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Legion of Mary Mary Gordon It is July 4, 1961. In three months, I will be twelve years old. John Kennedy is in the White House, and we Catholics are very, very proud. My mother says that since...

Every pregnancy is different (November 2022)

This Pregnancy Mary Gordon Each one is different. Editor’s Note: The September issue of Commonweal featured a symposium titled “Abortion After Dobbs.” The magazine has been publishing a series of...

My mother's honeymoon (July 2022)

ARTICLE My Mother’s Honeymoon Mary Gordon I call it my mother’s rather than my parents’ honeymoon because he’d already had one, though she didn’t know it. Perhaps he was afraid to tell her,...

Circling My Mother (November 2007)

Melinda Henneberger Twisted Sisters Circling My Mother Mary Gordon Pantheon, $24, 272 pp. M ary Gordon is not choosy about the grudges she holds on her mother’s behalf. To the...

DESPERATELY SEEKING JOAN Joan of Arc's virtues were much contested but the genius of her personality cannot be disputed. (March 2000)

DESPERATELY SEEKING JOAN Woman behind the hype Mary Gordon A favorite of Charles de Gaulle and Charles Peguy, not to mention new shores for the gospel and enter into their...

Spending (April 1998)

ALL EXPENSES PAID Robert H. Bell W ary Gordon's new novel is immensely engaging fun, a delightful romp by an author distinguished for narratives of rigorous self-denial, harrowing d i s...

From the council to the synod (October 1985)

From the council to the synod Raymond Flynn RAYMOND FLYNN holds a Master's degree from Harvard University School of Education. He worked as a probation officer before entering politics. He was a...

Coming to terms with Mary (January 1982)

MEDITATIONS ON INNOCENCE, GRIEF, AND GLORY Coming to terms with Mary MARY GORDON QUEENS in the nineteen sixties had almost as many Catholic high schools as bakeries. Towards the spring of the...

Gordon, Mary Beth

GORE, A. PAUL

Goris, Jan-Albert

Gorman, Geraldine

Gorman, Katherine

Gorman, Ralph

Gornick, Vivian

Gorrell, John Joseph

Gort, John C.

Goslin, S. J.

Gosling, S. J.

Gostomski, Francis J.