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AuthorG., R.
AuthorGabor, Abraham Rothberg and Robert
AuthorGabor, Robert
AuthorGABRIEL, A. L.
AuthorGabriel, Francis
AuthorGABRIEL, JOAN T.
AuthorGaertner, Ken
AuthorGaffney", Shelley--Food Parcels--"Moon
AuthorGaffney, Edward McGlvnn Jr.
AuthorGaffney, Edward McGlynn
AuthorGaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
AuthorGaffney, James
AuthorGaffney, Patrick D.
AuthorGaffney, T. St. John
AuthorGagen, Joseph F
AuthorGagen, Joseph F.
AuthorGaillardetz, Richard R.
AuthorGaillerdetz, Richard R
AuthorGais, Hannah
AuthorGajard, Dom
AuthorGalarza, Ernesto
AuthorGalbraith, William M.
AuthorGalencu, Grigore
AuthorGalgan, Gerald J.
AuthorGalilea, Segundo
AuthorGALLACHER, EDWARD M.
AuthorGALLAGHER, CHARLES
AuthorGallagher, Jean
AuthorGallagher, Marie
AuthorGallagher, Mary Campbell
AuthorGallagher, Michael
AuthorGallagher, Raymond M.
AuthorGallen, P. H.
AuthorGaller, David
AuthorGallery, Sean
AuthorGallicho, Grant
AuthorGALLIGAN, ANDREW
AuthorGALLIGAN, ANDREW A.
AuthorGALLIK, REV. G.
AuthorGallin, Alice
AuthorGALLO, ERNEST
AuthorGALLO, NADINE
AuthorGALLO, RICHARD J.
AuthorGalloway, John
AuthorGalston, William
AuthorGalston, William A
AuthorGalston, William A.
AuthorGalvin, John P.
AuthorGalvin, Martin
AuthorGamble, William M. T.
AuthorGamm, Gerald
AuthorGannon, Francis X.
AuthorGannon, Michael V.
AuthorGannon, Thomas M.
AuthorGANS, HERBERT
AuthorGans, Herbert J
AuthorGans, Herbert J.
AuthorGanz, John
AuthorGara, James O'
AuthorGarafola, Lynn
AuthorGarber, Bernard
AuthorGarcía, E. J.
AuthorGardner, James
AuthorGardner, John
AuthorGardner, Robert W.
AuthorGardner, Romaine L.
AuthorGardner, W. David
AuthorGaresche, E. F.
AuthorGaresche, Edward F.
AuthorGargan, Edward T.
AuthorGarnett, Richard W
AuthorGarnett, Richard W.
AuthorGarofalo, Thomas
AuthorGarraghan, Gilbert J.
AuthorGarrett, G. R.
AuthorGarrett, Stephen A.
AuthorGarrett, Susan
AuthorGarrigue, Jean
AuthorGarrison, David
AuthorGarrison, David Lee
AuthorGarrison, Theodosia
AuthorGarrity, Devin A.
AuthorGarry, Patrick M.
AuthorGarvev, John
AuthorGarvey, Edwin C.
AuthorGarvey, Ernest
AuthorGarvey, Helen Maher
AuthorGarvey, James
AuthorGarvey, John
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COLUMNISTS John Garvey 'I Do' Undone WHAT WE'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT VOWS An Irish friend who keeps up with the situation of Catholicism in his country told me that the great falling off in church...
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COLUMNISTS An Imperfect Union John Garvey WHEN CHURCH & STATE MARRY At this moment in our culture, it is hard to talk about samesex marriage without making a fool of oneself—hard to talk about...
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John Garvey A Moralist with an Ear The Tenth of December Stories George Saunders Random House, $26, 251 pp. George Saunders loves writing, and his command of the vernacular and delight in...
Paid articleLetting Go (March 2013)
COLUMNIST John Garvey Letting Go WHY BENEDICT’S RESIGNATION MATTERS Several Orthodox friends have asked what I think of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation. A few are, like me, former Roman...
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COLUMNISTS John Garvey Flesh Wounds GOBSMACKED BY THE INCARNATION All the suffering we have seen recently—the dead Palestinian children, the casualties of civil war in Syria and the Congo, and...
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COLUMNIST John Garvey Only Wonder Comprehends LEARNING TO SEE WHAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF US I don’t think anyone who has seen the wonderful photo of the Earth in all its beauty suspended above the...
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COLUMNIST John Garvey Is Desire Enough? SEX & THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION It seems to me that there are two competing currents of thought about sexual morality, both of them too narrowly conceived...
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John Garvey An Endangered Sensibility Toward the Endless Day The Life of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel Olga Lossky Translated by Jerry Ryan Edited by Michael Plekon University of Notre Dame Press,...
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COLUMNIST John Garvey We Are Complicit IT GOES WELL BEYOND CONTRACEPTION I’ve been fascinated with the furor over the Obama administration’s decision to make Catholic hospitals, charities,...
Paid articleMyth & More (January 2012)
COLUMNIST John Garvey Myth & More Why historical fact isn’t enough Myth is a necessary way of understanding, but it is deeply misunderstood. The place of myth—and its misplacing—have a...
Paid articleSomething More (October 2011)
Something More John Garvey It is Not Death We Fear There have been a number of recent articles and reviews that suggest the reason people cling to religious faith is their fear of death, and that...
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COLUMNIST John Qarvey An Unimaginable Intimacy THE MYSTERY OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US One early morning not long ago I woke with a strange physical sense of myself as the product of eons,...
Paid articleTelling the Christian Story (May 2011)
COLUMNIST John Qarvey Telling the Christian Story MAKE IT HUMBLE & MAKE IT PERSUASIVE The idea that the universe is ultimately without meaning—an idea advanced by many of the new atheists—has...
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COLUMNISTS John Qarvey A Storied Faith MYTHS, FABLES & PARABLES People have been explaining themselves, their relationship to the gods, and what life means with myths for thousands of years,...
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Columnists John Qarvey A Tree Full of Monkeys WHY THE SOUL NEEDS SILENCE In the earliest years of Christian teaching, dogma was proclaimed only when a denial of something (Jesus' humanity or his...
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John Qarvey Good Gift, Bad Rule THE USES & ABUSES OF CELIBACY There has been a lot of loose talk about the current crisis facing the Catholic Church and the Vatican in particular. Some...
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John Qarvey The Novelist as Theologian Dostoevsky Language, Faith, and Fiction Rowan Williams Baylor University Press, $24.95, 290 pp. One of the problems with Dostoevsky is that too many...
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Columnist -si 5 John Qarvey Long Lost THE DECLINE OF FRIENDSHIP I recently reconnected with a good friend I had lost touch with. It had been more than fifteen years since we had seen...
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Columnists John Garvey Herod Is Always with Us POLITICS & OTHER ILLUSIONS When Luke tells us the story of Jesus’ presentation in the temple, he has the prophet Simeon say to Mary,...
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Columnists John Garvey Anglican Annex WHAT WILL THE POPE’S INVITATION MEAN? The Vatican’s recent statement that it will create a special ordinariate for Anglicans who want to become...
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Columnist John Garvey A Package Deal A FRIEND’S APPETITE FOR LIFE—ALL OF IT As an Orthodox parish priest I’ve seen lots of deaths. The hardest was the death of a two-year-old. Older...
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Columnist John Garvey The Breath of Life CHRISTIAN ECOLOGY BEGINS WITH INCARNATION The idea that we must be as good as we can be to this damaged world is essential, as is the idea that it...
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John Garvey Too Much Information Meditating on distraction When I was in high school, teachers emphasized the need to be “well informed,” to read newspapers—that was essential to being...
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Emmaus House, in New York City’s Harlem, is a communi ty of formerly homeless peo ple who serve the homeless. It was founded in the 1960s by Fr. David Kirk, a Melkite priest who became...
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Commonweal . January 30, 2009 Columnist Magical Thinking and therefore worthy of protection—and who regard this as nothing more than a religious assertion. Perhaps the most we John...
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Commonweal . November 21, 2008 inillotempore.com Columnists Tough Love that the suffering is not the end. It was acceptance of the Cross and obedience¡ªthe total obedience to the will...
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Commonweal . September 26, 2008 Columnist Outrageous Death John Garvey rESurrEcTIoN or rESIgNATIoN? Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade” We want to hold on to life, but is one of my favorites....
Paid articleReasons for Our Hope (August 2008)
Commonweal . August 15, 2008 Columnists Reasons for Our Hope ther is like, and at the same time approach (for example) Buddhism humbly, knowing that we can learn from it even as we...
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John Garvey Outrageous or Meaningless? two ViEws of suffEring One argument against Christi­ anity begins with suffering: a good and all-powerful God would never allow the...
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John Garvey Found, Not Made WHAT THE inCARnATion MEAnS One of the advantages of liv­ing in my Queens neighbor­ hood is that on weekday mornings I get to watch little children...
Paid articleCommunication and Otherness (April 2008)
John Garvey Here below, in a fallen world, we feel threatened by all otherness. We identify difference with division, Zizioulas writes, Difference without Division and “when difference becomes...
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John Garvey Out of Control THE MEAning OF SUFFERing In a recent New York Times column (“A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” February 5), Jane E. Brody argued the case for...
Paid article'Become All Fire' (February 2008)
‘Become All Fire’ The Splendor of Orthodox Spirituality John Garvey M y wife and I visited Amsterdam a couple of years ago. Her time was taken up with business, and my days were spent...
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John Garvey The New Atheists MARGINALIZING WHAT MOST PEOPLE VALUE The recent reports of Mother Teresa’s long dark night made more news than they should have, I thought. Then I...
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Columnists Columnists John Garvey The Difference CHRISTIANITY’S UNCOMFORTABLE CLAIM The religious tradition that be gins with Judaism focuses more than most religions on...
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Commonweal . October 12, 2007 6 Columnists The Trouble with Religion John Garvey CERTAINTY IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FAITH Religion, as it is ordinarily practiced, reconciles us¡ªnot to...
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Columnist The Good Place John Garvey WHY IMMIGRANTS KEEP COMING Immigration has been in the news, and the questions of how to deal with illegal immigrants and how to guard our...
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. ohn arvey Admitting Ignorance A CARDINAL CHRISTIAN VIRTUE Believers are often challenged with this question: How can you believe that God cares 7 more for human beings than for other...
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]ohn ~arvey O{ Monks & Madmen TEMPTED BY SILENCE & DARKNESS There has been a lot written about Into Great Silence, a _9 : ~ film which shows the life of i ~ [ ~ ~ J monks in the Carthusian ~...
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Columnist ~5 r.a ]ohn arvey Why People Leave the Church DON'T BLAME THE ZEITGEIST ~ We have grown used to people who have problems with "organized religion" and "the ~ J institutional...
Paid articleHere I Stand (February 2007)
ohn arvey Here I Stand DOUBT & THE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS I ~ l l i There has been an interesting recent debate about faith and _ ~ . ~ . doubt, religious belief and ~ atheism. Andrew...
Paid articleGrounds for Disbelief? (January 2007)
Columnists I e.t | gTohn arvey Grounds for Disbelief? SCIENCE & THE GOD DELUSION ~ ~ Books by people who see religion as a profound misunder~ : ~ standing or dangerous delu~~ ~ sion...
Paid articleTrial by Fire (November 2006)
]ohn arvey Trial by Fire I THOUGHT STUFF DIDN'T MATTER ~ . Toward the end of his letter to the Philippians, St. Paul writes, "I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content." I learned...
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Theology of the Body ohn Qarvey SACRED & PROFANE LESSONS The body is the only sign of ~ ~ who we are. That is why in canonical iconography God the Father is not depicted (because he...
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ohn arvey Cosmically Unfair WHAT IS THE POINT OF SUFFERING? MIL l was at a wake for the mother of a parishioner when a ~lr:71~ boy, maybe ten or eleven, ~ asked, I have a question: ~ If God...
Paid articleEveryman by Philip Roth (July 2006)
our expressions of belief or unbelief. At a funeral, Roth's character says of a woman whose sobbing irritates her husband that he can understand her grief. It's because it is for her as it's...
Paid articleFamily Values (June 2006)
q~ q~ ~q L*% r 0 0 John Qarvey Family Values NOT ALL THEY ARE CRACKED UP TO BE When I was a pastor I visited one home which had the normal number of windows, open to the sun during...
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Columnist John Garvey The Kingdom & the Flea Market WHY DO PEOPLE JOIN CHURCHES? There was a death in our parish not long ago. An old woman named Helen, who lived alone, died after a brief...
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John Qarvey Malnourished The Future of Christology Roger Haight Continuum, $27.95, 224 pp. Roger Haight's aim in The Future of Christology is to restate and expand, in a somewhat more...
Paid articleClimbing Trees (February 2006)
Columnists ohn arvey Climbing Trees AND OTHER THEOLOGICAL EXERCISES a few houses away from the north side of our house. After a few years the farm died but the fields remained, and the...
Paid articleFalse Trust (January 2006)
Columnists john Garvey False Trust HOW INTELLIGENT DESIGN MISLEADS BELIEVERS n*0 a C cu 0 0 0 0 6The spiritual classic The Practice of...
Paid articleA Wounded Universe (November 2005)
e~ e',l o8 J 0 is why Senate Democrats--and one hopes they might be joined by some brave Republicans--should insist that before Alito's nomination is voted on, Bush and Cheney have some...
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$. .g 8 o o ~J ]ohn arvey Who's In & Who's Out A CHURCH OF DEMANDS OR ACCEPTANCE? What are churches for? The answer may seem obvious: to preach and try to live the word of God and...
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~q "4 .< r,,a yohn arvey 'Intelligent' Design? RELAX, GOD IS STRANGER STILL There has been some debate, even at local school-board levels, about the theory of evolution vs....
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Celibacy & the Future of the Priesthood Priests Should Be Married ohn arvey y ears ago Austin Flannery, then editor of the Irish theological journal Doctrine and Life, asked me to write...
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John arvey The New Pope AN ORTHODOX VIEW ~. It struck me, watching ,,the coverage of John Paul II s death and the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Benedict XVI, that non-Catholics...
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]ohn arvey Something Does Not Love Us THE REALITY OF EVIL Evil is a word that disturbs most of us. Secular people are put off by its theological overtones; many religious people are...
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Columnists ohn arvey Christo's 'Gates' AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE It may seem pointless, and in a lovely way it is, to install a series of frames containing large hanging saffron rectangles...
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ohn arvey Sing Out EVEN IF YOU CAN'T CARRY A TUNE ~~ Years ago, before I was married ~ (there were giants on the earth , [~'1~ in those days and dinosaurs ~J roamed...), Regina was a music ~;~...
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i violent, a parent would have to be looking over a child's shoulder until the highest level of play was finally revealed. This could take days. Moreover, it isn't as if parents and the...
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JOHN GARVEY OUTRAGEOUS CHRISTIANITY A Christmas meditation At this time of year we are surrounded by Christmas images-the tender scenes of Mother and Child, the manger, adoring shepherds, angels-...
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JOHN GARVEY CULTURE IS POLITICS Two views of America Two new books offer occa-sionally illuminating but frustrating perspectives on contemporary America, from very different angles. From the...
Paid articleNone of the above (September 2004)
JOHN GARVEY NONE OF THE ABOVE Why I'm sitting out the election ince former Commonweal columnist Sidney Callahan has confessed her past votes ("A Prolife Case against Bush," June 4), I'll confess...
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POLITICS OR IDOLATRY" The limits of compromise ERAL 1~IINDS JOHN GARVEY here is a cliche floating around that people drop as if it were a self-evident truth—a category that may not exist,...
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JOHN GARVEY BELIEF WS. UNBELIEF Complacency, not religion, is the danger Recently, a book, an article, and an interview made me realize what an odd corner discussion about religion has been backed...
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John Garvey LOOKING EAST 'Byzantium' at the Met n 1997, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibit called "The Glory of Byzantium." It covered the period from 843 to 1261, the time...
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O F SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY RELIGION & POLITICS Let's not mix the two A s we move toward the election, there has been some discussion of religion as a factor in the choices that voters...
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is[ To the Editors The next scandal? David Gibson identifies many reasons why the Catholic Church could be susceptible to a financial scandal ("The Bottom Line," February 13). Sadly, based on his...
Paid articleAshes to ashes Facing death & imagining immorality (January 2004)
ASHES TO ASHES Toward a Christian understanding of death John Garvey T he first time I seriously questioned what we usually think of as the self, or the soul, was following an operation which...
Paid articleHow to read Scripture (January 2004)
HOW TO READ SCRIPTURE Tradition vs. zeitgeist he Vatican has suspended its dialogue with the Anglican Church, following the decision of its American branch to consecrate as a bishop a man who left...
Paid articleEncounters of the first kind (December 2003)
OF THE SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIRST KIND Remembering Anthony Bloom Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, the head of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church in Great Britain, died...
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JOHN GARVEY IN SURPRISING WAYS How ecumenism has changed us There are lots of mixed feelings about the ecumenical movement, just as there are about the results of the Second Vatican Council, and...
Paid articleCorrespondence Gumbleton on double standards; gays, marriage & sacraments; & more... (October 2003)
Bishops' double standard Like the other letter writers in your September 12 issue, I am very pleased that you published the excellent article by Rembert Weak-land ("Looking Forward," August 15). I...
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SCARY STUFF Bay of Souls Robert Stone Houghton Mifflin, $25,249 pp. John Garvey M ichael Ahearn, the protagonist of Robert Stone's latest novel, is a professor at a state university in the...
Paid articleSame-sex marriage (September 2003)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN CARVEY SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Can it be a sacrament? There is no doubt that the industrialized West is going through a profound change in the way it regards homosexuality. The...
Paid articleMurder, he read (June 2003)
JOHN GARVEY MURDER, HE READ Crime, punishment & sex When I was a child I had an illness that kept me out of school for a year and left me pretty much unable to do anything but stay at home and...
Paid articleIntelligent design (May 2003)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN CARVEY INTELLIGENT DESIGN Don't count on it I nonce had to suffer through the attempt of an atheist friend to explain to me, and to others too polite to flee him, exactly...
Paid articleEastern Orthodoxy through Western Eyes by Donald Fairbairn (April 2003)
Eastern Orthodoxy through Western Eyes Donald Fairbairn Westminster John Knox Press, $19.95, 216 pp. John Carvey This book is at once illuminating, sympathetic, and critical. Donald Fairbairn, a...
Paid articleMarlboro man (March 2003)
JOHN GARVEY MARLBORO NAN When smoke got in his eyes When I was in my teens, I didn't take up smoking be-cause of Philip Morris. I took it up because of Philip Marlowe. I began smoking at the age...
Paid articleThe ten suggestions? (January 2003)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN CARVEY THE TEN SWGGESTIONS? The 'Times' does the Decalogue nt is a common complaint that religion is not dealt with well in the media, which, when it doesn't just plain get...
Paid articleBooks & more books Think of the dust mites! (November 2002)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY BOOKS & MORE BOOKS Too much of a good thing Frank O'Malley was one of my teachers at Notre Dame, and he was a blessing, as anyone to whom he taught literature can...
Paid articleOf sinners & saints Depression & other saintly virtues (October 2002)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY OF SINNERS & SAINTS And sometimes both When she was told that many people considered her a saint, Dorothy Day fa-mously said, "I won't be dismissed that easily."...
Paid articleTo war? Questions before the invasion (September 2002)
JOHN GARVEY TO WAR What about the Iraqi people? OF SEVERAL HINDS As we mark the anniversary of September 11, we can reflect-with some humility-on how we have not been changed into a better and...
Paid articleCompeting orthodoxies Why East & West don't meet (July 2002)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY COMPETING ORTHODOXIES Can the East face Rome? Many evaluations of the pa-pacy of John Paul II have mentioned his desire for Or-thodox-Catholic reunion. The chances...
Paid articleMarried priests? Celibacy, pro & con (May 2002)
JOHN GARVEY MARRIED PRIESTS? It works for the Orthodox We must pray for the strength of the Catholic Church," an Orthodox monk once told me. "If they collapse we will look pretty foolish, and we'll...
Paid articleSHORT TAKE: Law & morality Should Catholic lawyers take divorce cases? (April 2002)
LAW & MORALITY Divorce, the death penalty & the pope I like Justice Antonin Scalia and I love John Paul II, so I hesitate to disagree with both of them in the same essay. Each recently addressed...
Paid articleFacing anti-Semitism (March 2002)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY FACING ANTI-SEMITISM Apology, yes; apostasy, no In the January 21 issue of the New Republic, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners (Knopf),...
Paid articleGiacometti's genius (February 2002)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY GIACOMETTl'S GENIUS Angst & wit I first came across the works of Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) in a 1958 issue of Paris Review. The works reproduced there were not...
Paid articleWhen Christians kill (January 2002)
JOHN GARVEY OF SEVERAL MINDS WHEN CHRISTIANS KILL Don't make a virtue of necessity In opposed the war in Vietnam and was active in the antiwar movement. I would do it again. The war we are...
Paid articleMaking nice with Muslims: How peace loving is Islam? (December 2001)
OF SEVERAL HINDS JOHN GARVEY MAKING NICE WITH MUSLINS There are certain problems Many months before September 11,1 had a call from a Muslim who had seen my name in Peter...
Paid articleA beautiful day: WTC as seen from Queens (October 2001)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHH GARVEY A BEAUTIFUL DAY A horrible event On September 11,1 heard that a plane had hit one of the World Trade Center towers, and thought it was a terrible accident;...
Paid articleIs nothing sacred?: On cabbages & stem cells (September 2001)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY IS NOTHING SACRED? What's missing in the stem-cell debate P resident George W. Bush's address on stem-cell research and the subsequent commentary made me...
Paid articleSinning & sorrowing: Confession makes little sense unless we keep baptism in mind. (July 2001)
OF SERVAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY SINNING & SORROWING Taking confession seriously When I was about to be ordained, it occurred to me that there was something particularly strange about the...
Paid article'Dies irae' (May 2001)
OF SEVERAL HINDS JOHN GARVEY ?DIES IRAE' And don't you forget it once I was talking with a woman in our parish who had come from a Muslim background and had been baptized as an adult...
Paid articleThe lessons of complexity (March 2001)
SIPNEY CALLAHAN f 111 CALL ¥® H0LiiiES$ Planned & unplanned In his apostolic letter Novo millennio ineunte, initiating the new millennium, Pope John Paul II asks: "Can holiness ever be...
Paid articleGiving death its due (January 2001)
JOHN GARYEY GIVING DEATH ITS DUE Christianity's eschatological hope This past year felt full of death. One of our godchildren, a twelve-year-old girl, died after eight days in the intensive...
Paid articleEcumenically challenged (December 2000)
the pope a bishop uniquely unlike...
Paid articleDear Voter: God loves me (October 2000)
make religion look more important to...
Paid articleWills's book is very good (August 2000)
arry Wills's Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (Doubleday) is an important book. I think Wills gets many things right. Of course, as a member of the Eastern Orthodox church, I could be expected...
Paid articleOpting out of belief (May 2000)
us-be so easily laid...
Paid articleThe hidden God (April 2000)
and to increase the nutrient and vitamin sponse, but it rests on speculation no word. Theodicy has been reduced to the content of various crops. Pest-resistant less than the...
Paid articleThe Bible & the Big Bang COLUMNISTS (March 2000)
standing also must be challenged....
Paid articleGive me your tired, your poor... (January 2000)
l his Christmas marked the seventh year during which I have served as pastor of an Orthodox church. The changes we have gone through have been remarkable for what sometimes feels like a...
Paid article'Sensation' in Brooklyn (November 1999)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY 'SENSA¥1ON' IN BRMKLYN Art, free speech & tax money T he controversy surrounding the "Sensation" exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum has generated a number of...
Paid articleA God who hurts (October 1999)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY A GOD WHO HURTS Still a mystery T here is a little boy in my parish, about two years old, who has just had a bone marrow transplant which, we hope, will cure a...
Paid articleA tradition of choice (August 1999)
From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. Here from the August 24,1962 issue is "The City of Rome Prepares" by former associate editor-at-large,...
Paid articleKids killing kids (June 1999)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY KIDS KILLING KIDS Does Columbine tell us anything? When the terrible news came from Littleton, Colorado, I thought about some of the worst times that were part of my...
Paid articleOrthodox views (May 1999)
JOHN GARVEY ORTHODOX VIEWS Religion & war in the Balkans t would be putting it mildly to say that I am less persuaded than the editors of Commonweal ("Stick to Your Guns," April 9) that...
Paid articleSneering at religion (March 1999)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHK GARVEY SNEERING JIT RELIGION Yes, the 'New Yorker' Of I had no problems at all with Roman Catholic teaching I suppose I would be Catholic, and not a member of the...
Paid articleBeyond proof (February 1999)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY BEYOND PROOF Seeking faith? Follow the hints George Steiner, one of our greatest modern critics and one of the few who takes theology seriously, compares the writings...
Paid articleWhat a priest does (January 1999)
OF SEVERAL HINDS JOHN GARVEY WHJif #* FHiESV HOES Little frustrations, humbling duties Becently I went through a period of deep frustration. I am a priest in a small but growing Orthodox...
Paid articleGay Bashing (November 1998)
T he murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming brought back a sharp and sad memory. When I was about to go to college, a friend of the family gave me a gift--a book of Rilke's poems--and...
Paid articleMistaken identity (October 1998)
or years, people who are involved in churches and synagogues have been told by people who are not, 'Tm not involved in any institutional religion." There is a more recent addition to this,...
Paid articleHierarchy (September 1998)
~ eading recent issues of Commonweal has made me wonder about the pervasiveness of the problems facing all believers. In the July 17 issue a survey of the attitudes of young Catholics...
Paid articleThe Yale Five (July 1998)
here are five Orthodox Jews, all first-year students at Yale, who are challenging a rule that says they must live in Yale's mixed-sex dormitories. I wish them well. Their case is...
Paid articleDamascus Gate (June 1998)
BLEAK, THRILLING & FUNNY John Garvey amascus Gate has a number of elements which will be familiar to Robert Stone's readers: drugs, alcohol, the threat of violence, death, and...
Paid articleFrontline shows a blind spot (May 1998)
here was a recent two-part edition of "Frontline," the PBS program, called "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians." The title indicated a bit of the show's bias, which is a current...
Paid articleJonesboro, Arkansas (April 1998)
House Judiciary Committee that receives his report concerning the president. Clinton may be guilty of lying under oath or obstruction of justice. But as the Jones case demonstrates, given the...
Paid articleHow is the Bible true? (March 1998)
tion to eject Hussein's army. Slobodan Milosevic is an internal aggressor. He attacks what he portrays as destructive movements inside his country's borders. When his country was...
Paid articleLove is the measure (February 1998)
Ivan had had a personal devotion to Nuestra Segora de El Cisne, the patroness of Loja, Ecuador. He was buried the next day from Saint Michael's Church, where there is a special shrine to her. Her...
Paid articleThe seven McCaugheys Does fertility have its limits? Where does the pursuit of happiness end? (December 1997)
JOHN GARVEY THE SEVEN McCAUGHEYS Babies as products The recent birth of septuplets in Iowa is interesting at a couple of levels. It focuses our attention on the difficult moral questions raised...
Paid articleOne of life's necessities (November 1997)
JOHN GARVEY ONE OF LIFE'S NECESSITIES A bookstore with personality When I was a lonely, strange adolescent (is there any other kind?), a few things saved me. One was the fiction of Sherwood...
Paid articleJudgment day Will God forgive you? It depends (October 1997)
OF SEVERAL MIND JPHN GARVEY JUDGMENT DAY You wouldn't want to miss it There have been suggestions that the problems of modern Christianity began when people stopped believing in hell. It could...
Paid articleSuffering & God's love (September 1997)
JOHN GARVEY SUFFERING & GOO'S LOVE Given to the just & the unjust alike 0 ur society is probably the first in which we agree to keep what matters most to us out of our common dis course, because...
Paid articleWhite noise Writers who cut through the soulless ness of our time (July 1997)
JOHN GARVEY WHITE NOISE Deafening roar of the trivial Home years ago I spent five daysinamonastery.Nonews-paper or radio or television, just rhythms of work and prayer, and the attention to both...
Paid articleCorrespondence Praise for Paul Baumann's "Notebook" on James Carroll; protests for John Garvey's views on ecumenism (June 1997)
CORROSPONDENCE Honesty is best policy Two aspects of your May 23 issue seemed to me especially commend-able, and revelatory of the magazine's urge to be an honest journal. One, Paul Baumann's...
Paid articleHonest differences Should the Catholic church join the World Council of Churches? Sound advice from an Orthodox perspective (May 1997)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY HONEST DIFFERENCES When Communion impedes communion Not long ago Patriarch Barth-olomeos of Constantinople invited the Roman Catholic church to join the World...
Paid articleArtful Juxtapositions (April 1997)
JOHN GARYEY ARTFUL JUXTAPOSITIONS From billboards to Joseph Cornell The Port Washington train from Manhattan to Queens passes a squarish, tapered white chimney mounted at the center of a building...
Paid articleThe mystery remains Scientists need not be tone deaf to the mystery of life It's time to think before we clone (March 1997)
JOHN GARVEY THE MYSTERY REHA1NS What cloning can't reproduce Hears ago Gore Vidal said that he thought human beings had already been cloned. "Anyone who says 'Have a nice day' is a clone," he...
Paid articleGod will wipe away our tears (February 1997)
If abortion is the defining moral concern for the bishop, was Dole really that much better than Clinton? Can the U.S. bishops truly be described as "passive, withdrawn, or indirect in their...
Paid articleCalled to be saints (December 1996)
JOHN GARVEY CALLED TO BE SAINTS Our salvation is at hand People who have rejected religion commonly offer one of two reasons. The first is a question: How can you believe in a good God when you...
Paid articleHenri Nouwen Our columnist recalls the life and insights of a peripatetic Christian (November 1996)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY HENRI NOUWEN Restless no more Henri Nouwen died recently while visiting his father in Holland-I met him when he was a visiting professor of psychology at Notre Dame in...
Paid articleWe are not our own (October 1996)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY WE ARE NOT OUR OWN And that's a comfort Hears ago those who opposed permissive abortion laws predicted that euthanasia would be the next great cause, and they were...
Paid articleGod & man on Mars (September 1996)
JOHN GARVEY GOD & NAN ON NARS Spacey ruminations When I was first able to start getting excited about any-thing in an independent way, what I loved most divided into two directions: mythology (the...
Paid articleA typology of converts Beware of converts It matters whether they're coming or going Believe me, it takes one to know one (June 1996)
JOHN GARVEY A TYPOLOGY OF CONVERTS Beware of those who are running away When I joined the Orthodox church twelve years ago I made a decision that I had been circling for twenty-one years. It...
Paid articleRadio vs the Internet (May 1996)
JOHN GARVEY RADIO VS. THE INTERNET Only the Shadow knows Are you on the Internet? I was asked this twice in one day, first by a bishop and then by a priest. It made me wonder about the ways we...
Paid articleA Canticle for Leibowitz (April 1996)
JOHN CARYEY A CANTICLE FOR LEI BOWITZ A eulogy for Walt Miller Walt Miller shot himself in January. His suicide fol- lowed by several months the death of his wife Anne. Many readers of Commonweal...
Paid articleCorrespondence (March 1996)
CORRESPONDENCE Punchy pix Plaudits to whoever is responsible for selecting and placing the cartoons that appear in Commonweal. At their best, they resemble The Pick of Punch. THOMAS J....
Paid articleIt's one universe (March 1996)
JOHN GARVEY IT'S ONE UNIVERSE Where the godly & godless can talk The place of religion and religious discourse in a secular society is a subject of constant debate. At one extreme are those who...
Paid articleGender & priesthood The Orthodox are not ready to ordain women priests-far from it But they think it is wise to keep talking about the matter (January 1996)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN CARVEY GENDER & PRIESTHOOD The Orthodox keep talking After the recent Roman declaration that Catholics must regard it as infallible, a matter of the "deposit of faith,"...
Paid articleThe earth is flat (December 1995)
OF SEVERAL HINDS JOHN GARVEY THE EARTH IS FLAT My textbook says so Education is a battleground these days. Public schools are widely and for the most part rightly seen, at least in some large urban...
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JOHN GARVEY RACE & THE SINPSON VERDICT Taking our pulse On the days following the Simpson verdict there was a lot of talk about what this decision revealed about the relationship between black...
Paid articlePutting on the mind of Christ (October 1995)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY PUTTING ON THE MIND OF CHRIST It's very scary A few Sundays ago the Gospel reading in the Orthodox church was Matthew's story of the encounter of the rich young man...
Paid articleWhistle while you work (September 1995)
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK Mickey & the bottom line It does seem fitting that Ted Koppel should work for Mickey Mouse. Still, the fact that ABC News is now in the hands...
Paid articleWhat Tina hath wrought: (June 1995)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey WHAT TINA HATH WROUGHT BROWNOUT AT THE 'NEW YORKER' The New Yorker was once one of my favorite magazines. It now ranks down there with People and Vanity Fair as an...
Paid articleChristianity isn't 'spiritual': (May 1995)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey CHRISTIANITY ISN'T SPIRITUAL WHAT 'RESURRECTION' MEANS There is a distance between what people think they believe, and what they actually believe. Most Christians...
Paid articleWhen a child dies (March 1995)
WHEN A CHILD DIES OF COURSE THERE IS NO ANSWER The church I serve is a small one, and in some ways the commonly heard idea that the church should be like a family is a reality here, for better or...
Paid articleCommercials (February 1995)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey COMMERCIALS THE ETHER OF THE AGE I have written that television and law are all that we have in common in America, but I am beginning to think that this is too rich...
Paid articleEucharistic Presence, by Robert Sokolowski (January 1995)
BOOKS 'To bless, to hallow, to show this bread' Toward the end of this important book, Robert Sokolowski notes that many recent writers on the question of eucharistic presence point out that "an...
Paid articleDoubling the wager: (January 1995)
OF SEVERALMINDS John Garvey DOUBLING THE WAGER DOUBT, FAITH & RISK Doubt and faith go togeth-er. This is said often, and too easily. It is true, in its way, but we console our-selves with this...
Paid articleAn alienating culture (November 1994)
7 OF SEVERAL MIMPS John Garvey AN ALIENATING CULTURE NO SENSE OF THE SACRED ¦ have friends who have decided to teach their children at home. We considered doing this briefly, when our children...
Paid articleA different kind of knowing (October 1994)
A DIFFERENT KIND OF KNOWING FOR THOSE WITH EARS TO HEAR ne of the most fnghtening images in the modern world is that of the not uncommon sort of concentration camp guard who could move...
Paid articlePointing the way (September 1994)
OF SEVERAL WIMPS John Garvey POINTING THE WAY FOR THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE There is a common assumption among modern, secular people that in ancient times people were more credulous than...
Paid articleOrdain women? (July 1994)
ORDAIN WOMEN? ORTHODOXY SAYS NO—BUT LET'S TALK he issue of women's ordination, never as simple as people on either side of the question would like it to be, has been further complicated...
Paid articleBreaking the rules (May 1994)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey BREAKING THE RULES AND STARVING THE SPIRIT It is hard to generalize easily about the work that faces a parish priest, but it is plain that there are a lot of...
Paid articleA wonderful book (April 1994)
OF SEVERAL WIMPS John Garvey A WONDERFUL BOOK DAN CALLAHAN ON DEATH ¦ know Daniel Callahan but until I read The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality (Simon & Schuster, 1993)1 had...
Paid articleSigns & wonders (April 1994)
Signs & wonders he Gospel accounts of Jesus' miracles make it clear that there is something almost ironic about them: the blind see, the paralytics walk—but what really matters (and what looks...
Paid articleWould bombing work? (March 1994)
PF SEVERAL WIMPS John Garvey WOULD BOMBING WORK? FIRST, A FEW QUESTIONS here is, at the time of this writing, an agreement that NATO will start using air strikes against the combatants in...
Paid articlePass it on (February 1994)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Ggrvey PASS IT ON THE FRESHNESS OF DEEP DOWN THINGS ' hen I was in college I remember one of many late-night conversations with friends, the kind you don't have at...
Paid articleWhat is God like? (December 1993)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey WHAT IS GOD LIKE? WELL...A BABY? here is something at the heart of Christianity that refuses abstraction. We take a baby, put him into water, and say that...
Paid articleLove your enemy: (November 1993)
may not); we are called to love the enemy OF SEVERAL MINDS John...
Paid articleThe Protestant moment?: (October 1993)
Ratzinger quotes an existentialist psy- Well, you can see the problem of rely- chologist, Albert Gorres, to support his case ing on the unconscious. I dread seeing for guilt. He also...
Paid articleDemocracy & its limits: (August 1993)
with this approach, but I am doubtful it vatives? No, for that means we are really con- and unity in its own civilization, particu- can succeed. About a hundred years ago ...
Paid articleAn incoherent culture: (June 1993)
award went to Mia. The citation reads: "In tions of the theory, but we are making rapid bringing the idea of common obligation an age of moral subjectivism; in an age progress....
Paid articleBetween Dracula & Bovary (May 1993)
the preconciliar Catholic subculture. Yet I discovered that or feelings about his sexuality or the state of his soul. Ile was works by hitter ex-Catholics and New Leftists that claimed...
Paid articleA role of one's own: (March 1993)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey who are single, who fall outside of...
Paid articlePrejudice or disagreement? (February 1993)
fellow's point of view. gelical of the present day, who doesn't re- possess a thorough understanding of the Speaking of the other fellow's point of alize that when...
Paid articleThe Christ of faith (January 1993)
its detailed articulation. No single mem- kind of overreaching policy position of team. Christopher may not generate the ber of the security group stands out as the a Kissinger or a...
Paid articleWe are all foreigners (December 1992)
OF SEVERAL WIMPS John Gciryey WE ARE ALL FOREIGNERS RELIGION, NATION & RACE ' hen I was in college, a couple of years before Bill Clinton didn't inhale, it was assumed among progressive...
Paid articleMissing the point (November 1992)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey MISSING THE POINT THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION, STUPID ake two sorts of Christian: one is a believer in the kind of theology that affirms people, a theology that...
Paid articleCommunity is not an aggregate (October 1992)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey COMMUNITY IS NOT AN AGGREGATE CULTURE WAR AT THE SCHOOL BOARD he debate over family values is, of course, not a debate at all. People invoke the word to mean...
Paid articleAppalling, depressing, revolting (September 1992)
OF SEVERAL WIWDS John Garvey APPALLING, DEPRESSING, REVOLTING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION oth of the conventions are over now. The only consolation is that we will not have to put up with that...
Paid articleWhat the Orthodox say (August 1992)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey WHAT THE ORTHODOX SAY IS ROME LISTENING? recent Vatican document illustrates as well as anything could why the movement toward i unity between the Catholic and...
Paid articleWunerful, wunerful! (June 1992)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey WUNERFUL, WUNERFUL! LIFE WITHOUT TELEVISION olitics is the oddest collective idea, even stranger than sports. It is wide enough to include Britain's decaying...
Paid articleFreedom to obey (May 1992)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey FREEDOM TO OBEY CHOICE AS A MEASURE OF THE FALL Saint Paul stresses the "glorious liberty of the children of God," and the freedom of the Christian is a central theme...
Paid articleNostalgia for what? (March 1992)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey NOSTALGIA FOR WHAT? TAKING AMERICA BACK FROM WHOM? People speak of having had a happy childhood, and some (they are another kind of human being, not my sort) even...
Paid articleNone of the above (February 1992)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey NONE OF THE ABOVE WHERE I DRAW THE LINE We're moving toward a presidential race that promises to be every bit as embarrassing as the last, with a few sideshows...
Paid articleAn eye on the sparrow (January 1992)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey AN EYE ON THE SPARROW ARISTOTLE'S GOD ISN'T OURS God's eye, we read, is on the sparrow, on the lilies of the field, and on everything else: the hairs of...
Paid articleOy! Koumenism (December 1991)
army, would be abolished, and a new civilian police force, completely removed from military control, would be established to enforce the laws and maintain domestic order. It would include a...
Paid articleSins of the fathers (November 1991)
told me in Mexico City. "We are not fighting to incorporate ourselves into the status quo. We are not trying to solve our--the URNG's--problem by integrating ourselves on generous terms while all...
Paid articleAlone with our rights (October 1991)
adversary seemed greater. A narrowly conceived margin of "rationality" was the foundation of an irrational arms competition. The treaties were the precise but precarious effort made to...
Paid articleLight in August (September 1991)
We are unlikely ever to know the full story of pressures and Los Angeles AIDS Project has disavowed the representative counter-pressures that led to PB S's original scheduling of"Stop from their...
Paid articlePolitics & culture (August 1991)
Most of us, slightly bewildered, staggered back to our parishes, wondering how to put together the scattered theological pieces. I wondered if Father Peregrine had indeed come back for...
Paid articleA waste of time? (June 1991)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey A WASTE OF TIME? THE ORTHODOX & THE WCC he World Council o f Churches was, until the Second Vatican Council, the most famous and visible symbol of ecumenism....
Paid articleGoing to hell by inches (May 1991)
many people who have been helped by the writings of C.S. I~wis. But the older rationalist proofs don't "wash" any more for most people. They have to be communicated differently, starting from the...
Paid articleChristian wholeness (April 1991)
close. Even General Norman Schwarzkopf said in December that it was better to wait eighteen months in the desert than to lose a single life. It may be, as Larry Weiss, a member of the Minneapolis...
Paid articleGays & straights together (March 1991)
joyful, to move from the traditional and familiar to the new and on June 25, 1978. He was looking for consolation and encour- unknown, it was even harder to accept the pain of seeing the agement...
Paid article'Do you know Jesus?' (January 1991)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey 'DO YOU KNOW JESUS?' LET ME REPHRASE THAT QUESTION here is a kind of Christian who challenges you with the question, "Have you met Jesus?" Or "Do you know...
Paid articleIf you had been there...: (December 1990)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE... WOULD YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED JESUS? The sin against the Holy Spirit is the one that Jesus said was beyond forgiveness. It is plainly the one to...
Paid articleClarity, not consolation (November 1990)
CLARITY, NOT CONSOLATION RELIGION ISN'T THERAPY recently read an article-it appeared in the September 24 issue of the New Republic and is worth looking up-which offered a brilliant reading of the...
Paid articleSpirituality made simple (October 1990)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey SPIRITUALITY MADE SIMPLE JUST STAY AWAKE Where are the real grown-ups? When I was a child I thought of the grown-ups as people who knew things, were sure of...
Paid articleDon't be offended (September 1990)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Gctrvey DONT BE OFFENDED CORRECT-THINK ON CULTURE We are allowed, at last, to take offense. It is a step in the right direction, though stillquitelimited.lt is all right to...
Paid articleExtraordinary means: (August 1990)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey EXTRAORDINARY MEANS APPROACHING THE ABYSS IN MICHIGAN Doctor Jack Kevorkian has been in the news a lot recently. He has invented a machine that allows people to kill...
Paid articlePersuasion preferred (June 1990)
OF SEVERAL MIHDS John Garvey PERSUASION PREFERRED EDUCATING FOR CHOICE Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little...
Paid articleA deluge of images (May 1990)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey A DELUGE OF IMAGES WHY WORRY ABOUT MAPPLETHORPE? So many of the arguments over such things as the Mapplethorpe exhibit and the limits, or lack of them, on the...
Paid articleLeaves of the artichoke (April 1990)
OF SEVERAL MINDS lohn Garvey LEAVES OF THE ARTICHOKE THE MARRIAGE OF RELIGION & CULTURE "The African churches were never allowed to be themselves, neither in the early church in...
Paid articleCorrespondence (April 1990)
CORRESPONDENCE A Campbell query Richmond Hill, N.Y. To the Editors: Perhaps Fred Siegel can be persuaded to explain why he describes Joseph Campbell as a "right-wing misan-throp" ["Blissed Out and...
Paid articleCouldn't happen Did: (March 1990)
John Garvey COULDN'T HAPPEN. DID LEARNING FROM THE UNEXPECTED This last year has been astonishing-so much so that it is by now quite commonplace to say what I just said. A friend of mine, someone...
Paid articleWhen Caesar wins (February 1990)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey WHEN CAESAR WINS MAKING GOD A METAPHOR A Jewish friend recently mentioned his irrita-tion with the phrase "the Judeo-Christian tradition." I know that many Jews...
Paid articleWomen's ordination (January 1990)
OF SEVERAL WINDS John Garvey WOMEN'S ORDINATION ANOTHER GO AT THE ARGUMENTS The issue of the ordination of women is one which will not go away, and shouldn't. I know from previous experience that...
Paid articleRules of the game (December 1989)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey RULES OF THE GAME DEMOCRACY & ITS LIMITS A couple of things came together recently to make me think about the glories and limits of democracy.One of them is...
Paid articleMore than we know: (November 1989)
OF SEVERAL MIMPS John Garvey MORE THAN WE KNOW GOD CANNOT NOT LOVE US There can be an overemphasis on feeling and emotion in religion; but on the other hand there can be too little. It is not...
Paid articleTales from the basement: (October 1989)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey TALES FROM THE BASEMENT IT WAS A DARK & GLOOMY NIGHT... Since it's close to Halloween, it seems like a good time for ghost stories. But since this is a serious...
Paid articleDon't worry, be still: (September 1989)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey DON'T WORRY, BE STILL THE VIRTUE OF NONCHALANCE An Orthodox bishop once told me that he receives people into the church only after they have been made part of an...
Paid articleGuarding Old Glory: (August 1989)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey GUARDING OLD GLORY DO SYMBOLS NEED PROTECTION? recent Supreme Court decision, the one which made flag burning in the act of political protest a form of protected free...
Paid articleThose weren't the days: (June 1989)
THOSE WEREN'T THE DAYS A SIXTIES' RETROSPECTIVE The sixties.. .they're over, we hear, or we are told that it is a shame that the spirit of the sixties is gone, or that we should be glad that it's...
Paid articleHealth-the great escape: (May 1986)
OF SEVERAL WIMPS John Garvey HEALTH: THE GREAT ESCAPE DEATH IS AS TERRIBLE AS IT SEEMS Health is something I think about intensely-but onty fitfully. I think I'm like most Americans that way. I...
Paid articleGod's true brew (April 1989)
OF SEVERAL WINDS John Garvey GOD'S TRUE BREW SOME SOUPS CANT BE WATERED DOWN In a recent column (December 16, 1988) I suggested that the differences between religions sometimes matter more than...
Paid articleOffensive defenders (March 1989)
OFFENSIVE DEFENDERS RUSHDIE'S RIGHTS & WRONGS In my opinion, Don Quixote was con-ducting an experiment. He wanted to test the gullibility of his fellow men. Would it be possible, he wondered, to...
Paid articleGod & joy unearned (February 1989)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey GOD & JOY UNEARNED MOMENTS OF PURPOSELESS DELIGHT It is hard sometimes, maybe hard anytime, to think in terms of human beings made in God's image. This past few weeks...
Paid articlePoisoned genius (January 1989)
OF SEVERAL WHIPS John Garvey POISONED GENIUS WHEN ART IS FOR EVIL'S SAKE Last June Arianna Stassino-pulos Huffington's iconoclastic Picasso: Creator and Destroyer appeared, and The Atlantic...
Paid articleFaithful conflict: (December 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey FAITHFUL CONFLICT REJECTING CAMPBELL'S SOUP I was reading Benedicta Ward's excellent translation of the sayings of the desert fathers, The Desert Christians (Macmillan,...
Paid articleStanding in for Jesus (November 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey STANDING IN FOR JESUS GENDER & RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS There are lots of reasons not to write about the ordination of women: it has been done to death, people have hardened...
Paid articleCreeping dimness: (October 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey CREEPING DIMNESS WHEN THE PAST IS MARGINALIZED I have been thinking about moving to another city, which means looking around our house and seeing how much there is to...
Paid articleIt's hard to believe: (September 1988)
OF SEVERAL MIMDS John Garvey ITS HARD TO BELIEVE NOTES FROM THE VALLEY OF DARKNESS People who are believers sometimes face a condescension, disguised as a kind of compliment, from people who are...
Paid articleThe universe & me: (August 1988)
OF SEVERAL WINDS John Garvey THE UNIVERSE & ME THE PLEASURES OF RESENTMENT A few days ago I walked toward an elevator and reached it at about the same time as a woman who was holding a child,...
Paid articlePlanetary influences: (June 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey PLANETARY INFLUENCES WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR Every now and then I encounter something which makes me feel that the universe is a much sillier, and therefore much...
Paid articleDistraction at the heart (May 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey DISTRACTION AT THE HEART WHAT WILL WE PASS ON? Recently I read Geir Kjet-saa's Fyodor Dostoyev-sky: A Writer's Life (Vi- king, 1987). It is a solid and interesting...
Paid articleFamily photographs: (April 1988)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS CONNECTING ALL THE DOTS My wife recently brought together a number of photo-graphs from her childhood in the Philippines, sepia prints taken only a...
Paid articlePilgrims of the absolute: (March 1988)
PILGRIMS OF THE ABSOLUTE THE SEARCH THAT NEVER ENDS Julius Lester, the author of a number of books (including the excellent To Be a Slave, a Newberry award winner which really should be required...
Paid articleIs there no end in sight?: (February 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey IS THERE NO END IN SIGHT? GETTING READY FOR THE MILLENNIUM I had an interesting time in a Chicago cab last winter. The driver was a pleasant man, full of jokes about the...
Paid articleThe academy in bloom (January 1988)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey THE ACADEMY IN BLOOM SECURITY & THE DISINTERESTED LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE If you believe some academic writers - Allan Bloom comes first to mind - the modern university has...
Paid articleA fact of life (December 1987)
OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy DON'T CALL US, WE'LL CALL YOU WHAT THE SYNOD SAID TO WOMEN H aving lived long and seen much, I am not surprised that the month-long synod on laity ended...
Paid articlePolitics won't cure death (October 1987)
OF SEVERAL NINAS John Garvey POLITICS WON'T CURE DEATH REMINDERS OF INEVITABILITY When my seven teen-year-old son said the other day that it might not be too great a tragedy if...
Paid articleThe ease of distraction (September 1987)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey THE EASE OF DISTRACTION ON THE SABBATH & CABLE TELEVISION It is as close to an absolute requirement for living in this world as you are likely to find...
Paid articlePressing North: questions they didn't ask (August 1987)
coverage given Secord, North, and Poindexter. And it's essential that Congress, policy makers, and journalists themselves hold the media's feet to the fire to make sure that this coverage is...
Paid articleThat's entertainment (June 1987)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT PUBLIC SCRUTINY & THE PRESS One of the advantages of the Gary Hart/Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker/ Oliver North thing (it is all basically one thing)...
Paid articleAsceticism & the evil one (May 1987)
OF SEVERAL HINDS John Garvey ASCETICISM & THE EVIL ONE WHY DO WE REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVIL? ¦^¦¦^^ ecently I saw Shoah, ^^^^^^B and the terrible question ^^H^^^T came to me again:...
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OF SEVERAL MUDS John Garvey CONTRACTING ANGUISH SARA, MELISSA, OR BABY M.? Judge Harvey Sorkow's ruling in the Baby M. trial seemed a secular baptism, because now the public knows her...
Paid articleFidelity & faultlines (March 1987)
OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey FIDELITY & FAULTLINES MARRIAGE IN A RADICAL CONTEXT As I sat down to write the first draft of this column about mar-riage and the pres-sures arrayed against it in our...
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey DIFFERENCES THAT BIND TOWARD AN ECUMENISM OF TRUTH There has been mourning over what some see as a decline in ecumenical fervor, and it has been tied to...
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needed to purchase TV time and sophisticated polling, a Catholic congressmen to uphold the civil ban on divorce. threshold many Democrats managed to reach, more is better ...
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tised on a television show which upset Of several minds: John...
Paid articleRight attention (August 1986)
Super Bowl or the World Series. What results involves eva- social contract approach to governance. Or Hegelian dialectic sion, hypocrisy, cynical power grabbing and...
Paid articleMore than sentiment (June 1986)
contras appear to avoid confrontations with the army. Instead, pressive social gains it had achieved before the war curtailed with the help of informants and, apparently, as a matter...
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of freer trade maintain that free trade will - in the long term - already ranks fairly high in the amount of imported television increase employment in Canada. It is difficult to predict what ...
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Of several minds: John Garvey ATTENTION & AMBIGUITY WHY DO OTHERS DISAGREE? T HE QUARRELS between religious liberals and conservatives are everywhere, and satisfy something strange in us....
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became the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Here John ran afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He headed a study for the Fund on the blacklisting problem in...
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lion people), rural housing, housing for the elderly and dis- bridges, community development, and a broad range of social abled, and most of the funds available to maintain existing ...
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you much to take a less-than-one-hundred percent stand on this issue." For some pro-life groups, support for any form of contraception is anathema, while some of the pro-choice groups are equally...
Paid articleBeyond Armageddon (December 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey BEYOND ARMAGEDDON THE POSSIBILITY OF WISDOM THE MOST distressing moral feature of the age is our ability to become numb. I don't mean to say that other ages were...
Paid articleAsylums of sanity (November 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey ASYLUMS OF SANITY LESSONS FOR A DISTRACTED TIME A few weeks AGO some friends and I drove to central Ilhnois's Vmish country There is a woman there who will cook...
Paid articleMaking use of religion (October 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey MAKING USE OF RELIGION SIMON MAGUS WAS SINCERE Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the Apostles' hands, he offered them money,...
Paid articleMurderous evil (September 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey MURDEROUS EVIL DOES NONVIOLENCE OFFER A SOLUTION? IN HIS July 12 Commonweal article, "Appointment with Hitler," Peter Steinfels raises some difficult...
Paid articleWho confers value? (August 1985)
9 August 1985: 423 Of several minds: John Garvey WHO CONFERS VALUE? THE CONTINUING ABORTION DEBATE THE ISSUE of abortion either arouses extreme passions or leads to boredom, or a form of...
Paid articleDeeper than emotions (June 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey DEEPER THAN EMOTIONS THE GUIDING ROLE OF DOGMA THE CONNECTION, or lack of one, between our emotions and what we finally are is a mystery which is not on our minds...
Paid articleThe last solitude (May 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE LAST SOLITUDE ARE WE HONEST ABOUT DEATH & DYING? DURING HOLY WEEK this year I thought — not surprisingly, I guess — about death. Traditional religions have been...
Paid articleCharity, warm & simple (April 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey CHARITY, WARM & SIMPLE WHEN IS 'FEELING GOOD' THE REAL THING? There IS A wonderful old phrase — "as cold as charity" — which needs to be replaced now. The phrase no...
Paid articleMoods & trends, inc. (April 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey MOODS & TRENDS, INC. MEDIA, YUPPIES & ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS MY friend Dan Herr has wondered if there isn't a commissar or at least a committee which decides what...
Paid articleTemptation to be right (February 1985)
Of several minds: John Garvey TEMPTATION TO BE RIGHT THE IDOLATRY OF THE FAITHFUL "Your eye is the light of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not...
Paid articleQuivers of conscience (January 1985)
Commonweal: 38 Of several minds: John Garvey QUIVERS OF CONSCIENCE THE KOOL-AID OF HUMAN KINDNESS IN ONE OF Peter DeVries's wonderful novels a man is forced to listen to a writer he cannot abide...
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refugees, such as Jose Humberto Santacruz, never get beyond the airport. Santacruz's grandmother, in a letter to the Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Safety, asserts that her grandson...
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Of several minds: John Gamey POLITICS & RELIGION HEIGHTENED RHETORIC, DEEPENED CONFUSION T HE DEMON in charge of trivializing public thinking has done a fine job of messing up the issue of...
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or diminish human life --the arms race, war, capital punish- ment, poverty, ignorance, disease, cultural deprivation, ra- cism, sexism, etc. .9 Underline the faith~reason distinction. Though an...
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it is an attempt to remind those liberals or progressives who are normally on the side of the angels when it comes to issues of social justice and world peace that they are guilty of a fatal...
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ropos of nothing in particular, Gesh asks his buddies one night, "What's the closest you ever came to dying?" I perked up at this. Boyle's first book, Descent of Man, is a collection of weirdly...
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forgotten is that this is a consequence of the fact that it is the believer who can 'see,' who has an intuitive understanding of the religious phenomenon he is studying. The blind do not have to...
Paid articleFaith and fanaticism (May 1984)
that Carter's conciliatory gestures -- the cancellation of the B-1, the hesitation on the neutron bomb, the willingness to bargain away the cruise .-- "brought few Soviet concessions." The...
Paid articleNew Constantinianism (March 1984)
cause, the dissenters could communicate with the West via the American diplomats stationed in Kiev and the Western journalists sure to follow. In a word, dissident isolation from the world...
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Reagan administration, will follow the same process or will find someone of the same quality. After the new president is named, there are several key areas which will indicate whether the...
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pering coalition attempts. Florida often finds itself having more in common with the Northeast than with its immediate neighbors, and the needs of New England's high-tech growth do not always...
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Of several minds: John Garvey MOM & POP FORGIVE THEM A FEW KIND WORDS FOR PATRIARCHY THERE ARE a number of things to be said about the new readings offered for liturgical use by the National...
Paid articleThat old civil religion: (November 1983)
Of several minds: John Garvey THAT OLD CIVIL RELIGION TO CRECHE OR NOT TO CRECHE THE ISSUE of church and state is before the Supreme Court again. The question is whether a creche can be installed...
Paid articleThe uses of tragedy: (October 1983)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE USES OF TRAGEDY POPULAR PASSION & SELF-DECEPTION WHAT SHOULD a government do when an unarmed civilian passenger plane is shot out of the sky for having committed...
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Of several minds: John Garvey CHRISTIANITY & POWER WAS JESUS A REALIST? JESUS SAID a number of things about power and powerlessness. In Luke's account of the temptation of Jesus, Satan tells...
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AN EFFORT 'TO CLEAR THE DECKS' Michael Novak's Confession JOHN GARVEY I ONCE MET a priest who said that it was a matter of indifference if Jesus really rose from the dead or not; he was at the...
Paid articlePrisoners of style: (June 1983)
Of several minds: John Garvey PRISONERS OF STYLE EMBARRASSED BY MORALITY THERE IS AN interesting passage in a recent review of Michael Straight's After Long Silence. Straight's autobiographical...
Paid articleChurch authority & state power: (May 1983)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE AMBIGUOUS PASTORAL CHURCH AUTHORITY & STATE POWER THERE ARE those who will be disappointed in the third, watered-down draft of the pastoral letter which will be...
Paid articleIf Norman Podhoretz were alive today: (April 1983)
Of several minds: John Garvey IF NORMAN PODHORETZ WERE ALIVE TODAY A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE ORWELL THERE ISN'T MUCH to do in my home town on weekends, so I've taken to visiting alternate...
Paid articleThe trial of V Poresh: (March 1983)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE TRIAL OF V. PORESH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CHRISTIAN SEMINAR THREE YEARS AGO Vladimir Poresh was sentenced by a Soviet court to five years in a labor camp, followed by...
Paid articleMaking sleepwalkers of us all: (February 1983)
SOME CENTRAL & LUSTING RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS Making sleepwalkers of us all JOHN GARVEY SEVERAL YEARS AGO I edited a book about religious cults (All Our Sons and Daughters, Templegate, 1977) and in...
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THE BISHOPS & THE CRITICS THE BISHOPS ARE MUCH MILDER THAN THEIR MASTER THE SECOND DRAFT of the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on nuclear arms has caused a lot of comment, much of it...
Paid articleLet liturgy be liturgy (December 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey LET LITURGY BE LITURGY STOP TRYING TO PUT A NEW SPIN ON IT MY DAUGHTER came home from the Catholic high school she attends with a complaint about a Mass they'd had....
Paid articleRachel Weeping (November 1982)
Books: ABORTION, RELIGION, & ANGER RACHEL WEEPING consists of five essays in which James Tunstead Burtchaell makes as strong and consistent a case against the pro-choice position as anyone ever...
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Of several minds: John Garvey IS GOD INDIFFERENT? THE SKIES OVER AUSCHWITZ WERE SILENT THERE HAVE been questions about the mystery of evil and the goodness of God ever since Job and before, and...
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Of several minds: John Garvey VARNISH ON THE WAFFLES FEELING BAD ABOUT BEING BLOWN UP ISN'T ENOUGH IT WAS ENCOURAGING to see nearly a million people show up at the beginning of the UN's special...
Paid articleThe sea frozen inside us (September 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE SEA FROZEN INSIDE US TO CHANGE OR NOT TO CHANGE THERE IS a fascinating problem with traditional religions. They can serve as challenges to every dimension of our...
Paid articleEasy atheism (July 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey EASY ATHEISM MIXING GOOD POINTS & SILLY ONES THERE IS an article in the July Harper's called "The Lord and the Intellectuals" which mixes some good points with some...
Paid articleLoving God for nothing (June 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey LOVING GOD FOR NOTHING RECOVERING THE STRANGENESS Familiarity may breed contempt, but it breeds something even more dangerous where religion is concerned. It may...
Paid articleA politics of silence (May 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey A POLITICS OF SILENCE GETTING AWAY FROM THE QUICK FIX I have PROBABLY been spending too much time with newspapers and magazines and radio news recently, because my...
Paid articleThe reality of Easter (April 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE REALITY OF EASTER ARE LIBERALS EMBARRASSED BY ITS CLAIMS? "I WAS ONCE, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her...
Paid articleCatholics & sex (March 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey CATHOLICS & SEX BEYOND 'HOW FAR CAN YOU GO?' THE national news recently told of a man and woman in the Catholic diocese of Joliet, Illinois. They were refused...
Paid articleNecessary nonviolence (February 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey NECESSARY NONVIOLENCE IT HAS PROBLEMS, BUT WHAT DOESN'T? IN A RECENT editorial Commonweal's editors praised the many bishops who have spoken about the need to end...
Paid articleChoice as absolute (January 1982)
Of several minds: John Garvey CHOICE AS ABSOLUTE THE HIGHEST MORALITY? THIS COLUMN is not about abortion. I have to make that clear because it begins with some language which showed up in an ad...
Paid articleTurning people away (December 1981)
Of several minds: John Garvey TURNING PEOPLE AWAY MORE FASTIDIOUS THAN JESUS? THERE HAVE BEEN a lot of changes in the Catholic church since the end of the Second Vatican Council-I'm sure I am not...
Paid articleThinking in packages (November 1981)
THINKING IN PACKAGES COULD OUR OPPONENTS BE LIKE OURSELVES? THERE IS A grave problem which faces those of us who care about ideas. (Notice how I have gathered us all together in a noble little...
Paid articleThe power disease (October 1981)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE POWER DISEASE WHAT THE MEDIA MOODMAKERS FORGET THERE IS a lot of talk now, with the Reagan administration's ascendancy, about America's new spirit. Reagan is a...
Paid articleImposing mercy: (September 1981)
"A BORTION ITSELF WAS COndoned as late as the nineteenth century by the Catholic church, using a time clock of the "ensoulment' of the fetus." Linda Bird Francke makes this statement in her...
Paid articleThe limits of allegiance (July 1981)
to set up study groups to examine "the totality of relation- The next issue will be dated August 28. Following that, ships" between Ireland and Britain. No one is sure what this Commonweal will...
Paid articleBeyond proof & disproof (June 1981)
regard it with love or reverence, to see ,it as a possible killing ground, is a sign of what we think of humanity. This is a religious issue, as slavery was, as war always is, as the arms...
Paid articleCorrespondence (June 1981)
Correspondence What the married know Washington, D.C. To the Editors: John Garvey writes [Mar. 27] that "the consensus of millions of lay people and clergy is simply that the members of the...
Paid articleThe Gnostics among us (May 1981)
The usual explanation of this phenomenon is one word: bureaucracy. But that only suggests that reality. It is not individuals defending their perquis- ites which frustrate the programs of...
Paid articleTheology on the knees (April 1981)
THEOLOGY ON THE KNEES A FAITH FOR FAT TIMES IS FALSE , CATHOLICS who are in their mid-thirties or older have gone through more changes than any generation of Christians since Constantine, maybe...
Paid articleThe pope's two voices: (March 1981)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE POPE'S TWO VOICES NOTES ON AN ASIAN JOURNEY THE RECENT visit of Pope John Paul II to Asia was significant in many ways. The style was typical of the post-Vatican...
Paid articleDead or alive (February 1981)
Of several minds: John Garvey DEAD OR ALIVE WHAT THE FAMOUS MEAN TO US THE MURDER of John Lennon was terrible, for reasons which are obvious, but the reaction to his death was eerily unrelated to...
Paid articleKing of Prussia eight: (January 1981)
Of several minds: John Garvey KING OF PRUSSIA EIGHT EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF SANITY When THE arms race is mentioned most of us know what it means, or think we do, and we also believe that...
Paid articleRightists & rationalists: (January 1981)
Of several minds: John Garvey MADE FOR EACH OTHER THE FUNDAMENTALIST-HUMANIST COMPLEX WHEN THE ELECTION was over and right-wing fundamentalists were celebrating Reagan's victory and the defeat of...
Paid articleThe church beyond the church (November 1980)
Of several minds: John Garvey CHURCH BEYOND CHURCH BISHOPS & THE MAD AUNT IN THE BEDROOM A GOOD MANY PEOPLE I know are ex-Catholics. For"the most part they are decent, ordinarily thoughtful...
Paid articleAnother Kind of witness (October 1980)
and Truly Invisible Airplane. Da capo. And that's why the Chiefs were so mad at Brown for letting the cat out of the invisible bag. The Invisible Airplane was no more aimed at the Russians than...
Paid articleOrthodox & infallible? (August 1980)
Of several minds: John Garvey ORTHODOX & INFALLIBLE? THE LONG HAUL IS OUR ONLY FINAL GUIDE THE debate between the Vatican and dissident theologians has not really been a debate at all, but...
Paid articleThe voice of Blume (July 1980)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE VOICE OF BLUME AN ORTHODOXY THAT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE ITSELF LAST SUMMER while we were on vacation I bought my daughter, who was eleven then, a set of books...
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Paid articleCaesar in our future? (April 1980)
kids hadn't put their lives on the line, and could always run back home to Mommy and Daddy and a station wagon in the suburbs. But this is all ancient history. The Movement is as dead as the...
Paid articleThe Executioner's Song (March 1980)
Of several minds: John Garvey THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG MAILER'S BEST IN YEARS IN THE OPENING line of Norman Mailer's An American Dream there is a casual link between John F. Kennedy and F....
Paid articleLord Acton, power & papal infallibility (February 1980)
QUESTIONS STILL NOT ANSWERED Lord Acton, power, & papal infallibility JOHN GARVEY The human element in ecclesiastical administration endeavors to keep itself out of sight, and to deny...
Paid articleTruth or consequences (January 1980)
Of several minds: John Garvey TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES COMMITTING A MORAL ABSOLUTE Toward THE beginning of the Iranian crisis I was talking to a man who believed strongly that immediate...
Paid articleFeeling good (December 1979)
by the time he took it. He tried for seven years to stay out of the case, she said. It was a small point of disagreement that only accented Shenton's contention that the church's role needs study...
Paid articlePeople who are fire (November 1979)
(2) Harry S Truman sent a secret army from Burma into China, involved the United States in the Greek civil war, supported the French in Indochina, and sent hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers...
Paid articleA married man on celibacy (October 1979)
OUR CULTURE REGARDS VOWS AS AHACHROHISMS A married layman on celibacy JOHN GARVEY F OR YEARS celibate Catholic priests have spoken to Catholic married people about marriage. Some of what they...
Paid articleThe Ugly Little Secret (September 1979)
Bad schools and bad teachers have, best college preparatory schools- kind of poor children with behavior prob- nevertheless, done great harm, as "triumphs," he felt for...
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lines have a built-in cheapening ten- turns up in the darnedest places. In small Ignoring the details gets to be a habit of dency, but it requires time to take hold. unit infantry...
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keep them at home. The situation in victory at the polls over a party in power treated as men. Of course it ought to be Cambodia is more anarchic but the effect is always followed...
Paid articleSticking to the story: (May 1979)
neighborhood. Perhaps they commute. their bottles on the pavement, crunch up the site of the old Women's Hotte of An old German doctor in Africa once their beer cans, beg for...
Paid articleArrogance syndrome: (April 1979)
funds. In Columbus, Gov. James ("Profit is not a dirty word in office, which now boasts of four women and four blacks (one Ohio") Rhodes is proposing a nine-member panel to oversee ...
Paid articleThe simple and the sane (March 1979)
never be integrated into normal American life unless speedy action is taken. As former NAACP labor director Herbert Hill Elsewhere in this issue, 'Thomas J. Gumbleton and J. said in a...
Paid articleSick, sick, sick-or evil (February 1979)
sion for himself or herself but the Witness parent who conscientiously refuses a blood transfusion for a minor child--a choice the courts have consistently not allowed. The left has every reason...
Paid articlePrematurely Saved: (December 1978)
Monsignor Higgins and also canceling the abolishment of the only an unheeding bureaucracy, all these are happy de human values committee which deals with urgent biomedical opments, and we...
Paid articleWaiting for Barby (November 1978)
Of several minds: John Garvey WAITING FOR BARBY BE SPONTANEOUS-OR ELSE I hope you can stay with this column to the end. I know that I would find a part of myself yearning to get on to some new...
Paid articleIN DEFENSE OF SOLZHENITSYN (September 1978)
Dismissing him as conservative or "mystical" is like whistling in the graveyard "In the face of what he has to_ say," Alfred Kazin wrote of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a recent issue of Esquire,...
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Tu~JJ~l East: The Promise a#d Peril of the New OrJeJ.ta/ism HARVEY COX Simon and Schuster, $8.95 [492 pp] MICHAEL TRUE Turning East is a deceptively simple record of a Protestant minister's...
Paid article'AN IRONIC PROBLEM' (February 1978)
'An Ironic Problem' JOHN GARVEY The Chicago Declaration of Christian Concern is certainly right on at least a couple of points. Lay people are largely ignored by the hierarchy, and there is a...
Paid articleMAN BECOMES GOD (December 1977)
II I m MAN BECOMES GOD JOHN GARVEY A hard saying at Christmastime During every Christmas season someone feels obliged to point out from the pulpit that Christmas is not the greatest Christian...
Paid articleDeath and Therapy (July 1977)
Mack accords Lawrence sympathetic understanding and respect but not uncritical adulation. He considers Lawfence a paradigmatic example of the "enabler," the person who enables ~thers to see...
Paid articleELECTING THE MESSIAH (November 1976)
ELECTING THE MESSIAH JOHN GARVEY I have been trying to figure out what bothers me about the preachers who have been cropping up on television lately. There has been an increase in fundamentalist...
Paid articleGROWING UP CATHOLIC (July 1976)
tory. Rea~ wrote hi, book ia the Holy rand and Mum ge to.rid ht, own interest, and faith, quickened by the experietx:e of making a television documentary film of the life of Jesus on location....
Paid articleSEX, AGE, DEATH, PRIVACY (June 1976)
SEX, AGE, DEATH, PRIVACY JOHN GARVEY Remember the Louds? A couple of years ago we got to watch the Loud family fall apart right in front of us, on An American Family. The documentary made people...
Paid articleDREAM BOOKS (February 1976)
DREAM BOOKS JOHN GABVEY Not too long ago my brother-in-law, who is a few years older than I am, was looking through a copy of the L. L. Bean catalog. After awhile he said, "I guess this was for my...
Paid articleBRANDS OF CHRISTIANITY (January 1976)
BRANDS OF CHRISTIANITY JOHN GARVEY Angela Davis and Henry Kissinger have something in common. Both get embarrassed, defensive, or evasive when anyone is so gauche as to mention the Soviet...
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THE USES OF GOD JOHN GARVEY Billy Graham knows exactly what to do about sexual immorality, cheat-ing in business and government, and all sorts of moral problems. During the Vietnam war he was...
Paid articleFANTASTIC STORIES: (August 1975)
FANTASTIC STORIES JOHN GARVEY A couple of years ago there was a lot written about a new approach to theology, one which is really a re-vival of the most ancient approach. The idea was that...
Paid articleTHREE-MINUTE IDEAS: (June 1975)
THREE-MINUTE IDEAS JOHN GARVEY In a recent American Poetry Review column Charles M. Fair quotes Alexis de Tocqueville: "The ever-increasing crowd of readers, and their continual craving for...
Paid articleTHE PLACE OF PRAYER (April 1975)
THE PLACE OF PRAYER JOHN GARVEY A few years ago it was said by a lot of people that prayer and action were really one and the same thing, or that prayer (as it had been defined and...
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confrontation with his subject could be bloody, if only figuratively. (Although, as Harrison Salisbury reports, while discussing his interviews with Russian bureaucrats, there is often a threat...
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Loving Free JACKIE & JEFF HERRIGAN Grosser & Dunlap, $7.95 Sexual intimacy ANDREW GREELEY Thomas More Press, $6.95 JOHN GARVEY W. H. Auden once spoke of his objection to nudity on stage....
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BOOKS O O O O O O 0 0 0 0 0 O O O 0 0 0 O O How to tell lies (and get away with it?) The P o l i t i c s o f Lying DAVID WISE Random House, $8.95 P o l i t i c a l Prisoners...
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