A friend passes At the annual meeting of the Catholic Press Association in Los Angeles lust month came word that our friend. Sister Martha Mary McGaw, C.S.J.. had died at the age of eighty. Sister...
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IN BRIEF George N Shuster On the Side of Truth, by Thomas E Blantz, CSC, University of Notre Dame Press, $34 95, 382 pp With a long public career as distinguished as was his, George N...
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KING'S PAWN: THE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE H. DUNNE, S.J., by George H. Dunne, Loyola University Press, $19.95, 502 pp. This is the colorful life story of an aggressive priest-activist who was intent on...
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A goodly company Looking back over Commonweal's sixty-five years, I think first of the pioneers who did the hard part, who started from nothing and in a very short time enabled the magazine to...
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IN BRIEF Where the Spirit Breathes: Prophetic Dissent in the Church, by Jose I. Gonzalez Faus. Orbis Books, $10.95,140 pp. Who would question the love for the church of those saints who stringently...
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The French, for all its critical side, is a labor of love for a people Zeldin finds becoming more and more individualistic. As one whose many Parisian visits seldom reached much beyond the noble...
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In Brief Worship and Work , by Colman Barry, O.S.B. Liturgical Press, $12.50, 526 pp. The way a small primitive German Benedictine missionary settlement in the wilds of Minnesota in 1856 grew to...
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Vacation Project EDWARD S. SKILLIN GETTING AWAY from it all, acquiring a good sun-tan or simply cooling off for a couple of weeks constitutes a good enough objective for any city slavey on his...
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