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THE LAST WORD ACTUALLY, THE LAST WORD HASN'T BEEN SAID. YET James O'Gara I can't say exactly when I started to read Commonweal, but I was probably in my early...

In the thick of it (March 1986)

A POSITIVE REPORT Catholic High Schools: Their Impact on Low-lncome Students is the second major report in two years from the National Catholic Educational Association on Catholic high...

Lenny Bruce principle (July 1985)

Report from Collegeville LENNY BRUCE PRINCIPLE CHANGE IN THE CHURCH(ES) YOU PROBABLY don't know what the Lenny Bruce principle is in interreligious dialogue. It is something I discovered in...

Faith & economics: comments from sixty years (November 1984)

Comments from sixty years 'NORMALCY' & ITS DISCONTENTS T !O SOME PEOPLE man is a machine, and man is no more than a branch of physics. To other people man is an animal --mere!y-and economics,...

By way of farewell (March 1984)

proach cuts across so many existing ideological preconcep_9 . . l . taons, ~t promises to keep at least pro-hfe Cathohcs from a dangerous self-righteousness. Finally, it is ironic that...

An irreligious war: (December 1983)

A VISIT TO THE NORTH OF IRELAND An irreligious war JAMES O'GARA AT FIRST glance Belfast, Northern Ireland's major city, is something of an anti-climax. This was the case at least for this...

Editorials (November 1983)

GRENADA'S GAIN, OUR LOSS NOWHERE IN the world are people so pleased with the American invasion of Grenada as in Grenada itself. Under the circumstances, some of the Grena-dian enthusiasm should be...

Editorials (November 1983)

LET THE RACE BEGIN BY AUTHORIZING a reelection committee, President Reagan has at least tentatively committed himself to run again. The time has therefore come to look at the chicken entrails. One...

Editorials (October 1983)

EDITORIALS: IN DEFENSE OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH WITH THE DEATHS of Cardinal Medeiros and Cardinal Cooke, two great centers of American Catholicism have gone into mourning, and the entire U.S. church...

Editorials (October 1983)

WHAT BEGIN LEAVES BEHIND WORRIED ABOUT his declining health, depressed since the death of his wife last fall, deeply concerned by the quagmire he got Israel into in Lebanon, Menachem Begin said...

Editorials (September 1983)

EDITORIALS: THE LESSORS OF FLIGHT 007 ON SEPTEMBER 1, the Soviet military, in order to enforce its notions of national security, deliberately executed 269 civilian travelers on Korean Airlines...

Editorials (September 1983)

THE SCANDAL OF UNEMPLOYMENT Inflation TOUCHES everybody's pocketbook, though its impact is often moderate. Unemployment, even in a depression, hits only a minority, but its impact is frequently...

Editorials (August 1983)

NEXT YEAR'S RACE THIS YEAR WAS THE PRESIDENTIAL straw poll in the Wisconsin Democratic convention the one that broke Walter F. Mondale's back? Looking back, it seems too much to say that Senator...

Editorials (July 1983)

PAPAL DEFIANCE, POLISH DILEMMAS FROM OUR perspective, the pope's journey to Poland seemed to have been arranged in a mood of concession, was carried out in a blaze of defiance, and has ended in a...

Editorials (June 1983)

MX & OTHER CHIPS OFF THE BARGAINING BLOCK RIDDLE: When is a missile not a missile? Answer: When it is a bargaining chip. In voting $625 million for development of the MX missile, the decisive...

Editorials (June 1983)

EDITORIALS: INCOME TAX BLUES WITH APRIL 15 more than six weeks behind us and its memory fading away, perhaps this is as good a time as any for a few notes about taxes. Benjamin Franklin said,' 'In...

Editorials (May 1983)

TIME TO ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE WAR, thought St. Augustine, might sometimes be required to combat flagrant wrongdoing. But that did not make either a justifiable war or the human injustices that might...

The rock of contention: (May 1983)

A NON-PACIFIST LOOKS BUCK AT THE CATHOLIC WORKER The rock of contention JAMES O'GARA WILL AN ACCOUNT of the Catholic Worker movement ever be written that satisfies everyone or almost everyone who...

Editorials (April 1983)

THE RISKS IN CENTRAL AMERICA NICARAGUA: on the verge of full-scale civil war and possibly foreign invasion. El Salvador: government forces so hard-pressed by the guerrilla insurgency that Reagan...

Editorials (April 1983)

A NEW KIND OF PAC YOUR FRIENDLY neighborhood banker plus all his big brothers has managed to see that Congress was deluged with a flood of letters, all protesting the law making a ten percent...

Editorials (March 1983)

THE POPE & POLITICS IN CENTRAL AMERICA Landing IN Central America's passiontide at the beginning of this month, Pope John Paul II kissed the ground. It has become his trademark. Immediately he...

Editorials (March 1983)

SANE CENTER OR JUST ANTI-LEFT? FOR a LONG TIME it was standard operating procedure among historians and cultural critics to see the Catholic church as the antithesis of modern flux, a fortified...

Editorials (February 1983)

MORAL COURAGE IN ISRAEL SAID THE ISRAELI commission of inquiry into the massacre of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Lebanon: "Our conclusion is therefore that the direct responsibility for the...

Editorials (January 1983)

ABORTION TEN YEARS LATER IT IS TEN YEARS since the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, rendered abortion as American as apple pie and nuclear weapons. That is not a nice way of putting it - as opponents...

Editorials (January 1983)

FAITH IN FIRE POWER AMBASSADORS DON'T HAVE it easy these days. There on the front pages, December 21, was Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington Francisco Fial-los Navarro lamenting that his country...

Editorials (December 1982)

GETTING OUT THE VOTE SENATOR KENNEDY'S withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes can be counted on to give new impetus to the already vigorous 1984 presidential race. Vigorous at least as far as...

Not exactly a pilgrimage: (December 1982)

Not exactly a pilgrimage JAMESJO'GARA TO WRITE about the Holy Land as the Christmas season approaches seems very fitting. It might even be argued that a parallel of sorts exists with the situation...

The view in Germany (July 1982)

WHY ARE WE SO UNSYMPATHETIC TO DIVERSITY OF OPINION? The view in Germany JAMES O'GARA PRESIDENT REAGAN and the other leaders of the Atlantic alliance arrived in Bonn for their NATO summit meeting...

Editorials (August 1981)

FREEING THE FORTUNE 500? WHAT is ONE to think of the recent Dupont takeover of Conoco? And of the '' merger madness'' as a whole? Since the start of the year, over $ 100 billion in U.S. corporate...

Editorials (June 1981)

Editorials PRESIDENT REAGAN'S DANGEROUS MIXTURE A FUNNY THING happened to the Reagan budget when it was sent to Congress: it passed. And it passed with most of the public discussion centered on...

Editorials (March 1981)

OIL ON THE FLAMES Mothing in the Middle East is simple. The decision of the Reagan administration to sell Saudi Arabia missiles and additional equipment to extend the capabilities of its...

Editorials (February 1981)

EDITORIALS OPENING THE GOLDEN DOOR CONCERN OVER the number of illegal aliens in this country is growing, and unless economic development can be achieved in Mexico and throughout Latin America, the...

Editorials: (January 1981)

THE WHIRLPOOL OF WEAPONS NO, WE DIDN'T plan it that way. It simply happened that for die same issue of Commonweal, columnist Thomas Powers chose to sketch a grim picture of a world bent on war even...

Editorials: (January 1981)

HOW NOT TO PAY THE PUMPER SENATE SCRUTINY of those nominated for Cabinet posts in the Reagan administration is likely to dominate the news in the immediate future. Mr. Reagan's choice of Gen....

EDITORIALS: (December 1975)

CHRISTMAS AND PEACE Good news for Christmas in a recent New York Times headline: "Experts Doubt View That Atom Blast Could End AH Life." (One bomb set off in the atmosphere and producing a...

EDITORIAL: (December 1975)

ANTI-ZIONISM/ANTI-SEMITISM The unfortunate deed is done. The General Assembly of the United Nations has voted 72 to 35, with 32 abstentions, in favor of the Arab-promoted resolution that...

EDITORIAL (October 1975)

TAMING OUR VIOLENCE President Gerald Ford is right when he says, within six hours of having been shot at, that we must not allow the fear of sudden death to keep the President from the people....

EDITORIAL: (August 1975)

Editorials THE MISSING MEN The mysteries of the two very different missing men, 62-year-old James R. Hoffa and 21-year-old Samuel Bronfman II, that have captured public attention during the past...

EDITORIAL: (August 1975)

Editorials TOWARDS 1976 In the summer of '75, the lineup takes partial shape for the presidential race of '76. Gerald Ford has made official what had become ludicrously unofficial: he will be a...

EDITORIAL: (August 1975)

EDITORIALS THE WOMEN At the International Women's Year World Conference recently spon-sored by the UN in Mexico, sharp divisions appeared immediately, with significant differences of approach...

EDITORIALS: (July 1975)

CORRESPONDENCE Greece and Turkey Ann Arbor, Mich. To the Editors: Professor Finkenthal's article, 'The Imminent War: Greece and Turkey," in the April 25 issue provides an excellent insight in the...

EDITORIAL: (June 1975)

CORRESPONDENCE Israel's Options Waverly, Mass. To the Editors: In the "Moral Meaning of Israel" [Mar. 14] Michael Novak writes that Israel is "perhaps as fully democratic, as fully socialist and...

STAND-OFF IN THE MIDDLE EAST (June 1975)

STAND-OFF IN THE MIDDLE EAST JAMES O'GARA Report on a trip to five troubled countries In the Holy Land, as I found on a recent trip there, the present crowds in hard on the sacred past. Thus our...

EDITORIALS: (May 1975)

EDITORIALS DISPERSE, YE REBELS! Americans approach the celebration of our nation's Bicentennial with caution. It has been argued that, since we have a bit more to be ashamed of at the moment than...

EDITORIALS: (April 1975)

INVOLVEMENT'S LAST HOURS The Indochina of American ordaining is gone. As this is written, Cambodia is all but lost, and South Vietnam's time seems extremely limited. The situation is an unmitigated...

EDITORIALS: (March 1975)

Editorials MORAL EDUCATION The campuses, we are told, are quiet. More students are meditating and even going to church. Religious vocations are up and fewer seminarians cause trouble or go to...

EDITORIALS: (March 1975)

EDITORIALS SISTER POWER Several events of recent days have helped to dramatize the American nun as a definable new force in the Catholic Church. In Brooklyn, there was the establishment by the...

EDITORIALS: (February 1975)

'GOD INVENTED US' The Appeal for Theological Affirmation, issued in Hartford at the end of January by an ecumenical committee of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant (predominantly Lutheran)...

EDITORIALS: (January 1975)

CHURCH AND SYNAGOGUE Some of the dust has settled from initial negative reaction to the Vatican document intended as the practical implementation of Vatican Council II's directives on...

A PRESIDENT IS BURIED (November 1973)

A PRESIDENT IS BURIED JAMES O'GARA The primary emotion was one of disbelief Dec. 6, 1963 T^HE day after President Kennedy was killed was a dreary one in Washington; gray skies and...

EDITORIALS (February 1971)

EDITORIALS THE HARRISBURG INDICTMENTS The shock of the Harrisburg indictments has mercifully abated, but astonishment over the charges lodged by the FBI against members of the Catholic peace...

EDITORIALS (January 1971)

AT YEAR'S END This year-end season is the traditional time for looking back, for weighing and measuring the year's events to determine at this distance what seems to be 1970's outstanding news...

EDITORIALS: (December 1970)

EDITORIALS JOHN WAYNE IN VIETNAM Once again American planes have bombed North Vietnam. They were preceded by a commando unit attempting to rescue American prisoners of war. They were followed by...

EDITORIAL: (November 1970)

A POLITICS OF FEAR It did not receive the attention it deserved, but John Lindsay's Council of Churches speech in New York indicting the Nixon Administration for seeding the clouds of "suspicion...

EDITORIALS: (November 1970)

EDITORIALS WHOSE LAW, WHOSE ORDER? As noted in these pages last week, the cause of law and order persists. In these sophisticated days, no candidate for public office would really have the nerve...

EDITORIALS: (October 1970)

EDITORIALS "WITHIN THE SYSTEM" If the cause of "lawnorder" has continued to prosper, that of law and order has suffered some new setbacks. The President refused to counteract the growing...

EDITORIALS (October 1970)

WHO'S KIDDING WHOM? Vice President Agnew's near-psychopathic crusade against New York's Senator Goodell tells the nation more about Spiro Agnew than it does about Goodell, and indeed more about...

EDITORIALS (October 1970)

EDITORIALS NO GOING BACK Elsewhere in this issue Ramsdell Gurney Jr. presents a summary of the revisionist view of relations between the United States and the USSR and the development of the Cold...

EDITORIAL: (October 1970)

'THE CRISIS OF VIOLENCE' Judging from the sections widely reprinted so far, the report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest is a workmanlike job, touching all bases, from Vietnam to the...

EDITORIALS: (October 1970)

THE WORK OF DEPOLARIZATION One can appreciate the nervousness of spokesmen for minority groups with the Labor Day statement of the U.S. Catholic Conference. The white ethnic working class is so...

EDITORIALS: (September 1968)

ON LEGITIMIZING RADICALISM Barring the gesture of a fourth party candidate, the line-ups are set for the 1968 Presidential race, and what promised after the Johnson withdrawal to be a new spring in...

EDITORIALS: (September 1968)

A BETTER DEAL The irony of this election year is that apparently neither party is terribly interested in winning the presidential election. Having talked about the "new coalition" of the middle...

EDITORIALS: (August 1968)

THE NIXON GAUNTLET The Republicans have apparently endeavored to snatch defeat from the gaping jaws of almost certain victory. And in the process, they have forced the country into reappraising...

EDITORIALS: (August 1968)

EDITORIAL THE BIRTH CONTROL ENCYCLICAL "Conforming to fundamental principles of a human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again state that there must be excluded absolutely, as a...

EDITORIALS: (July 1968)

EDITORIAL THE MORAL AMERICANS It is very much a part of the traditional American spirit that things need not be the way they are. What is bad can be corrected, what is broken can be fixed (or...

EDITORIALS: (July 1968)

THE POPE'S "NEW CREDO" Historians have often observed that the Ultramontane movement of the nineteenth century, symbolically culminating in the conciliar teaching on papal infallibility during...

EDITORIALS: (June 1968)

THE SPOILERS America continues to befoul its dream, driving to the wall those for whom the dream has been a hope, and the hope a motivation for continuing the struggle for something better. For the...

EDITORIALS: (June 1986)

THE POLITICS OF TERROR A great deal of amateur psychology has been dispensed, by practitioners as disparate as the President of the United States and the Archbishop of New York, in an effort to...

EDITORIALS: (June 1968)

NOT BY GLORY ALONE The great wonder of the current French crisis is that it did not happen sooner. During Charles de Gaulle's ten-year reign, the economy, admittedly, was expanded, the franc...

EDITORIALS: (June 1968)

TROUBLED PEACE TALKS The most predictable developments of the Paris peace talks were that North Vietnam would use them for propaganda advantage, and that the United States would strike poses of...

EDITORIALS: (May 1986)

DROPPING OUT Shortly after the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, John L. Lewis, founder of the CIO, noted with accustomed wryness that the new...

EDITORIALS: (May 1968)

THE BISHOPS It would be less than generous-and less than just-to fail to credit the American bishops for the positive steps they took at their recent meeting. Maybe things will not turn out well,...

EDITORIALS: (May 1968)

EDITORIAL STUDENT POWER "Riots . . . brawls . . . the throwing of stones at professors' houses, and in at least two cases the actual murder of a professor." The words are those of Laurence R....

EDITORIALS: (May 1968)

EDITORIAL A CANDIDATE ILL-SERVED Having taken care to avoid the primaries and to set limits on any discussion of Vietnam, Hubert Humphrey slipped conveniently into competition for the Democratic...

EDITORIALS: (May 1968)

FLAWED INTENTIONS It was expected that there would be a certain amount of quibbling in choosing a site for preliminary peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam, but the protracted...

EDITORIALS: (April 1968)

REPURLICAN ALTERNATIVES Perspective is everything. We recall the case of a friend during the 1952 election, a man who lived his life very much within the limits of Greenwich Village and a Village...

EDITORIALS: (April 1968)

DR. KING'S LEGACY There have long been two telling arguments against an ethic of nonviolence. The first is that it cannot work, since it seems to suppose an angelic conception of man's dignity...

EDITORIALS: (April 1968)

HOPE ON THE HORIZON When Dean Rusk declared a few weeks ago that the United States' Vietnam policies were under reconsideration from A to Z, the public's reaction was consistent with its reception...

EDITORIALS: (April 1968)

IMPERIALISM OR ALTRUISM? It once was a joke among Latin Americans that the best way to pry more aid from the United States was to cry "Communism." Nowadays, the tendency is to scream "violent...

EDITORIALS: (March 1968)

EDITORIAL MCCARTHY AND KENNEDY The immediate political drama at the moment is the entry of Robert F. Kennedy into the presidential race, hard on the heels of Eugene McCarthy's stunning performance...

EDITORIALS: (March 1968)

EDITORIAL TURNING POINT IN VIETNAM? Will General Westmoreland's request for 200,000 additional troops spark a constructive national dialogue over Vietnam policy? It is possible, but just barely....

A DECISIVE PERHAPS (November 1967)

THE BISHOPS' SYNOD A DECISIVE PERHAPS Rome In discussing the Bishops' Synod, a distinction between matter and form is essential. It is entirely possible that the bishops consistently said some...

THE TWO CHURCHES (November 1967)

LAY CONGRESS THE TWO CHURCHES Rome There used to be an amateur hour on TV in which the winner was automatically determined by the highest score on an electronic applause meter. If such a system...

TREADMILL TO DISASTER: (September 1967)

"A tragic gap has opened between reality in Vietnam and what the American people think is happening. That gap...

A WORD TO THE OLD BREED: (June 1967)

• • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A WORD TO THE OLD BREED If there is any lessening in the anxiety and...

THE POPE'S WORST ENEMY (May 1967)

9 9 9 9 O O 0 0 00 0 0 00 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE POPE'S WORST ENEMY When Pope Paul recently acknowledged that his own position of primacy and authority was probably "the most grave obstacle"...

A CHANGE OF EDITORS (May 1967)

jected suggestions to mine the harbor of Haiphong because of his concern that blowing up Russian ships would complicate his relations with the Soviet Union. The same caution appears to rule out...

CATHOLIC SUPER-PATRIOTS (May 1967)

9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CA THOLIC SUPER-PA TRIOTS Cardinal Spellman's super-patriotism has become almost commonplace; we are of course embarrassed before the world...

THE BISHOPS MEET (April 1967)

9 9 9 9 0 0 0 9 9 0 9 9 9 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE BISHOPS MEET I was in Chicago during the recent meeting of the American bishops. No one was allowed in during the working session of the...

INSTANT RENEWAL?: (April 1967)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED INSTANT RENEWAL? It is hard to believe that the Council is only a little but very few...

THE BORING CONTINENT (March 1967)

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE BORING CONTINENT The problem is, the whole subject of Latin America is a bore. At least it is if our experience and that of...

PAPIER-MACHÉ TIGER? (March 1967)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED PAPIER-MACHE TIGER? Anti-Johnson sentiment in Democratic and liberal circles continues to polarize around Senator Robert Kennedy. Given Republican failure to create an...

'A PARTING OF THE WAYS' (March 1967)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A PARTING OF THE WAYS9 We have reached, I think, a great watershed in foreign affairs. Every day the split between the Soviet Union and Communist China grows wider and the...

TO THE REAR, MARCH (February 1967)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED TO THE REAR9 MARCH I remain dismayed at Rome's move to discourage "profane" music in the Mass and what are called "extreme" renderings of the liturgy—not so much over the...

A DEAD ISSUE? (January 1967)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A BEAD ISSUE? Issues come and go. One that has come and gone is the school issue, at least in the sense that it is definitely unfashionable to discuss the issue. Part of...

THE CELIBACY EXPLOSION (January 1967)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE CELIBACY EXPLOSION There was a brief flurry of publicity about the National Catholic Reporter-Father Joseph Fichter celibacy report, but I'm not at all sure it has...

PEACE AND THE BISHOPS (December 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED PEACE AND THE BISHOPS War is essentially repugnant to the Christian spirit—a fact which make the two articles elsewhere in these pages about disarming and mass bombing...

NO MORE SEAWEED (November 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NO MORE SEA WEED In any internal dispute in the Church both sides try to have the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reflect their views. This is, it should be noted, a...

ADOLESCENT CATHOLICISM? (November 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ADOLESCENT CATHOLICISM? If the bishops could have read only one article before their crucial November meeting, Father Andrew Greeley's "Adolescent American Catholicism"...

CATHOLICS AND PEACE (November 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CATHOLICS AND PEACE Pope Paul pleads for peace in Vietnam, but how much effect does it have? Some, certainly—in my diocese and many others there were special prayer...

TO THE BISHOPS (October 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED TO THE BISHOPS The annual meeting of the new American bishops' conference is scheduled to begin on November 14. For better or for worse, it could be one of the most...

THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE SISTERS (October 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Archbishop and the Sisters By now the first shock of the news of restrictions on the Glenmary Sisters by Archbishop Alter of Cincinnati has worn off, but the matter is...

"WEARINESS AND DOUBTS" (September 1966)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED "'WEARINESS AND DOUBTS" Pope Paul recently hailed what he described as "new outbursts of religious fervor" in the post-Vatican II...

THE CARDINAL ON WAR (July 1966)

0 _9 _9 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE CARDINAL ON _9 _9 WAR How should Catholics react to the fighting in Vietnam? One thing is certain: "Christians of equal sincerity...

Politics and a Poll (July 1966)

0 _9 _9 _9 0 I) _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED POLITICS AND A POLL A recent, little-commented-on newspaper poll by Louis Harris seems most significant to me. According to...

Kennedy on Latin America (June 1966)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED KENNED Y ON LA TIN A31ERICA "A revolution is coming whether we will it or n o t . . . the question now is how the revolution is to...

THE VIRTUES OF IDEOLOGY (May 1966)

0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE VIR T UE S OF IDE 01, 0 G Y The old crack about the bland leading the bland is hardly fair, but there is no doubt that President...

"The Banquet of Life" (April 1966)

0 0 0 O0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED "'THE BANQUET OF LIFE" Can India feed its millions, even with the U.S. help President Johnson has promised? Famed Swedish econ- omist and...

The Notre Dame Conference (April 1966)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDF, R~ THE NOTRE CONFERENCE Almost every year there is one event that is the affair. This year I suspect that it will be Notre Dame's...

A UNION FOR PRIESTS? (April 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A UNION FOR PRIESTS How do the clergy feel about Father DuBay's proposal for a priests' union? This would be the acid test, but as far as I know, no one has taken a poll...

ARE CITIES LIVABLE? (March 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ARE CITIES LIVABLE? President Johnson finally dropped the other shoe some weeks ago and made the long-delayed appointment of Robert C. Weaver as secretary of the...

GROW ING UP CATHOLIC (February 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED GROWING UP CATHOLIC What does it mean to grow up Catholic? Elsewhere in this issue James T. Farrell gives part of his answer; not unnaturally, his full-scale treatment of...

THE COUNCIL, SI (February 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE COUNCIL, SI Both Dom Aelred Graham, in Encounter, and Arnold Lunn, in the National Review, have written with less than enthusiasm about the Vatican Council. For...

A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE (January 1966)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE If Pope Paul were an American priest, I presume his Christmas-time comments on Vietnam would get him silenced or sent to Latin America with Father...

THE JEWISH DECLARATION (December 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE JEWISH DECLARATION I am puzzled by the recent criticism of the Vatican Council Declaration on the Jews made by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United...

THE JOHANNINE SYLLABUS (December 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE JOHANNINE SYLLABUS What manner of man was John XXIII? There has been at least as much speculation about this as there has been been about the other John, the...

THE UNREFORMED CHURCH (November 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Unreforwned Church The trouble with much comment on the Ecumenical Council is not that it is reactionary in nature but that it is superficial or irrelevant. Too many...

THE CRIME OF DAVID MILLER (November 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Crime of David Miller This is a personal note on behalf of David Miller, the young man from the Catholic Worker who burned his draft card on coast-to-coast TV and was...

AN END TO ISOLATIONISM? (October 1965)

0 0 0 0 0 .9 .9 0 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AN END TO ISOLATIONISM Will Pope Paul's trip mark the end of isolationism among American Cathohcs? The Pope certainly was ex- plicit...

THE NEW SYNOD (October 1965)

.9 .9 .9 .9 .9 0 0 0 0 0 .9 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE NE IV SYNOD I would have gaven a lot to be m Rome for the opemng of tins session of the Council. The sight of...

A QUESTION OF TONE (October 1965)

_9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O0 O0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A QUESTION OF TONE Worries about Pope Paul have been growing in the last few months, at least in circles that the' newspapers call...

SCHOOLS AND SLUMS (August 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O O 0 0 0 0 O O ALL THINGS I~I~NSIDEllED SCHOOLS AND SL USJS Three priests and six nuns were arrested in Chicago during a civil rights demonstration against school segregation...

BANNING THE BOMB (July 1965)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 ALL TIlINTGS CONSIDERED BANNING TIIE BOMB President Johnson may not be happy with him, but more power to Senator Robert Kennedy for urging the Administration to...

REPUBLICANS AND VIETNAM (July 1965)

_9 O _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O O O O O 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED REPUBLICANS AND VIETNAS! Republicans Barry Goldwater and Jacob K. Javits of New York seldom see eye to eye. This makes even more...

OUR COURSE IN VIETNAM (July 1965)

0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 O0 _9 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED OUR COURSE IN VIETNAM Delegates to the recent national convention of Students for a Democratic Society voted for a massive protest against...

IS SILENCE LOYALTY? (June 1965)

O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED I S SILENCE LOYALTY:? President Johnson says he wants public dialogue, but he is notoriously thin-skinned. Secretary of State Dean Rusk says...

THE REAL ENEMY (June 1965)

0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE REAL ENEMY We still have to confront the real enemy in Latin America, and by this time I assume President Johnson has come to...

CATHOLICS ON CAMPUS (June 1965)

0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CATHOLICS ON CA PUS For every student on one of the 295 Catholic campuses in the United States there are more than two...

QUESTIONS, MR. PRESIDENT (May 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Questions, Mr. P r e s i d e n t "Except for a few bums, beatniks and Bolshies," according to New York's Daily News, President Johnson has the support of the nation in...

GROUND RULES FOR WAR (May 1965)

O O O O _9 _9 _9 O O O _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED GROUND RULES FOR WAR In his Easter Message Pope Paul appealed for "reasonable negotiations" and "constructive collaboration" in Vietnam....

TO MY PACIFIST FRIENDS (May 1965)

0 0 @ 0 @ _9 _9 _9 _9 @ _9 @ _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED TO MY PACIFIST FRIENDS Some weeks I wrote a column called "Men of Peace" in which I saluted Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and his...

BACK TO THE SCHOOLS (April 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED BACK TO THE SCHOOLS Last week I wrote about Catholic schools and the critics. This week I'd like to return to the topic. The Catholic...

CRITICIZING THE SCHOOLS (April 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O O O O O O O ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CIlITICIZING THE SCHOOLS Elsewhere in this issue Mary Perkins Ryan discusses the reaction to her book, Are Parochial Schools the Answer?...

THE EMERGING NUN (April 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE EMERGING NUN Are religious communities of women losing candidates because of the greater appeal of the lay aposto'late? I...

ENEMIES FALL OUT (April 1965)

_9 0 0 _9 0 O0 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ENEMIES FALL OUT Some people think the Communists never make a mistake. This is an easy enough error to fall into. Our own failures are...

THROUGH BLACK GLASSES (April 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O0 _9 _9 0 _9 0 _9 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THROUGH BLACK GLASSES The Negro Revolt is a fact; nineteen million black Americans are determined to be free. After Selma, even the...

AFTER MALCOLM X (March 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AFTER MALCOLM X The Black Muslims have always received their fair share of publicity, or perhaps more than their fair share, and so too...

MEN OF PEACE (March 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED MEN OF PEACE Two priest-friends, one a Jesuit and the other a Josephite, recently were in the news for signing a "declaration of conscience" pledging complete non-cooperation...

CRISIS TO THE SOUTH (March 1965)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CRISIS TO THE SOUTH I take it that the Catholic Inter-American Cooperation Program Conference held in Chicago recently was a success—at least the crowds it drew and the...

Witness from the Past (February 1965)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WITNESS FROM THE PAST Elsewhere in this issue James Finn writes, most perceptively, about Whittaker Chambers' last essays, Cold Friday. Reading...

AN EDITORIAL DISSENT (February 1965)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AN EDITORIAL DISSENT I find myself somewhat at odds with two of my colleagues on the NORC report by Father Andrew Greeley et at. on Catholic...

Pre-Shrunk Foreign Aid (February 1965)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED PRE-SHRUNK FOREIGN AID The advantages to President Johnson in playing the Great Conciliator are obvious. By sticking to the middle of the road he...

A Question of Image (January 1965)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A QUESTION OF IMAGE No one really should have been surprised at the fact that President Johnson's plans for aid to education neatly side-step the...

STRUCTURES, NOT RHETORIC (January 1965)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED STRUCTURES, NOT RHETORIC LAST WEEK an editorial in these pages described the Dialogue Conference to be held early this year in St. Louis....

FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION? (January 1965)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION? TO SOME PEOPLE the school question has become one huge bore, and in a way I can sympathize with them. Heaven...

The Pilgrim (December 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Pilgrim THERE is no doubt that Pope Paul's visit to India was an historic occasion, and that it was successful beyond most expectations. There were no anti-Catholic...

The Council Revisited (November 1964)

concentrate on helping the poorer states which ar e currently without the resources for first-rate educa-tional systems, in many cases despite the fact that they spend proportionately more for...

Race Against Hunger (October 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Race Against Hunger TWO small but significant items recently appeared in the news in the same week. The first was a story from the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization in...

Baiting the Layman (October 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Baiting the Layman FATHER William J. Smith, S.J., writes a regular column for the diocesan press, and week in and week out I agree with it far more often than I disagree. One...

Stamping Out Peace (September 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Stamping Out Peace POPE PAUL is in the best papal tradition with his recent plea for world peace; such appeals have come to be expected. In modern times these papal efforts...

The X Factor (September 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The X Factor IS THE "white backlash" a fact or simply a journalistic invention? Some liberals and labor leaders still deny flatly that there is any such thing. I can't...

The Man Who (August 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Man Who LET ME MAKE my views quite clear at the outset. I am sure Senator Goldwater is sincere, and many of his supporters obviously have the best intentions in...

The Fact of China (July 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Fact of China THE FACT of Communist China hangs over the Western world like a bomb. Yet political convention is such that our national leaders apparently find it...

Prayer in School (July 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Prayer in School HOW DO CATHOLICS feel about the Supreme Court and prayer in the public school? Is there a majority view on one side or the other? If most Americans were...

The Ugly City (June 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Ugly City IN A RECENT SPEECH to the graduating class of the University of Michigan, President Johnson called for a "creative federalism" of local and national authorities...

More to Come (June 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED More to Come IN THE LAST few weeks I have spoken in states as widely separated as Colorado, Minnesota and North Carolina. But in each place I have received one central...

Catholics and Jews (May 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Catholics and Jews LAST WEEK I discussed the existence of anti-Semitism among Christians. This week I want to return to the theme again. I accept the claim made by Professor...

Christian Anti-Semitism (May 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Christian Anti-Semitism TWO EVENTS in one recent week served to highlight Catholic-Jewish relations. The first was a talk in New York by Cardinal Spellman at a session of the...

Getting Nowhere Fast? (May 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Getting Nowhere Fast? "THE RACIST MIND has contrived an almost limitless number of evasive analogues to justify the unjustifiable." These were the opening words from a...

The Christian and War (May 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Christian and War LAST WEEK I referred to the Christian tradition on war, which has always sought to contain hatred, to restrain violence, to "civilize" warfare. This...

Of Arms and the Man (April 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Of Arms and the Man AS IT MUST have done for millions, the death of General Douglas MacArthur brought back many memories for me. General MacArthur's service to the...

A Chance for Shared Time (April 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A Chance for Shared Time SHARED TIME is back in the news. At the annual conference of the American Association of School Administrators two major sessions were devoted...

The Triple Revolution (April 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Triple Revolution PRESIDENT JOHNSON puts in a terrible working-day, and no one should add to it arbitrarily. Yet I hope very much that he has found time to study "The...

On Dropping Parochial Schools (March 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED On Dropping Parochial Schools WE DESCRIBE the Church in various images. One I have always loved is "the People of God," which for me never had narrow, parochial...

Poverty, Pyramids and Eggs (March 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Poverty, Pyramids and Eggs THINGS change fast. A few years ago all anybody talked about was the Affluent Society. Now the Invisible Poor are the favorite topic for...

The Real Issue (February 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Real Issue IT IS HARD to realize that the Berlin premiere of Hochhuth's "The Deputy" took place only a year ago. Since then the play has been translated into many...

De Gaulle and China (February 1964)

De Gaulle and China DIFFER with President de Gaulle all you want, but don't underestimate him. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill made that mistake during World War II, and de Gaulle has...

Safety in the Airlanes (February 1964)

Safety in the Airlanes LET ME STATE the central fact first: I am and have long been a card-carrying coward. Despite this fact, every year I fly many thousands of miles, mostly to give talks in...

Council Post-Mortem (February 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Council Post-Mortem I HAVE BEEN going over the final analyses of the second session of the Vatican Council carried in recent weeks by the diocesan press. A number of them...

Catholic Baiting? (January 1964)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Catholic Baiting? THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOL-federal aid dispute remains as explosive as ever, loaded with booby-traps for the unwary-and for the wary too, as far as that goes....

Ecclesiastical Baroque (January 1964)

Ecclesiastical Baroque SEVERAL WEEKS ago, in a column called "The American Layman," I wrote: "The Church has obviously been influenced by the political and social structures in which she found...

The Mummers in Philadelphia (January 1964)

The Mummers in Philadelphia BY ALL REPORTS, the crowds were thinner than usual at the Mummers parade in Philadelphia this year, but that may well have been for fear of trouble. Trouble there would...

Big City Christmas (December 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Big City Christmas THE WEATHER here has been unseasonably warm, and it was hard to get the Christmas spirit early this year. This was not for want of trying by whatever powers...

The American Layman (December 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The American Layman EVEN at the risk of embarrassing a valued colleague and friend, this seems a good occasion to talk about Daniel Callahan's invaluable The Mind of the...

Protestant Call to Action (November 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Protestant Call to Action THE LEAD editorial in Christianity and Crisis for October 28 on the school question has attracted relatively little notice. I think it deserves more...

Race Against Time (November 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Race Against Time WITH Rome behind me, I have begun to catch up on what happened while I was away. In the magazines, one of the most significant items was the report in...

Meanwhile, Back at Home (November 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Meanwhile, Back at Home NOW THAT I am back in the United States, I do not find it easy to sort out my impressions of the opening weeks of the Ecumenical Council. Rome is a...

Report from Rome (November 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Report from Rome AFTER THE first session of the Vatican Council, a story went the rounds about Xavier Rynne's Letters from Vatican City and two Cardinals. Said one Cardinal...

Pope Paul to the Laity (October 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Pope Paul to the Laity IT WAS only to be expected that Pope Paul would make an appeal for lay involvement in the work of the Church. After all, every modern Pope beginning...

The Newman Apostolate (October 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Newman Apostolate AT THE TAG-END of the summer I cut my vacation a day or two short to speak at the closing banquet of the annual convention of the National Newman Club...

Catholics and Population (September 1963)

ALL TIIINGS CONSIDERED Catholics and Population IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to discuss birth control, as I have been doing in recent weeks, without coming to the population question. Here one's attitude...

Birth Control and Public Policy (August 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Birth Control and Public Policy A FEW WEEKS AGO in this space I suggested that Catholics needed to do some homework on the subject of birth control. This week I'd like to...

Goldwater and Rockefeller (August 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Goldwater and Rockefeller THE CURRENT drift to the right inside the Republi- can party has been most obvious and most disturbing. This makes Governor Nelson A....

The Irish in Americ (July 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Irish in America SOME WEEKS AGO I was one of a panel on a pretaped session of Eric F. Goldman's NBC-TV "Open Mind" program, dedicated to a discussion of "The...

Religion and the Court (July 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Religion and the Court REACTION to the Supreme Court's decision on Bible reading and the Lord's Prayer is clearly much more restrained than it was in the Regents' Prayer...

Good Pope John (June 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Good Pope John SO FAR in my lifetime there have been four Popes. Benedict XV died in 1922, when I was only four years old, so I really knew only three-Pius XI, Pius XII and...

Catholics and Birth Control (June 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Catholics and Birth Control I DON'T KNOW if the birth control issue is quite the .9hot potato it once was, but it is still one of the most divisive issues in American...

Mr. Lilienthal's Worries (June 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Mr. Lilienthal's Worries EVERY ONCE in a while it seems as if everyone is talking about one particular speech or article. More often than not, this is not because the item in...

Missouri Shows Them (May 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Missouri Shows Them CATHOLICS in Missouri have called off their program to enroll parochial school children in the public schools as a protest over the failure of the state...

Hoffa Forever? (May 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Hoffa Forever? TEAMSTERS' president Jimmy Hoffa has a most impressive set of enemies. Newspaper editorialists, television commentators, Senator McClellan,...

Catholics and Isolationsim (May 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Catholics and Isolationism I DON'T know when I've enjoyed anything more than reading about Pope John's "Peace on Earth" in the pages of the traditionally isolationist...

Point and Counterpoint (May 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Point and Counterpoint THE NATIONAL COUNCIL of Churches has just published an itemized reply to Catholic arguments for federal aid to parochial schools. Commissioned by...

The Invinsible Men (May 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Invisible Men I HAVE, rather belatedly, been reading Newsweek's April 1 coverage of unemployment in America. It is an excellent treatment of what is undeniably a...

Muhammad Speaks (April 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED TIME WAS when the Jehovah's Witnesses had things pretty much to themselves when it came to selling their publications on the streets. In Eastern cities these days, though,...

Together at Harvard (April 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Together I SUSPECT that the recent four-day Roman CatholicProtestant Colloquium at Harvard will be recorded in ecumenical history as some kind of milestone....

More on the Bomb (April 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED More on EARLY LAST MONTH in this page I discussed "Christians and the Bomb," a column occasioned by my being on a TV program devoted to morality and thermonuclear weapons....

On the Labor Front (April 1963)

After Pausanias At Delphi by first light all interleaved, the climb, the issue are as a way postlogic to the mind that excels the body's vision of its find. Here is the theater of the winsome...

Beyond the School Question (March 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Beyond the School Question THE RELIGIOUS Freedom and Public Affairs. Project of the National Conference of Christians and Jews re- cently sponsored an Institute on the...

Battle of the Giants (March 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Battle of the Giants ACCORDING to a recent news item, the Chinese Communists have sent colonists to develop the marshlands in Manchuria immediately adjacent to the Soviet...

Christians and the Bomb (March 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Christians and the Bomb WETE BEEN living under the shadow of the Bomb for years-in a general way since 1945, when we showed the world our latest marvel at Hiroshima; in a...

Extremism and All That (March 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Extremism and All That TEMPEBAMENT/~1 J.u I am not the ideologne type. I have to admit, though, that there is much to be said for the all-or-nothlng approach, in politics...

Striking Facts (February 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Striking Facts THE DOCK STRIKE on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and, to a lesser extent, the long newspaper blackout in New York have once more shaken people's...

Through Rose-Colored Glasses, Darkly (February 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Through Rose - Colored Glasses, Darkly WILL EXPOSURE to self-criticism hurt the morale pudding is in the eating, and have we not produced...

Religion and Race (February 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Religion and Race TO BORROW a famous line, I have just seen the future, and it works. From January 14 to 17 1 participated in the National Conference on Religion and Race,...

Blackout in New York (January 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Blackout in New York ONE THING about the New York newspaper strike: it has forced me to learn more about philadelphia through the Inquirer and the Bulletin than I ever knew...

Muslims, Black and White (January 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Muslims, Black and White JAMES BALDWIN's "Letter from a Region in My Mind" came out in the November 17 New Yorker, but people are still talking about it. And no wonder,...

Going Whose Way? (January 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Going Whose Way? BACK in the days when "Going My Way" was a Hollywood movie with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, it became a handy symbol, ff not for telling the...

Birth Control in Illinois (January 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Birth Control in Illinois FOR MONTHS a debate has raged in Illinois over the not hold that everything they consider immoral...

Postscript on a President (December 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Postscript on a President FOR FANATICAL Ike-likers, the December 4 Look General Marshall, because of pressure from Senator...

Minutes of a Meeting (December 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Minutes of a Meeting A COUPLE of weeks ago I participated in what was completely escape suspicion. Only positive action on...

Busting the Block (December 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Busting the Block BOTH the city and the state of New York have in re- In a blockbusting situation, the Negro family fares...

Four Wins and a Miss (November 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Four Wins and a Miss BY NOW almost every commentator in the country has who had national political aspirations it was suicidal,...

An Uncertain Future (November 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED An Uncertain Future WHILE the Cuba crisis was at its height, I finally got ly-inspired men to strive for social institutions which...

Survey of the Situation (November 1962)

ALL TH1NGS CONSIDERED Survey LAST WEEK in this space I commented on critic Father Andrew M. Greeley's recent criticism of criticism. In sum, Father Greeley held that the critics were not...

An Unhappy Report (October 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED An Unhappy Report SOME STARTLING news came out at the end of ployed out of that number, compared with four million...

A Matter of Education (October 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A Matter of Education THE DIFFERENCES and conflicts between Catholic be a mistake to think that all our non-Catholic neigh-...

A Word to Catholics (September 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A Word to SPIRITUALLY we are Semites, Pope Pius XI once said. This is, I suppose, the most quoted single sentence on Catholic-Jewish relations one eould find. And with...

A Change of Heart (August 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A Change of Heart IN MARCH of 1961, NBC-TV presented a debate on federal aid to parochial schools. The pro side of the argument was handled by Father Neil McCluskey, S.J.,...

The Invisible Americans: Religion and the Court (July 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Invisible Americans I'M NOT enough of a statistician to make a hard judgment in the matter, but I am impressed—or depressed—by the results of a monumental economic...

The Great Challenge (July 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Great Challenge A FEW WEEKS ago the acting Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant of Burma, outlined a program designed to produce a decade of development in...

Lay-Clerical Tension (July 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Lay-Clerical Tension MONSIGNOR John Tracy Ellis has a genius for saying what needs to be said at the right time. I am recently returned from the symposium on "New Horizons in...

The World's Catholics (June 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The World's Catholics AN ARTICLE in the June issue of Information, the popular Paulist monthly, will shake up a good many readers, I suspect. Written by William J. Whalen and...

An Outsider's View (June 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED An Outsider's View I RECENTLY returned from a flying trip to Louisiana. While there I spoke twice under the auspices of the Newman Forum, once in Baton Rouge proper and once...

A Hard Choice (May 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A Hard Choice NORMALLY, I can take conventions or leave them alone—preferably the latter. Reading the published ac-counts of the fifty-ninth annual convention of the National...

Return of the Captives (May 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Return of the Captives PERHAPS there have been sadder pictures published in recent weeks than those of the return of the sixty prisoners from Castro's prisons. If so, I did...

If Nobody Answers, Hang Up (May 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED If Nobody Answers, Hang Up SEVERAL WEEKS have gone by, but there has been relatively little reaction to the recent false alarm A-bomb alert. I can't imagine why, unless we...

No Room for Improvement? (April 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED No Room for Improvement? INTEREST in the shared-time idea continues to grow, if the papers and magazines I see are any guide. No one imagines that such an idea would be easy...

Seeing Is Believing (April 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Seeing Is Believing LAST FALL I wrote about the passing of Coronet, which died despite a circulation of three million plus, hard on the heels of such other lamented giants as...

A Race Nobody Wins (April 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A Race Nobody Wins THE ARMS RACE is a mad business. So too is economics. Put the two together, and you get government leaders worrying about what would happen to the economy...

This Is Anti-Communism (March 1942)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED This Is Anti-Communism? A WEEK or two ago, a Catholic high school here in the East carried out one of those "real-life" demonstrations of how Communists operate. It made...

Postscriptum-in English (March 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Postscriptum HAPPILY, the Pope's recent apostolic constitution reconfirming Latin as the official language of the Church and forbidding any effort to supplant it has now...

Conservatives and Extremists (March 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Conservatives and Extremists AT A RECENT press conference, President Kennedy had the opportunity to try to hang the albatross of right-wing extremism around the neck of the...

Sharing the Time (March 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Sharing the Time THE QUESTION of federal aid to education is turning out to be a lot less dead than most of us would have predicted even a few weeks ago. Perhaps it...

Wave of the Past? (February 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Wave of the Past? YES, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. And yes, Mr. Kennedy, there are Republicans at Harvard. At the moment, though, the young Republicans at Cambridge...

The Battle of Newburgh (February 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Battle of Newburgh OVER THE YEARS I've done my fair share of giving television its lumps, and if the network presidents continue to insist that theirs is the best of...

Birth Control Laws Again (January 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Birth Control Laws Again IN ITS January 80th issue Look magazine adds one more to the long list of articles published on the Massachusetts and Connecticut birth control...

Hedging Our Bets (January 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Hedging THE LONG-PROMISED government booklet on fallout shelters has at last been made available. No one could claim it makes pleasant reading, but I think it was a very...

Situation Normal? (January 1962)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Situation Normal? SOMETIMES, for better or for worse, great issues are seen in very personal terms. That is the way the mobilization of the National Guard and the recall...

Studying the Schools (December 1961)

ALL TIIINGS CONSIDERED I WAS PLEASED to read that the Carnegie foundation has made a $350,000 grant for the study of Catholic elementary and secondary education in the United States. One thing...

The Empty Chair (December 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED SHORTLY before Thanksgiving, the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States had a private conference with Pope John XXIII. For the first time...

Footnote to an Election (November 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Footnote to an Election NEW YORK CITY just went through a spirited, namecalling mayoralty election. The democratic process has survived, I guess, although one could...

Citizen Walker (November 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Citizen ONE WOULD have to be unfeeling, I think, not to see elements of tragedy in the case of Major General Edwin A. Walker. He has spent thirty years in his country's...

Dr. Conant's "Social Dynamite" (November 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED DR. CONANT'S "SOCIAL DYNAMITE" D R. JAMES B. CONANT continues to display a considerable talent for arousing controversy. A few years ago Harvard's president emeritus set...

Innocence Abroad (November 1961)

ALL THINGS COHSIDERED INNOCENCE ABROAD T HE CASE of Margery Michelmore, the postcardwriting Peace Corps girl, has caused a great furor, both here and in Nigeriamand not just because of the...

Go Climb a Birch Tree Dept. (October 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED GO CLIMB A BIRCH TREE DEPT. R OBERT WELCH, founder and head of the John Birch Society, recently gave his first public talk in this area. I was not able to be present, but...

Shape of the Future? (October 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED SHAPE OF THE FUTURE? G ERHARD LENSKI'S The Religious Factor was brought out by Doubleday some months ago, but 1 have not yet had a chance to do more than leaf through it....

Foreign Policy and Dissent (October 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED FOREIGN POLICY p RESIDENT KENNEDY'S address to the United Nations struck me as a very good speech indeed. It was, I thought, imaginative without being utopian, thoughtful...

End of a Magazine (October 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED END OF A T HIS MONTH will be the last for Coronet. Almost exactly twenty-five years after it started, Esquire's less prosperous cousin is going out of business. I can't...

The Two Chicagos (September 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE TWO T HE FIRST MEETING of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice was held in Chicago three years ago. 1 ~ttended, reporting on the proceedings ia...

Welfare a la Newburgh (August 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WELFARE A LA NEWBURGH FOR YEARS Newburgh, New York, was associated in my mind with the spirit of Christian charity, simply because there used to be a Catholic Worker farm...

Death of a Witness (August 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED DEATH OF A WITNESS WHITTAKER CHAMBERS died last month very much as he lived during the years when he was a Communist—quietly, hidden from the public gaze. Any man's death is...

"Repentance and Expiation" (July 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED REPENTANCE AND EXPIATION" THE EICHMANN trial continues. Hour after hour, day after day, the former S.S. colonel pours out his torrent of words in the Israeli courtroom. The...

Meanwhile, Back at the F C C (July 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE F.C.C. ONE THING you have to say about the Senate inquiry and the F.C.C. hearings on television -they have been both entertaining and educational....

The Political Generals (July 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE POLITICAL GENERALS THE TWENTY-FOURTH Infantry Division has lost its commander and the right wing has gained a martyr. This, I take it, is the effect of the Army's...

Anno Domini 1961 (June 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ANNO DOMINI 1961 LAST WEEK I described the way in which the perennial conservative-liberal debate kept a T.V. show I participated in from coming to grips with the assigned...

An Old Debate (June 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AN OLD DEBATE WHAT DOES it mean to be a Catholic in America in 1961? Recently I took part in a television program which tried to explore this question, a special hour-long...

The Enemy in Latin America (June 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE ENEMY IN LATIN AMERICA LAST WEEK I said I was unable to understand why President Kennedy gave his approval to the abortive Cuban venture. This is all the more true...

Ransoming the Captives (June 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED RANSOMING THE CAPTIVES I WAS INTERESTED in Washington's reaction to Castro's offer to exchange twelve hundred of his Cuban captives for five hundred bulldozers. The United...

On from Pittsburgh (June 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ON FROM PITTSBURGH A FEW WEEKS ago I spoke at the biennial convention of the National Council of Catholic Men, meeting in Pittsburgh with Bishop John J. Wright as host. For...

Daughters of the American What? (May 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN WHAT? NO YEAR is really complete without at least one out-of-this-world resolution from the D.A.R. convention, but this time the ladies outdid...

The Eichmann Case (May 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE EICHMANN CASE IN HIS PRE-TRIAL deposition to the Israeli police, Adolph Eichmann tried to justify his actions by explaining that he would have killed his own father if he...

Creeping Birchitis (May 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CREEPING BIRCHITIS LAST WEEK I wrote about Robert Welch and his John Birch Society. By this time, after all the publicity on the subject, I suppose a good many people are...

Robert Welch & Co. (April 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ROBERT WELCH & CO. BY NOW I would have thought that nothing the extremist groups could come up with would surprise me. But I must confess that I was startled by the nature...

When Bishops Speak (April 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WHEN BISHOPS SPEAK DESPITE the passage of more than forty years, I suppose the most famous statement ever made by the American Bishops remains their 1919 pastoral letter....

Questions Before the House (April 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED QUESTIONS BEFORE THE HOUSE IN THE DEBATE over federal aid to education, the pitfalls and dangers for Catholics are many and obvious. One of the most serious, in my opinion,...

Schools and the Parent (April 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED SCHOOLS AND THE PARENT PERHAPS because Catholic-Protestant-Jewish relations have improved so much in recent years, it is easy to forget how little we really know about each...

A Little Solidarity (March 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A LITTLE SOLIDARITY LAST MONTH the newly formed Negro American Labor Council met in Washington. As Thomas R. Brooks reported in our issue of March 10, the conference's...

A Minimal Request (March 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A MINIMAL REQUEST I N A SERMON during Brotherhood Week, Rabbi Julius Mark of New York's Temple Emanu-El brought out into the open a complaint which I think has often been...

Guilty, with an Explanation (March 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED GUILTY, WITH AN EXPLANATION I RECENTLY fell into the clutches of the law—although that may be an overly dramatic way of putting it. What happened was that I discarded a...

The School Question (March 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE SCHOOL QUESTION I T IS COMMONLY said that America has never really known the bitter divisions along either religious or class lines that are part of Europe's history. I...

A Question of Justice (March 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A QUESTION OF JUSTICE T HE REACTION of United States newspapers to the selection of Archbishop Joseph Ritter as the sixth American Cardinal was interesting. Normally,...

Age of the Laity? (February 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED AGE OF THE LAITY? T HE GENERAL theme of the January "Catholic Hour" series over N.B.C.-T.V. was "Catholic Reflections on America." As I noted here last week, the venture...

Excursion into Television (February 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED EXCURSION INTO TELEVISION A FEW WEEKS ago I appeared on two sessions of "The Catholic Hour," produced by N.B.C.T.V. in cooperation with the National Council of Catholic Men....

A Catholic in the White House (February 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A CATHOLIC IN THE WHITE HOUSE 1 , j IKE MILLIONS of other Americans, I watched the inauguration of the new President on television. It was a memorable and moving...

A Personal Note (February 1961)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A PERSONAL NOTE W ITH THIS ISSUE, I begin my tenth year at The Commonweal. Nine years ago, in Chicago, I was asked if I'd care to come East to become managing editor. I made...

Catholics and Population (December 1959)

Catholics and Population The bitterly divisive question of birth control has now been injected into the already beleaguered foreign aid program by JAMES O'GARA W RITING ABOUT the birth...

III The Challenge of the Specific (October 1959)

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

Catholics on Interracial Justice (September 1958)

An Editorial Report Catholics on Interracial Justice T HE SUBJECT of interracial justice has been discussed in countless Catholic gatherings over the years, but for some reason or other there...

Catholics and the Dialogue (May 1958)

RELIGION IN A FREE SO,CIETY Catholics and the Dialogue by JAMES O'GARA W RITING IN THESE pages some years ago, a great American Protestant spokesman, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, said: "I am not...

Communism in the Thirties (July 1955)

BOOKS Communism in the Thirties JAMES O'GARA T HE thirties seem far away. Too many things have happened to the world since then for us to remember those turbulent years very clearly. After...

McCarthy: The Case Against Him (October 1952)

McCarthy: The Case Against Him THE SENATOR USES TECHNIQUES WHICH. IP CONTINUED UNCHECKED. WILL SURELY END THE AMERICAN WAY OP LIFE. JAMES O'GARA COMMUNISTS constitute a menace to our...

Strangers in the City (October 1952)

7 Strangers in the City "PREJUDICE AGAINST THE PUERTO RICANS RUNS HIGH, FANNED PERIODICALLY BY SENSATIONAL NEWSPAPER STORIES" JAMES O'GARA FIFTEEN or twenty years ago, millions...

The Quiet General (February 1952)

The Quiet General By ]AMES O'GARA O NE of the greatest inducements lx~vard au, tobiographical writing 6y pol:itical and military figures .is the oppo.r~tunity ~t provides to e~plain, or...

Between Two Worlds (November 1950)

Between Two Worlds By TAMES O'GARA THERE is, among men of otherwise very divergent opinion, a striking amount of agreement on the proposition that ours is an age of transition. The pains we suffer...

How Green This Valley (September 1950)

Every Catholic Educator, School and Priest Should Subscribe to The Catholic Educational Review Edited Under the Direction of THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA Department of...

Stevenson and Kennelly (December 1949)

Stevenson and Kennelly A battle is shaping up between Illinois' governor and Chicago's...

Big Steel, Little Town (November 1949)

Big Steel, Little Town The recent steel settlement has not settled...

CHICAGO'S MISERY MILE (September 1949)

Chicago's Misery Mile Skid Row is near, and yet so far from Michigan Boulevard James O'Gara C HICAGO sprawls out over miles of land, crescent-shaped along the shores of Lake Michigan. It is a...

DOG DAYS IN ILLINOIS (August 1949)

408 T H E C O M M O N W E A L August 5, I949 the blaming of the administration for all that goes wrong, the demanding of more pay and shorter hours, the denouncing of the tricks by which the...

WHAT PRICE ANTI-SEDITION? (July 1949)

THE COMMONWEAL July 8, x949 whatever else is necessary to help them help themsdves during the first difficult year of getting the home I~oing.: a broom, a market for basket work, a place m a...

Divided City (May 1949)

Divided City Chicago holds the old line on segregation and slum clearance James O'Gara O N THE South side of Chicago there is a _9 long, irregularly shaped strip of land, about a mile and a...

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