NEWS AND VIEWS Perspective: The change in Friday abstinence for Catholics was voted the top religious story of 1966 by the Religious Newswriters Association. William Randolph Hearst the...
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CORRESPONDENCE Marriage Meeting Wilkes-Barre, Pa. To the Editors: John Leo's comment on the inter-disciplinary marriage meeting in Washington, D.C. in your November 25th issue is but...
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CARDINAL, POPE AND WAR According to Vatican protocol, a Pope almost never issues a public criticism of a bishop. This is all the more true of a cardinal, an honored member of the papal family....
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FROM BRITAIN MAN ON TOE TIGER The midwinter festival in Britain will be overshadowed by the miserable business of Rhodesia. It might have been worse. Ian Smith might have accepted the terms put...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE CELIBACY EXPLOSION There was a brief flurry of publicity about the National Catholic Reporter-Father Joseph Fichter celibacy report, but I'm not at all sure it has...
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4 Ml. WHAT A LOVELY DIALOGUE The Catholic Marxism of Slant PETER STEINFELS "All right, Steinfels," began Mahoney at lunch last week, "how about a little Catholic-Marxist dialogue?" "Well,...
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CAROL JOHNSON ART (Before a painting of Pisanello, Verona) Real figures in imaginary space: The Principessa listens and the Saint, with head averted, listens, and the hounds and stallions...
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New Directions THE ABSOLUTE FUTURE MICHAEL NOVAK American Catholics down the years have committed grievous sins of rabid anti-Communism. Consequently, one of the main imperatives of Catholics...
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THE GREAT LADY BUSINESS THE STAGE What does it take to become a Great Lady of the Stage? After long and prayerful contemplation of Helen Hayes and Mary Martin, Mary Martin and Helen Hayes, I...
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ILLUSION AND REALITY M. MMWd Michelangelo Antonioni, the great Italian director who seems to be obsessed with man's fruitless search for certainty, has come up with another of his brilliant...
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BOOKS 'A whopping error, but impressive achievement9 The Making of Americans GERTRUDE STEIN Something Else, $10.95 An Anecdoted Typography of Chance DANIEL SPOERRI Something Else,...
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