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Report from Britain NOT BREAD BUT STONES THE U.K.'s BANKRUPT PARTIES NOBODY IS LIKELY to deny that, in common with most of the Western democracies, Britain is in a mess. But it is not just, or...

Why labor split: (June 1981)

Report from Britain WHY LABOR SPLIT REPRESENTATION & ACCOUNTABILITY IN ORDER to follow the present troubles in the Labor party it is necessary for the reader to understand some of its essential...

Labor & the nukes (October 1980)

Contents Volume CVII, Number 18 Correspondence 578 Editorials 579 Labor & the nukes: Brian Wicker 581 The emperor's planes: Frank Getlein 583 Another kind of witness: John...

Busing - another kind (June 1980)

Report from Britain BUSING ANOTHER KIND THE POWER OF THE BISHOPS SCHOOL BUSING has recently become an issue in Britain. But it is not quite the same sort of issue as it has been in America....

Parliament U.S-style (October 1979)

contracts disallows claims resulting from "war injury," which would include the many radiation and other A-bomb afflic- Report from Britain tions in the Hibakusha of 1945. (In fact, Blue...

Signs of 'The Times' (February 1979)

crisis-of-authority, failure-of-nerve, excess-of-democracy, fact that it actually tells you more about the things the average deregulation, limits (when referring to equality of...

GRADUATING OUT AND GRADUATING IN (September 1978)

EDUCATION IN BRITAIN GRaDUaTING OUT MrD GIIADU TING IN In the last year or two I have been invited, either as a complacent parent or benevolent uncle, to a n~mbet of university "commencemen.ts."...

SHIFT TO THE RIGHT (March 1978)

SHIFT TO THE RIGHT BRIAN WICKER The controversy in Britain over Marxist teaching Most people agree that in Britain, as elsewhere, there has been a general shift to the right politically in the...

THE JOB OF ADULT EDUCATION (March 1978)

FROM BRITAIN THE JOB OF ADULT EDUCATION A few days ago a parish priest with an interest in adult education faced me wtih the following question: "Last Sunday at Mass, as I was reading the...

ARE NUKES CRICKET? (November 1977)

we have been conditioned to visualize a papacy where the religious leader, like a king, endures, powers failing, to the last hour, while courtiers jockey for his favor or his ear. We are still...

ARS GRATIA ARTIS? (September 1977)

Germany? The documents of Vatican II in Latin and German were published and disseminated, at least among the clergy. Postconciliar developments in the official church, P~pulorum Progressio,...

Violence in the Streets (September 1977)

meaningless, frivolous really. The conduct of the German nation from 1933 to 1945 was precisely such conduct. The leaders of the German government in that period and such lesser criminals as...

A Pastoral Strategy (June 1977)

Finally, of course, if Henry Kissinger actually does lecture, as it is announced that he will, in those surroundings those performances will revive an ancient, useful and now almost forgotten...

Gloomy Spring (April 1977)

process: left-wing Catholics have come a long way from the social Catholicism preached by Rerum Novarum. Their itinerary often began in the various Catholic Action movements and in the leftist...

PLANING AND EDUCATION (March 1977)

That didn't happen. What did happen was that two hostile segments of the population were thrown together, kicked, scratched and bit each other for a while but did come to realize each that the...

THE EXPERIENCE OF TAIZE (July 1976)

The Experience Of Taize The Tabie" community is an ecumenical monastery in Burgundy, only a few miles from the ancient monastic settlement of Cluny, and set in the midst of rich wine country. But...

CHARISMATICS IN BRITAIN (June 1976)

NUMISMATICS IN BRITAIN BRIAN WICKER Some time ago I thought it might be useful to write something about the Catholic charismatic renewal in Britain so that Commonweal readers, who are probably...

HOW FREE IS FREE? (March 1976)

FROM BRITAIN HOW FREE MS FREE? Two recent pieces of news in the Catholic world of Great Britain bring out some of the ironies present in the ecclesiastical situation today. The first is the...

AILING SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (January 1976)

FROM BRITAIN RILING SOCIALIZED MEDICINE Liberal-minded Americans have long felt a special admiration for the British health service ("socialized medicine"), and it must therefore be worrying and...

BRITAIN'S SELECT THREE (November 1975)

CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL JOURNALS BRITAIN'S SELECT THREE I thought it would be useful, at a time when Commonweal is facing the challenge of drastic inflation in America, to report on the current...

A RACIAL TALK-IN: (July 1975)

REPORT FROM BRITAIN A RACIAL TALK-IN I have mentioned before, in these reflections on the scene in Britain, the problem of race relations. But this time I want to devote my space to what seems to...

UNIONIZING THE EDITORS (April 1975)

It should not be beyond consideration that an aggressive foreign policy may not be suitable--or, at least, continuously. Inextricably entwined with foreign policy of whatever tone and...

Wilson's Second Chance (November 1974)

The '74 elections were not without disappointments. One regrets, for example that so able a person as Governor John Gilligan of Ohio was turned out of office. His defeat is a loss at the state...

Parent Power in Schools (October 1974)

the nation? To the company of people who could suspend consciences and support that war year upon year? We should not be surprised to discover that witness has its legitimate dimension of...

THE WORLD AS CONCENTRATION CAMP? (May 1974)

doing so the legislature should take account of the character of Irish society (i.e., traditional Catholicism) and the "quality of life." This quality of life would be damaged by the...

AN ELECTION THAT WILL SOLVE NOTHING: (March 1974)

An Election That Will Solve Nothing By the time you read this, the British government will have decided whether or not to have a 'snap' general election. Talk of an imminent election—say in...

DEATH WISH OR NEW ERA? (February 1974)

in God, in the future of the religlous hfe. It is also possible that the blind resistance of inflexible conserva- tive blocs has helped drive creative--but not super-human--leaders over the hills....

TRUTH ON TELEVISION (December 1973)

ILLUSIONS AND BRITAIN TRUTH ON TELEVISION Reality is television. That truth seems to become ever clearer in Britain: and it has certainly come home to me even more forcibly since I last wrote in...

POLITICAL INFIGHTING IN ENGLAND (June 1973)

with the renewal, and requesting Pope Paul's discernment "to make a judgment about the true nature and proper use of charismatic gifts, not 'to extinguish the Spirit, but to test all things and...

Reaching Out for Alternatives (March 1973)

that many of them were captured while raining down death on the hapless Vietnamese. The exiles and desetters have also been prisoners of war, and they are the ones truly deserving of a hero's...

Post-Conciliar Catholicism: England; More Civilized, Less Interesting (March 1973)

POST-CONCILIAR CATHOLICISM: ENGLAND MORE CIVILIZED, LESS INTERESTING BRIAN WICKER The British are not a religious and not a church-going people First of all, let me put my cards on the...

FIFTY YEARS OF THE BBC (February 1973)

vs. "It's murder"--level, and if the public continues to view abortion in isolation from other social and moral problems, the anti-abortion cause will become the polit- ical tool of the right wing,...

UGANDA'S ASIANS: HALF A WELCOME (October 1972)

Uganda's Asians: Half a 14relcome The saga of the Uganda Asians and their probable entry into Britain, which has preoccupied the media and the pubs even to the exclusion of the Irish question at...

The Treasures of Tutankhamun (June 1972)

when he said: "The overriding sign of our frustrations may be Vietnam, but it is not the only symptom of the alienation and discontent that run so deep today. Wherever I travel, I find that...

DESCHOOLING BRITAIN? (March 1972)

initiatives involve risks, and there is nothing to confirm that the risks of a new China policy are any more chancy, any less unmanageable than those which existed in the recent past, and to some...

THE BAD WITH THE GOOD (February 1972)

Vietnam were informing that American dead in ,that compassionless war had now reached 45,637, with South Vietnamese military dead in the neighborhood of 150,000, "enemy" dead 800,000, and...

HAS BRITAIN GOT A CHANCE? (December 1971)

sidered itself an equal power with India and the realization that it is only a power one-fourth the size, which, with the loss of the East, would become one-tenth the size, is surely one...

BOOKS (January 1969)

BOOKS _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 George Orweli: one o] the most readable and provocative writers o] the c e n t u r y The Collected Essays, Journalism and L e t t e r...

LAW, LOVE AND POLITICS (November 1966)

LAW, LOVE AND POLITICS Learning to live with tension BRIAN WICKER I want to begin my exposition of what I take to be a Christian political position with an illustration drawn from literature....

WICKES, MARIETTE

Wickham, Grace

Wickham, Harvey

Widdemer, Margaret

Widner, Thomas C.

Wieder, Laurance

Wiener, Ferdinand J.

Wiesenfarth, Joseph

Wiest, Brendan

WIETA, DONALD

Wigbold, H. A.

WIGGINS, ANTHONY A.