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IssueVol. 109 Issue 001 (January 15 1982)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
Correspondence Lacking conviction? Fairfax, Va. To the Editors: For the first time since 1937, I have read an editorial in Commonweal which is of weak construction and is poorly written-"The...
Paid articleEditorials
EDITORIALS: THEOLOGY: CREATING OUT OF CHAOS I AMES JOYCE is supposed to have remarked once to an aspiring young author, "Young man, you have not enough chaos in you to create a world." At a time...
Paid articleWilliam Clancy
Finn, James
WM. CLANCY, 1922-1982 William Clancy, writer, editor, teacher, priest, died on January 6, 1982. The many people who crowded St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh on the bitter cold day of his funeral...
Paid articleNuclear freeze
Leary, Mary Ellen
California referendum NUCLEAR FREEZE BISHOPS & NOBEL LAUREATES PART OF THE MESSAGE in those surprisingly large demonstrations in Europe against super-power nuclear rivalry pitched on the...
Paid articleFaith of our fathers
McCarthy, Abigail
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS HOW ATTENTIVE TO THE SPIRIT? THERE is some reason these days to recall that story about one of Sean O'Faolain's Irish neighbors, who answered when queried as to the author's...
Paid articleIs there life after ecumenism?
Toolan, David
TOUGHER QUESTIONS FROM INSIDE THE OTHER'S WORLD Is there life after ecumenism? DAVID TOOLAN IN LATE SEPTEMBER, just back from the annual meeting in New York City of the North American Academy of...
Paid articleExperiencing the resurrection
Moore, Sebastian
THE LIVING JESUS & THE DISCIPLES' CONVERSION Experiencing the Resurrection SEBASTIAN MOORE FOR some YEARS now it has seemed to me that the most important question for soteriology is "What were...
Paid articleStage
Weales, Gerald
Stage FR. TIM, SISTER SADE ANGUISH & ANGER Shortly after the phenomenal success of Going My Way in 1944, strangers took to stopping Barry Fitzgerald on the street to tell that Protestant boyo...
Paid articleScreen
Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
Screen DELAYED REACTIONS MY TEN BEST FOR'81 I ADMIT it's a little late, but I've decided to announce my ten-best list for 1981. Actually, it's a little late for me to do any ten-best lists, ever,...
Paid articleReligious right: new? right?
Stackhouses, Max L.
UNDERSTANDING THE NEO-EVANGELICALS Religious right: new? right? MAX L. STACKHOUSE IT seems to me that non-Protestants especially should attend to the new public visibility of the...
Paid articleThe Popes and European Revolution
Ellis, John Tracy
Books: ANGUISH BEFORE RENEWAL THIS BOOK tries to describe the dif- ference made to the papacy by the European Revolution of 1789 to 1815; or, in other words, what Catholicism was like before the...
Paid articleUnderstanding Catholicism
Imbelli, Robert P
Keys to the Catholic vision UNDERSTANDING CATHOLICISM Monika K. Hellwig Paulist, $4.95, 200 pp. Robert P. Imbelli NOT too LONG ago a teacher of theology was hard pressed to find books which...
Paid articleReligious booknotes
Sawicki, Marianne
OONCE UPON a rainy day, a friend gave me an old plastic bag to keep my notebooks dry. The bag had traveled across the sea with him from a bookstore in Germany, Contemporary American Theologies: A...
Paid articleAfter Virtue
Murchland, Bernard
Rediscovering Morality AFTEH VIRTUE Alasdair Maclntyre University of Notre Dame, $15.95,285 pp. Bernard Murchland EACH TIME I begin a course in ethical thought I confront my students, by way of...
Paid articleThe Voices of Blood
Gaughan, Norbert F
In Brief The Voice of Blood: Five Christian Martyrs of Our Time, by William J. O'Malley, S.J., Orbis Books, $7.95,195 pp. "Lives of Saints," as with so many traditions, have fallen on hard days....
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