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MRS. ROOSEVELT'S OPUS it World Made Hew Mary Ann Glendon Hundom Hut*, 5J5.95. .W4 ,=/'¦ James Finn The language of human rights is so ubiquitous in political discourse today, so...

Jerzy Turowicz, R. I. P. (March 1999)

James Finn JERZY TUROWICZ, R.I.P. 1912-99 When Jerzy Turowicz died of a heart attack at age A W^wM eighty-six on January 27, Poland lost a great AjA^fl and wise man. But to say only this fails to...

Acheson (October 1998)

Statecraft a t i t s finest lames Finn n ~ ames Chace's study of the political career of Dean Acheson appears at a most propitious time. It is not only an absorbing biography and a sweeping...

CITIZEN SOLDIER (April 1998)

CITIZEN SOLDIER The how & the why of one man's war James Finn n the course of his fine article, "A Soldier's Legacy" (Commonweal, December 5, 1997) Robert Ostermann, a veteran of World War...

Correspondence A long-time subscriber renews once more; a one-time defector sends cash and good wishes (May 1997)

CORRESPONDENCE And the same to you Note: This letter accompanied a one-year subscription renewal. Sandra Smith manages Commonweal's circulation and signs our renewal/expiration reminders. Dear...

LIMPING TOWARD CHINA Dealing with China requires a flexible policy that nevertheless has a clear-eyed vision of U S interests and values Unfortunately, the Clinton administration is all flexibility and no vision (April 1997)

LIMPING TOWARD CHINA Clinton's weak-kneed policy James Finn There have been a number of calls for a reassessment of U.S. policy toward China. Is a shift possible? Yes. Even as it is distracted by...

Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft Edited by Douglas Johnson and Cynthia Sampson (October 1995)

A MAJOR PLAYER Religion The Missing Dimension of Statecraft Edited by Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson Oxford University Press, $35,350 pp. James Finn This is a book whose time has come....

How not to punish China (May 1994)

HUMAN RIGHTS & TRADE HOW NOT TO PUNISH CHINA THE FAXES OF FREEDOM If foreign policies had a death wish, the U S. policy on China enunciated last May could be said to have fulfilled it. It...

War and Responsibility, by John Hart Ely (May 1994)

it was precisely the rural Groupmans, Tet Ansamn groups, local Caritas organizations, and the Ti Legliz linked up by the Radio Soled transmitter that rallied the cities to action. The church in...

The moral vision of Robert Stone: (November 1993)

THE MORAL VISION OF JAMES FINN ROBERT STONE THE TRANSCENDENT IN THE MUCK OF...

The ambassador goes home: (October 1988)

The ambassador goes home When William V. Shannon was buried from St. Aidan's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts on September 30, the many strands of his professonal and personal life were brought...

Time's Covenant (May 1987)

FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD TINE'S COVENANT THE ESSAYS AND SERMONS OF WILLIAM CLANCY Edited by Eugene Green University of Pittsburgh, $19.95, 213 pp. James Finn " The real crisis (of the Catholic...

Correspondence (April 1983)

Correspondence Tom Powers, farewell Battle Creek, Mich. To the Editors: Thomas Powers says "Farewell" [Mar. 11]. Though we have never met face-to-face, I have enjoyed his Commonweal...

Dialogue is needed (August 1982)

JANES FINN Discrimination is called for; dialogue is needed ONE CAN SAY some, things about the first draft of the bishops' pastoral letter on peace and war that will not need to be modified by...

William Clancy (January 1982)

WM. CLANCY, 1922-1982 William Clancy, writer, editor, teacher, priest, died on January 6, 1982. The many people who crowded St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh on the bitter cold day of his funeral...

The father of Studs (November 1979)

what Jean Paul Sartre has called a "stem optimism." There is a sense (or, at minimum, a desire) of union in Roethke; contrariwise, aloneness in Stevens. Stevens accepted that chasm between self...

THE JUST WAR: REVIVING AN OLD DEBATE (August 1978)

THE JUST WAR: REVIVING AN OLD DEBATE JAMES FINN Just and Unjust Wars M,ICHA'BL WALZER Basic Books, $15 [384 pp.] Ethics and Nueleur StruLeflW .Edited by H~ROLD F. FORD and FRANCIS X....

Second Call to Action (April 1977)

whose population is increasing rapidly. It could also assist developing countries in getting--and masteringn the marine technologies which are so important to their economic development. But,...

THESE THREE: FAITH, HOPE AND DEATH: (September 1974)

implication, the moral issues-are too. The surgeons among them. Every time George Segal's eyes roll back, are all men whose only sensitivities are in their hands. signaling...

MORALITY AMD PLURALISM (November 1973)

MORALITY AND PLURALISM Sept. 12, 1958 A LTHOUGH it would be foolish to say that "Church•^ State" questions are less complicated in the United States than elsewhere, it is true that they have...

Jacques Maritain: Expert in Humanity (May 1973)

anything be said about the direction suggested by Mr. Kissinger's address with any degree of certainty? Difficult and perhaps tense negotiations on trade and defense policies loom ahead of us,...

'THE AMNESTY ISSUE': An Exchange of Views (December 1972)

an exchange of views 'The Amnesty Issue9 Sydney, Nova Scotia To the Editors: James Finn has made a brave attempt to handle the question of amnesty [Nov. 3], Unfortunately it reads like an...

A VISION OF AMERICA (December 1972)

A Vision of America JAMES FINN THE 1972 Presidential election has come to its timely end. The cadaver lies heavily across these united states. Now we sift among the stillwarm entrails so...

THE AMNESTY ISSUE (November 1972)

THE AMNESTY ISSUE JAMES FINN It reveals once again the divisive and shattering force of the war, and the sorry state of moral/political discussion in this country Amnesty isn't the hottest issue...

THE CHINA TRIP:A SYMPOSIUM (March 1972)

THE CHINA TRIP a symposium William Pfaff ' . . . a s r u t h l e s s t n peace a s w a r ' T HE CHINA TRIP, important in itself, is most interesting as an episode in the American...

REINHOLD NIEBUHR (June 1971)

REINHOLD NIEBUHR The ideas and attitudes of the father are rejected by the son and discovered by the grandson. That, at least, is the usual pattern. But as he did in so many things, Reinhold...

FRANCOIS MAURIAC: (December 1970)

FRANCOIS MAURIAC IN THE MONTHS SINCE MALTAVERNE WAS PUBLISHED AND SINCE MAURIAC DIED, I HAVE PUZZLED OVER THE SLIGHT ATTENTION PAID THESE EVENTS BY AMERICAN CATHOLICS JAMES FINN "A corpse has...

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE (November 1969)

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE How 3 should the magazine see itself and its • future role? Former editors reply. who have been around...

THE HUMAN COST: (September 1967)

"The number of civilian casualties remains a tortured question. Senator Edward Kennedy predicted that there would be ...

BEYOND HARASSMENT (October 1965)

ment and the resumption of communications than in the rhetoric of hemispheric solidarity and the American family of nations. Moreover, in due course even this could be managed. For instance,...

PRITCHETT'S NEW YORK (May 1965)

most striking chapters are devoted to exploring and identifying what in terms of art the Dickens novel is not, offering a wide-ranging and severely testing commentary on the greatest art,...

Whittaker Chambers (February 1965)

An apocalyptic view WHITTAKER CHAMBERS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • JAMES FINN • About two years ago, I reread Witness. I found it then, as I had a decade earlier, an engrossing book. When...

The Uses of Genet (April 1964)

''A Moralist Dedicated to a Perversion of Values' The Uses of Genet JAMES FINN FROM a conversation about five or six years ago, I remember saying that though we were being treated to pale...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1964)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week W. E. ARNOLD The "Catholic book" seems to be an indefinable, if dispensable category. I do not know what a "Catholic book" is, but the following is a choice...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1963)

BOOKS Critics' Choices for Christmas THOMAS CURLEY Let me begin with a quotation: "Hence, the search for motives, the demand that everybody display in public his innermost motivation, since it...

Books (November 1963)

BOOKS F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Dimension of Greatness The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Andrew Turnbull. Scrib-ner's $10. by David Littlejohn THE Fitzgerald Question, the puzzle that...

"James Baldwin's Vision" An Exchange of Views (October 1963)

AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS "James Baldwin's Vision" Chicago, Ill. TO THE EDITORS: I think that James Finn, in his recent article on James Baldwin's "vision," misses the point of that vision and...

James Baldwin's Vision (July 1963)

He Has Turned the White Person into the Invisible Man James Baldwin's Vision ]AMES FINN tlACISM is a festering evil that has been steadily oozing its poison into our society for over three...

Under the Eye of God (March 1961)

government regulation if we are to avoid the cartelization and monopolization of industrial opportunity which characterizes so much of private industry in Europe and South America. The system of...

The Difference to Me (November 1960)

The Difference to Me The fading cliché of the current campaign is that there is no real difference between the candidates by JAMES FINN B Y THE TIME election day arrives one of the hardiest myths...

A Religious Encounter (March 1960)

In this scheme, in the hope of preserving open rural land, the local or state government "rents" the rights to the land by paying the landowner a nominal sum on the proviso the land will not be sold...

III The Challenge of the Specific (October 1959)

ill-The Challenge of the Specific Criticism of the United Nations by ,~ ROBERT E. LUCEY T EN years after the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations, the fundamental facts of...

Castro's "Operacion Verdad" (February 1959)

Castro's "Operadon Verdad The leaders of the revolution and the Cuban people consider outside criticism of the way they have tried and executed prisoners to be unjust and uninformed by JAMES...

Controversy in New York (September 1958)

Controversy in New York The dispute over the prescription of contraceptive devices in city hospitals raises the recurring question of how groups with differing beliefs accommodate themselves in a...

Cozzens Dispossessed (April 1958)

The question of the remarkable acceptance of "By Love Possessed" remains to be answered Cozzens Dispossessed by JAMES FINN J AMES GOULD COZZENS is a practiced novelist working within definite,...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1958)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week ELIZABETH BARTELME T HE RED Book of the Persecuted Church. By Albert Galter. Newman. $5.75. An important and terrifying documentation of the Church in...

The Princeton Controversy (January 1958)

The Princeton Controversy In judging the dispute between Father Halton and the University, the greatest single difficulty was that most people were forced to rely on information that was almost...

Books (October 1957)

BOOKS Calm, Wise Stories of the Human Comedy DOMESTIC RELATIONS. By Frank O'Connor. Knopf. $3.50. By WILLIAM JAMES SMITH M OST OF THE stories in this latest collection of Frank O'Connor's...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1956)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ANTHONY BAILEY THE Acceptance World. By Anthony Powell. Farrar. $3.50. Mr. Powell may well be the finest novelist writing in England today and his sequence, "The...

Books (February 1956)

BOOKS The Universe Rang True When Fairly Tested SURPRISED BY JOY- The Shape of My Early Life. C. S. Lewis. Harcourt, Brace. $3.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE T HE author of the best-known Anglican...

Finn, James D.

Finn, Molly

Finn, Peter Steinfels, James

Finnegan, Richard A

Finnegan, Sister Mary Jeremy

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Sch\:ussler

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schfissler

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussier

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler

Fiorenza, Francis Schussler

Fireside, Harvey

Fiscalini, Janet