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404 Where the New Liturgy Limps I write as an everyday if committed layman who expected the made-over liturgy to look in the direction of ecumenism. Those in the know said that it would not, and...

THE MAN IN THE CUTAWAY COAT (April 1969)

the school issues put to them. In November only 45 percent were approved. The massive rejection stems from many sources. With government bureaucracy growing in all areas, school issues are among...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1964)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week W. E. ARNOLD The "Catholic book" seems to be an indefinable, if dispensable category. I do not know what a "Catholic book" is, but the following is a choice...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1963)

BOOKS Critics' Choices for Christmas THOMAS CURLEY Let me begin with a quotation: "Hence, the search for motives, the demand that everybody display in public his innermost motivation, since it...

Talking with Each Other (April 1960)

CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS AND JEWS Talking with Each Other by LEO R. WARD I N OUR county, which includes South Bend and Mishawaka and Notre Dame and has a population of two hundred thousand, a...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1958)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week ELIZABETH BARTELME T HE RED Book of the Persecuted Church. By Albert Galter. Newman. $5.75. An important and terrifying documentation of the Church in...

Books (October 1957)

1100115 When Eternity is Receding MORNING. By Julian Fane. Reynal. ,$3.50. By WILLIAM DUN,LEA I F THE WHOLENESS of the child's exclusive universality is but rarely recovered by poets, it...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1956)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ANTHONY BAILEY THE Acceptance World. By Anthony Powell. Farrar. $3.50. Mr. Powell may well be the finest novelist writing in England today and his sequence, "The...

Is There a Christian Learning? (September 1953)

Is There a Christian Learning? "A CATHOLIC SCHOLAR IS MORE THAN, AND OTHER THAN, A CATHOLIC WHO IS A SCHOLAR; HIS LEARNING HAS SOME KIND OF PLUS VALUE." LEO R. WARD T least twice in every...

Buckley's Attack on Yale (February 1952)

Buckley's Attack on Yale By LEO R. WARD I N HIS little Ibo~k God and Man at Yale, WRliarm F. Btw.ldey, Jr., raises questions m,ach wider and deeper vhan ,the book goes. I am c~,ncerned...

The Key to Education (June 1951)

The Key to Education Schools, books, teachers are not enough —the student has to educate himself. By LEO R. WARD ONE of the social heresies which easily victimizes us in a democracy and in...

Bring Learning to Life (May 1950)

Bring Learning to Life Vision is more important to the Catholic school than either scholars or dollars. By LEO R. WARD IT WOULD be hard to state just what makes learning come to life and what...

BRETHREN HEIFERS FOR RELIEF (March 1946)

500 Poems on Postcards "I was rather difficult to handle. . . . I received singing lessons in my spare time in the choir.... My father could not appreciate the talent of his quarrelsome...

WAR AND THE COUNTRY COMMUNITY (July 1942)

322 War and the Country Community A man close to the heart of Iowa writes of war's impact. By Leo R. Ward IN OUR PART of Iowa the main cash crop is meat. We raise much corn, but feed...

WHAT CAN DECENTRALISM DO? (June 1941)

What Can Decentralism Do? By LEO R. WARD IT IS sometimes said that the decentralists claim too much. They talk, but they don't produce or do. Then they also have within what we may regard as their...

VIRGIL MICHEL (December 1938)

Virgil Michel By LEO R. WARD and EMERSON HYNES FATHER VIRGIL MICHEL has died, at the age of forty-eight—about the life-span of Saint Thomas—and just when it seemed to his friends...

HOW TO MAKE MOLASSES (November 1938)

How to Make Molasses By LEO R. WARD THE PEOPLE for making molasses are a man and a woman and the three or four bigger boys and girls. The process is begun in the spring, during the corn...

EDWARD A. PACE (June 1938)

June 17, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 203 But if we are to make the world Christ's, we must first make ourselves Christ's. We must make our family, our friends, our acquaintances, the people we work with,...

A Belgian Hero Comes Home (June 1936)

239 A BELGIAN HERO COMES HOME By LEO R. WARD THE KING and the Cardinal, and of course the representative of the Pope and the American Ambassador, went with all the people to greet Father...

On Wind and Sun (November 1935)

98 The Commonweal November 22, 1935 ON WIND AND SUN By LEO R. WARD E VERYONE knows now that the weather makes a difference, that a sandstorm for instance leaves its mark on men and things....

Myself and My Neighbor (April 1935)

April 5, I935 T/ e Commonweal 649 , , MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBOR By LEO R. WARD L AST week we reread "William James's words on how warm and precious to each one is "the contemplated me," and we...

Theory of the Pig (November 1933)

I00 THE COMMONWEAL November 24, 1933 Sacred Body and the Holy Wounds of the Redeemer of mankind. There, too, we received the Cardinal's blessing. So on with the journey, coming at last to Lon-don...

Holding Up the Hills (August 1932)

344 THE COMMONWEAL August 3, I932 quite independently from the distribution of income. This will become evident when one considers that, in addition to the higher return per unit produced,...

Wings (verse) (May 1930)

Wings A buzzard that hangs In the clean heavens Watching the earth for carrion. Thunderbirds at evening Loping down the skyWhere the red west turns yellow, Then green, then grey, Then...

Down the Road East (August 1929)

424 T H E C O M M O N W E A L August 28, I929 States thousands of persons suffering from its ravages, even though only a few hundred new cases are discovered and reported to state health...

Ward, Maisie

Ward, Malsie

Ward, May Williams

Ward, Patrick J.

Ward, William Allen

Warner, Lauren

WARNER, MICHAEL

Warner, Sam Bass Jr.

Warner, William W.

Warren, Austin

Warren, David L.

Warren, Deborah