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ABIGAIL MCCARTHY ONE LAST WORD Mrs. McCarthy takes her leave This is my last column for Commonweal. I will miss the periodic sense of communication with like-minded people and, conversely, the...

Books at the millennium (November 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY B@®KS AT THE MLLEMNIlf if Have they a future? Although there are many who argue cogently that the new millennium begins on January 1,2001 rather than on...

Saving Social Security (September 1999)

OF SEVERAL HINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY Keep it public At a recent panel discussion at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center titled, "Social Security...

Summer past (July 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY SUMMERS PAST Listening to the corn grow As we head into high summer I find myself thinking often of summers long ago and a way of life long gone. When...

Mind your manners (May 1999)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY HIND YOUR MANNERS It makes civilization possible In 1954, Bobbs-Merrill brought out Louis Kronenbergcr's Company Manners. The book was subtitled "A Cultural Inquiry into...

Successful women (March 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL NcCARTHY SUCCESSFUL WOMEN How to educate the world Perhaps no institutions better illustrate the interweaving of change, continuity, and renewed vision in the Catholic...

Better schools (January 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY BETYER SCHOOLS It takes money & standards Dn her Christmas television special this past year, singer Jessye Norman interspersed her songs with tributes...

A Capital Neighborhood (December 1998)

he city I live in--the capital of the United States--has a bad reputation. According to a recent survey by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a majority of Americans say they would refuse a...

Loose nukes (October 1998)

tainly has been a deep influence on American civilization, but what is going on now results mainly from the culture wars waged in the United States since the 1960s. These have subordinated...

Dying to vote (August 1998)

truggles for the vote---for the enfranchisement of every citizen--have marked the history of the twentieth century. In the early 1900s there was the protracted battle for women's...

Trivial pursuits (June 1998)

here is mounting evidence that the media on which we depend for our knowledge of the world affect us powerfully, for good or for ill. There is also much evidence that we have come...

The new immigrants (April 1998)

reliance on the idea) scrap it? Jesus was also unpopular on the idea of the demonic: "Deliver us from evil" is a reference not to some abstract evil but, most scholars seem to agree, "the...

Active Duty (January 1998)

A s everyone knows, the political atmosphere in Washington has been extremely partisan and rancorous the past few years. It was at once surprising and satisfying, therefore, when, for a...

Catholic women's colleges (November 1997)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY OF SEVERAL MINDS CATHOLIC WOMEN'S COLLEGES Looking at their future In 1968, there were over 190 Catholic women's colleges in the United States. Today there are 28. The decline...

Immigrant nation (October 1997)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY IMMIGRANT NATION A mixed history On the coverage of the popular reaction to the death of Princess Diana an interesting observation was made more than once. The demonstration of...

Women & money & politics Pacs give women a choice: Agree with us on abortion, or get your money elsewhere (August 1997)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY WOMEN & MONEY & POLITICS Can Susan & Emily work together? On June 26, the statue depicting pioneer suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott was...

Kinder, gentler sweatshops (June 1997)

OF SEVERAL MIND ABIGAIL MCCARTHY KINDER, GENTLER SWEATSHOPS A martyr makes a difference Readers may remember the valiant twelve-year-old Iq-bal Masih of Pakistan whose courageous crusade for the...

Can they just get along? (April 1997)

Abigail McCarthy can they just get along? Congress goes for Hershey kisses Hast September ("A Civil Tongue," September 13, 1996), I wrote about proposals made by various members of Congress to...

L'affaire Madeleine Our columnist argues that Madeleine Albright's parents were right to shield her from her past and to emphasize her new American identity (March 1997)

L'AFFAIRE MADELEINE ABIGAIL MCCARTHY Her parents did right FOR many Americans it was the "Old World," and our forebears had left it behind to begin again in the "New." Those who came freely...

Two churches Our columnist sees an unbridged gap between a la carte and fixed-menu Catholicism (January 1997)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY TWO CHURCHES Fixed menu or a la carte? Hast fall I wrote a speech for a college leadership conference on what it was like to be a layperson in the Catholic...

It's payback time (November 1996)

Abigail McCarthy IT'S PAYBACK TINE What the sisters did America "is the most democratic country in the world, and it is at the same time... the country in which the Roman Catholic religion makes...

Fitzgerald at 100 The citizens of Minnesota gather to celebrate one of their own Our columnist reports (October 1996)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY FITZGERALD AT 1OO Great fiction, great history F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), one of the most influential and famous of American writers, left behind a body of work that defined...

A civil tongue (September 1996)

ABIGAIL McCARTHY A CIVIL TONGUE May this House come to order Hhose lamenting the decline of comity in our culture range from Norman Lear on the left to Ernest Lefever on the right. In an op-ed...

All together now If America is to stop falling apart, we have to get together (July 1996)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY ALL TOGETHER NOW Going it alone won't do The question was posed to me over twenty-five years ago but I remember it as if I'd heard it for the first time yesterday. I was at...

By the sweat of kids' brows Watch where you shop Children at risk (June 1996)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY BY THE SWEAT OF KIDS' BROWS Using market power to end child labor You will read this in the week of the "Stand for Children" demonstration here in Wash- ington. It seems an...

Edmund S Muskie "President Jimmy Carter said that no man was more presidential, or more worthy of being president" (May 1996)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY EDMUND S. MUSKIE Let us now praise honorable men When former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie died recently, a neighbor couple came to call on his wife...

Digging for our roots Certain ideas are among the deepest sources of our American selves (March 1996)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY DIGGING FOR OUR ROOTS The deepest aren't ethnic Heveral years after the war (World War II), I was in Germany. Although I had good German friends, I felt very much alone. It was...

The media vs the people (February 1996)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY THE MEDIA VS. THE PEOPLE Please tell us what we need to know Should I continue to boil my water? I haven't been able to find the answer in my community...

Christmas lists "Each year I experience pangs of guilt about participating in the national orgy of buying and giving to those who already have so much more than they need And I feel a halfhearted response to those who lament the loss of the real Christmas story to commercialism...." (December 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY CHRISTMAS LISTS Celebrate wildly & in moderation Shortly before Thanksgiving this year, my eldest daughter began the annual task of canvassing the family for...

Going it alone Americans have tuned in and tuned out (October 1995)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY GOING IT ALONE Americans are no longer joiners At last, it seems to me, responsible professionals are beginning to concede what anyone with plain common sense recognized long...

Pulling the rug out (September 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy pulling the rug out Let's end child labor We have become a dispirited people because we do not celebrate our victories-or even recognize them. This is the thesis...

Correspondence: (August 1995)

CORRESPONDENCE Perfection, please Bronx, N.Y. To the Editors: No wonder there's a shortage of priests. Who could meet the standards of the critics who write to Com-monweal? [Correspondence, May...

Keep on truckin': (July 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy KEEP ON TRUCKIN' YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO HELP Having passed a signifi-cant birthday not long ago I find myself some-what preoccupied with two questions. The...

The miracle man: (May 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE MIRACLE NAN FDR & THE SAVING OF A NATION All last month there were quiet, almost unnoticed, memorials marking the fiftieth-anniversary of the death of the...

Cyber campus? (April 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy CYBER CAMPUS? CLASSROOMS OF THE FUTURE One of the arguments raging in Washington these days is over whether or how much federal money should be spent on aid for...

Has anybody thought about jobs?: (February 1995)

Abigail McCarthy HAS ANYBODY THOUGHT OF JOBS? WITHOUT WORK, THE PEOPLE PERISH Let's be frank. There is something terrifying about the fact that the president of the United States and the speaker...

A Christmas past (December 1994)

For the past month I have been engaged in the seemingly endless task of sorting through twenty years of my correspondence, manuscripts, and lecture notes for transmittal to the Minnesota...

The child comes first (November 1994)

THE CHILD CONES FIRST WHEN FAMILIES CAN'T BE FIXED r ashington has been in a mild uproar since late September over a series of articles in the Washington Post. The result of four years of...

Your money or your lifestyle (September 1994)

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFESTYLE PRIVATIZING THE PRISON SYSTEM s the crime bill swung into its second round this summer, vacationers with whom I was , sharing Cape Cod tended to grow nostalgic...

Congressional fatigue syndrome (August 1994)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy CONGRESSIONAL FATIGUE SYNDROME THE CURES ARE KILLING THE PATIENT Some of my best friends are congressmen and women. Voicing that statement anywhere in the...

Generations aren't seamless (June 1994)

OF SEVERAL HIHPS Abigail McCarthy GENERATIONS AREN'T SEAMLESS ALTRUISM AMONG THE TWENTY-SOMETHINGS ome themes seem to be struck in the national consciousness all at once and variations on...

Women's colleges work (May 1994)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy WOMEN'S COLLEGES WORK YOU COULD LOOK IT UP t is graduation time at the nation's colleges and universities. But as the strains of "Pomp and Circum stance"...

A world of difference (March 1994)

OF SEVERAL MIMPS Abigail McCarthy A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE NOT THE ONE I WANTED TO BUILD For some time now I have been telling friends that I think I will call the memoir of the...

That's Ms. to you, Bub (February 1994)

OF SEVERAL MIMPS Abigail McCarthy THAT'S MS. TO YOU, BUB ON THE ADVICE OF GRANDMOTHER & MISS MANNERS T oward the end of last year a provocative column appeared in the...

Hey! Squash it! (January 1994)

11 OF SEVERAL HIHPS Abigail McCarthy HEY! SQUASH IT! AN EPIDEMIC OF SANITY? very once in a while a book first published in 1841 begins to draw attention again. It is issued once more by a...

What the losers won: (December 1993)

and historian Joan Challinor. OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail...

There goes the neighborhood: (October 1993)

But to the degree that parents get blamed, tieth century) is virtually unlimited per- you have attacked all the other doctrines the lion's share of the blame is assigned sonal...

`A civilization of love' (September 1993)

have been comic if it weren't so appalling. God may work...

From Bed-Sty to Israel (July 1993)

These facts are well known and yet we refuse to face them. We keep on going back to law enforcement and punishment, a costly and consistent failure. Fed up with mandatory sentencing guidelines,...

Americans abroad (June 1993)

workboots, women's pumps, shoes that ing or lesson to be gleaned from the arguable that a sparse nomadic popula- made your feet ache terribly after an en- tragedy of the...

Goodfellows (May 1993)

credible moral posture in the public de- tections which will be needed to shape a fecting the legislative process through citbate by joining strong support for health Catholic...

Gimme shelter: (April 1993)

rassment, the error of her ways. "Now," she says, "I am pleased progress and I'm glad that they seem to do their homework, if a grandchild calls long distance and asks, `Who was ...

Religious wars... (March 1993)

fordable health care. But his commitment is a matter of the cal labs, x-ray facilities, all would face a transformed market. spirit. It cannot be produced simply by legislation...

It doesn't hurt to hope: (February 1993)

proportion, the Catholic identity of those OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy colleges has grown increasingly tenuous. A priest or sister in the president's office, a handful of clerics on...

Some cause for hope (January 1993)

tion slowdown has caused the company to miss its output goals pany back to the bargaining table even before the effects of an by up to 40 percent. But the evidence is scant, and even...

The real lesson of history (December 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE REAL LESSON OF HISTORY THERE IS NO GOING BACK raditionally, Thanksgiving celebrates a mutually happy relationship between Indians and grateful Plymouth...

A school for the elected (November 1992)

ly work. It won because I was immersed in the world of the equally interesting, worthy of attention, and you keep turning WorldBook and could speak in its confident rhythms. Dad and the pages,...

They just don't get it (October 1992)

OF SEVERAL MMDS Abigail McCarthy THEY JUST DON'T GET IT FROM ONE PROSPECTIVE FIRST LADY TO ANOTHER ccording to the new book titled Dirty Politics (Oxford University Press) by Kath-, leen...

BOOKS American Girl (September 1992)

BOOKS Swinqinq in the qlider on the porch 11 over America the small towns are disappearing. Their main streets are spotted with , boarded-up storefronts; their eating places have been moved to...

Crimes & punishments (September 1992)

Abigail McCarthy CRIMES & PUNISHMENTS SENTENCES THAT FIT eating, Clifford, Altaian, Boesky, Milken, Ostrander, Helmsley, Smallbeer—these are the names of persons with one thing in...

The news from Wabasha (July 1992)

or SEVERAL HIHDS Abigail McCarthy THE NEWS FROM WABASHA WHERE ALL THE CHILDREN STAY EQUAL his past June, headlines drawn from the 1990 census report were alarming: "Striking Stratification of...

'Of all the gin joints' (June 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy 'OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS' HEROES WANTED It was sheer pleasure to see Casablanca whole, uninterrupted, and uncut after fifty years. Somehow I had missed seeing...

The character issue (May 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE CHARACTER ISSUE BILL, FRANKLIN, & PERICLES People polled on exit from voting places after the New York, Kansas, and Minnesota primaries were asked...

The empty tube (April 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE EMPTY TUBE TV TRASHES POLITICS w hoever wins the Democratic nomination, whoever wins the 1992 presidential election, will have done so as the result of...

Small changes, big losses (March 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy SMALL CHANGES, BIG LOSSES BUTCHER, BAKER, DRESSMAKER The receptionist at the dentist has told me that she is retiring and I feel suddenly bereft. Lois has...

1492 & all that (February 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy 1492 & ALL THAT A WESTERN OMELET The lines were still long when the "Circa 1492" exhibition closed on January 12 at the National Gallery here...

Comparisons that help (December 1991)

OF SEVEmtAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy COMPARISONS THAT HELP APPLES, ORANGES & TEST SCORES ust the other day Diane S. Ravitch, assistant secretary of the United States Department of Education,...

Critics' choices for Christmas (December 1991)

BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Molly Finn MOLLY FINN, a New Yorker, is the author of three cookbooks. A musician, she sings with Amici Musicale. When not singing, she's reading. 'm...

The can-do Quonset (November 1991)

"It's a compromise, senator---Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we're prochoice...Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays we're prolife.'" The Thomas nomination was opposed by a number of interest...

Hitting home (October 1991)

United States. Puerto Ricans are the lowest on the economic the panelists had to refrain from using neologisms--and for that, scale within the Hispanic minority as a whole, even below the were often...

The country of the old (September 1991)

Supreme Court terminated the nationwide debate in the state capitols by usurping jurisdiction. And when this happens, all those Americans in the middle will no longer be able to avoid the issue....

Wanted: sacrificial lamb (July 1991)

and nostalgias to reverse, and a fatal love of greenness, of the broad green slope. Mowing still centers me. It's that contradictory love of the sound of the engine, so out of keeping with my...

Civility revisited (June 1991)

No, what we're complaining about are the more subtle forms of prejudice--for instance, the offending cartoon in the Philadelphia Daily News." I see. But (pardon me for saying this) the cartoon...

The Gulf war (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...

A sacred place...still (April 1991)

It is not clear what cultural role is to be played by those of us descended from what might be called the vanquished races of Europe. My own ancestry, for instance, is Celtic. Time was when my...

When we were poor together (February 1991)

Casaroli a volume like Acheson's Present at the Creation or Kennan's Memoirs. Both the ecclesiastical and the diplomat- ic world will be poorer on this account, so it is necessary to rely on the...

Mending Catholic manners (January 1991)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy MENDING CATHOLIC MANNERS LONGING FOR A MORE CIVIL CHURCH t is an old book with faded red and dog-eared covers. In the years it has been on one or the other...

War, gender, silence: (December 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy WAR GENDER, SILENCE WOMEN TOO CAN BE WIMPS Two hundred thousand more American troops are on their way to the Gulf. With them go the tanks and the artillery...

Mary Abigail McCarthy (November 1990)

Abigail McCarthy NARY ABIGAIL McCARTHY 'BLESSED IS SHE THAT CONSIDERETH THE NEEDY' must thank Keith Burris (Commonweal, October 12) for writing about what I have felt I could not-the life and...

Toughest assignment: (October 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy TOUGHEST ASSIGNMENT RESCUING THE CLASSROOM I admit to reacting with a cynical smile when I saw those thirty-second Bill Cosby spots on TV last spring. You may...

Correspondence (August 1990)

CORRESPONDENCE Credit where due Cambridge, Mass. To the Editors: I was heartened to read Paul Baumann's intelligent and hopeful analysis of the recently adopted Connecticut abortion legislation...

The war within (July 1990)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy THE WAR WITHIN TWO STRAINS OF FEMINISM The television cameras and the buses of reporters are long gone from the Wellesley campus. The controversy which swirled...

Down for the count: (June 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy DOWN FOR THE COUNT WHY AMERICANS WONT STAND UP The 1990 census may or may not have been a failure. If its defects are compensated for by a statistical substitute...

A common currency: (May 1990)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy A COMMON CURRENCY THE GIFT OF A SINGLE TONGUE For those of us long addicted to public television, the face of Alistair Cooke is more familiar than that of many a...

Correspondence (May 1990)

CORRESPONDENCE Abortion politics Bridgewater, N.J. To the Editors: Having been quoted as a source of information in Mary Segers's article, "Semantics and Style in the Abortion Campaign" [January...

Tides of change (March 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy TIDES OF CHANGE LAY MINISTRY COMES OF AGE In this astonishing time we have learned three things about change. It can come when we do not expect it. It can come...

'Einig Vaterland!': (February 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy EINIG VATERLAND!' OLD FEARS & NEW ONES-I We met accidentally in a drug store, an old friend and I, during those days when East and West Germans were...

Orphans need homes (January 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy ORPHANS NEED HONES BRING BACK THE ORPHANAGE Pia McKay teaches at a community college and volunteers in her spare time to help with the "boarder babies" at...

The least of these: (December 1989)

OF SEVERA MINDS Abigal McCarthy THE LEAST OF THESE MAKING ROOM IN THE INN As Christmas approaches, the knowledge that so many children are homeless grows more painful. The temptation to look...

Renewing the earth: (November 1989)

OF SEVERAL WINDS Abigail McCarthy RENEWING THE EARTH GETTING CONVINCED, GETTING PRACTICAL n Pentecost Sunday this year I visited a church where the homilist's theme was concern for the...

Billy brings 'em in: (September 1989)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy BILLY BRINGS 'EN IN PREACHING A RELEVANT MINISTRY It isn't what comes to mind when you hear of one of Billy Graham's evangelistic campaigns-that it might...

Honk if you care: (July 1989)

HONK IF YOU CARE CHINA NEXT DOOR Those of you who read this column regularly know how often I have inveighed against television because of one of its insidious effects- the tendency of its viewers...

An uphill battle: (June 1989)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy AN UPHILL BATTLE THE WORK OF CONGRESSIONAL WIVES The furor over Betty Wright's job must have surprised the special counsel to the House ethics committee. It is...

Congress has a birthday: (April 1989)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy CONGRESS HAS A BIRTHDAY IT'S NEVER TOO LATE FOR REFORM the letter to the Philadelphia Advertiser in 1791 was a tongue-in-cheek description of a "curious...

One of the family: (March 1989)

ONE OF THE FAMILY ERIC THE UNFORGETTABLE His papers read Aran of Innisfallen or something equally impressive, but we decided at once that "Aran!" shouted from the doorstep would be mistaken for...

No safe place (February 1989)

OF SEVERAL HIHPS Abigail McCarthy HO SAFE PLACE THE DRUG WAR COMES HOME To me there has always been something solid and comforting about the names of country places. For the most part, our...

Handling the handlers (January 1989)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy HANDLING THE HANDLERS A PROPOSAL FOR CAMPAIGN REFORM It is January-traditionally the time for resolutions and new beginnings. But we are sated by the indulgence...

Women who step forward: (December 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy WOMEN WHO STEP FORWARD FASTING & THE POLITICS OF CARMEL I recently reviewed Carolyn Heil-brun's Writing a Woman's Life (W.W. Norton) for another publication. It...

Where the kids are: (November 1988)

WHERE THE KIDS ARE TEACHING VALUES IN THE CLASSROOM Neither Candidate Satisfies CEOs on Issue of Educa-tion." I might have been mildly surprised by that headline had I not been preparing the last...

Global peril, local action: (October 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy GLOBAL PERIL, LOCAL ACTION ORGANIZING FOR AN AQUIFER think it was Russell Baker who wrote years ago that the greatest obstacle to environmental reform was the...

Defining Sin: (September 1988)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy DEFINING SIN SEXISM: SIMPLE & CONCRETE It came as no surprise when the bishops at their Collegeville meeting sent the first draft of their letter on women's...

The way things work: (July 1988)

Abigail McCarthy THE WAY THINGS WORK FACING REALITY STILL MATTERS The once much-heralded "Catholic moment" in American history seems to be passing without much effect on American life and...

Impossible, twenty years ago: (June 1988)

IMPOSSIBLE, TWENTY YEARS AGO 'PARTNERS IN THE MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION' What interests me about the draft letter on women's concerns is, first of all, the learning process it reflects and,...

When the cheering stops: (May 1988)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy WHEN THE CHEERING STOPS LIFE AFTER POLITICAL DEATH In human terms the cost seems all too high. As would-be presidential candidates are forced from the race one...

A tale of two colleges: (April 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy A TALE OF TWO COLLEGES SETTING PRECEDENTS FOR LEADERSHIP The preoccupations and problems of the academic world have for some years now been the stuff around...

The art of compromise: (March 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE ART OF COMPROMISE RELIGION & POLITICS '88 As we turn away thankfully from the excruciatingly long pre-primary events of this year's presidential campaigns and...

Looking for honest Abe (January 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy LOOKING FOR HONEST ABE WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TRUE-BLUE LEADERSHIP? There is nothing we need more in these days of 1988 than a national resolve to recover the...

Don't call us, we'll call you (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...

The monster's spell (November 1987)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE MONSTER'S SPELL TELEVISION & THE ELECTORATE The negotiations are so secret," says the portly senator in Wagner's "Grin and Bear...

The time is not yet (October 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDSAbigail McCarthy; TK ^N£ IS ROT YET ..-. EUKfeETH DOLE STPS DOWN Wmoment came she put the possible face "there's nothing more important Than helping to choose the...

Uses of spectacle (September 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy THE USES OF SPECTACLE THE POPE MEETS CATHOLIC EDUCATORS ¥he visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States this month, as we all know, has been planned as a...

Orphaned and lost (July 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy ORPHANED AND LOST A COUNTRY BUILT AND PEOPLED BY THE POOR As anyone at the National Archives will tell you, the researching of family history has become a...

One remove from the real (June 1987)

343 OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy ONE REMOVE FROM THE REAL QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT RUN Not until the late summer of 1988 - roughly a year and a quarter from now — will the...

First helpmate (April 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy FIRST HELPMATE INFLUENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE To those of us who arc periodically interviewed about it, it is a worn and tattered subject — that of the role...

The elders among us (March 1987)

OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE ELDERS AMONG US AIDS: A DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE It seems to be human nature to take perverse delight in predictions of disaster. We regale each other...

Admiring what works (February 1987)

OF SEVERAL HIMDS Abigail McCarthy ADMIRING WHAT WORKS THE CHURCH FACES PARTICIPATION Recently I realized with a start that I had a strong affection for my travel alarm. Because it works. It...

Readers & writers (January 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS Abigail McCarthy READERS & WRITERS REFLECTING THE DEMANDS UPON WOMEN ¥he first column of the year is perhaps a good one in which to reflect on the relationship between...

Spirit of Seattle (December 1986)

peal lot justice. Again this is a reflection Of several minds: Abigail...

A hollow ring (November 1986)

heroes cited in the letter such as Junipero Of several minds: Abigail...

Orchestrated crises (October 1986)

zational life. This will have to be formu- of religious privatization and linguistic Drug addiction is epidemic. Our borders lated by people who know as much about secularization, it is...

As the synod nears - II: (September 1986)

concerns of those who think of them- Of several minds: Abigail...

More than coincidence? (July 1986)

forever balancing their commitment to a moral life and moral lopsided was Ronald Reagan's victory.) With Pat Robertson's culture with their desire to live and let live. (A neat trick,...

As the synod nears (June 1986)

Experiences like Bauer's are few and far between. In most What the profession needs is a tough and enforceable code cases, news people deal with strangers whose feelings...

Infectious incivilitis (April 1986)

About the arrogance of Chicago Democrats: there were sample ballots printed which didn't bother to mention statewide offices (aren't Democrats, or for that matter Chicagoans generally, born with...

The church was ready (November 1985)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE CHURCH WAS READY A POSTSCRIPT TO VATICAN H For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was preeminently the land of Sister Says except, of...

Reschooling society (October 1985)

4 October 1985: 519 Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy RESCHOOLING SOCIETY REGIONAL EFFORTS SPELL SUCCESS IN TIMES of great change and individual stress, people tend to feel that their...

Is good news news? (July 1985)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy IS GOOD NEWS NEWS? OR, CAN HOPE SURVIVE THE MEDIA? DAN RATHER discussed it on CBS radio with U.S. Representative Dorman; John Chancellor spent a Saturday...

Give & take (May 1985)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy GIVE & TAKE FROM AFRICAN FAMINE TO VATICAN ART COLUMNISTS and their readers seem to deal in discontinuity — one month, one subject; the next month, another;...

The final sting (May 1985)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE FINAL STING DEATH AND THE MODERN CHRISTIAN IN MARKING the Ascension Christians celebrate the final Easter action and the mystery of the triumph...

Sharing the loaves (April 1985)

SHARING THE LOAVES CORPORATE RESPONSE TO FAMINE A N END TO HUNGER and starvation in the world. Within the foreseeable future. We can bring it about if we want to -- and without any...

Expense of mythmaking (March 1986)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy EXPENSE OF MYTHMAKING THE REWORKING OF POLITICAL REALITY A NATION IS entitled to its heroes and its myths. The fact that our leroes today are often the...

Can we light the way?: (February 1985)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy CAN WE LIGHT THE WAY? THE CHURCH AS ECONOMIC AGENT THE members of the ad hoc committee of the Catholic bishops who developed the first draft of the pastoral...

"Compassion fatigue" (January 1985)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy "COMPASSION FATIGUE" FACING THE FAMINE, AN ACTRESS LIGHTS THE WAY COMPASSION FATIGUE? Actor Cliff Robertson, winging into Washington to help attract media...

The third branch (November 1984)

place of great importance in community life, and brought real help and comfort to their members. Nevertheless, he demitted from the ministry in 1931. The Sunday after the Japanese surrendered,...

Cuomo & the lay voice (October 1984)

great deal of thought to the practice of government. Government and politics, their enabling art or science, are his work in the world. Mario Cuomo is a Catholic, in his own words "'attached to...

Message at Campobello (September 1984)

connect the nuclear arms race and Central America to the need for economic conversion, defense workers insisted that this would be disastrous for their movement. Most defense work- ers, and...

An era of emergence (July 1984)

put off as he used tobe by rubber chicken banquets, the decor of Holiday Inns, and conversations with labor leaders. Suddenly Gary Hart burst on the scene. Watching a clip on the CBS news, I said...

Valiant women (April 1984)

Yevgeniy P. Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; Alexander S. Pavlov, academician and director of the Moscow Scientific Institute on Roentgenology and Radiology; Vladimir...

Facing the facts (March 1984)

to the world, of saving the world in its totality, of serving it in history, here and now. The church has problems since Vatican II, but nothing to compare with what problems there would have...

Debasing the process: (February 1984)

I I II Of several minds: I I I I I I Abigail McCarthy I 11 DEBASING THE PROCESS THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATES II ~ ~ i ~ OBBLEDYGOOK!" shouted one II aspiring leader of what we like to call the free...

Peace & laughter: (December 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy PEACE & LAUGHTER ADVENT & 'THE DAY AFTER' TELEVISION MOGULS take little account of the liturgical seasons. Nor do we ourselves. At least, that seemed to be the...

The nuns (old) story: (November 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE NUNS' (OLD) STORY ENCOUNTERING OBSTACLES IS NOTHING NEW IT SEEMS to be an unhappy fact that our American sisters have been frightening churchmen in Rome...

The neighborhood: (October 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE NEIGHBORHOOD DISTURBANCE IN WASHINGTON A STROLL in our Washington neighborhood can be exciting. The world is always with us. One morning this past summer...

A work of peace: (September 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy A WORK OF PEACE THE LESSONS OF AN UNREMEMBERED TREATY THIS MONTH - September - marks the two hundredth anniversary of the Treaty of Paris, a bicentennial every...

A threatened resource: (June 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy A THREATENED RESOURCE LEADERSHIP & CATHOLIC WOMEN'S COLLEGES ALMOST HALF the women in the House of Representatives, one of the two women Cabinet members and...

Anti-Semitism revisited (May 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy ANTI-SEMITISM REVISITED A HANDBOOK ON CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS COLUMNISTS appreciate reaction even when it is negative. How else are we to know whether anyone...

Parochial schools, still: (April 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, STILL A FOCAL POINT FOR CATHOLIC IDENTITY As MEMBERS of the National Catholic Education Association began filtering into Washington for their...

Complexities of agreement: (March 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy BRIDGING THE CHASM DELICATE FILAMENTS OF U.S.-USSR AGREEMENT IT WAS a glorious evening but in the midst of it I was struck with the thought that the visitor...

Can we rescue language? (January 1983)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy CAN WE RESCUE LANGUAGE? HOPEFULLY, WE CAN OPTIMIZE THINGS CLARITY-WISE AMITAI ETZIONI has caused a stir with his book whose thesis is that there is no way out...

An ugly resurgence: (December 1982)

AN UGLY RESURGENCE HATE CALLS OUT OUT HATE IT WAS a hot night in midsummer, hot as only a night in the mid-continent can be, there where no breezes come from the ocean to coo! the land and the...

Again, the woman's vote (November 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy AGAIN, THE WOMAN'S VOTE SHOWDOWN AT GENDER GAP ARE WOMEN on the verge of gaining political power? Before Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was so much in the...

Task for a teacher (October 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy TASK FOR A TEACHER THE PEOPLE WONT BE LED BY HAT "As American Catholics living in the Washington area we need to consider the arms race and nuclear weapons in...

The spirit of Venantia (September 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE SPIRIT OF VENANTIA WHAT SISTER REALLY SAID SCHOOL HAS started once again and most of us, seeing the brightly clad young go by, experience moments of...

The lone cowboy (August 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE LONE COWBOY GALLUP-ING TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER IN MAY OF THIS YEAR the Gallup organization, in cooperation with CARA, a Washington-based Catholic research...

Fruit of their years (July 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy FRUIT OF THEIR YEARS WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGING IT HAD ESCAPED my attention, and perhaps that of many readers, that the United Nations has. designated 1982 as the...

Prayer & people (May 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy PRAYER & PEOPLE MORE CONGRESSMEN ARE PRAYING THAN PARTYING THE DELEGATE from United States Samoa - new to the House of Representatives - was humorously...

The bee in my bonnet (April 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE BEE IN MY BONNET RELATIONAL WOMAN, INTEGRAL WOMAN "SHE has A bee in her bonnet,"-it was the expres-sion my grandmother and the women of her generation used...

Lust & money (March 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy LUST & MONEY THE NEWEST PORNOGRAPHY WRITING has been a fruitful occupation for many women, and women who write abound in Washington. Included are some...

Redreaming the dream (February 1982)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy REDREAMING THE DREAM ANOTHER RESPONSE TO THE MIDDLE-CLASS CRISIS RONALD REAGAN sees some comparison between himself and Franklin Roosevelt. He lent himself...

Faith of our fathers (January 1982)

FAITH OF OUR FATHERS HOW ATTENTIVE TO THE SPIRIT? THERE is some reason these days to recall that story about one of Sean O'Faolain's Irish neighbors, who answered when queried as to the author's...

The Missing Person (January 1982)

A misery of their own THE MISSING PERSON Doris Grumbach Putnam's, $11.95, 252 pp. Abigail McCarthy DORIS Grumbachs new novel has a queer timeliness in the context of recent events. It explores...

To see the day! (December 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy TO SEE THE DAY! THE BISHOPS & NUCLEAR WAR I KEEP THINKING these days of the time Dorothy Day came to breakfast and the baby-sitter quit. Dorothy and Ammon...

What persuades? (October 1981)

WHAT PERSUADES? BETWEEN THE RHETORIC & THE REALITY . . . WHAT PERSUADES? What wins people over-in the dictionary definition of the word - to a course of action? That's a question we should all be...

Neither Paul nor Cephas (September 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy NEITHER PAUL NOR CEPHAS DIVISION OVER MOTHER TERESA IN THIS WHICH may well be the end of times, when our leaders discuss limited nuclear war (as if such a thing...

A Star is dead: (August 1981)

A STAR IS DEAD CONTENT, COMPLEXITY, CONNECTION WHETHER WE ARE aware of it or not, each one of us has been dealt a blow by the death of the Washington Star - announced by its last owner, Time,...

'The dark side of Islam' (July 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy 'THE DARK SIDE OF ISLAM' IT IS ONLY ONE SIDE OF A BINDING FAITH COLUMNIST JOSEPH KRAFT created something of an uproar here when he wrote recently that the...

Still reaching: (June 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy STILL REACHING WOMEN & POLITICAL POWER ALL MOVEMENTS ebb and flow. Just now there is a feeling that the tide of the women's movement is receding. What is really...

The rage to live (April 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE RAGE TO LIVE CAN WE AFFORD THE REAGAN BUDGET CUTS? THE POOR will not suffer - that is what they keep saying as they cut welfare and assistance programs. But...

The fighting Irish (March 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE FIGHTING IRISH LAICIZING THE TRUSTEES "A little later he rang for the nurse who was on floor duty. 'Would you mind going down to the chapel or sending word...

Church & world-again: (February 1981)

CHURCH & WORLD-AGAIN THE CATHOLIC CITIZEN & CONCRETE SOLUTIONS THE USES of ritual are never more clear than at the end of an administration in Washington. The city has what might be called a...

Authenticity & the vote: (January 1981)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy WHY WE STAY HONE AUTHENTICITY & THE VOTE THIS WEEK political experts, scholars, and commentators are meeting with the Committee for the Study of the American...

The servants' season (December 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy SERVANT'S SEASON A CONCEPT NOT CONGENIAL TO AMERICAN MINDS "TO TAKE a servant's form he came . . ." So sings the church in the hymn for Lauds on Christmas...

After the campaign (November 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy AFTER THE CAMPAIGN A CHANNEL FOR DISCUSSION THIS CAMPAIGN of 1980—may its like never afflict us again! It has been ignoble and exhausting. As I went about on...

City Lights (September 1980)

clear their awareness of those horrors and the ways in which one of the things wrong with history." their own socialism is of a qualitatively different sort. I write all" this as an outsider to...

Priests, politics, patriotism (August 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy 'CONSECRATED BLIZZARD' PRIESTS, POLITICS, PATRIOTISM HE was a great priest. He was a great American. When he lay iying in his eighties, the president of the...

About farms (June 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy ABOUT FARMS A LIFE OF SMELLS & FRAGRANCES ROM MY HOTEL BALCONY in Rome I Flook out to the left and right on distant blocks of newly-built and graceless flats...

Justice for mothers (May 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy JUSTICE FOR MOTHERS REFLECTIONS FOR THE ANNUAL SPRING RITUAL I AM the mother of the four best children in America. Like all other mothers of best children I...

The ideal and the issue (April 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy THE IDEAL & THE ISSUE FACING REALITY IN HELPING FAMILIES There was an element of desperation in the protest of the presidential candidate's wife to the...

A time for rationality (March 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy A TIME FOR RATIONALITY WIDOWS & ORPHANS-MADE IN U.S.A. THE contrast could not have been stronger—rampant emotionalism in the streets below, the essence...

Voices of their captors (February 1980)

Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy VOICES OF THEIR CAPTORS WHEN THE HOSTAGES COME HOME WHEN THE FAMIILIES of the hostages in Iran came to Washington to meet with the president and to be...

Continental lovers (December 1979)

went something like this: Don't screw around with Chase Manhattan, Jack. It doesn't really matter whether that succinct statement of reality and normal prudence among once and future...

Native soil (November 1979)

The Turkic Central Asians are, for the most part, a has the lowest standard of living and education. The construc- homogeneous group of people, who still retain their traditional ...

September and school (September 1979)

replace these organizations other than it should be, one more would you act as though X were true, or false? time, "just, participatory and sustainable." The vote, with 2. If the...

The newing of America (August 1979)

have survived, as a liberal Catholic, into an age when that foundation of the Oratory defined the man: to so love, and Center which is liberal Catholicism is threatened by attacks ...

The president we have: (July 1979)

of dedication and discipline allowed him to be a double-time Commonweal publishes only one issue each month editor in what...

Of women & bishops: (June 1979)

the middle-class, thoughtful, politically ing of a plain Catich note saying he was reason. Right reason has, in fact, given mature German immigration of the 19th not in the studio,...

The Irish: look again: (April 1979)

fetch the water. Just remember, that al- ling arms or the Russians would be in enemies anymore than there was a peace ligator is just as scared of you as you are Tenafly on...

History home to roost (March 1979)

confidence of all the parties. A solution favored by the smaller emerge looking like an intransigent partner. parties, but opposed by the Communists since it seems to carry Elections in...

Far away & long ago (February 1979)

boredom sets in), no front-page headline is ever less than about be taken over by the BBC (which is its obvious equivalent in two inches high. Nobody brought up solely on these...

Within the structure: (January 1979)

There are the specifics of the way taken as proof that it was they who had have been and continue to be the pre- things actually happened, including, in- "lost" China. The...

Sanity & 'Sister Says' (December 1978)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein A GASP IN IRAN GOOD GRIEF! THE IRANIANS WANT SELF-GOVERNMENT PERSIA has always been a tough place for the West. It could even be said, without mangling...

Son of Forty Hours (November 1978)

I t I Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy I II ...... II SON OF FORTY HOURS A R~URN TO TOTAL IMMERSION? T HERE are times when I feel that this is where I came in. There was Father David...

THE PARALYSIS OF PESSIMISM (October 1978)

THE PARALYSIS OF PESSIMISM ABIGAIL McCARTHY It is late September as I write, and one of the many primary days in an off-election year. On this elbow of Cape Cod--literally thirty miles out to...

ONE OF THE ELECTORS (September 1978)

ONE ELECTORS ABIGAIL McCARTHY It is over now, the hiatus between Popes, and the impressions fading, but there is one which lingers . . . . "We are without a Pope," said the young priest to...

LAITY AND CHURCH: II (August 1978)

LAITY AND CHURCH: U ABIGAIL MeCARTIIY "The laity must take on the renewal o/ the temporal order as their own special obligation . . . . " Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity . . . Vatican...

LAITY AND CHURCH: I (July 1978)

The Last Waltz seems as a title, an eccentric, not quite appropriate way to describe a rock concert. Nevertheless, that's what the legendary rock group The Band called their final concert, and...

ALL YE HOLY WIDOWS (May 1978)

ALL YE HOLY WIDOWS . . . ABIGAIL MeCARTHY If we are to judge by first-century literature, widows were many and highly valued members in the early church. In the days when we used to chant the...

NIGHT IN AN ARIZONA INN (April 1978)

NIGHT IN AN ARIZONA INN Abigail McCarthy It is a typical motel—on the fringe of a city and designed to serve passers-through, yet marked in subtle ways by some eddies of the spirit of the...

THE POLITICALLY IGNORANT (March 1978)

THE POLITICALLY IGNORANT In the seventh and eighth grades we took State Boards. They were tests both dreaded and challenging. Not only did our own promotions depend on them, but the...

A DIFFERENT ENERGY CRISIS (February 1978)

DONALD LEVERING B1RDHOISE Cedar birdhouse in the woods Found under the ivy floor Its mouth stuffed with moss I put my ear to it All its songs have flown The hinged lid squeaks as I Empty the...

HOUSTON RETROSPECTIVE (January 1978)

HOUSTON RETROSPECTIVE Abigail McCarthy :J A report on the National Women's Conference The largest gathering of women in the nation's history, that of the National Women's...

MANY ADVENTS, ONE MARY (December 1977)

MANY ADVENTS, ONE MARY As the residents of Cape Cod broke out the Christmas street decorations and the Advent wreaths and started the recordings of Christmas carols sounding through the...

TORTURE AGAIN (November 1977)

The National Council of Catholic Laity called for the observance of human rights week this year (October 16-22) and the call was endorsed by the American bishops' committee on the laity. At...

A New Secretariat (September 1977)

A NEW SECRETARIAT ABIGAIL MeCARTHY It could have been a cause for rejoicing. It could have been a cause for alarm. But, in actual fact, the action of the bishops at their May meeting in...

On the Road (August 1977)

"Without art we do not know ourselves or anyone else. Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides--the seeming realities o/ this world."-Saul Bellow...

Communion in the Hand (June 1977)

I I E l l _9 I I l l . I I I l l I COIQAUNION IN THE HAND It is May as I write and each Sunday I watch in some wonder as one small first communicant goes into the sanctuary with his or her...

Confronting Dorothy Day (May 1977)

CONFRONTING DOROTHY DAY A symposium was held in March at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York, to honor Dorothy Day. Messages acclaiming her came that day from figures as widely spaced...

TIMELY SAINTS (March 1977)

The newst~apers have been full of reports of canonizations in prospect. Quite providential canonizations, one might even say strategic. There is the unquestionably heroic woman doctor, wife...

The Apathetic Voter (February 1977)

THE APATHETIC VOTER ABIGAIL MeCARTHY Before the national election he was the object of speculation and alarm. On election day itself commentators and reporters, encouraged by long lines at the...

A New 'Peril' (January 1977)

At holiday parties it is always best to preserve the peace of the season by remaining imperturbably calm in the face of the most outrageous conversational gambits. Who knows with what fears...

AND NOW, BACK TO EARTH (December 1976)

AND NOW, BACK TO EARTH Abigail McCarthy Last summer doctors noted that there was a wave of anxiety-related illnesses in the wake of the first reports from Viking I. At the very first sight Mars...

'MY TASK IS TO BE ALIVE' (November 1976)

MY TASK IS TO BE AUVE Abigail McCarthy I know that our American funeral customs and the industry they support are to be deplored. Yet, like most people I have had reason to be grateful for them....

A CATHOLIC PROBLEM? MAYBE (September 1976)

A CATHOLIC PROBLEM? MAYBE There is something daunting to the self about being relegated to any bloc or group and being ascribed certain attitudes and reflexes as part of that group. All of us who...

OUR DREAM LIVES (August 1976)

OUR DREAM LIVES Abigail McCarthy Like the instincts, the collective thought patterns of the human mind are innate and inherited. They function, when the occasion arises, in more or less the same...

ONCE AGAIN-A NEW START (July 1976)

ONCE AGAIN-A NEW START Abigail McCarthy As I write, an ecumenical conference on the laity is taking place at the University of Dallas in Texas. From this distance I hope for good things from the...

A DISSENTING VOTE (June 1976)

A DISSENTING VOTE ABIGAIL McCARTHY Those of us who accept change, but who remember the virtues of another era, must, once in a while, dissent from the pieties of new morality and the age of...

PURVEYORS OF THE DREAM (April 1976)

PURVEYORS OF THE DREAM Readers of Commonweal who are not as indiscriminate and omnivorous readers as I may see no significance in the recent Congress of Presidents held in New York and sponsored by...

COMPLICITY IN TORTURE (March 1976)

COMPLICITY IN TORTURE Abigail McCarthy "I'm really very sick of these publications," said the young woman of my acquaintance tossing aside a new magazine, "they're all the same-an article on...

STRUGGLE WITH THE TRANSCEDENT (February 1976)

STRUGGLE WITH THE TRANSCENDENT He was very soul-weary-that priest in the Antipodes-and angry, too. He hadn't really liked coming to meet an American, even one with fairly good credentials in the...

THE DISPLACED HOMEMAKER (January 1976)

THE DISPLACED HOMEMAKER Abigail McCarthy It was predictable, I suppose, that when I was one of the speakers at the recent national conference of Divorced and Separated Catholics, my presence was...

A MAORI FAREWELL: (December 1975)

A MAORI FAREWELL Abigail McCarthy "Lately I'd felt the splashes of a very big wave which bore me along in my very small boat. . . . A sickness was all around and I was made, sick, by wage demands...

OUR FICTIONS AND THE FAMILY (November 1975)

OUR FICTIONS AND THE FAMILY Abigail McCarthy No one can deny that Oriana Fallaci has a way with words. She it was who gave us Kissinger, the lonely cowboy-evoking the image from the secretary...

RIDING THE WHIRLWIND (September 1975)

RIDING THE WHIRLWIND Abigail McCarthy A priest friend has written to me, "Some of us think you go too far one way, and some of us think you go too far to the other, but I think you are just about...

DEAR SISTER KATE: (August 1975)

DEAR SISTER KATE- Abigail McCarthy When you rose to ask your question and to state your case at the end of the day-long discussion which the nuns of your community had devoted to women there was no...

CORRESPONDENCE: (August 1975)

CORRESPONDENCE Locking Out Father Providence, R.I. To the Editors: Michael True's article in your June 6 issue "Locking Out the Prison Chaplain" suffers mightily from an oversimplification of a...

OF TREE, NEVERTHELESS, I SING: (July 1975)

ABIGAIL MCCARTHY OF THEE, NEVERTHELESS, I SING With his book of this title pub-lished in May this year, William Lee Miller gave me back the Fourth of July. In the small town of my child-hood the...

OUR SEARCH FOR ROOTS: II (May 1975)

OUR SEARCH FOR ROOTS: II Abigail McCarthy In A Need for Roots, Simone Weil expressed her fear about what the inevitable influence of America might do to post-World War II Europe. She thought of us...

OUR SEARCH FOR ROOTS; I: THE NEW ETHNICITY: (April 1975)

OUR SEARCH FOR ROOTS I: THE MEW ETHNICITY Abigail McCarthy I puzzle over the new ethnicity. It is, I know, a search for roots. "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need...

"THE MOON WAS SHINING SULKILY": (March 1975)

"THE MOON WAS SHINING SULKILY" It has occurred to me that in the recent textbook controversies-in West Virginia, in Maryland, and elsewhere -no one has thought to question the underlying attitude...

THE LONG AND SUBTLE SERVITUDE (February 1975)

THE LONG AND SUBTLE SERVITUDE We have slipped into 1975, International Woman's Year, with surprisingly little fanfare. There are even indications that what women hoped would be a year of...

PROFESSION AND COMMITMENT (January 1975)

PROFESSION AND COMMITMENT Our institutions are extensions of ourselves and when they seem to be rocking on their foundations-church, school, family, government, banks, stock market-we wake in the...

The Fact of Interdependence (December 1974)

THE FACT OF INTERDEPENDENCE ABIGAIL McCARTHY How will we ever sort it out? We have so often done harm by doing what we thought was good. At every national conference we face bitter...

A Farewell (November 1974)

There is everywhere, at once a great interest in, and a great tentativeness about, the new feminism. I think this tentativeness, the holding back, the reluctance to accept it does not really...

No Cheers for Father Keane? (October 1974)

NO CHEERS FOR FATHER KEANE? ABIGAIL MeCA1RTHY In Chatham on Cape Cod, where I spent the summer, people swim, sail, play tennis, golf and garden during the day and in the evening gather over...

THE WALKER MAKES THE ROAD: (September 1974)

THE WALKER MAKES THE ROAD ABIGAIL MCCARTHY They are going back to college-not all but vanished from our world. A...

FLYING THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES: (September 1974)

FLYING THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES ABIGAIL MCCARTHY Columnists as varied in outlook as door-a stylish blonde-said disap- ...

THE MOTHERHOOD OF GOD: (August 1974)

THE MOTHERHOOD OF GOD ABIGAIL McCARTHY Feminist conferences, I regret to language. Inevitably the conference in ...

LA DIFFERENCE AMERICAINE (June 1974)

LA DIFFERENCE AMERICAINE ABIGAIL McCARTHY A nice professor of my acquaint- that they can do things, but do them ...

THE STRUGGLE IS FOR JUSTICE (May 1974)

Some time ago I took part in a board meeting of a Catholic organization at which a prominent woman judge argued strongly for greater attention in the Church to the cause of women. "We need a...

SPRING IN TIlE LAND-AND HUNGER (May 1974)

pA SCHALTmE and spring coincide L this year. They do not always do that for those of us who live north of the 39th parallel, but when they do there is a happy sense of the fitness of things....

THE WAY WE JOIN TOGETHER (April 1974)

I WAS IN Louisville this month when a tornado touched down and tore off part of the roof of the inn where we of the Church Women United finance committee sat toiling over our final report. Cars...

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR RELIGIOUS BOOK WEEK: (February 1974)

Selection* for Religioua Book Week CRITICS' CHOICES Sally Ounneen The "religious books" I have been hunting out lately are those that have answered two different areas of need: for a deeper...

BOOKS (December 1972)

BOOKS THE VIEW FROM THE CHOIR LOFT Bore Ruined Choirs: Doubt. Prophecy and Radical Religion GARRY WILLS Doubleday, $7.95 Abigail McCarthy Garry Wills, as S. L. A. Marshall observed...

McCarthy, Abigoil

McCarthy, Colman

McCARTHY, DENIS A.

McCARTHY, E. THOMAS

McCarthy, Esther

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthy, Eugene .I.

McCarthy, Eugene J

McCarthy, Eugene J.

McCarthy, John Russell

McCarthy, Leonard

McCarthy, Richard D.