CORRESPONDENCE Madeline & Ernie Park Ridge, Ill. To the Editors: In Madeline's reflections about life with Ernie ["Madeline & Ernie," September 23], Ms. Marget made a perceptive insight: "[Jews...
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EDITORIAL The nonoffensive D word War, according to Clausewitz, "is a constant case of reciprocal action, the effects of which are mutual." What is true of war is true of preparations for war....
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SOVIET REFORM GORBACHEV'S GAMBLE VOTING OUT THE FOOT DRAGGERS Mikhail Gorbachev's dramatic power play at the top of the Communist party hierarchy in late September left at least one question...
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REPORT FROM VENEZUELA POLITICS OF THE PROBABLE NO SAVIOR IN SIGHT Venezuela's charismatic ex-president, Carlos Andres Perez, who is currently leading the polls for the presidential elections to...
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey STANDING IN FOR JESUS GENDER & RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS There are lots of reasons not to write about the ordination of women: it has been done to death, people have hardened...
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RENEWING THE LITURGY-AGAIN 'A' FOR THE COUNCIL, 'C' FOR THE CHURCH MARK SEARLE Published twenty-five years ago this December 4. Sacrasanctum concilium was the first document issued by Vatican II....
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WHOSE CHURCH IS IT, ANYWAY? THE BATTLE FOR HOLY FAMILY, CHICAGO ELLEN SKERRETT In historic Holy Family parish on Chicago's West Side, black, Hispanic, and Italian Catholics are waging a vigorous...
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THE STORY OF ST. TERESA'S RENOVATING THE CHURCH FROM THE INSIDE OUT KAREN SUE SMITH When Msgr. Joseph Finnerty of the Brooklyn diocese flung open the doors to St. Teresa's Church last Passion...
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SCREEN THE BUTCHER OF LYON OPHULS'S 'HOTEL TERMINUS' Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie is-like many other films about Nazi atrocities-long and sometimes tedious,...
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BOOKS Holding steady in the storm THE RESHAPING OF CATHOLICISM Current Challenges in the Theology of Church Avery Dulles Harper and Row, $19.95, 276 pp. Robert Imbelli Through a long and...
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Theologians & feminism Mary Gerhart Some people have been saying it for a long time: The women's movement is the most important intellectual event of our time, and it requires that we rethink...
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