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EDITORIALS The Need for Criticism AS MANY observers have noted, the second session of the Vatican Council has lacked the drama of the first. Speeches which a year ago would have seemed daring and...

Headway in India

Skillin, Edward S.

EDITORIALS Headway in India OF ALL the things that puzzle Americans about the great sub-continent of India doubtless Mr. Nehru's foreign policy is in the van. It is hard to understand...

Catholics and Vietnam

Skillin, Edward S.

EDITORIALS Catholics and Vietnam A GENERATION ago, The Commonweal drew some severe criticism for attempting to dissociate the cause of Franco from the cause of the Catholic Church. Similarly, though...

Dialogue Among Pickets

Cox, Harvey

NEWS & VIEWS Dialogue Among Pickets RELATIONSHIPS between Catholics and Protestants in Boston entered a wholly new phase this month. Despite a cold, driving rain, over two hundred white...

Foreign Aid in Trouble

Shannon, William V

WASHINGTON REPORT Foreign Aid in Trouble FOR THOSE who believe that the United States has an important moral obligation to assist the economic development of the poorer countries of the world, the...

Race Against Time

O'Gara, James

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Race Against Time WITH Rome behind me, I have begun to catch up on what happened while I was away. In the magazines, one of the most significant items was the report in...

Saving the Railroads

Pell, Claiborne

Tax Relief and Mergers Cannot Cure Their Sickness Saving the Railroads CLAIBORNE PELL NEXT YEAR along a stretch of curving seacoast south of Tokyo, a unique railroad will begin covering the three...

Summer Song

Salomon, Carlo Betocchi Trans. by I L

Summer Song So, as these mouths of reddish old tiles on their warm backbone gasp for breath one by one in the newly risen sun stretched across the rooftops, so I saw them become green last spring...

End of the Deadlock

Bourn, Gregory

Report from Rome End of the Deadlock GREGORY BAUM BEFORE giving an account of how, on Wednesday, October 30, the Vatican Council emerged from a deadlock, I must tell how it had drifted into it. For...

The Layman Rediscovered

Cogley, John

Report from Rome The Layman Rediscovered JOHN COGLEY SINCE THE Ecumenical Council resumed at the end of September, the Fathers have been debating the schema on the Church. Seen one way, De Ecclesia...

The Stage

Gilman, Richard

THE STAGE Albee's Sad "Ballad" "THE BALLAD of the Sad Cafe" is a failure for which it is strangely difficult to assign responsibility, since its deficiencies are spread uniformly throughout its...

The Screen

Hartung, Philip T

THE SCREEN Of Death and Love JAMES Agee's beautifully-written novel, A Death in the Family, starts with "We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there...

Correspondence

HAMILTON, DANIEL S.

CORRESPONDENCE "The New Pluralism" Uniondale, N. Y. TO THE EDITORS: I wish to record some uneasiness with Daniel Callahan's "The New Pluralism" [September 6], and I hope this uneasiness is the...

The Hidden Christ

Powers, Jessica

The Hidden Christ I went into the Christmas cave. There was no Child upon the straw. The ox and ass were all I saw. I sought His table where He gave His goodness in the guise of bread. Emptiness...

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