THE COMMONWEAL A WEEKLY REVIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS The Court on Prayer WHATEVER ELSE it may mean, the Supreme Court decision in the New York school prayer case has made it...
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ditions. In effect, the Court majority chose to let the present reality completely overrule tradition. Unhappily, the Court implicitly did something more. It construed the no-establishment clause...
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cautious hope. Insofar as the Secretary's declaration of our defense strategy seems to accept the idea of the nuclear disaster with a certain equanimity, and insofar as it seems to believe that...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED The Great Challenge A FEW WEEKS ago the acting Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant of Burma, outlined a program designed to produce a decade of development in...
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Christian Democrats and the Left Italy's New Look GEORGE H. DUNNE ON MARCH 10 of this year, the new government formed by Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani won the confidence of the chamber of...
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Moro knows things about Nenni's inner thoughts which are not known to the public. It is possible that Nenni has privately given assurances which he could not possibly give publicly and that it is...
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Laymen and the Council Shepherds of the Church JUSTUS GEORGE LAWLER THE SPIRIT of reform and renewal in the Church has been profoundly stimulated by the preparatory work for the coming Council....
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of accepting the plenitude of the priesthood, and of being the successor of the apostles? However, it must be said in all fairness that the American church has been blessed with bishops who for the...
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Theory vs. Fact America and the Dream JOHN P. SISK AMERICA being the land of promise, it follows that one of our favorite pastimes is the discovery of the gap between the promise, the dream, the...
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THE SCREEN Of Human Bondage NOT SINCE the early thirties when Emil tannings was driven to the depths by Marlene Dietrich's provocative Lola Lola in "The Blue Angel," and poor Leslie Howard...
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so—by charging her husband at the same rates he pays elsewhere. "The Job" is not funny and not meant to be; and the final shot of the wife in bed awaiting her husband is extremely touching. If...
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