F. Kennedy. Sometimes it was a source of personal embarrassment, for I...

Revisiting Brideshead (April 1964)

HERE AND THERE Revisiting Brideshead Rome I HAVE just finished re-reading Brideshead Revisited, almost twenty years since it first appeared and became the Catholic novel of its day. For the new...

Changing Roles in the Church (March 1964)

called for constitutional changes, grave disorders began. It is said that the desire for political union with Greece has subsided, although it could readily be revived. What the Greek Cypriotes...

In Search of Honesty (March 1964)

In Search of Honesty Rome A FEW WEEKS ago, here in Rome, I had dinner with another layman and two theologians. Inevitably, conversation turned to the Ecumenical Council. Someone asked the...

The Second Coronation (January 1964)

The Second Coronation Rome THE FIRST time I saw Pope Paul VI was last summer when he appeared on the balcony shortly after his election. It was an impressive moment, with the crowd in the square...

The Prevalence of Violence (January 1964)

The Prevalence of Violence JOHN COGLEY Rome THEY SAY that living abroad is like learning a new language. The chief benefit in both cases is a sharper awareness of the logic, the shape, and the...

Kennedy the Catholic (January 1964)

Kennedy the Catholic JOHN COGLEY NOW, after his tragic death and less than a full term in the White House, it is possible to see that John Fitzgerald Kennedy served his Church as brilliantly as he...

Grounds for Hope (December 1963)

The Vatican Council Grounds for Hope JOHN COGLEY AS WE WATCHED the ceremonies at Saint Peter's marking the end of the second session of the Ecumenical Council, with its historic proclamation of the...

The Search for Freedom (December 1963)

HERE AND THERE The Search for Freedom Rome THE COUNCIL FATHERS meet five days a week during the morning hours. Saint Peter's square is roped off during that time. About noon people start gathering...

The Layman Rediscovered (November 1963)

Report from Rome The Layman Rediscovered JOHN COGLEY SINCE THE Ecumenical Council resumed at the end of September, the Fathers have been debating the schema on the Church. Seen one way, De Ecclesia...

Ages of American Catholicism (October 1963)

HERE AND THERE Ages of American Catholicism I STILL have a few years to go before I hit the half-century mark, which is a goodly chunk out of a man's life but barely an hour in the history of the...

God and the Professors (September 1963)

would be no repetition, the ground would have been cut from under the opposition. Even later in the game, ff he had gathered about him a group of prestigious Buddhists loyal to his government, and...

Notes from Rome (August 1963)

comparatively stagnant economy, with declining numbers of job openings, what can displaced work- ers retrain for? One essential element in any viable solution for the threatened rail workers and...

Report from Vatican City (July 1963)

HERE AND THERE Report from Vatican City Rome THOUGH HE was not a member of the Sacred College at the time, the name of Giovanni Battista Montini was high on the popular but not cardinalarial...

Another Saint Francis? (June 1963)

Church into a sect and leave Catholicism an irrelevance in the modern world. In enlivening and invigorating his own Church, in exorcising once and for all the ghost of Modernism that has haunted so...

Segregation: The Tender Trap (June 1963)

in the latest letter to Premier Khrushchev from President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan, they will bear the responsibility before world opinion for the failure of the negotiations. That is...

They're Trying to Tell Us Something (May 1963)

HERE AND THERE They're Trying to Tell Us Something MY PHILOSOPHER-COLLEAGUE Scott Buchanan startled some of his liberal friends not long ago when he suggested that the Birch Society might be, in...

Old Soldiers Never Die (May 1963)

HERE AND THERE Old Soldiers Never Die THE HISTORY of American Catholicism may be divided between a pre- and a post-1960 era. Since the ¦generations melt into one another, it is usually...

Peace on Earth (May 1963)

offering, if the words by which the people can become fully aware of their part are not shared. Perhaps the real test of the effectiveness of such a sermon would be if it moved any of the...

Catholicism on the Campus (April 1963)

if not impossible to see how the United States could participate meaningfully in such a plan. Aside from the question of United States-British participation in such an equal partnership in...

Toward a New Politics (April 1963)

HERE AND THERE Toward a New Politics LESS THAN a year ago, with Hanson Baldwin of the N.Y. Times, I placed a wreath against a wall in Auschwitz where hundreds of men and women were...

For My Father's Grandchildren (March 1963)

have immense financial difficulties; they constantly face the threat of bankruptcy. Yet the essential question still remains whether the workers in those hospitals should be expected to bear a...

A New Breed of Cat (March 1963)

The objection raised by the admini.~tration, according to official statements, was over having all four speakers, who represent a definite, known point of view, appear there at this time....

A Second Coming (February 1963)

over Catholic research at the beginning of thi~ century; theirs was an ascetic life which required in many instances years of silence. But with Divine Afflante Sptritu in 1944, their work...

Natural Law and Modem Society (January 1963)

Natural Law and Modern JOHN COGLEY Society AN ATTACK on traditional thinking about morals which began as an academic exercise in the universities seems to have reached out to society at large....

The Commonweal As Pontius Pilate (March 1942)

cial straits, which is true, and if the cost of hospital care is already so high that patients need some kind of subsidy to help pay for this care, which is also true, it nevertheless does not...

Thirty and All That (February 1961)

HERE AND THERE THIRTY AND ALL THAT T HE FIRST of these one-page essays appeared early in 1951. This will be the last. Every man has only a few decades of active work, and I will have to leave what...

The Limits of Debate (January 1961)

HERE AND THERE THE LIMITS N OW THAT the shouting has died down, perhaps the time has come to talk about the Nixon-Kennedy television debates. These debates were widely heralded before they went on...

Dwight Eisenhower, A Good Man (January 1961)

HERE AND THERE DWIGHT EISENHOWER, A GOOD MAN THERE WAS a story making the rounds during the holidays about a Japanese toy called the Eisenhower doll. The Eisenhower doll is a wind-up toy. You...

The Political Sense (January 1961)

HERE AND THERE THE POLITICAL SENSE F OR YEARS the press, religious and secular, ran articles about the Catholic-for-President issue. Learned lectures were given on the subject, television panel...

Every Christmas (December 1960)

HERE AND THERE EVERY CHRISTMAS T HEY have set up the big tree in Rockefeller Plaza; the skinny street-corner Santa Clauses are out again and above the low mournful sounds of New York traffic their...

Pride and Prejudice (December 1960)

HERE AND THERE PRIDE AND I N THE July 22, 1960 issue of The Commonweal, I wrote the first half of what I said would be a two-part article. At that time I was concerned about whether there would be...

For New Ideas (September 1960)

HERE AND THERE FOR NEW IDEAS B OTH MR. KENNEDY and Mr. Nixon are organizing groups of scholars and intellectuals to advise them on issues of the day. It would seem that the egghead, whose...

The Candidates (August 1960)

HERE AND THERE THE CANDIDATES T HERE is a strong feeling in certain circles that the Republicans and the Democrats have given us different versions of the same candidate this year. Some...

Clear the Aisles (August 1960)

HERE AND THERE CLEAR THE AISLES FOR YEARS New Dealers claimed that their of postwar disillusionment. I belong to this generation ...

Rules of the Game (July 1960)

HERE AND THERE RULES OF THE GAME T HIS IS the first half of a two-part column on the upcoming campaign. The second half will be written after the winner is announced in November. This first...

A Religious People (July 1960)

HERE AND THERE A RELIGIOUS PEOPLE I N A NOTABLE decision, Justice William O. the individual to think his own thoughts, nurture his Douglas...

Our Next President (June 1960)

HERE AND THERE OUR HEXT PRESIDEHT I " HAVE a friend, a professor of Government, who holds that Dwight D. Eisenhower will go down in .history as the last of the anthropomorphic Presidents. The...

Second Thoughts on the IT-2 (June 1960)

HERE AND THERE SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE U-2 THE U-2 INCIDENT may have marked a turn- to accept almost anything but war because to accept ing point in...

No Room at the Top (June 1960)

HERE AND THERE NO ROOM AT THE TOP L EST THERE be any doubt, let it be spelled out in black and white: the collapse of the summit was a disaster. It was bad enough that Khrushchev behaved as he...

After Technology, What? (June 1960)

HERE AND THERE AFTER TECHNOLO,(;Y, WHAT? S OME MONTHS ago I said in this space that the problem of "bigness" cuts across American life. A second overarching concern, not unrelated to "bigness,"...

The Priority of A Priori (May 1960)

HERE AND THERE THE PRIORITY OF A PRIORI I N DOM AELRED Graham's stimulating book on Christian Thought and Action I ran across these sentences from a speech which the author delivered a decade...

A Small News Item (May 1960)

HERE AND THERE A SMALL NEWS ITEM J UST A FEW years ago many commentators, including me, were saying that relations between Protestants and Catholics in this country had never been worse. Today,...

Christian Culture (May 1960)

HERE AND THERE CHRISTIAN CULTURE Editor's Note: The following remarks were part o] Mr. Cogley's acceptance speech when he received the Christian Culture Award at Assumption University, Windsor,...

Mass Media for Mass Man (April 1960)

HERE AND THERE MASS MEDIA FOR MASS MAN D URING a recent "challenge" program on the state of television, Leo Rosten put the problem in a nutshell. "The trouble with the mass media," he is quoted...

From the South (April 1960)

HERE AND THERE FROM THE SOUTH N OWHERE in the United States is life changing more rapidly than in the South. The old South, the last bastion of American regionalism, is now dying. One hopes...

Coming Attractions (April 1960)

HERE AND THERE COMING ATTRACTIONS M R. NIXON has stated that he does not intend to reply to personal attacks in the coming Presidential campaign. And it is almost certain that he will not make...

Loyalty Oath (March 1960)

HERE AND THERE LOYALTY OATH S OMETIMES a writer who takes it upon himself to comment on affairs of the day feels that he is spending time and energy on matters which seem important at the...

Capital Punishment and Caryl Chessman (March 1960)

HERE AND THERE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND CARYL CHESSMAN A FRIEND of mine recently interviewed Caryl Chessman in the San Quentin penitentiary. Chessman told my friend that he looks upon his own case...

The Search for Morals (March 1960)

HERE AND THERE THE SEARCH I T WOULD be hard to remember a time when there was more soul-searching going on than there is at the present in the United States. In recent months we seem to have...

Intellectuals and the Church-II (March 1960)

HERE AND THERE INTELLECTUALS CATHOLICS are often surprised, and maybe shocked would not be too strong a word, by the antagonism toward Catholicism one finds among American intellectuals. I know...

Intellectuals and the Church-I (February 1960)

HERE AND THERE INTELLECTUALS AND THE CHURCHI A MERICAN Catholics are not neatly divided between proand anti-intellectuals, if only because most people in the Church, like most people in the...

Leave it to the Experts? (February 1960)

HERE AND THERE LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS? L AST WEEK I wrote about the difficulties the newspaperman faces in trying to report on the frightful complexities of social, cultural, scien- tific and...

Watching the Watchmen (February 1960)

HERE AND THERE WATCHING THE WATCHMEN JUST ABOUT a dozen years ago the Commission on the Freedom of the Press recommended that an independent body of citizens be organized to serve as public...

Green Years (January 1960)

HERE AND THERE GREEN YEARS T HE NINETEEN fifties were a decade of re- markable growth for American Catholicism. I do not refer to numerical growth, though that was important, nor to the...

The Dangers of Bigness (January 1960)

HERE AND THERE THE DANGERS OF BIGNESS NEXT TO the perennial question of Negro civil rights, the two biggest domestic issues of the nineteen fifties were the protection of civil lib- erties and...

New Decade, New Problems (January 1960)

HERE AND THERE NEW DECADE, NEW PROBLEMS I T WOULD be impossible to predict the specific in- ternational problems which will dominate the his- tory of the nineteen sixties. But whatever they are,...

A Catholic President (January 1960)

HERE AND THERE A, CATHOLIC PRESIDENT I F ANYTHING could convince even the paranoiac anti-Catholic that the hierarchy is not seeking political power in the United States, the Bishops' recent...

The Bishops' Challenge (December 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE BISHOPS' CHALLENGE T HE PERENNIAL birth control controversy has long been a ball of tangled yarn. Now that the issue has been tied in with the 1960 Presidential campaign and...

Motes and Beams (December 1959)

HERE AND THERE MOTES M Y FRIEND, William F. Buckley, Jr., has written a new book called Up from Liberal- ism which is going to rouse many liberals to shout all the louder "Down with Buckley!"...

That's Our Boy (November 1959)

HERE AND THERE THAT'S OUR BOY SHOWMANSHIP has been the perennial excuse for every form of T.V. dishonesty. But while showmanship has traditionally been concerned with honest illusion, T.V. has...

The Quiz Show Uproar (November 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE QUIZ SHOW UPROAR IN AN AGE when it often seems that the "fix" is standard operating procedure just about every- where, the recent uproar over the quiz show scandals is...

Substitute for War? (November 1959)

HERE AND THERE SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR? IN HIS sinful days Saint Augustine prayed: "Lord, give me chastity, but not yet.' We are all rather like that about war: ' Lord, give us a warless world, but...

The Choice (November 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE CHOICE L AST week I saw an advance showing of Stanley Kramer's production of "On the Beach," the film made from the Nevil Shute novel. The picture will be released in December...

IIThe Nature of the Catholic Response (October 1959)

II-The Nature of the Catholic Response Life in the Living Room by JOHN STANLEY I T'S a pity Graham Greene's "The Living Room" closed after such a short run in New York. There are many...

Arrivederci, Roma (October 1959)

HERE AND THERE ARRIVEDERCI, ROMA E ACH TIME I have left this city, the City, eter- naUy urban, eternally beckoning, it has been with the solemn resolve to return. But it would be foolish...

The Italy That Is Not Catholic (October 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE ITALY THAT IS NOT CATHOLIC Rome I N THESE dispatches I have noted what I take to be the abiding Catholicism of Italy. But there is also a sense in which Italy is anything but...

An American in Italy (October 1959)

HERE AND THERE AN AMERICAN IN ITALY Rome A N AMERICAN CATHOLIC stopping in Italy is inevitably intrigued by the Catholicism he finds here. If one can distinguish between Catholicity, the...

Classic Dispute (September 1959)

HERE AND THERE CLASSIC DISPUTE Rome I N EVERY recent crisis for the Catholic Church, "integralist" and "liberal" factions within the Church have emerged---one group concentrating on finding...

Two Fronts in the Same War (September 1959)

HERE AND THERE TWO FRONTS IN THE SAME WAR Rome W ASHINGTON and Vatican City have long been headquarters in the West's cold war with Soviet Communism. But to say that is not to claim that the...

Return to Rome (September 1959)

HERE AND THERE RETURN TO ROME I T IS MORE than a decade now since I saw this city for the first time. From the moment I set foot on Roman streets I felt strangely, mysteriously content, like...

Fabulous is the Word (August 1959)

HERE AND THERE FABULOUS IS THE WORD N OT LONG ago both N.B.C. and C.B.S announced programs to be entitled "The Fabulous Fifties." The programs of course will deal with the decade coming to...

A Case for Persuasion (July 1959)

HERE AND THERE A CASE FOR PERSUASION I GAVE my first Commencement Address at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, early in June. Traditionally, the remarks delivered on the occasion...

Two Views of America (July 1959)

HERE AND THERE TWO' VIEWS OF AMERICA T HE APPEARANCE of Richard Rovere's book Senator Joe McCarthy will inevitably open up some barely healed wounds. Though the dizzy days when the late Senator...

Letter from a Reader (June 1959)

HiERE AND THERE LETTER FROM A READER H ERE IS a letter from a reader I thought worth special attention. "I have not always been a Catholic; indeed, I will celebrate the second anniversary of my...

The Moderate Monks (June 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE MODERATE MONKS T HERE IS A bit of the monk in every man. I thought of this recently when I spent a few days at the Benedictine Abbey at Collegeville, Minnesota. For one who...

Theology for Everyone (June 1959)

HERE AND THERE THEOLOGY FOR EVERYONE I 'T MAY BE FOOLHARDY, but I am going to keep at my one-man crusade for relating theology .to modern problems. I say "foolhardy" because the crusade seems...

Small, Small World (June 1959)

HERE AND THERE SMALL, SMALL WORLD J OHN CROSBY, the syndicated television columnist, recently complained out loud about the dreadful state of our most massive mass medium. Mr. Crosby is not...

Check List for the Cold War (May 1959)

HERE AND THERE CHECK LIST FOR T HIS IS GOING to be an article about another article. If I thought that everyone would get hold of the current issue of the United States Naval Institute...

Wanted, Theologians (May 1959)

HERE AND THERE WANTED, THEOLOGIANS F ATHER WALTER J. ONG once said that in theology, as in other disciplines, theory tends to lag behind practice. The most striking example we have of this is...

The Lady and the Senator (May 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE LADY AND THE SENATOR A T THE HEIGHT of l'a1~aire Boothe Luce, Senator Carroll of Colorado had some blunt words for his confreres. "If we continue on with this debate," he...

Sauce for the Goose (May 1959)

HERE AND THERE SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE N " OW LET US suppose that the Catholic Bishops of the United States have gathered in solemn conclave for their annual meeting in Washington and have...

The New Leaders (May 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE NEW LEADERS A NEW generation of world leaders is taking power, in this country and abroad. I do not mean simply that the young are stepping up to fill the places of the old....

A Word for Tolerance (April 1959)

AHERE AND THERE A WORD FOR I WOULD LIKE to say a word for tolerance. I suppose the best way to begin is by saying something against tolerance. For if I do not there will be letters in the...

A Dubious Dictum (April 1959)

HERE AND THERE A DUBIOUS DICTUM O N MARCH 30 the Supreme Court handed down its "double jeopardy" decision in the Bartkus case. The decision was a significant one, involving a number of legal...

A Catholic for President?-IV (April 1959)

HERE AND THERE A CATHOLIC FOR PRESIDENT?--IV T HE DAY WILL come when our perennial discussions about whether a Catholic is qualified to be President will seem somewhat primitive. Of that I am...

A Catholic for President?- III (April 1959)

HERE AND THERE A CATHOLIC FOR PRESIDENT?--IIi H ERE IS HOW America's leading Protestant weekly, the Christian Century, explains the special concern it feels about a Catholic candidate....

A Catholic for President?-II (March 1959)

667 HERE AND THERE A CATHOLIC FOR PRESIDENT?-!! SOMETHING must have been wrong with Senator Kennedy's rhetoric when he answered the questions put to him by a Look reporter or he would not...

It All Depends (March 1959)

IT ALL DEPENDS MY FRIEND is a Protestant theologian. He can not agree that a Presidential candidate's religion should not be considered. What faith a man professes, my friend holds, is of course...

Cut Off from the Maine (March 1959)

HERE AND THERE CUT OFF FROM THE MAINE HOW EASY it is, especially in these days of general affluence, to forget the poor. I am writing this from my office on the top of a fiftyfive-storey...

Open and Shut Case (February 1959)

HERE AND THERE OPEN AND SHUT CASE IN A RECENT issue of the National Review Will-moore Kendall had an article that came to grips with a question which has often been blurred or coolly ignored in...

The Not So Defiant Ones (February 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE NOT 50 DEFIANT ONES GOMMUNISM-IN-HOLLYWOOD, a headline fixture which, since the days of Martin Dies, has received almost constant consideration from Congressional watchdog...

Reflections of a Controversial Figure (February 1959)

HERE AND THERE REFLECTIONS OF A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE HOW DOES it feel to be a controversial figure? I should know. Like everyone else connected with The Commonweal, I have been involved in one...

Questions, Answers (February 1959)

HERE AND THERE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS ON three Sundays in January, Father Walter J. Ong, S.J. and I carried on a question-andanswer dialogue over the N.B.C. Catholic Hour. Our general topic was...

Living on the Heights (January 1959)

HERE AND THERE LIVING ON THE HEIGHTS MY BROOKLYN HEIGHTS neighbor, Truman Capote, has an article on the Heights in the current issue of Holiday. I turned to it eagerly, for ever since we...

Matter of Principles (January 1959)

437 HERE AND THERE MATTER OF PRINCIPLES "IDON'T trust the man of principle." I heard this quotation attributed recently to Justice Holmes. It is a shocker until the second half is...

The Right to Teach (January 1959)

HERE AND THERE THE RIGHT TO TEACH IT IS INTERESTING to see, in the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Reinhold Niebuhr's reactions to the Catholic Bishops' recent statement on the...

Person to Person (January 1959)

HERE AND THERE PERSON TO PERSON IN HIS CONTRIBUTION to Religion in America, Father Walter J. Ong says: "A democracy may perish in the cataclysm when its citizens come to blows. In the face of...

Suggestions for the New Year (January 1959)

HERE AND THERE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR I HAVE A SUGGESTION for all Catholic teachers, preachers, apologists and writers. I suggest that in 1959, the phrase "error has no rights" be...

Season's Greetings (December 1958)

HERE AND THERE SEASON'S GREETINGS (With apologies to Frank Sullivan and the New Yorker) ON CHRISTMAS DAY, the good Lord willin' We'll drink a toast to Edward Skillin To Richard Horchler's kith...

The Tragedy (December 1958)

315 HERE AND THERE THE TRAGEDY AS TIME passes I come more and more to realize that for the adult the past swiftly grows dim. Two years ago, ten years ago, the wartime years in the Army are...

Yankees Go Home (December 1958)

YANKEES CO HOME SOMETIMES ONE wonders just what would satisfy Paul Blanshard and his P.O.A.U. friends. Right now it almost seems as if they would take satisfaction in seeing ...

Our Own Jailers (December 1958)

HERE AND THERE OUR OWN JAILERS ALMOST A DECADE ago I wrote an article in these pages called "The Failure of AntiCommunism." The article, to no one's surprise, least of all mine,...

The New Pope (November 1958)

HERE AND THERE THE NEW POPE AFTER THE genuine mourning for the great Pius XII his successor came on the worldscene like a new sunburst. A whole generation had come to identify the papacy with...

The Innocent Years (August 1958)

HERE AND THERE THE INNOCENT YEARS A FEW years ago the Democrats were blamed for "losing" China. Today we hear similar charges, not as violent or frequent to be sure, that the Republicans have...

The Belligerent Neutrals (August 1958)

HERE AND THERE THE BELLIGERENT NEUTRALS I N THE FALL of 1953, along with Harold Fey, now editor of the Christian Century, and Rabbi Morris Lazaron of the Jewish Newsletter, I...

Trial by Headline (July 1958)

HERE AND THERE TRIAL BY HEADLINE T HE THEORY behind Congressional investigations is unexceptionable. It is rooted in the Common Law. It is founded on the idea that the power to compel...

The Importance of Seeming Earnest (July 1958)

HERE AND THERE THE IMPORTANCE OF T HIS WAS a woman who sat beside me in the subway. She was reading headlines in the evening paper and commented on the news for a friend's benefit as she read....

An Article of Peace (July 1958)

HERE AND THERE AN ARTICLE OF PEACE J AMES O'GARA in his report on the Religion in a Free Society seminar [May 30] asked what Catholics might learn from the experience. "The central lesson," he...

Public Image of the Church (July 1958)

HERE AND THERE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE CHURCH T HREE WEEKS AGO I wrote on the public image of the Church and invited readers to comment. Here are two replies, one written by a Holy Cross Father and...

The Feeble Giant (June 1958)

up with New York's hurly-burly. Mr. Still is extensively illustrated, Miss McCullough is not, except for a stunning color photograph of New York at night which appears as a frontispiece and on...

The Lost Leaders (June 1958)

HERE AND THERE THE LOST LEADERS E ARLY IN June Diana Trilling wrote an intriguing short piece in the Herald Tribune called "Impotence Through Indifference." Noting the general American apathy...

What Image of the Church? (June 1958)

HERE AND THERE WHAT IMAGE OF THE CHURCH:. T WO WEEKS ago James O'Gara reported on a seminar on Religion in a Free Society attended by Protestants, Catholics, Jews and secular humanists. He...

As You Were Saying (June 1958)

HERE AND THERE AS YOU WERE SAYING A COLUMN like this one, which wanders all over the lot and is as opinionated as they come, elicits more back-talk than The Commonweal's Communications...

Put Out No Flags (May 1958)

HERE AND THERE W PUT OUT NO FLAGS E HEAR so much about the difficulties of pluralism these days that we probably tend to forget what a miracle it is that, by and large, we do live in peace...

The Catholic Worker (May 1958)

HERE AND THERE THE CATHOLIC WORKER O N MAY I the Catholic Worker celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday. It was on May Day in the depths of the depression, 1933, that the first issue of the...

More on "Baby Doll" (February 1957)

HERE AND THERE MORE ON "BABY DOLL" A FEW WEEKS ago I wrote on the "Baby Doll" controversy and concluded that there was no civil-liberties issue at stake. Since that column was written the Catholics...

Academic Freedom (January 1957)

HERE AND THERE ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN HIS BOOK Heresy Yes, Conspiracy No, Sidney Hook states flatly that there is no academic freedom in Catholic colleges. Professor Hook's opinion, echoed in Robert...

The Religious Revival (January 1957)

HERE AND THERE THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL WHAT HAS been called the "revival of religion" in American life has been doubted, denounced and acclaimed. But there is something there, and it does not lend...

The "Baby Doll" Controversy (January 1957)

HERE AND THERE THE "BABY DOLL" CONTROVERSY THE CONTROVERSY proceeded like a well-rehearsed classic dance. Everyone said the things expected; old charges were repeated; the usual irrelevancies,...

Just a Gesture (January 1957)

HERE AND THERE JUST A GESTURE MILTON MAYER, whose witty offbeat prose has appeared in these pages, is having a low-key wrangle with the government. Mayer is a pacifist who does not want any of his...

Every Christmas (December 1956)

HERE AND THERE EVERY CHRISTMAS THEY have set up the big tree in Rockefeller Plaza; the skinny street-corner Santa Clauses are out again and above the low mournful sounds of New York traffic their...

Birthday Party for a Just Man (December 1956)

HERE AND THERE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR A JUST MAN I ATTENDED a party last evening. The birthday child was the Reverend Arthur J. Brown, a venerable Presbyterian minister. There were one hundred candles...

The Riddle of the Middle East (December 1956)

HERE AND THERE THE RIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST IT IS JUST three years ago that I traveled widely throughout Israel and the Arab countries. Even then the atmosphere was tense; the newspapers kept...

In Praise of Father Murray (December 1956)

HERE AND THERE IN PRAISE OF FATHER MURRAY THANK GOD for John Courtney Murray. Father Murray, a Jesuit, may yet singlehandedly restore the tradition of rational debate to American life. If he...

Khrushehev's Case for America (November 1956)

HERE AND THERE KHRUSHCHEV'S CASE FOR AMERICA A LITTLE over two years ago the Los Angeles Mirror polled two hundred and fifty teachers of history and political science in the city's high schools....

A Word From the Sponsor (November 1956)

HERE AND THERE A WORD FROM THE SPONSOR WE DON'T go to the polls to vote for a bloodless abstraction labeled Conservative, Liberal or Middle-of-the-Road. We vote for a man. And a candidate's voice,...

When All Cats Are Gray (November 1956)

HERE AND THERE WHEN ALL CATS ARE GRAY BY THE TIME this appears, the next President will have been elected. Unless something spectacular happens in the final days, the 1956 campaign will be...

Right Questions, Wrong Time (November 1956)

HERE AND THERE RIGHT QUESTIONS, WRONG TIME IN HIS big speech on discontinuing hydrogen bomb tests, Adlai Stevenson said: "The H-bomb is already so powerful that a single bomb could destroy the...

International, Not Supra-national (November 1956)

HERE AND THERE INTERNATIONAL NOT SUPRA-NATIONAL SAY "United Nations" and see what happens. One small group of Americans lights up. For them the UN is our one tangible hope of survival in a world...

Who's Listening? (October 1956)

HERE AND THERE WHO'S LISTENING? JAMES RESTON, the Times' cold-eyed columnist, says that American voters are a funny people: they don't listen. "Once every four years they are courted and coaxed by...

No, No, A Thousand Times No (July 1955)

HERE AND THERE NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO S OMEONE said half-seriously that the general findings of Professor Stouffer's elaborate survey of Communism, Conformity and Civil Liberties...

All the Sad Young Men (July 1955)

HERE AND THERE ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN A S long as I can remember, older people have been deeply concerned about the youth of Ameri c a - a n d often with good reason. There was the "flaming...

See Their Faces (June 1955)

HERE AND THERE SEE THEIR FACES B ACK in the thirties a book of photographs was published under the arresting title of You Have Seen Their Faces. As I remember, it was a depression book. The...

If You Were They (June 1955)

HERE AND THERE IF YOU WERE THEY H OW hard it is to accept people while still rejecting their ideas! And yet, I suppose that is a central duty of Christian charity and the essence of social...

The Silver and the Gold (June 1955)

HERE AND THERE The Silver and the Gold IRAN across this sentence in Leslie Fiedler's collection of essays An End to Innocence: "We have been evolving in recent years a new sort of...

Two Images of One Man (June 1955)

HERE AND THERE TWO IMAGES OF ONE MAN M ANY Americans held exaggerated notions about Senator McCarthy's strength among Catholics. It was great enough, considerably greater than among...

The Undebated Issues (May 1955)

HERE AND THERE THE UNDEBATED ISSUES E VEN at the emotional height of the Army-McCarthy hearings, a surprisingly high percentage of Americans remained sublimely indifferent. This is one of...

Behind the Many Faces (May 1955)

HERE AND THERE BEHIND THE MANY FACES T HE term "McCarthyite" was always fairly meaningless. The word itself suggests a formal ism, a body of belief. But one is hard put to discover what the...

McCarthyism Revisited (May 1955)

HERE AND THERE McCARTHYISM REVISITED S ENATOR McCarthy seems to have been retired to the back pages since the historic censure action, despite several drastic, and somewhat pitiable,...

The Ladies in Black (May 1955)

HERE AND THERE THE LADLES IN BLACK I WAS delighted a few weeks ago to see that Time had finally got around to putting a nun on its cover. It was long past due. Through the years...

Education-and All That (April 1955)

HERE AND THERE EDUCATION-AND ALL THAT A BOUT a year ago Christopher Dawson contributed an article to The Commonweal that set off a running discussion in Catholic educational circles. Mr....

All This and Heaven Too? (April 1955)

HERE AND THERE ALL THIS AND L AST week on this page some harsh things were said about Senator Matthew Neely's attack on the President's church-going habits. I would not like to see that...

Who's a Hypocrite? (April 1955)

HERE AND THERE WHO'S A HYPOCRITE? T HERE is the story of the proud publican who thanked God that he was not like the Pharisee. Pride and hypocrisy are such sinuous, subtle vices that it is a...

"I've Got a Little List" (April 1955)

HERE AND THERE "I'VE GOT A LITTLE LIST" I N those days it came to pass that the U.S. and the USSR were again united against a common enemy, as they had been during the second of the two great...

Words, Words, Words (April 1955)

HERE AND THERE WORDS, WORDS, WORDS S OME notes toward arriving at an understanding of certain specialized political vocabularies: Intellectual: There are two kinds of intellectuals:...

The Strange Alliance (March 1955)

HERE AND THERE The Strange Alliance T HREE times during this past week I had the opportunity to talk at some length with exCommunists. For each of the three, leaving the Party was a bitter...

A Case of Ignorance (March 1955)

HERE AND THERE A Case of Ignorance This is being written in a hotel room near Hollywood and Vine. Perhaps because I again find mysell in this improbable place, my mind keeps coming back to a...

As Mr. Wingleft Sees It (March 1955)

HERE AND THERE As Mr. Wingleft Sees It I NTERVIEWER: Did you support General Eisenhower's candidacy, Mr. Wingleft? Mr. Wingle#: No, I did not. After all there is such a thing as the...

As Mr. Wingright Sees It (March 1955)

HERE AND THERE As Mr. Wingright Sees It y OU may find the following interview as confusing as I did, but remember that it represents the working opinions not only of my friend Mr. Wingright...

The MacArthur Speech (February 1955)

HERE AND THERE The MacArthur Speech I N his San Francisco speech General MacArthur said it, and I don't suppose that any sane man could deny that what he said was true. General MacArthur...

Varieties of Americanism (February 1955)

HERE AND THERE Varieties of Americanism L AST month Robert M. Hutchins spoke before the National Press Club in Washington. Americans, he said, are growing more and more like the man...

Things That Are Caesar's (November 1954)

Things That Are Caesar's "THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MIND AND HEART OF MAN IS LARGELY BEING FOUGHT ON A POLITICAL BATTLEGROUND.'" JOHN COGLEY W E can begin by taking certain things for granted: (1)...

Majority and Minorities (January 1954)

taken to do everything short of formally joining it. FROM ISRAEL And here at the Hague was a discussion which might have seemed deliberately directed to remove those fears which have...

The Homeless and the Housed (January 1954)

FROM ISRAEL The Homeless And the Housed accomplishments of the young Israeli people in the space of a few short years are astounding. Even Israel's bitterest critics will admit...

"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem... " (January 1954)

of freedoms, such as freedom from freedom, provi-FROM ISRAEL sional freedom, and freedom under police supervision!) F the objectives, the work, the risks and the problems I of the Brethren...

The Waiting War (January 1954)

FROM JORDAN The Waiting War Amman H H ERE in Jordan all the problems of the Arab world are found in an almost exaggerated way. The heart of political tension in the Middle...

Weeping Women, Angry Men (December 1953)

FROM JERUSALEM There axe other men who say that no matter what happens Arabs will one day retrain to claim their fields, Weeping Women, Angry Men AM writing this from a hotel room in...

The Battle Against Time (December 1953)

What Is "Natural"? THE REOUIREMENTS OF WHAT WE CALL THE "NATURAL LAW" ARE ALWAYS RUNNING COUNTER TO WHAT WE REGARD AS "NATURAL." WHY? GERALD VANN F EW confusions are more common, or more...

Report on a Revolution (December 1953)

FROM EGYPT Report on A Revolution Cairo OR many years in the movies there was a man named Fitzpatrick who used to bid sad adieu o distant lands and peoples while the burning sun sank into...

Catholics and American Democracy (June 1953)

has no choir stalls or benches. The monks squat on the floor or stand during the Divine Office. The two hermits have been engaged in the translation of the psalter into Tamil, but at...

Catholics and American Democracy (June 1953)

parliament of Bavaria showed no sympathy for this Nazi attitude and demanded that the teacher be discharged. There are of course quite a few colored children who are legitimate. When the...

Witness: Whittaker Chambers (May 1952)

Witness: Whittaker Chambers JOHN COGLEY IN the opening pages of Witness (Random House, $5.) Whittaker Chambers writes, "It is a terrible book. It is terrible in what it tells about men. If...

The Unspoken Ism (May 1951)

The Unspoken Ism By JOHN COGLEY THE title of Blanshard's second variation on a single theme {Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. Paul Blanshard. Beacon. $3.50) is somewhat misleading. The...

Week by Week (March 1951)

WEEK BY WEEK Stalemates FOR some weeks now the conviction has been growing that, on the basis of forces currently committed, the Korean War has become a military stalemate. Opinion in Washington...

Books (March 1951)

Books Follow Me Ever. Charles E. Butler. Pantheon. $2.50. ANYONE who used to read the pages of Yank thoroughly will recall the careful, poignant verse of Charles E. Butler. Before and since the...

The Rutgers Affair (January 1951)

The Rutgers Affair By JOHN COGLEY IT is doubtful if "Cumberland Street," a short story which appeared in the Rutgers University Antho last fall, will find a place in the new anthologies. But even at...

Books (November 1950)

Books Catholicism. Henri de Lubac, S.J. Translated from the French by Lancelot C. Sheppard. Longmans. $3.75. CATHOLICISM is not a new work. It first appeared in 1938 and has had a profound...

The Screen (September 1950)

r The Screen CONFESSIONAL OR COUCH? IT'S TOO BAD about "Edge of Doom," the movie Sam Goldwyn made from Leo Brady's novel. The thing just doesn't come off, despite the obvious intention of...

The Failure of Anti-Communism (July 1950)

in the book Independence and After, Nehru says: Now, Europe and America, because they have been dominant countries, with a dominant culture, have tended to think that ways of living other...

Lonely Shepherd (June 1950)

Lonely Shepherd By JOHN COGLEY AFTER The Heart of the Matter appeared in 1948 one American critic, the Benedictine nun Mariella Gable, said that the book had expanded the boundaries of the...

There Remained These Three (March 1950)

6o8 THE COMMONWEAL March 17, 1950 kind of wall...

MR. GOODWIN VISITS THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE (June 1949)

[336 ] THE COMMONWEAL July I5, x949 dtizens--to I4o,ooo,ooo, not a mere 3,ooo. Some limitations on this freedom are inescapable-thus Justice Holmes said that one is not free to shout Fire in a...

A Program for Tolerance (June 1949)

June lo, I949 THE COM left-wing, which is not only Socialist but perilously close to Communist. The two most hotly debated issues were the foreign policy plank praising ERP, and the domestic...

ANOTHER WAR? (April 1949)

Another War? In Europe they feel it is not a proper topic of conversation John Cogley p RACTICALLY nobody in Europe today, at the bottom of his heart, believes in World War III. This is...

IL AMERICANO (February 1949)

I1 Americano Conversations in Rome with an ex-shoeshine boy John Cogley I N ROME, the Piazza di Spagne, where the American Express offices are located, is a busy black-market center. All day...

Liberal Catholics (November 1945)

November 30, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 165 Communications LIBERAL CATHOLICS Chicago, 111. TO the Editors: The term "liberal Catholic" is not commonly found in Catholic publications, writings, or...

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