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Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church (January 2013)

Dennis O’Brien Nowhere have the revelations of child sexual abuse been more painful than in the various exposés of Catholic priests and religious. Once the silence about abuse in the church...

Graceless Education (May 2012)

Graceless Education Dennis O’Brien When Andrew Delbanco, chair of American Studies at Columbia University, joined the faculty a quarter-century ago, he attended a meeting to discuss a budget...

Quest for the Living God (April 2008)

Dennis O’Brien its immediate aftermath. Jürgen MoltmannwitnessedthefirebombingofHamburg and lived as a prisoner of war. These Beyond Utterance experiences led him to develop a...

The Saga of St. Joseph's : A Catholic curriculum (March 2008)

The Saga of St. Joseph’s A Core Curriculum that Works Dennis O’Brien T helastdayofJanuary,threehoursout of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and I am driving across a snowy Indiana...

Good Faith (September 2007)

Good Faith What the New Atheists Get Wrong Dennis O’Brien Condemnation of religion has become the fashion of the day. Richard Dawkins, Samuel Harris, David Denlet it change us…. We’re...

A Church That Can and Cannot Change (March 2005)

Dennis O'Brien Divorced from Realitx Y A Church That Can and Cannot Change The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching John T. Noonan University of Notre Dame Press, $30, 284 pp. O n May 5,...

The Saints' Guide to Happiness by Robert Ellsberg (December 2003)

BOOKS Going places The Saints' Guide to Happiness Everyday Wisdom from the Lives of the Saints Robert Ellsberg North Point Press, $23,219 pp. Dennis O'Brien You can tell right away that this...

The Coming Catholic Church by David Gibson (September 2003)

ALL IS NOT LOST The Coming Catholic Church How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism David Gibson Harper SanFrancisco, $23.95, 350 pp. Dennis O'Brien According to David Gibson,...

Defining dogma (January 2003)

Dennis O'Brien DEFINING DOGMA The danger of creeping infallibilism When, after months of resistance, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston finally had a meeting with rep-resentatives of Voice of the...

Power & powerlessness (October 2001)

Continuing the conversation Power & powerlessness Susan Sontag in the New Yorker (September 24) said that the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was the consequence...

Bertrand Russell (September 2001)

HE DIDN'T ADD UP Bertrand Russell The Ghost of Madness, 1921-70 Ray Monk The Free Press, $40. 574 pp. Dennis O'Brien When he died in 1970, Bertrand Russell would probably have been...

Jesuit Education 21 (April 2001)

BOOKS How to be loyal to Loyola Jesuit Education 21 Conference on the Proceedings on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education Edited by Martin R. Tripole, S.J. Saint Iwi'h Uniivrsity Press, $70,...

VERMONT'S LEAHY (June 2000)

VERMONT'S LEAHY A public man with a passion for privacy Dennis O'Brien n his Vermont home-the family's longtime And there is a Vermont story in...

Gay marriage? (January 2000)

forming effects of grace in a Christian life active in faith, hope, and love. Are these opposed? No, says the Declaration, since "we confess together that sinners are justified by faith in the...

HOW tO DO It (August 1999)

A LITTLE ADVICE Hew to Do It Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians Rudolph M. Bell Dennis O'Brien This is the perfect book for a family vacation. Sitting in your summertime rocker, you...

Kaddish (January 1999)

BOOKS Another tradition Kaddish Leon Wieseltier Mi-,il A Kiivp!. i.T V). Wpp. Dennis O'Brien Hn March 24,1996 (Nisan 5, 5756), Leon Wieseltier's father died. "One of the most dreaded...

A Parish Dismissal (September 1998)

of my fellow Christians who defend just wars. But in the end, none of these arguments convinces me. How could they when, as a Christian, I believe in a God who chooses to suffer violence on...

The Ovary of Eve (March 1998)

THROUGH A MICROSCOPE DARKLY Dennis O'Brien lara Pinto-Correia has writ C ten a book as unusual as her own career. She is not only professor of developmental biology at Universidade...

Correspondence Ms Kissling takes umbrage (April 1997)

Claws exposed Commonweal, claws exposed and teeth bared, has taken its annual lazy and tiresome leap at Catholics for a Free Choice [editorial, March 14]. One wonders what values lead the editors...

A 'NECESSARY' OF MODERN LIFE? College has always been expensive and it is unlikely to get cheaper in the near future But only since the G I Bill has it come to be a "necessary" Can this go on? (March 1997)

A 'NECESSARY' OF MODERN LIFE? A very expensive college education Dennis O'Brien Dn 1844, Middlebury College in Vermont sued one Lyman Chandler for nonpayment of tuition. The college lost. The...

Correspondence On single-issue voting, the Common Ground and tradition. . . (October 1996)

Give Dems a chance Sidney Callahan admits that she might be wrong in her decision to vote for Bob Dole this November, and that she's willing to hear from others on the matter [correspondence,...

God Owes Us Nothing by Leszek Kolakowski (May 1996)

DOUBLE JEOPARDY God Owes Us Nothing Leszek Kolakowski University of Chicago Press, $22.50, 238pp. Dennis O'Brien I suppose it was bound to happen. For the past three years, Commonweal has been...

Correspondence (January 1996)

Health care is a right Your HMO consultant on medical care, Christopher Koller, states that "access to health care should be a fundamental right for U.S.citizens" [December 1,1995]. Just so. But...

GOING WHICH WAY? What is possibly Christian, properly pagan, and plausibly dangerous in popular culture? (September 1995)

GOING WHICH WAY? Catholicism & pop culture Dennis O'Brien Andrew Greeley claims that Catholicism has a peculiar allegiance to so-called "pop culture." He explains, "The other three great...

The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright/The Ethical Primate, by Mary Midgley: (June 1995)

OUTFOXING THE HEDGEHOGS THE MORAL ANIMAL Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Robert Wright Pantheon, $27.50,467 pp. THE ETHICAL PRIMATE Humans, Freedom, and...

Beyond Naive Belief, by Paul E Dinter: (March 1995)

LET THE THUNDER ROLL BEYOND NAIVE BELIEF The Bible and Adult Catholic Faith Paul E. Dinter Crossroad, $29.95,348 pp. Dennis O'Brien Paul Dinter spent fifteen years as Catholic chaplain at...

Gender and Discourse, Deborah Tannen (November 1994)

WHY YOU JUST DON'T GET IT GENDER AND DISCOURSE Deborah Tannen Oxford University Press, $19.95, 203 pp. Dennis O'Brien "In every known so- ciety, mankind (sic!) haselaborat- ed the biological...

How big is the table? (January 1994)

HOW BIG IS THE TABLE? CHOICE & SEXUALITY Dennis O'Brien "The love that dare not speak its name." In the age of Oprah, can there be anything that re mains unspoken? Bruce Bawer' s earnest...

Moral Imagination/Moral Sense: (October 1993)

contaminating its own life. The society that Along the way, Callahan declares, "I am skeptical Callahan still keeps the door urges without let or limit a battle against not a believer," but a...

The Education of an American Catholic (September 1993)

Where Adams fancies the Virgin Mother - as counter to the mechanical "dynamo"...

Anatomy of Love (February 1993)

known, can interfere with our willingness of everything in the world except sharp, however, lies in his very formulation of to take imaginative works on their own small, immediate, and...

The Idea of the University: (September 1992)

IT DIDN'T WORK THEN, EITHER THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY A Re-examination Jaroslav Pelikan Yale University Press, $30, 238 pp. Dennis O'Brien Jaroslav Pelikan is one of our great scholars and he...

Consciousness Explained (April 1992)

BOOKS Out of sleight, out of mind aniel Dennett had the misfortune of reading Descartes as a freshman in college and has been "hooked," he says, on the mind-body problem ever since. The...

Against gay marriage-I (November 1991)

AGAINST GAY MARRIAGEml WHAT HETEROSEXUALITY MEANS y firmest conviction on this debate is that it will end with no conviction. To reach some common view would require an agreement on the meaning...

We Must Take Charge (September 1991)

of us but understand it too. That they not only read hearts but also sense the destinies-the transcendence, the possibilities of redemption--in the characters they create and bring into our...

Under God (January 1991)

are properly their own possessions, and the two of them lose possession of them- selves, and of their personal lives. The adherence to traditional forms of plotting and revealing makes all of these...

Nuclear Catholics and Other Essays: (April 1990)

The sin of malign Iorgetfillness This is a very good book with a very bad title. "Nuclear" attached to "Catholic" in this instance has nothing to do with central Catholic values but with folk like...

Unseasonable Truths (December 1989)

BOOKS 'There's a troublemaker' UNSEASONABLE TRUTHS Harry Ashmore Little, Brown and Company, $27.50, 616 pp. Dennis O'Brien The first student demonstration I ever witnessed was at the...

Shooting War: (June 1989)

SHOOTING WAR Photography and the American Experience of Combat Susan D. Moeller Basic Books, $25.95, 520 pp. Dennis O'Brien Is "one picture worth a thousand words"? SusanMoeller'scompre-hensive...

Our Children and Our Country (March 1989)

OUR CHILDREN AND OUR COUNTRY William J. Bennett Simon and Schuster, $19.95, 234 pp. Dennis O'Brien Donald Reagan entered office with a pledge to • abolish the Department of Education; he came to...

The Closing of the American Mind (July 1987)

BOOKS From erosion to avalanche THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom Simon and Schuster, $18.95, 392 pp. Dennis O'Brien It is somewhat embarrassing to agree with such a disagreeable...

Three presidents discuss higher education (April 1985)

THREE PRESIDENTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION Visions, values, and declining support IN MID-MARCH, the editors of Commonweal met with three distinguished educators to assess the present state of higher...

Words and Values (March 1986)

You are what you say WORDS AND VALUES Peggy Rosenttaal Oxford, $17.95, $7.95 paper, 250 pp. Dennis O'Brien TO PRAISE this brief book as a treasure of common sense will, I fear, have precisely...

The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (April 1984)

- - I I The Why the why not , options. Gardner quotes with glee S & S the famous letter of Mrs. Ladd-Franklin to Bertrand Russell about solipsism in which she stated her own firm allegiance THE...

Critics' Christmas choices: (December 1983)

COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR. Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES David Lodge David lodge is a novelist, critic, and professor of modern English literature at the University of Birmingham in England....

A Christian Theology of Judaism (April 1982)

An age-long wrestling with God A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF JUDAISM Clemens Thoma Translated by Helga Croner Paulist Press, $7.95, 211 pp. Dennis O'Brien "HEAR O ISRAEL ..." is the great, opening cry...

Philosophic Explanations (January 1982)

Books: A HANKERING FOR PRE-PLATO PHILOSOPHIC EXPLANATIONS Robert Nozick Harvard University, $25, 747 pp. Dennis O'Brien THE PRE-PUBLICATION reviews of Robert Nozick's Philosophical Explanations...

The man who said no (July 1980)

THE FIRST SERIOUS ATHEIST OF THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION The man who said no DENNIS O'BRIEN THE HISTORY of great men seems to require periods: Picasso's blue period, his rose period. German...

The Survival of American Innocence (June 1980)

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Why Catholic (October 1979)

self-dramatization, the language seems portant poems of all, and there are a few sen: three women (one a religious), three applied to rather than drawn from feel- of these in each of...

Collective vision & collective bargaining (February 1979)

lar. "The sense of God's transcendence," he would say, "is the transformation of the earth." He was a great friend of the Italian priest-sociologist and political leader, Don Luigi Sturzo, and...

LOGIC AND LOLLIPOPS (March 1978)

LOGIC AND LOLLIPOPS DENNIS O'BRIEN Do the professional philosophers offer stones, bread, or Twinkies? In a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece entitled "The Lollipopping of the West," George...

Looking at America (August 1977)

Barbara Sweeney Francis is probably right in dismissing as pointless my attempt to illustrate the extent of the death-toll in Northern Ireland by scaling it up to a comparable U.S. level. She...

THE BUCKLEY AMENDMENT (October 1976)

THE BUCKLEY AMENDMENT DENNIS O'BRIEN Solving some atrocities but creating a number of problems A second-grade boy is observed to have developed a close friendship with another boy in his class. A...

THE THEOLOGY OF PLEASURING (June 1976)

BOOKS THE THEOLOGY OF PLEASURING DENNIS O'BRIEN Binding With Briars: Sex and Sin in the Catholic Church RICHARD GINDER Prentice-Hall, $8.95 Philosophy & Sex EDITED BY ROBERT BAKER &...

THE UNIVERSITY, PAST AND PRESENT (October 1975)

THE UNIVERSITY, PAST AND PRESENT The University in Society LAWRENCE STONE, EDIT. Princeton U. Press, $22 (Two Volumes) The university has the curious dis-tinction of being an institution whose...

THE PLACE OF HISTORY IN HISTORY: (January 1975)

BOOKS THE PLAGE OF HISTORY IN HISTORY DENNIS O'BRIEN Clio and the Doctor*: Psycho-history, Quanto-history and History JACQUES BARZUN University of Chicago, $7.95 Queen: Thou know'st tis...

'BLESS ME, FATHER ': (January 1975)

'BLESS ME, FATHER ....' Seat and the Confessional NORBERTO VALENTINI & CLARA DE MEGLIO Translated by Melton S. Davis Stein and Day, $6.95 Titius and Bertha Ride Again: Contemporary Moral...

NUDE DESCENDING THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM: (April 1974)

and her husband are in the final scene wrestling and the way in which the rebels of that age saw themselves. shouting on a beach (the Bay of Pigs?), trying to reach What is...

CHESTERTON AND THE TRUTH OF '74: (March 1974)

the airwaves are a scarce resource and ing the traditional accommodations to anyone else. are in some sense the property of and loose arrangements between gov- These volumes...

LICENSING THE GADFLIES? (October 1973)

LICENSING THE GADFLIES? DENNIS O'BRIEN Tenure finds itself under attack It could be argued that the first plea for tenure was Socrates' recommendation to the court of Athens that he be provided...

THE CAMERA AS THE EYE OF GOD (September 1973)

T HE central aspects of the Catholic Mass as a human performance should be regarded as among the oddest pieces of behavior imaginable. That we don't see the gestures of priest and people as...

O'Brien, Edna

O'Brien, Elmer

O'BRIEN, FRANCIS WILLIAM

O'Brien, Frank J.

O'Brien, George Dennis

O'Brien, James F.

O'Brien, John A.

O'Brien, John C.

O'Brien, Judith Johnson

O'Brien, Justin

O'Brien, Mary Win

O'Brien, Paul Baumann, Tom