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COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Stepping Back THINKING IN AN AGE OF ADRENALINE We live in fraught times. Okay, that's a cliche. Maybe the "fraughtest times"? "An age of adrenaline"? Trade...

Racism in America (March 2019)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Racism in America WE'VE COME A LONG WAY BUT STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO Will the United States ever escape its racist history? Some people naively imagined...

One in Christ (January 2019)

BOOKS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Minorities within Minorities One in Christ Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice Karen J. Johnson Oxford University Press, $34.95, 320...

A Little Less Stupid (December 2018)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels A Little Less Stupid GERMANY & BRITAIN IN THE AGE OF TRUMP As a distraction from the mosh pit of our national politics, I am following the politics of...

Sister Is Counting on You (September 2018)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Sister Is Counting on You MEMORIES FROM A SECOND-GRADE DISCIPLINARIAN According to a recent Religion News Service report, a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute...

Sleepwalking into Disaster (April 2018)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Sleepwalking into Disaster LESSONS FROM WORLD WAR I One hundred years ago, in the spring of 1918, the Germans unleashed six-thousand artillery pieces and...

Fraudster in Chief (February 2018)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Fraudster in Chief HOW NEW YORKERS ARE DEALING WITH THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY A year into the Trump administration, there is no apparent containment strategy....

Nope to Hope (December 2017)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Nope to Hope TA-NEHISI COATES'S BLEAK VIEW OF AMERICA'S RACIAL POLITICS Lifting the Atlantic’s October issue off the magazine rack, I guessed that “The...

Between Two empires (October 2017)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Between Two Empires THE CURIOUS CASE OF BERNARD LEWIS It wasn't exactly summer reading, but it was remaindered, only $5.98! Notes on a Century: Reflections...

Shattered (September 2017)

BOOKS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels What Doomed Clinton? Shattered Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign Jonathan Allen andAmie Parnes Crown, $28, 464 pp. If Hillary Clinton had been elected...

Another Abu Ghraib? (March 2017)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Another Abu Ghraib? HOW TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES COULD LEAD TO ABUSE Americans' traditional optimism about the future is steadily giving way to the...

Speaking Up for Standing Down (December 2016)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Speaking Up for Standing Down WHY OBAMA MUST DEFEND HIS POLICY IN SYRIA Barack Obama may not be leaving office with the successor he hoped for, but he could...

Take That, Max Weber (June 2016)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Take That, Max Weber LEARNING ABOUT IRELAND FROM A GERMAN NOVELIST In 1918 German sociologist Max Weber devised the phrase "disenchantment of the world" to contrast...

Total Recall (March 2016)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Total Recall TRICKS FOR THE FORGETFUL Everyone forgets now and then. Misplaced keys, missing words, forgotten names, absent-mindedly turning the steering wheel the...

'Eternally Begotten' (January 2016)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels ‘Eternally Begotten’ WHERE IS THE SON OF GOD BEFORE BETHLEHEM? Metaphysics. Not a word we ordinarily think of during Christmastide and Epiphany. Yet,...

After Roe (November 2015)

Report from the Trenches Margaret O’Brien Steinfels After Roe The Lost History of the Abortion Debate Mary Ziegler Harvard University Press, $39.95, 367 pp. When does history begin?...

Francis Goes to Congress (October 2015)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Francis Goes to Congress DID CONGRESS LISTEN? Speaker John Boehner's unexpected resignation threw a sharp focus on Pope Francis's opening words to the U.S. Congress in...

Think Papally, Act Locally (September 2015)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Think Papally, Act Locally OF ENCYCLICALS & RECYCLABLES When Pope Francis says, "compulsive consumerism," I hear, "enough is enough." But what's enough?...

Frank (July 2015)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The Dealmaker Frank A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage Barney Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 387 pp. Barney Frank was born to be a...

Too Much Sunshine? (June 2015)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Too Much Sunshine? THE CASE FOR MACHINE POLITICS In March, when Sen. Tom Cotton (R.-AK) rounded up forty-seven senators to sign a letter warning Iranian...

An Ambassador to the End (February 2015)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels An Ambassador to the End ROBERT E. WHITE, R.I.P. Robert White, who spent a quarter century in the U.S. Foreign Service and was ambassador to El Salvador at the...

Real Politics, Anyone? (January 2015)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Real Politics, Anyone? TRY CAMPAIGNING ON THE ISSUES The dismal prospect of the 2016 presidential cycle was perfectly captured in a cartoon of New Jersey...

Consider This (October 2014)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Consider This WHY OPINION JOURNALISM STILL MATTERS Commonweal has long identified itself as a “journal of opinion edited by Catholic laypeople.” In a world where facts...

Nanny Cam (June 2014)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Nanny Cam THE POSTHUMOUS FAME OF A STREET PHOTOGRAPHER In an age when obscure talent strives for celebrity, it astonishes when real talent remains hidden. Vivian...

Dossier K (April 2014)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Absurd Reality Dossier K Imre Kerte'sz Translated by Tim Wilkinson Melville House, $18.95, 218 pp. Imre Kertesz is a concentration-camp survivor who keeps a distance...

The Real Battlefield (March 2014)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The Real Battlefield AT THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, IT'S MONEY VERSUS DUTY On October 15, 2006, President George W. Bush asked Robert Gates to replace Donald...

Blank Checks (January 2014)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Blank Checks THE PERIL OF LETTING AN ALLY DETERMINE OUR FOREIGN POLICY No competent adult would write a blank check allowing the recipient to fill in the amount. Blank...

Painting the Jewish Jesus (November 2013)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Painting the Jewish Jesus 'CHAGALL: LOVE, WAR, AND EXILE' Jesus is Jewish. Is there a more basic fact about him than that? Nothing has altered our understanding of...

Lost Sheep (September 2013)

COLUMNISTS Lost Sheep Margaret O'Brien Steinfels IS THE CHURCH A LAZY MONOPOLY? One out of every three Americans raised in the church is no longer a Catholic. These "formers" make up the second...

The Greatest (February 2013)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The Greatest DICKENS'S NOVELS TELL HIS OWN STORY Some years ago, I fell into a spirited argument about the greatest English-language novelist and novel. I...

The End Of Men (January 2013)

Books Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Second-Class Male The End of Men And the Rise of Women Hanna Rosin Riverhead, $27.95, 320 pp. Fifty years of feminism have dramatically altered women’s...

The Appraisal Czar (December 2012)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The Appraisal Czar WHEN DISASTER STRIKES, KENNETH FEINBERG DECIDES WHO GETS WHAT When disaster strikes, especially on a massive scale (think oil spills,...

Taking On Iran (October 2012)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Taking on Iran DIPLOMACY IS STILL THE LEAST BAD OPTION Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently took to the Sunday morning political talk shows to...

Hawk Talk (August 2012)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Hawk Talk ROMNEY'S CONFRONTATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY On July 25 Mitt Romney took his presidential campaign abroad, as candidate Obama did in 2008. Such tours,...

A Losing Strategy (May 2012)

A Losing Strategy The U.s. bishops’ campaign against the contraception mandate Margaret O’Brien Steinfels What are the U.S. Catholic bishops really arguing about with the Obama administration?...

Capital Gains (February 2012)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Capital Gains SUPER PACS PLACE THEIR BETS The full force of money, permitted by Citizens United and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions, has become clear in the...

Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 (January 2012)

THE LAST WORD Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 Margaret O'Brien Steinfels I fleetingly met Vaclav Havel on June 10, 1990. It was the morning after Czechoslovakia's first free elections in decades. At...

Peeling the Onion (December 2011)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Peeling the Onion NO TEARS FOR STUDENTS ON CAPITOL HILL There were howls of protest when the Onion, our nation's preeminent satirical newspaper, ran a story...

The Longest War (July 2011)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Bin Laden's Legacy The Longest War The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda Peter L. Bergen Free Press, $28, 473 pp. Befitting its subject, The Longest War...

Hazardous Means (June 2011)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Hazardous Means LIBYA & THE AMBIGUITY OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION When Libya's Muammar Qaddafi is finally deposed, the world may agree that "all's well...

On the Tightrope (April 2011)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels On the Tightrope QBAMA'S CASE FOR INTERVENTION IN LIBYA President Barack Obama offered a robust defense of U.S. actions in Libya on March 28, but his words...

Stuck (February 2011)

COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Stuck WHAT'S OUR END GAME IN AFGHANISTAN? The United States cannot win the war in Afghanistan. Are we willing to lose it? Evidently not quite yet. The...

Defenders of the Faith! (December 2010)

ARTICLES Defenders of the Faith! A Personal Reflection on Recent History Margaret O'Brien Steinfels efender of the Faith" was the title bestowed in 1521 by Pope Leo X on Henry VIII as a reward...

Cash-cowed (November 2010)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Cash-cowed HOW MONEY IS DEFORMING OUR POLITICS The 2010 midterms will go down as one of the most fiercely fought elections in our political history. Nasty...

Trivial Pursuits (October 2010)

COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Trivial Pursuits WHERE ARE THE SERIOUS REPUBLICANS? Republicans were few—you could count them on one hand—in our Chicago neighborhood. The one on our block,...

How Markets Fail by John Cassidy (May 2010)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels But Greenspan Said So How Markets Fail The Logic of Economic Calamities John Cassidy Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 390 pp. If Alan Greenspan got the economy wrong,...

My Chicago Catholic Bubble (September 2009)

Articles My Chicago Catholic Bubble Memories (Some Accurate) of a Catholic Girlhood Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Many people have written about Chicago and Chicago childhoods. For example,...

Stumbling Blocks (April 2009)

In recognizing Israel on May 14, 1948, President Harry Truman set in motion an alliance that has endured for sixty years. That alliance has brought security to Israel but not peace—nor will...

Sex, Religion & Prop 8: Continuing the conversation (February 2009)

The vote on California’s Proposition 8 in the November election shocked and dismayed the gay community— and surprised others who thought it was a shoo-in vote for the liberal state. Prop 8...

Mis-governance: Fixing what Bush broke (December 2008)

Mis-governance Margaret O’Brien Steinfels cLeAninG up AfTer THe buSH AdMiniSTrATion Hsuggested (November 2), was that James Buchanan? of an all-powerful executive was carried over the course...

The Forever War (October 2008)

Commonweal . October 24, 2008 32 defendamerica.mil Someone Else’s Pain Margaret O’Brien Steinfels a page, set loose a kaleidoscope of stories the threshold, saying, “Being here gives and...

Standard Operating Procedure (May 2008)

Media Media Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Bad Orchard eRROL mORRIS’S ‘STAnDARD OPeRATInG PROCeDuRe’ I I n April 2004, photographs from Abu Ghraib showing U.S. Army MPs...

The Florist's Daughter, Swimming in a Sea of Death (February 2008)

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels A Tale of Two Mothers The Florist’s Daughter Patricia Hampl Harcourt, $24, 240 pp. Swimming in a Sea of Death A Son’s Memoir David Rieff Simon &...

The Occupation of Iraq (September 2007)

Anatomy of a Failure Margaret O’Brien Steinfels The Occupation of Iraq Winning the War, Losing the Peace Ali A. Allawi Yale University Press, $28, 544 pp. Who lost Iraq? This blame...

The Royal Road to Defeat (June 2007)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The Royal Road to Defeat GENDER IN THE FRENCH ELECTION C ompared to the interminable process that is the 2008 U.S. elections, France's presidential election was...

Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (March 2006)

seas human-rights abuses (many of the practices now resurrected by the Bush- Cheney administration). Furthermore, as the tone and temper of this book re- mind us, Carter was a decent, plain-spo-...

Squandered Victory (September 2005)

and [Peter] Orlovsky came to call" on him in his Boston house, whose opulence was "planned to stun such people. When they came in, they took off their wet shoes and tiptoed upstairs. They...

The Scandal That Wasn't (July 2005)

exactly they came from-he had heard something about human embryos being the source-and wanting to know how we would be able to keep up a guaranteed supply if they did turn out to be as marvelous as...

The Church & Benedict XVI (May 2005)

Ca 12 only going to plunge people further into apathy or despair. No one joins the Church of No. _9 Please live out the meaning of your new name. As prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine...

A Historian's Faith & Hope (March 2005)

A Historian's Faith & Hope Eamon Duffy & the Uses of Tradition E amon Duffy, professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, is one of those rare scholars who are...

Correspondence (December 2004)

Family values Commonweal is to be commended on publishing an in-depth study relating to the sexual-abuse crisis ("Catholics after the Scandal," November 19). The research conducted by James...

The Missing Peace by Dennis Ross Waging Peace by Itamar Rabinovich How Israel Lost by Richard Ben Cramer (November 2004)

WHAT A MESS Margaret O'BHen Stelnfcls He had a rainy summer in my part of the country; fortunately, Dennis Ross's chronicle of failed peacemaking was at hand-all 840 pages. Anyone with a keen...

Time to choose Why I'm voting (October 2004)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels TIME TO CHOOSE Voting with a Catholic conscience When a born-again Methodist from Texas is tout-ed as the Catholic candidate while the Catholic candidate from...

Daria Donnelly, R.I.P. (October 2004)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels DARIA DONNELLY, R.I.P. 1959-2004 aria Donnelly, Commonweal's associate editor (at large), died September 21 at the age of fortyfive. She was the mother of Leo and...

FROM SEX TO SECT? A response to Paul Griffiths (October 2003)

FROM SEX TO SECT? A response to Paul Griffiths Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Hhe Catholic Church speaks clearly and succinctly of marriage. Marriage is "a covenant by which a man and a woman...

Two years later (September 2003)

TWO YEARS LATER Margaret O'Brien Steinfels hursday, September 11,2003, dawned clear and cool, the sky blue and cloudless not quite as blue as Tuesday, September 11,2001, and not quite as clear....

Robert G Hoyt, R I P (April 2003)

ROBERT G. HOYT, R.I.P. Bob Hoyt, who died April 10 at eighty-one, was a distinctive writer and a brilliant editor. Distinctive because he had a voice of his own-succinct, witty, and precise. His...

The war so far (April 2003)

THE WAR SO FAR Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Does the president know what he's doing? DO an address to the Senate on February 12, chastising his colleagues for being "ominously, dreadfully silent,"...

Continuing the conversation What is to be done? (March 2003)

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Continuing the conversation What is to be dene? On my third reading of "What the Church Needs Now" (February 14,2003), I calculated that I agreed with 98 percent of...

THE CHURCH STILL IN CRISIS (December 2002)

THE CHURCH STILL IN CRISIS Can we tell the truth? Margaret O'Brien Steinfels We have had good reason this year, which has produced the greatest crisis in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church,...

Editorial One-party rule (November 2002)

One-party rule In recapturing control of the Senate and increasing their majority in the House, Republicans both defied midterm election history and threw the Democratic Party into a soul-searching...

Notebook Celebrating Vatican II (November 2002)

NOTEBOOK CELEBRATING VATICAN II Celebrating Archbishop Hunthausen On a dismal season for the Catholic Church, one bright if poignant note has been sounded by celebrations around the country...

Editorial On the war path (October 2002)

On the war path Ho war or not against Iraq? When? How? Above all: Why? These questions have dominated U.S. foreign policy and the headlines for the past three months. President George W. Bush, Vice...

Editorial State of the unions (September 2002)

EDITORIALS State of the unions What is the significance of the New York Times's decision (September 1) to include "public celebrations of commitment by gay and lesbian couples" in its Sunday...

Editorial Where are we now? (September 2002)

Where are we now? Where is the United States one year after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington? On September 11,2002, observances through- out the country will pay sober and heartfelt...

Honoring the dead What happened on September 11? (September 2002)

BOOK ESSAY Honoring the dead Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Only time will give us the words and images that evoke September 11, in the way that Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage evokes the...

Editorial Preparing for war (August 2002)

Preparing for war Saddam Hussein is an evil man. During the 1980s he used chemical weapons against Iraq's Kurdish citizens and against the Iranian army with whom he fought a decade-long war. In...

Notebook What has been lost (July 2002)

RNOTEBOOK WHAT HAS BEEN LOST The church after Dallas Surveying the battlefield of the sex-abuse scandal, I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church in the United States will never be...

Editorial Other wars (June 2002)

Editorials Other wars Hypnotized by the impasse the United States faces between starting a war with Iraq and dampening the one in the Middle East, we easily overlook the other wars that are...

Notebook Rembert Weakland (June 2002)

Note Book REMBERT WEAK LAND The archbishop apologizes On Thursday, May 23, Richard Ostling of the Associated Press called to ask what I made of the "Weakland story." What Weakland story? Ostling...

Editorials Jewish fears (June 2002)

Jewish fears Ariel Sharon was once the right-wing bogeyman of Israeli politics, despised and feared by Jewish moderates and liberals in both Israel and the United States. Sharon first garnered...

Editorials The do-nothings (June 2002)

THE DO-NOTHINGS The unprecedented meeting of the U.S. cardinals at the Vatican in April revealed significant disagreement on how to respond to the sex-abuse crisis in the United States. Were the...

A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power No end to genocide (May 2002)

Easier said than done Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Genocide is the problem from hell. Right behind it is the problem of getting anyone to do anything about it. Samantha Power surveys the horrors of...

Editorial When in Rome (May 2002)

EDITORIAL When in Rome As we go to press, thirteen U.S. cardinals are meeting with the pope and his advisers in an effort to formulate a response and a policy that can restore the church's...

Editorials Evildoer (March 2002)

EDITORIALS EVILDOER No doubt about it: Iraq is a terrorist nation. Saddam Hussein's government used chemical weapons against its own Kurdish population in 1988 and it invaded and terrorized...

Editorials War budget (March 2002)

EDITORIALS War budget How far will the United States go? The time has come to ask the Bush Administration about the war on terrorism, its aims and costs. Sen-ate majority leader, Senator Tom...

Editorial Science & fiction (February 2002)

Editorial Science & fiction Oast August, President George W. Bush announced his decision banning federal funding for stem-cell research that involved the destruction of living human embryos. At...

Notebook Vietnam journey (February 2002)

Note book VIETNAM JOURNEY What was that all about? One-third of Americans alive today were born after 1975 when the United States was finally driven from its futile war in Vietnam. That explains...

Editorial Of Hobbits, war & Bush (January 2002)

Of Hobbits, war & Bush Bast January George W. Bush assumed the presidency under the cloud of a disputed election thanks to the transparently partisan actions of the U.S. Supreme Court. At that...

DEATH & LIES IN EL SALVADOR: Robert White's journey from dutiful Foreign Service officer to dutiful critic of American foreign policy. (October 2001)

DEATH & LIES IN EL SALVADOR The ambassador's tale Margaret O'Brien Steinfels By the time Ambassador Robert White was posted to El Salvador in 1980, he knew full well that politics could be...

Abigail Q. McCarthy, 1915-2001 (February 2001)

Abigail McCarthy, 1915-2001 Abigail Quigley McCarthy died on February 1 at her home in Washington, D.C. She was eighty-five. Mrs. McCarthy wrote a column in these pages from 1974 to 1999. She had...

The epic in the ordinary (July 2000)

paint horrific and momentous...

Sensation (May 2000)

federal art funding. But best of all, shortly MEd...

THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum (November 1999)

The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism A COMMONWEAL FORUM Introduction ¦ As part of our anniversary celebration, Commonweal has been reexamining some of the magazine's founding ideas, liberal...

Iris and Her Friends (October 1999)

BOOKS Love in a time of Alzheimer's Iris and Her Friends A Memoir of Memory and Desire John Bayley Sain/ Martin's iV.ss, ±22 tfj. ;>/; 2™ Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Just a year ago, John...

Elegy for Iris by John Bayley: A unique portrait of a marriage (February 1999)

BOOK Trophy marriage Margaret O'Brien Steinfels From the mid-forties through 1994, Iris Murdoch wrote more than two dozen novels, at least three important philosophical works, plus literary...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1998)

C r i t i c s ' choices f o r Christmas - - ~ - ~ .2.~-- l o McGowan ]o McGowan, a frequent Commonweal contributor, writes from Dehra Doon, India. y ears ago, when I first moved to India, my...

Notebook (December 1998)

The rejection of recent state referenda criminalizing lateterm abortions shows that most Americans remain suspicious of the perceived religious and absolutist tenor of the prolife movement....

The Bishops' Right-Hand Woman (May 1998)

THE BISHOPS' RIGHT-HAND WOMAN An interview with Dolores Leckey Margaret O'Brien Steinfels olores Leckey worked at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops for twenty years. At her...

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (May 1998)

No short cuts allowed Margaret 9'Brien Steinfels conomic history merges the two dreariest of sciences, but you'd never know it from David Landes's new book. It is engaging, energetic, well...

Notebook: "Simply Catholicism" (April 1998)

access to religious truth, will certainly be lost on most readers of "We Remember.'" More likely, this assertion of the church's metaphysical reliability will be read, with reason, as the worst...

Editorial The least-bad solution (December 1997)

The least-bad solution Amilitary confrontation between the United States and Iraq has been narrowly averted-at least for now. Iraq has agreed to readmit American inspectors along with the rest of...

Editorial Fatal prescription (November 1997)

Fatal prescription The Oregon Legislature gave voters another chance to decide whether or not the state's Death with Dignity Act was a big mistake. Apparently Oregonians think not. On November 4,...

Editorial Our children (November 1997)

OUR CHILDREN The principle, "Love the sinner, hate the sin," is a neat formula but not an easy one to put into practice. First, because we are tempted to global condemnation and personal judgment....

Editorial The Middle East & us (October 1997)

The Middle East & us The Mideast peace process is on the brink of failure. A predictable unpredictable leap could clear this hurdle the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian effort at rapprochement, after...

Being Catholic (September 1997)

Margaret O'Brien Stein f els BEING CATHOLIC A college president speaks hat are Catholic colleges doing about their Catholic Widentity? How will they react to the Vatican's insistence on a...

Editorial Religious persecution (August 1997)

Religious persecution Murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment of Christians have been in the news. In places like Sudan (see, Commonweal, "For Sale: People," January 17,1997) and China (Richard...

Editorial Now the hard part (July 1997)

EDITORIALS Now the hard part welcome news indeed was last month's unanimous Supreme Court re-versal of two appeals courts' findings (Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill) that had...

Editorial Plowshares into canons (June 1997)

EDITORIALS Plowshares into canons Earlier this year, Sister Alice Gallin, O.S.U., reported in these pages on the arduous but ultimately successful effort of U.S. bishops and Catholic university...

Summer reading Books for the beach, cottage, couch, and brain (June 1997)

Summer reading Suzanne Keen Suzanne Keen writes frequently for Com-monweal and teaches English literature at Washington and Lee University in Lex-ington, Virginia. In this season of...

Editorial Slow burn (May 1997)

Slow burn America's tobacco giants ($45 billion in sales last year) hit a major impasse last month. After years of tobacco's denials that smoking harms the public health, a federal appeals court...

Editorial Testing China and us (May 1997)

Testing China...and us The Chinese government is invading Hong Kong. In preparation for its July 1 takeover, Beijing has stationed there a forty-man contingent of the Red Army. True, the troops are...

Editorial Religion, true & false (April 1997)

Religion, true & false A lot of questionable and even silly things have been written about re- ligion and the nature of belief following the suicides of thirty-nine mem-bers of the Heaven's Gate...

Editorial Jerusalem (April 1997)

Jerusalem The Israeli government's decision in February to allow construction of a substantial new Jewish suburb in Arab East Jerusalem, and the violent Palestinian reaction, have brought the...

Notebook The NCR accuses (April 1997)

NOTEBOOK Margaret O'Brien Steinfels THE 'NCR' ACCUSES Our editor responds I guess I wasn't looking, but at some moment during my two decades of editing four high-brow, low-circulation journals, I...

Correspondence Commonweal's quest for a home and cheaper paper; sanctions in Iraq; Islam and patriarchy; feminism explored anew (March 1997)

(Continued from page 2) Islam & women The articles on Islam in the January 31 issue were interesting and informative. Though I know enough not to trust stereotypes of hysterical, chanting, terrorist...

Editorial Cloning isn't sexy (March 1997)

EDITORIALS: Cloning isn't sexy From Scotland comes news that a team of fearless scientists has cloned a sheep. One might consider this development one worrisome step for sheep, but more likely it...

Editorials Partial truth (March 1997)

PARTIAL TRUTH When President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill banning partial-birth abortions last April, he said the procedure was neces-sary for a "small but extremely vulnerable group of women and...

Editorials There goes every body (March 1997)

EDITORIALES There goes everybody Anathemas to our right, anathemas to our left. What's a Catholic to think? As noted in this space ("Bad Karma," January 31), the Congregation for the Doctrine of...

HOW THE VATICAN WORKS (December 1996)

HOW THE VATICAN WORKS An interview with Thomas J. Reese Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Inside the Vatican (Harvard University Press) by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., was published December 1. Reese, a...

Editorial Stop thief! Please! (November 1996)

Stop thief! Please! Crime is going down. At least that is what the nationwide statistical evidence suggests. And as in so many things, New York City is leading the way. Crime was down 17 percent...

Editorial Things left unsaid (October 1996)

Things left unsaid As the saying goes, be careful what you pray for. For years observers of American politics have deplored its lack of civility. In their first televised debate earlier this month,...

Editorials Undermining the peace (October 1996)

Undermining the peace The Israeli cabinet and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold Yasir Arafat wholly responsible for the outbreak of violence in Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank. It is...

A PARALLEL ACCOUNT (September 1996)

A parallel account Who are the people behind the political statis-tics? Samuel G Freedman's The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Simon &...

Editorial An archbishop speaks up (July 1996)

An archbishop speaks up Headers will find Archbishop John Quinn's remarkable Campion Hall centennial lecture, delivered last month at Oxford, printed in its entirety beginning on page 11. Though...

Editorial Summery judgments (June 1996)

Summery Judgments So much to judge, so little time, too little space. Before it's too late, we offer the following brief appraisals of some of the great moral, political, and social issues of the...

Editorial Gaseous fumes (June 1996)

Gaseous fumes The jockeying in Washington over lowering the 1993 surtax on transportation fuel has been a high-octane exercise in election-year politics. If there had been a tax on rhetoric, the...

Editorial Marriage's true ends Would same-sex marriage correct an injustice and deepen our understanding of marriage? Skepticism is in order (May 1996)

Marriage's true ends There is every likelihood that Hawaii's Supreme Court will soon overturn that state's prohibition on same-sex marriage. The court's reasoning will be simple enough: Hawaii's...

Editorials Catholicism (May 1996)

CATHOLICISM The best thing about the recent episcopal criticism of Catholicism is that its author, the Reverend Richard P. McBrien, is so able to speak for himself. Who doubts that he will give as...

Editorials Weeping women (May 1996)

Weeping women As expected, President Bill Clinton vetoed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (see, "Clinton's Choice," Commonweal, April 19). He did so surrounded by women who had undergone the...

Editorial Clinton's choice (April 1996)

Clinton's choice President Bill Clinton had a chance to practice what he preaches on abortion but is passing it up. Early in his term, Clinton said that he thought abortions should be safe, legal,...

Editorial School vouchers (April 1996)

School vouchers State aid to religious or private primary and secondary schools in the form of tuition vouchers or a tuition tax credit is a worthy public-policy goal. Vouchers would benefit...

"Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life" by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (March 1996)

THE SHACKLES PF SEXUAL LIBERTY "Feminism Is Not the Story of Hy Life" How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Doubleday, $23.95,275...

Editorial The right to die (March 1996)

COMMONWEAL Court-assisted suicide Hhere is "a constitutionally recognized 'right to die/" So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on March 6 in Care in Dying v. Washington. The...

Editorial Bully in the pulpit (March 1996)

Bully in the pulpit Patrick Buchanan's triumph over Republican front-runner Senator Robert Dole in last month's New Hamsphire presidential primary threatens to turn the nominating process into a...

Editorial Two families (February 1996)

Two families Hast month's two-hour "Frontline" (PBS) documentary, "Murder on 'Abortion Row,'" was a powerful presentation of yet another chapter in the nation's anguished struggle over abortion....

Editorial Political default (February 1996)

Political default In spite of the drama of presidential vetoes and congressional brinkmanship, the Battle of the Budget is not exactly a clash of Titans. Skirmishing policy wonks looks more like...

Et cetera (February 1996)

SPICY IS OUR NIDDLENANE Commonweal'swery high profile and even higher tone continue to draw comment. Early in November we got ourselves mentioned in both the Nation (November 6) and the New York...

Correspondence (January 1996)

CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Allies of inequality Robert Senser's "Loaded at the Top" [December 1,1995] is a timely expose of dangerous trends toward further concentration of money and power....

Editorial Back to basics Religion and political liberalism Old friends or forever enemies ? (January 1996)

Back to basics There has been a slight stirring of late hinting at a possible rap-proachment between religion and liberalism. It is a hopeful, if often exasperating, sign. Baptist theologian Harvey...

Editorial The costs of peace (January 1996)

The costs of peace Qeacemaking is not peaceful. In Somalia violence dogged every peacemaking step, finally driving the United States to withdraw from what began as a humanitarian mission to feed...

Editorial Bah, humbug! (December 1995)

Bah, humbug! Anticipating the joys of Christmas, Christians and perhaps many others turn their thoughts to the traditional pleasures of the season: to astonishment that the Lord of all creation was...

Editorial Responsum dubium (December 1995)

Responsum dubium When the Vatican archives for 1995 are opened, we hope that they will show that the pope and his advisers went through as much anguish in deciding to issue the latest statement...

Correspondence (November 1995)

CORRESPONDENCE Respect for same-sex love Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's argument against societal sanctioning of same-sex unions, in her September 22 review of Andrew Sullivan's Virtually Normal,...

Editorial Attention & praise (November 1995)

Attention & praise Worship "is the metabolism of Christian life," wrote Yale historian Jaroslav Pelikan. Its lifeblood, soul, and pulse. No wonder the reform of the Roman liturgy remains such a...

Editorial The revolutionary 104th (November 1995)

EDITORIALS The revolutionary IO4th During House debate on the budget reconciliation bill, Christopher Shay of Connecticut, formerly a liberal Republican, said that "we will not compromise on [the]...

Editorial The pope at the UN (October 1995)

EDITORIALS The pope at the UN as reported ahead of time in these pages ["Caped Crusader Conquers Gotham," October 6], John Paul II swept New Yorkers and just about everyone else within reach of a TV...

Editorial Do no harm (October 1995)

Do no harm Hast year's obstructionists to health-care reform have become this year's champions. Bill Clinton's failed overhaul, spurred by ballooning expenses, was aimed at expanding both access...

Editorial A not-so-popular culture (September 1995)

A not-so-popular culture It might be said, taking a cue from a famous definition of pornography, that popular culture is hard to define but we usually know it when we see it. More and more, people...

Virtually Normal Andrew Sullivan (September 1995)

BOOKS A conservative proposes Virtually Normal An Argument about Homosexuality Andrew Sullivan Alfred A. Knopf, $22,209 pp. Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The key word is argument, actually make...

Editorial Labor's new day? (September 1995)

Labor's new day? There is nothing like an old cliche to convey a timeless moral. So here goes: The union movement, like a slumbering giant, awoke this summer. Not twitched, not rolled over, not...

Editorials: (August 1995)

Hiroshima 1945 This editorial is reprinted from the Commonweal issue of August 24, 1945. Two months ago (June 22) we were writing about poison gas. We said: 'To the Orient we are bringing the...

Editorial: (July 1995)

Editorials Why Bosnia matters "I don't give two cents about Bosnia. Not two cents. The peo- ple there have brought on their own troubles" (New York Times, June 7, 1995). Probably no one has been...

Editorials: (June 1995)

Editorials Heads in the sand When it comes to water quality, there is no substitute for the real thing. That is why the House vote last month (240-185) to gut parts of the Clean Water Act was...

The woman behind the scenes: (June 1995)

The woman behind the scenes In April 1990, along with a small American delegation, I was invited to meet with Israelis and Palestinians then in the midst of the intifada. One of the most impressive...

Editorials: (June 1995)

Action still needed We seem about to dismantle one of the nation's most important, albeit flawed, experiments. Affirmative action policies have been critical in the national effort to compensate for...

Editorials: (May 1995)

McNamara's book Robert S. McNamara's repentant In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Times Books), has exposed a national wound that has not healed, and could not, until he or someone...

Editorial: (April 1995)

Editorials Culture of death? John Paul II's moral passion and religious conviction are as invigorating as they are challenging. Evangelium vitae ("The Gospel of Life") conveys a genuine and deep...

Editorial: (March 1995)

Contract hits home When a large institution or government restructures to address the seemingly insurmountable new situations confronting it, its first attempt at reform is invariably a patch-up...

Correspondence: (February 1995)

CORRESPONDENCE It's unanimous Minneapolis, Minn. To the Editors: Liz Leibold McCloskey has added her voice ["Orphaned at Birth: Women in the Church," January 27] to those of the fanatics who want...

Editorial: (February 1995)

Editorials Good news Twice as heavy, twice as many pages, twice as good for you: Coverage of three Commonweal forums organized to examine the contentious relations between religion and the media...

What women have lost (October 1994)

What women have lost Liberty and Sexuality is a work of history. It chronicles a period of time when many of us were around, out and about, having a life. Mr. Garrow's book is described as...

Notebook (January 1994)

DRAWING LINES QUINDLEN, KISSLING & US wo years ago, Commonweal published an interview with Anna Quindlen. Alex Santora' s friendly, almost pastoral, conversation with the New York Times's...

The laity & the leadership crisis (September 1993)

COMMONWEAL THE LAITY MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINrhLS • FRANK J. MACCHIAROLA • BRIAN...

Notebook: (June 1993)

ing; his remarks on gays in the military and on abortion fund- NOTEBOOK ing in a Rose Garden town meeting were more temperate and politically sensitive than in the recent past; his budget...

Martyrs' Day (May 1993)

Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War, by Michael bombs and exploding gas tanks. These, plus postwar ac- Kelly, Random House, $23, 354 pp. ...

Editor's notebook (March 1993)

with dignity is something to which Americans at long last can try, the president has laid out a plausible plan and pointed the say...

Editor's notebook (September 1992)

AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK SHIFTING THE CENTER A CATHOLIC SHELL GAME few weeks ago, in America magazine (August 22), the Reverend Richard McBrien, distinguished theologian and outspoken columnist,...

Life Itself (June 1992)

Discourage this man I here is a form of discourse in the tony parts of American TV for which Roger Rosen-blatt serves as a perfect example. It sounds serious, it appears thoughtful, and it...

An editor's notebook (May 1992)

AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK RIGHTS 'R US KIDS, HILLARY & THE LAW Back in 1973, when the children's rights movement first loomed and then burgeoned, I had all the ammunition I needed to pepper it...

An editor's notebook (March 1992)

AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK WHY THEY DIED ACCOUNTABILITY AT CITY COLLEGE On December 28, nine young people, AfricanAmericans, died at the bottom of a stairwell leading to a basement gym at the City...

Notebook (January 1992)

NOTEBOOK MARIO...PLEASE A SPECIAL OFFER FROM COMMONWEAL The glum faces of my dinner partners after Governor Mario Cuomo's no-go press conference said it all: Mind you, not everyone was a Cuomo...

The Litany of the Great River (May 1991)

BREATHING UNDERWATER THE LITANY OF THE GREAT RIVER Meinrad Craighead Paulist Press, $18.95, 76pp. 30 color illus. Margaret O'Brien S t e i n f e l s n a former life at a previous magazine, I...

The fall of the ironic curtain (February 1991)

uct of parallelism. If the official version to imagine how things might be otherwise. understood, evokes the wonderful is all-encompassing and yet flawed in He describes a many-houred performance...

Editorials (December 1990)

A fragile gift In the midst of a precarious peace, Christmas is upon us once again. At least for the moment, the world is dressed in gaudy colors, topped off with silver and gold tinsel and...

Editorials (October 1990)

The penultimate crisis The story is oil. "It has been oil, is oil, and will be oil." That was the view of a senior vice-president of Shearson, Lehman Brothers after the largest single-day jump in...

Editorial (September 1990)

Ends & means George Bush has performed superbly at the tactical level in dealing with the current Middle East crisis, both in organizing the U.S. military deployment and in encouraging a unified...

A new old world: (August 1990)

A NEW OLD WORLD CENTRAL EUROPE WAITS & WATCHES MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS Arguably, experts and scholars visiting Central Europe these days don't notice things that mere tourists find striking....

Correspondence (August 1990)

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

Editorials (August 1990)

Dangerous opinions It is tempting to pass over in silence the recent statement on theologians and dissent by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Declarations by the Congregation tend to...

Editorials (June 1990)

Prudent Ms. Prunskiene What can be done to help Lithuania free itself from the Soviet Union's grasp? Or to help its more circumspect sister Baltic republics Latvia and Estonia? Not enough, and...

Editorials (May 1990)

EDITORIALS Sacred, more or less The case of Nancy Cruzan, discussed by three authors in the following pages, presents the sad story of a young woman who has existed in a "persistent vegetative...

Nothing's simple: (May 1990)

REPORT ON ISRAEL NOTHING'S SIMPLE A LAND OF INTENSE CONVERSATIONS Although she considered herself a Zionist, Hannah Arendt opposed the creation of a specifically Jewish state. She hoped that by...

Editorials (April 1990)

By way of reply We begin this promised reply to Governor Mario Cuomo's letter (Commonweal, March 23) by announcing that he is right: We do not agree with everything his letter said, and the...

Editorials (December 1989)

EDITORIALS: The indomitable Word In the beginning was the Word. In the first verses of Genesis, when the earth lay in silence and "darkness covered the abyss," it was speech that drew forth...

Editorials (December 1989)

EDITORIALS: Consider the wall Comething there is that doesn't love a wall." At the literal level, Robert Frost's "something" was weather, the freezing and thawing that move the earth and...

Editorials (November 1989)

The politics of evasion he great political and moral debate that was promised (and in some quarters dreaded) following the Supreme Court's decision in Webster this past July eludes the nation. In a...

Editorials (October 1989)

Ties that blind For solidhistorical reasons that reflect credit on both Israel and the United States, the relationship between the two nations has always been unusual. In recent years, however, it...

Editorials (October 1989)

The phony war Does anyone believe that this nation is at war against drugs? Police officers, social workers, convicted drug sellers, doctors, and people on the streets express the same doubts as...

Editorials (September 1989)

Poland's precipice September 1,1939, Hitler invaded Poland. September 1,1989, Poland's new prime minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki and his colleagues in Solidarity are negotiating to bring a new...

Editorials (September 1989)

Enlarging the cloth Presumably, it was not for its name that the Central American presidents chose the town of Tela, Honduras to sign their historic regional accord last month; still, the name is...

Editorials (August 1989)

EDITORIALS Too many abortions ne-and-a-half million abortions a year is a national scandal. Most of these abortions fall outside even the broadest reading of our prevailing ethic that allows...

Editorials (July 1989)

Birmingham f irehouse From the Birmingham jail to the Birmingham firehouse could be the subtitle of a yet-to-be written history charting the rise and fall of the struggle for racial equality in the...

Editorials (June 1989)

Crowing before sunrise At his first NATO summit, George Bush-recently described in these pages as the "invisible man" [May 19]-took on enoug substance to cast a shadow, at last, on the world...

Editorials (June 1989)

The perils of Panama Exit Noriega, enter democracy. That enticing slogan expresses the hope of the three-fourths of the people of Panama who voted for the opposition in the presidential election of...

Editorials (May 1986)

The invisible man Ten years ago, no one could have imagined a scenario in which a Soviet leader addressing the UN offers ideas closely resembling proposals advanced by the popes of Rome: greater...

Editorials (April 1989)

Carnage control This past January, children in Stockton, California, were playing unperturbed in a schoolyard at recess when a ripple of bullets splayed out with no warning. Five died and...

Editorials (January 1989)

Thrifts on the slide Forget the cozy picture of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life. Forget their struggle against Lionel Barrymore, the greedy banker, to build up their community...

Editorials (December 1988)

EDITORIAL Wholly innocent AIDS has become the leading cause of death in women aged 25 to 34 in New York City. The babies born to them often contract the AIDS virus while still in the womb. And that...

Editorials (December 1988)

EDITORIALS A door swings shut, again Any day now someone will announce for the New Hampshire primary. Will it be Jesse Jackson or Newt Gingrich? Who? Before that fearsome prelude to the 1992...

Editorials (November 1988)

The day of reckoning The presidential campaign has provided the electorate with a remarkably benign view of the country's condition. George Bush has no reason and, as far as we can tell, no...

Editorials (October 1988)

Editorials Cory's democracy As Corazon Aquino completes her third year as president of the Philippines, she has launched what Manila columnist Amando Doronila calls, "the era of the Great...

Editorials (September 1988)

Editorials Whose Jesus? We, too, went out to see what all the commotion was about. We didn't have to go as far as the Judaean desert; we found the crowds at the Ziegfeld Theater, a short subway...

Editorials (September 1988)

COMMONWEAL The planet speaks It has been a long, odd summer. For one thing, peace seems to be breaking out in places where it seemed that war would go on forever. The cease-fire between Iran and...

Editorials (August 1988)

Higher ground Seldom in politics does a single moment serve to mark historic change. One such moment occurred during the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. All Americans, however intense or...

Editorials (July 1988)

EDITORIALS Anniversary waltz Paul VI issued Humanae vitae twenty years ago: on July 25, 1968. The anniversary is being celebrated, in some quarters, as the great dividing line between those who...

Editorials (June 1988)

A whirling adventure Charles Curran will not be teaching at Catholic University in Septem- ber. He has been displaced not, as his opponents would like to believe, to the gain of orthodoxy, but...

Editorials (June 1988)

CORROSPONDENCE Health-care justice Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler was right about one thing, there really is a "health-care inflation monster'' lurking out there....

Editorials (May 1988)

Home equity In a nation that has nearly one bedroom per member of the population, where 24 percent of homeowners live in homes owned free and clear-paying as little as 12 percent of their income...

Editorials (April 1988)

EDITORIALS Dear John You've come a long way, bishops!" That's the first thing to be said about the first draft of the bishops' pastoral on women's concerns. And the second is: "You still have...

Editorials (April 1988)

The class of the year 2000 Next September the high school graduating class of the year 2000 will enter first grade. These 3.5 million six-year-olds will be the first workers, the first...

Editorials (March 1988)

COMMONWEAL A light in the attic The energy crisis of the 1970s made this country take a deep look at itself. Somewhere a light went on. We realized that we were not only squandering our resources,...

Editorials (March 1988)

EDITORIALS Solliciludo rei socialis John Paul II will variously provoke, irritate, and hearten many people with his seventh encyclical, The Social Concern of the Church. His wide-ranging and...

Editorials (February 1988)

Editorials A never-ending process In accepting the Nobel Prize for his Central American peace plan, Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias said: Peace "is not the product of a victory or command. It has...

Editorials (February 1988)

Editorials Relieving debt fatigue In January, the World Bank issued its most pessimistic annual report ever and clearly spelled out the human costs of a global economic slowdown. As economic growth...

Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (January 1985)

Books: ABORTION: DIVISION & CONSENSUS ABORATION AND THE POLITICS OF MOTHERHOOD Kristen Luker University of California, $14.95, 324 pp. Margaret O'Brien Steiafels PERHAPS better than any other...

Family Happiness: (April 1983)

Can we stand happiness? FAMILY HAPPINESS Laurie Colwin Alfred A. Knopf, $12.95, 272 pp. Margaret O'Brien Steinfels "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own...

The Second Stage (December 1981)

Books: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE Twenty YEARS ago, Betty Friedan provided college-educated, suburban housewives with a label for "the problem that had no name" - the feminine mystique. She now offers...

Not My Daughter/Teenage Sexuality (May 1980)

Beyond the medical solution NOT MY DAUGHTER: FACING UP TO ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY Katherine B. Oettinger Prentice Hall, $8.95, 184 pp. TEENAGE SEXUALITY: A SURVEY OF TEENAGE...

Inside an Abortion Hospital (July 1977)

order for any cook. When our publishers come home from Frankfurt in October, with the new-bound Grass volume under their arms, we will know more. Till then . . . remember that most poignant...

THE END OF THE FAMILY? (August 1976)

THE END OF THE FAMILY? MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS The Making of the Modern Family EDWARD SHORTER Basic Books, $15 Time of Transition: The Growth of Families Headed by Women HEATHER L. ROSS &...

BOOKS: (January 1975)

BOOKS Religion and Revolution GUENTER LEWY Oxford University Press, $17.50 J. M. CAMERON Religion has most of the time been a conservative influence, socially if not intellectually. From the...

EARTHLY UTOPIA OR ARMAGEDDON? (February 1974)

BOOKS II EARTHLY UTOPIA OR ARMAGEDDON? MARGARET O'BRIEN ~iTEINFEL,q Beyond God the Father MARY DALY Beacon Press, $8.95 Earthly utopias, in books or in Ver- mont, are works of the...

THE LITTLE PRINCE AT THIRTY (November 1973)

""WThat does that mean—'tame'?" ™ asked the little prince. "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." " 'To establish ties'?" "Just that," said the...

COMMENT (November 1972)

Catholics must publicly oppose them, but only that unions so obviously conflicting with the letter and the spirit of the New Testament can in no way claim to be "Christian." If a...

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