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Raymond A. Schroth Fit to Print? The News A User’s Manual Alain de Botton Pantheon, $26.95, 243 pp. In the introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream, the great newsman Eric...

Hyphenated Priest (Robert Drinan reconsidered) (April 2010)

Short Take Raymond A. Schroth Hyphenated Priest ROBERT DRINAN'S MIXED LEGACY Who really was Robert F. Drinan, SJ ? One of only two priests ever elected to the United States Congress, he has...

My City (September 2005)

The Last Word My City Raymond A. Schroth I first discovered New Orleans at seventeen, in the summer of 1951. I had been fired from my job with the Smith, Brown, and Root Construction Company...

The Streets of Shanghai (February 2005)

The Last Word o X 2 c g The Streets of Shanghai Raymond A. Schroth L ast June, in a faraway province of rural China, an eighteen-year-old high-school student, denied the opportunity to...

Dante to Dead Man Walking (April 2002)

A CATHOLIC CANON Dante to Dead Man Walking One Reader's Journey through the Christian Classic Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Loyoto Press, $19.95. 242 pp. Maurice Timothy Reidy One Sunday last...

DO YOU WISH TO ARGUE? (October 2000)

prison garb but smiling and robust in a bright blue shirt; guments against anti-death-penalty testimony from Loyola Eddie Sonnier and others she has visited. ...

HOLLYWOOD'S VERSION (October 2000)

fore their terms are up, hope is in short supply. The prison- himself as a ship captain in a storm who must navigate be- er whom the guards killed had earlier told Warden Cain, tween the...

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN (October 2000)

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN On death row Raymond A. Schroth he drive from New Orleans west to Louisiana ty activists, also wonders about the mystery of Helen...

Reporting Vietnam, Parts 1 & 2: The Library of America (February 1999)

LITERATURE IN A HURRY Reporting Vietnam Part 1, American Journalism, 1959-69 i i'rmfj [if -\mcru ii. i'lp j^vji-s. ? i'i Reporting Vietnam Part 2, American Journalism, 1969-75 / ilmini...

Sandcastles, Milton Viorst (July 1994)

LISTENING TO ARAB VOICES SANDCASTLES The Arabs in Search of the Modem World Milton Viorst Alfred A. Knopf, $25,415 pp. Raymond A. Schrolh ach day the news from the Arab world gets...

Let's go to the text: (August 1993)

one of the upper northern draws. I pack a lunch and take Max blind from birth...." and part of the pleasure comes from the rhythm of long walk- The first time we met these...

Paul VI (May 1993)

stant anxieties, but these are the heritage says, is to "teach our young people the of all God's spiritual creatures ... created importance of this inner struggle." for the unending, the...

UN sanctions in Iraq (September 1992)

REPORT FROM BAGHDAD U.N. SANCTIONS IN IRAQ DEADLY WEAPON, WRONG TARGET s for that mysterious child of lies, the Arab, Colonel Wingate can converse with him for hours, and at the end know not l...

An Honorable Profession (September 1991)

York All City High School Chorus, Gould pays tribute to his director, Peter Wilhousky: "His only rule, tacit but pervasive, pro- claimed: 'No compromises.' ...As I worked with Wilhousky, I slowly...

The tears of KwaZulu (August 1991)

have broken down and there does not seem to be any reasonable expectation they can be restored, extraordinary mechanical devices can be removed. "This action," Harakas says, "should never be...

Bland secularism? (June 1991)

timony on the evils of totalitarianism and his mostly clear-eyed understanding of the contradictions inherent in secular democracies carry authority. Still, Centesimus's warnings against...

Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom (April 1991)

A federal agency will supervise the Service Franchise. But each state, if its vot- ers choose to participate, will handle within broad federal guidelines most of the financ- ing and operation,...

Critics' choices for Christmas: (December 1990)

BOOKS Critics' choices lor Christinas lean Bethke Elshtain JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN is the Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her most recent book is Women and War...

'Beggars' can't be choosers (April 1990)

'BEGGARS' CAN'T BE CHOOSERS RACE AT LOYOLA, NEW ORLEANS RAYMOND A. SCHROTH My New Orleans re-education in racial relations began four years ago in one of my writing classes. We had been reading...

What's on your minds?: (October 1986)

centralization of land in the hands of a few huge conglomer- ates. They argue that underlying the "crisis" is the govern- F ARMING hasn't been a way of life for most Americans mental...

Sometimes a Shining Moment (May 1986)

cause of his proneness to tears; but he under his sandaled feet" - have to make is the major moral issue must surely con- was prone to all the emotions, and felt a more complicated...

Tough choices on campus (March 1986)

I I I THE CATHOLIC CHARACTER OF A UNIVERSITY Tough choices on campus RAYMOND A. SCHROTH T HIS SPRING, the one millionth student will graduate from the twenty-eight Jesuit colleges and...

Being Adolescent/Adolescent Spirituality (February 1985)

Going with the flow BEING ADOLESCENT CONFLICT AND GROWTH IN THE TEENAGE YEARS Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Reed Larson Basic Books, $21.95, 332 pp. ADOLESCENT SPIRITUALITY PASTORAL MINISTRY...

American Catholic Social Ethics (January 1984)

early Marx but rejected by the later Marx -- is perplexing. Segundo rightly suggests that the continuity between the early and later Marx consists of his "ideal conception of the human...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1980)

Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Richard John Neuhaus OF the books I have found most rewarding to read and argue with in the past year or so, I recommend the little paperback by Wolfhart...

Twenty-five years later (September 1980)

them go sour and leave a wide wake of detritus behind them. As a result there is a lot of craziness in higher education, creating a climate in which it is often difficult to distinguish desirable...

Gritty Cities (August 1980)

In Brief Gritty Cities: A Second Look at Allentown, Bethlehem, Bridgeport, Hoboken, Lancaster, Norwich, Paterson, Reading, Trenton, Troy, Waterbury, Wilmington, by Mary Proctor and Bill...

America Revised (April 1980)

The Rose, is the old myth of the good man--the notion that the about pop stars which The Rose also contains. Neither he nor only way a talented, successful woman can be saved from Rydell is even...

Sideshow (December 1979)

ity than such a pioneer venture could warrant: But I am glad that they were produced and have been published under Through fantasies to SECRET RENDEZVOUS Kobo Abe Translated by Juliet Winters...

Good as Gold: (May 1979)

"The Diagonal Dark Path" counter- These poems confirm that McCarthy is a It may be that Good as Gold, which points these poems by vividly recreating poet, free of his...

The Great American Newspaper (March 1979)

strongly with economic variables such as history of The Voice portrays...

Loaves and fishes (February 1979)

of western Consciousness, as if he were guide for a 20th century version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. There were no fixed shrines here; it was eminently the world of historical consciousness,...

THE POPE & THE AMERICAN MIND (September 1978)

1filll THEPOPE&THEAMERICANMIND RAYMONDA. SCHROTH A view from the other shore It is one of the sad, and peculiar, images of modem history that, in the popular understanding of...

NO MORE SONGS (August 1978)

IN BELFAST NO IORE SONGS For a while, things had been getting better. Then, in mid-June--in response, some said, to a political leader's statement that the Provisional Irish Republican Army was...

ISRAEL WAS WRONG (April 1978)

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon was wrong. The more frankly we face this the sooner we will be able to put the pieces together in the Middle East. As the immediate, bloody human and...

BOOKS (March 1978)

The Resilient Church AVERY DULLES Doubkday, $7.95 EUGENE HILLMAN By its title and sub-title, and because the author himself prefers the model of the church as sign, this book promises to...

BOOKS (February 1978)

Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation THOMAS N. TENTLER Princeton, $25 JOHN JAY HUGHES There are probably few Catholics outside academic circles who are aware of the enormous...

BOOKS (April 1977)

on theft work, "ways to make [the poems] better--more inclusive, more intense, more musical"; several poems (by Lawrence, Keats, .Whitman, O'Hara, Chinese poets) provided stances or techniques...

BOOKS (March 1977)

is an avatar of eternal youth, that in a mythic sense the Lord of the Jungle matures, but never grows up? Does this mean, deep underneath, unconsciously, that Burroughs tends to be what...

BOOKS (October 1976)

The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery HENRI J. M. NOUWEN Doubleday, $6.95 RAYMOND A. SCHROTH For non-monks, one of the great attractions of monasteries, and of those...

COMPASSION IN NEW YORK (July 1976)

DEMOCRATS ASSEMBLED COMPASSION IN NEW YORK The first thing I saw as I arrived at Madison Square Garden on opening night was a policeman with a club bent over a man with a bloodied head! It was a...

A 'FEEL' FOR BEING AMERICAN (July 1976)

A FEEL FOR BEING AMERICAN RAYMOND A. SCHROTH I write this from Cornwall-on-Hudson, for me one hour and fifteen minutes north of Fordham University in the Bronx. I am, in many ways, in the most...

GOD, POLITICS AND LINCOLN'S PEW (February 1976)

GOD, POLITICS AND LINCOLN'S PEW From its inceptionin a conversation between stu-dents at the Wesley Theological Seminary in October 1975-the conference on Religion and the Presidency (RAP 76) was...

The Subversive Encyclopedia (October 1974)

Percy, a study could be made of Greene's priests and Percy's doctors. The unattraetiveness of Greene's priests calls attention to his vision. In "Greeneland," the more repulsive the priest, the...

REVIEWING TRE REVIEW (NY) (May 1974)

dug is in fact used as a blind from which Kit can shoot them. Earlier, when Holly's father wanted to punish her for seeing Kit, he shot her dog and threw it into the river. In an atmosphere...

UP AGAINST THE WALL, FATHER (August 1973)

mere convention like Dillon, remains a Mexican standoff. It * It Badge 373 is the second fihn to be, as the credits put it, "inspired by the exploits of Eddie Egan." Although such exploits...

THE END OF WOODSTOCK (January 1973)

RISK AND RUIN THE END OF WOODSTOCK Young Jesuits are told that their founder St. Ignatius had such "religious indifference" that he could reconcile himself to the abolition of the Society with...

'EXORCISING THE EXORCIST': An Exchange of Views (December 1972)

an exchange oi views 'Exorcising the Exorcist' Rochester, N.Y. Perhaps I will be judged insufficiently objective to counter Raymond Schroth's somewhat arch dismissal of The Exorcist...

EXORCISING THE EXORCIST (November 1972)

EXORCISING THE EXORCIST RAYMOND A. SCHROTH Part commercial gimmick-shocker, part problem of evil thinh-piece, part old-fashioned Christian apologetic "William Peter Blatty, in his end "...

BOOKS (October 1972)

mother is divorced and remarried, living with Alex's brother Howard at a Michigan lakeshore resort. Curly dies, but not before Alex serves time in what we continue to call reform schools,...

America Comes Home (July 1972)

gaining what one wants. The success of the Paris peace talks obviously depends upon a number of factors beyond the sincerity and seriousness of Mr. Nixon. There is also the difficult question...

Living Together: The Religious Dilemma (May 1972)

LIVING TOGETHER' THE RELIGIOUS DILEI MA RAYMOND A. SCHROTH One of the central problems in religious life is the problem of community A recent essay, privately circulated among...

BACK TO JWYLAI (March 1972)

BACK TO MYLAI RAYMOND A. SCHROTH Our national conscience will be hcrunted until we come to terms with this gory moment in our history. Mylai is back. America--particularly the Army-apparently...

BOOKS (October 1971)

BOOKS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 Ford Madox Ford, Abbie Her~man and Christian beginnings Your Mirror To My Times: The S e l e c t e d Autobiograp h i e s and Impressions o f Ford...

BOOKS (May 1971)

BOOKS Mailer on the moon; Heer on the Jews; Lessing in hell; Kosinski in New York The Decision to Go to the Moon JOHN M. LOGSDON MIT Press, $10 Of a Fire on the Moon NORMAN ...

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR RELIGIOUS BOOK WEEK (February 1971)

Selections for Religious Book Week CRITICS' CHOICES Richard P. McBrien According to a recent UPI report "not in recent memory has the Motion Pictures Academy been so hard pressed to find worthy...

THE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL (January 1970)

THE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL . ............. Back to the drawing...

MAILER AND HIS GODS (May 1969)

MAILER AND HIS GODS Norman Mailer goes to war RAYMOND A. SCHROTH Norman Mailer arrived in. Chicago for the Democratic Convention smelling blood. In the "last great American city," where "life...

Schudson, Michael

Schulberg, by Budd

Schulberg, Lucille

SCHULER, (MSGR.) RICHARD J.

Schulman, Grace

Schulte, A. Regina

Schultz, Joe

SCHULTZ, KATHERINE

Schultz, Valerie

Schulweis, Rabbi Harold M.

Schulz, Valerie

Schuschnigg, Kurt von