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God is not an It John C. Cort The neuterization of God seems to be well under way. You can hear priests on the altar referring to God as "he or she." The practice of substituting "God" or "God's"...

In Our Image: (September 1989)

BOOKS The Philippines: Still waiting lor Cory IN OUR IMAGE America's Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow Random House, $24.95, 494 pp. John C. Cort In February of 1986, during the...

Memories of Aquino: (October 1983)

Assassinated Philippine leader MEMORIES OF AQUINO HE ALWAYS INTENDED TO RETURN THE REPORT of his assassination reached me while attending the first world congress of Christian socialists in...

Christian socialists: (October 1983)

World Congress in Sweden CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS SOLIDARITY, BUT NO 'SOLIDARITY' THE SETTING was what one delegate described as "a secular heaven on earth temporarily occupied by Christians." It was...

Catholics and Radicals: (August 1983)

Books: THROUGH ROSE-TINTED GLASSES CATHOLICS AND RADICALS THE ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC TRADE UNIONISTS AND THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT FROM DEPRESSION TO COLD WAR Douglas Seaton Bucknell...

He never made pope: (December 1982)

He never made pope JOHN C. CORT CAN ANYTHING good come out of Harvard? It seems so. John Timothy Leary came out of Harvard, class of '81, magna cum laude, and died little more than a year later,...

Down on the farm: (August 1981)

DOWN ON THE FARM CALL FOR A BOYCOTT BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ is an impressive man. He came to Boston recently to speak to a meeting of the Labor Guild, the organization that Fathers Mort Gavin and Ed...

FIVE CANDIDATES IN SEARCH OF A NOMINATION (October 1975)

Five Candidates in Search Of a Nomination Five candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination recently appeared in Springfield, Mass., before 1800 people who paid five dollars apiece for...

BLACK AND WBITE IN BOSTON: (January 1975)

BLACK AND WHITE IN BOSTON JOHN C. CORT Report from one who is not a priest in plain clothes Several hundred white kids were standing on the front steps of South Boston High, facing out as the two...

THE EVOLUTION OF A CATHOLIC WORKER (January 1971)

Evolution of a CATHOLIC WORKER JOHN C. CORT When I was in school I was so bored by economics that I dropped out of the course at the end of the first half-year. I began to get excited by...

The Feeling of Failure (September 1961)

DISEASE OF THE FORTIES The Feeling of Failure by JOHN C. CORT WE WERE having lunch together at Jake Wirth's when the subject came up. I was eating the luncheon special, which was hash with red...

"U" Is for Unions (May 1961)

ORGANIZING TEACHERS "U" Is for Unions by JOHN C. CORT THERE IS a story that is sometimes told at union meetings. It is about the young lady who met a girl friend on the street. "Congratulations,"...

House Cleaning for Labor (March 1957)

'RACKETEERING AND CORRUPTION" House Cleaning for Labor JOHN C. CORT BACK IN THE Terrible Thirties a truckdriver came into the New York offices of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists looking...

Experiment in Conversation (February 1957)

EXPLORING DIFFERENCES Experiment in Conversation JOHN C. CORT IT IS COMMONLY believed that in Boston, "the home of the bean and the cod, the Lowells speak only to Cabots and the Cabots speak only to...

Post-Mortem on the Labor Vote (January 1957)

ROLE OF THE UNIONS Post-Mortem on the Labor Vote JOHN C. CORT REMEMBER when the AFL and CIO merged into one big united labor movement of nearly 15,000,000 members? At that time, only a year ago,...

Yardstick for Social Action (October 1956)

NEW ORLEANS CONFERENCE Yardstick for Social Action JOHN C. CORT A FEW WEEKS AGO two men who had not seen each other for several years embarked on airplanes, flew over a thousand miles each, and...

Eggs, Wages and Unity (March 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Eggs, Wages and Unity A NORMAL hen's egg weighs about two ounces. In New Hampshire last week a hen laid an A 81/2-ounce egg and then died. In Washington, ten days earlier, the...

The Railroad Unions (March 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Railroad Unions THE railroad workers have made the President and the country furious again. And still they seem to be no better off than they were before, but rather worse. A...

Who Won the Elections? (December 1950)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Who Won the Elections? 'TT^HE story is that when they came to Marie An-A toinette and complained, "Your Majesty, the people have no bread," she replied, "Let them eat cake." She...

The Psychology of Union Leaders (November 1950)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Psychology of Union Leaders I KNOW a man who used to argue about religion. "The trouble with Catholicism," he would say, "like all these fundamentalist Protestant groups, is...

Tommy Lewis of the Bronx (November 1950)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Tommy Lewis of the Bronx A FEW months ago Francis Downing wrote a fine piece in this column on the subject of "Dictatorship and John L. Lewis." It seems that a miner named Dickmon...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (July 1948)

The Labor Movement The Mundt-Nixon Bill BY THE TIME this appears in print, the Senate will probably have adjourned without taking any action on the Mundt-Nixon Bill. It would be even better if...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (June 1948)

The Labor Movement God Blesses America AMERICA is a country on which God has showered blessings with a peculiar generosity. It is a generosity that seems to bear little if any connection with our...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (April 1948)

The Labor Movement The Building Industry In a recent letter to The Commonweal J. San-ford Shanley asked this column to explain the action of a New Jersey local of the International Brotherhood of...

CIO CONVENTION (November 1943)

CIO Convention JOHN C. CORT THERE was little excitement at the CIO con-vention in Philadelphia November 1-5, and those who looked for fireworks between left and right wings were headed for...

TWO CONVENTIONS (November 1943)

Two Conventions The Auto Workers and the AFL John G. Cort A SMART way for the casual observer to find out what American labor is up to would have been to read two adjoining columns in the New...

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