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CORRESPONDENCE Clergy and Laity Catonsville, Md. To the Editors: A strong case can be made that the very politeness John Tracy Ellis recommends to the laity [letter, Feb. 19] has been a principal...
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belief. He could in a crisis pray earnestly, but Christ was "a socialist"; men who had principles were "goody-goodies." With one grandfather a Duke and the other an American impresario he had...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED CRISIS TO THE SOUTH I take it that the Catholic Inter-American Cooperation Program Conference held in Chicago recently was a success—at least the crowds it drew and the...
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THE RISK OF FAITH There must be respect for self-probing and doubt DANIEL CALLAHAN 41 0 41 Cardinal Newman once wrote that "doubt itself is a positive state, and implies a definite habit of...
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the depths of his being. Yet faith today may be said to entail still another risk: the risk of exercising one's freedom to look at one's faith. For the Catholic trained only to see faith as a...
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End of a long march? MAO VS. MOSCOW •••••••••••••• SEYMOUR SLESSINGER Mao Tse-tung used to argue that Nikita Khrushchev was solely responsible for the difference between them. Today, however,...
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would meet on March 1 to plan a world Communist conference. Under these circumstances, it is small wonder that Mao, whose colleagues have honored him with the exalted title of "greatest...
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all government. Even honest politicians would advise against it. (For details, read pp. 175-178 on Howey's system of reading politicians' net worth). In 1947 when Hearst's last Chicago paper, the...
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ABSURD REFLECTIONS THE STAGE When the theater of the absurd goes wrong, it can be a hard night's work trying to figure out why. Since the avowed purpose of this theater is to "go wrong" in the...
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a vehicle for ideas other than itself—since such ideas must inevitably revert to conventional logic and language and thus land you in the "Tiny Alice" quandary—remains unanswered. Or at least I...
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BOOKS •••••••••••••• The relevance of a monk to his time Seeds of Destruction THOMAS MERTON Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $4.95 RICHARD HORCHLER The longer Father Merton lives in cloister and...
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Vol. 081 Issue 023 (March 5 1965)
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