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 Vol. 099 Issue 005 (November 2 1973)
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Vol. 099 Issue 006 (November 9 1973)
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Vol. 099 Issue 007 (November 16 1973)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 COMMONWEAL STAFF: 1924-1973
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COMMONWEAL STAFF-1924-1973 MICHAEL WILLIAMS Editor, 1924-1938; Special Editor, 1938-1945 THOMAS WALSH Assistant Editor, 1924-1928 HELEN WALKER Assistant Editor, 1924-1927 HENRY LONGAN...
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IDEA FOR A MAGAZINE: An Introduction
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Editors, The
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IDEA OF A MAGAZINE The Commonweal—An Introduction November 12, 1924 HPHE question will naturally arise why the editors of ¦*• The Commonweal believe there is room for another journal to discuss...
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Ten Years Later
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Williams, Michael
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TEN YEARS LATER Nov. 2, 1934 /CONSIDERABLY more than ten years ago, in the ^ troubled years following the close of the World War, small groups of Catholic laymen—the most of whom were graduates...
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In Transition
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Burnham, Philip
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IN TRANSITION April 15, 1938 TN THE first issue of The Commonweal, November 12, 1924, the founders of the magazine affirmed as emphatically as they could the principle that "The Commonweal...
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Thirty Years Later
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Editors, The
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THIRTY YEARS LATER Feb. 5,1954 r|URING the thirty years of its life, The Commonweal *-* has been generally accepted as a Catholic publication, through there is nothing in the masthead to...
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RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
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Riggs, T. Lawrason
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RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE T. LAWRASON RIGGS Racial and social factors in the American religious situation Nov. 26, 1924 TN a country where the vast majority of the population is Catholic or...
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OBLIGATIONS TO AMERICA
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Hayes, Carlton J. H.
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OBLIGATIONS TO AMERICA CARLTON J. H. HAYES Catholic responsibilities to culture, civilization and political democracy Jan. 7, 1925 obligations to America are so manifold and far reaching...
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MORALITY AMD PLURALISM
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Finn, James
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MORALITY AND PLURALISM Sept. 12, 1958 A LTHOUGH it would be foolish to say that "Church•^ State" questions are less complicated in the United States than elsewhere, it is true that they have...
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THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM
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Ryan, John A.
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THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM JOHN A. RYAN Its doctrinal and philosophical incompatibility with Catholicism Nov. 17, 1926 ¥>robably the majority of Americans who think about ¦*¦ the subject at all,...
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: An Editorial
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AM EDITORIAL A response to the campaign against Presidential nominee Al Smith Sept. 19, 1928 TTow far the papers and the persons who are opposing ¦*¦ Governor Smith, both...
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CHRISTIANITY AND COMMUNISM
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Berdyaev, Nicholas
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CHRISTIANITY AND COMMUNISM NICHOLAS BERDYAEV For a Christian, Communism is above all a spiritual, a religious, problem September 8, 1933 /"^ommunism is not only a Russian phenomenon; it ^*...
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TERROR IN VIENNA
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Shuster, George N.
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TERROR IN VIENNA GEORGE N. SHUSTER An eyewitness report on the Nazi coup in Austria April 15, 1938 E HAVE passed through a week of harrowing experiences, still so vivid in the memory that I...
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THE HOUSE ON MOTT STREET
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Day, Dorothy
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THE HOUSE ON MOTT STREET DOROTHY DAY A pot of soup is sufficient to make a beginning . . , . May 6, 1938 od seems to wish us to remain poor and...
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THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: An Editorial
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THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AN EDITORIAL In a troubled time, an attempt at a non-partisan approach gle and engaged in the general problem in a different way. We do not feel qualified to discuss the...
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PEARL HARBOR: An Editorial
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PEARL HARBOR AN EDITORIAL Out of controversy and dissension, national unity Dec. 19, 1941 SURPRISE attack on Hawaii brought the United States into the war the way that gives the country the...
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ENGLISH IN THE LITURGY
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Reinhold, H. A.
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ENGLISH IN OUR LITURGY H. A. REINHOLD Why we advocate use of the vernacular March 16, 1945 HPHE English must be the best available on the level ¦*¦ of a T. S. Eliot or W. H. Auden. Its savor...
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THE ATOM BOMB: An Editorial
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THE ATOM BOMB AN EDITORIAL Hiroshima and Nagasaki: names of American guilt and shame Aug. 24, 1945 o months ago we were writing about poison gas. We said: "To the Orient we are bringing the...
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THE SIN OF SEGREGATION
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Dunne, George H.
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THE SIN OF SEGREGATION GEORGE H. DUNNE Exposing the sophistry underneath well-worn arguments Sept. 21, 1945 FTWE racist mind has contrived an almost limitless number of evasive analogies to...
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VERSE
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Lowell, Robert
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ROBERT LOWELL THE DEAD I\ EUROPE After the planes unloaded, we fell down Buried together, unmarried men and women; Not crown of thorns, not iron, not Lombard crown, Not grilled and spindle...
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THE CATHOLIC AS PHILISTINE
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Clancy, William
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THE CATHOLIC AS PHILISTINE WILLIAM CLANCY An overeager censorship and unconcern for the hierarchy of values March 16, 1951 HPhe now celebrated crusade to suppress Rossellini's ¦ film, The...
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THE MCCARTHY QUESTION: An Editorial
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the McCarthy question AN EDITORIAL An early call for an end to illusions about the Wiscon sin Senator Oct. 26, 1951 'TWERE are two clear images of Senator Joe McCarthy ¦¦¦ in the public mind...
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THE SILVER AND THE GOLD
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Cogley, John
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THE SILVER AND THE GOLD JOHN COGLEY Growing up Catholic in Chicago June 10, 1955 ¥ ran across this sentence in Leslie Fiedler's collection ¦*• of essays An End to Innocence: "We have...
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ENEMIES OF CATHOLIC PROMISE
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Sheed, Wilfrid
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ENEMIES OF CATHOLIC PROMISE WILFRID SHEED The ambiguous moral pressure American Catholics inflict on themselves Few, if any, societies really approve of the kind of abandonment and obsessiveness...
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VERSE
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Updike, John
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JOHN UPDIKE WIJVD If God has any voice1 it is the wind. Women hate this seeking of a vacuum, it gets their edges up, they cannot sleep, they think of Boreas impregnating primeval Night, of...
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A PRESIDENT IS BURIED
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O'Gara, James
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A PRESIDENT IS BURIED JAMES O'GARA The primary emotion was one of disbelief Dec. 6, 1963 T^HE day after President Kennedy was killed was a dreary one in Washington; gray skies and...
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IS THE WORLD A PROBLEM?
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Merton, Thomas
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IS THE WORLD A PROBLEM? THOMAS MERTON The created world: an epiphany of divine wisdom and love June 3, 1966 j want to make clear that I speak not as the author of the Seven Storey Mountain,...
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AFTER THE COUNCIL
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Rung, Hans
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AFTER THE COUNCIL Feb. 12, 1965 THHE MOVEMENTS which have been released by the ¦*• Council in the Catholic Church have reached such a depth and breadth that they will follow their own...
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ON SELECTING AMERICAN BISHOPS
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Ellis, John Tracy
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admission that the world is acceptable because it comes from the hand of God, It is first of all an acceptance of a task and a vocation in the world, in history and in time. To choose the world...
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PLEA TO THE BISHOPS: An Editorial
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ed person will discount the importance of the Romanitd, but the quoted reply said nothing of the influence exercised by Roman alumni with important connections to have one of their own number...
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WHAT MAKES A COLLEGE CATHOLIC?
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Hassenger, Robert
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WHAT MAKES A COLLEGE CATHOLIC? ROBERT HASSENGER It is absolutely necessary to insist on autonomy April 19, 1968 real issue Catholic institutions of higher learning face is their...
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SCHOOL AND PARISH
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Elford, George
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SCHOOL AND PARISH Jan. 29, 1971 TN the growing volume of literature and rhetoric on ¦¦¦ the "Catholic school crisis" there is surprisingly little attention given to the interdependence between...
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HUMANAE VITAE: AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL
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Callahan, Daniel
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ii AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL DANIEL CALLAHAN What the Pope might have said in 'Humanae Vitae'--but didn't Aug. 23, 1968 A few months ago I played with the idea of writing an imaginary papal...
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RELIGION AND SEX
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Chesterton, G. K.
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The question now is: what is to be done? It is not, I think, adequate to simply say that everyone should follow his own conscience and thus reject the encyclical if his conscience so directs. If...
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THE WAR IN VIETNAM: Getting Out, An Editorial
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THE WAR IN VIETNAM GETTING OUT An Editorial Dec. 23, 1966 'TTHE United States should get out of Vietnam: it ¦ should seek whatever safety it can for our allies; it should arrange whatever...
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Notes from the Underground
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Berrigan, Daniel
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THE WAR IN VIETNAM NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND Daniel Berrigan May 29, 1970 IMAY 7 marks exactly a month since I packed the small ¦^" red bag I had bought in Hanoi, and set out from Cornell,...
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MY NOVELS
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Mauriac, Francois
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BOOKS MY NOVELS FRANCOIS MAURIAC May 15, 1953 "IS there, I wonder, a single French •*¦ novelist who has not been tempted to write another La Comedie humaine? It is to this temptation, in...
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DEALER IN DIAMONDS AND RHINESTONES
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Powers, J. F.
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J. F. Powers DEALER IN DIAMONDS & RHINESTONES Aug. 10, 1945 ¦«L|"R. PEGLER, on hearing of Scott ¦'¦"¦'• Fitzgerald's death in 1941, said it "recalls memories of a queer bunch of undisciplined...
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BEING AN IRISH WRITER
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O'Faolain, Sean
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Sean O'Faolain BEING AN IRISH WRITER July 10, 1953 ¥ SUSPECT that being a writer in Ire¦*¦ land is very much like being a writer in any tight community. We do not remember often enough...
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THE CASE OF MR. HEMINGWAY
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Waugh, Evelyn
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Evelyn Waugh THE CASE OF MR. HEMINGWAY Nov. 3, 1950 Ernest Hemingway's long¦ expected novel [Across the River and Into the Trees] has been out for some weeks, and has already...
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VERSE
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Berryman, John
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JOHN BERRYMAN From "5 Addreste* to The Lord" II Germanicus leapt upon the wild lion in Smyrna, wishing to pass quickly from a lawless life. The crowd shook the stadium. The proconsul...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Belloc, Hilaire; Sturzo, Luigi; Maritain, Jacques; Dulles, John Foster
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CORRESPONDENCE CATHOLIC JOURNALISM November 26, 1924 London, England To the Editors: I cannot pretend to speak of conditions on your side of the Atlantic, for it has been the most...
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Vol. 099 Issue 008 (November 23 1973)
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Vol. 099 Issue 009 (November 30 1973)
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