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Vol. 116 Issue 017 (October 6 1989)
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Vol. 116 Issue 018 (October 20 1989)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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Franck, Frederick; WIETA, DONALD; EGAN, REV. HARVEY F.; DAVIS, CHARLES N.; COHEN, MELVIN N.; LEIN, JIM; BEIL, REV. ALFONS; RIGGS, CHRISTOPHER M.
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CORRESPONDENCE Our friend Anne Warwick, N.Y. To the Editors: Deeply shocked by Anne Robertson's death I have to express my feelings of personal loss. Whatever contact I had with Commonweal went...
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Editorials
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Ties that blind For solidhistorical reasons that reflect credit on both Israel and the United States, the relationship between the two nations has always been unusual. In recent years, however, it...
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Church behind the scenes:
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Foley, Michael W
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REPORT FROM MEXICO CHURCH BEHIND THE SCENES RENEGOTIATING HISTORY The delicate relations between the Mexican Catholic church and the government are once again on the agenda, after nearly sixty...
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Troubles they've seen:
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Levine, Al
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REPORT FROM WASHINGTON TROUBLES THEY'VE SEEN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CATHOLICS George Murry, a Jesuit priest who is president of Carroll High School in Washington, D.C., formerly ran a parish in...
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Qaddafi's revolution:
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Coy, Patrick G
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JOURNEY TO LIBYA QADDAFI'S REVOLUTION PROBING THE PARADOXES It was July 1989, and although it was still early morning, it was hot. I had taken the night flight from Benghazi to Tripoli, Libya...
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Tales from the basement:
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey TALES FROM THE BASEMENT IT WAS A DARK & GLOOMY NIGHT... Since it's close to Halloween, it seems like a good time for ghost stories. But since this is a serious...
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Walking the tightrope of mystery:
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Long, J V
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WALKING THE TIGHTROPE OF MYSTERY THE LONELY SEEKERS OF BRIAN MOORE J.V. LONG Both St. Bernard and Pascal tell us that we wouldn't look for God unless God had already found us. Brian Moore's...
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Barriers to the sacraments:
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Champlin, Joseph M
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BARRIERS TO THE SACRAMENTS THE NEW LITURGICAL LEGALISM JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN If any Catholics remember the church of pre-Vatican II days as rigid and highly legalistic. Those traits seemed to be...
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Daniel: beloved by God & by me:
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Morton, Bridget Balthrop
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DANIEL: BELOVED BY GOD & BY ME FILLING HIS SIZE-TWELVE SHOES BRIDGET BALTHROP MORTON I took my son Daniel, who at thirteen, as his father says, is "hormones with feet," to see Spike Lee's Do the...
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Poetry:
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Mapp, Erica
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POEMS Erica Mapp Tarascon Diligence (Vincent van Gogh, October 1888, Aries) Circles can circumvent comprehension, Sides seem to make no sense to shape a sphere. Weary of back and forth between...
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Screen:
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Baumann, Paul
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SCREEN TAKE YOUR GALOSHES 'SEA OF LOVE' & 'BLACK RAIN' As the sexually voracious Helen in Sea of Love, Ellen Barkin goes at men like Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor goes after opposing...
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Stage:
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Weales, Gerald
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SPIRITED REVIVALS 'SWEENEY TODD' & 'PRIVATES' The new Sweeney Todd at the Circle in the Square inevitably lacks the shock and surprise of the original 1979 production of the Stephen Sond-heim-Hugh...
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Ordinary Time:
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Toolan, David
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The thickness of time in a hot Texas town Years ago, as a temporary resident in the Lone Star state, I had several occasions to drive across the west Texas Panhandle, a horizonless, sun-baked land...
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Religious Change in America:
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Coleman, John A
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A CAREFUL COMPENDIUM RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN AMERICA Andrew M. Greeley Harvard University Press, $25, 137 pp. John A. Coleman I once had the good fortune to live in a small learned community of...
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Jesus the Liberator of Desire:
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Callahan, Sidney
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DELIVERING THE GOODS JESUS THE LIBERATOR OF DESIRE Sebastian Moore Crossroad, $11.95, 132 pp. Sidney Callahan Sebastian Moore, an English theologian teaching at Boston College, produces...
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Down and Out in America:
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Hayes, Robert M
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GIVE ME SHELTER DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA Peter H. Rossi University of Chicago Press, $15.95 242 pp. Robert M. Hayes Twenty-five years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic...
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Religious booknotes:
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES Richard McCormick is the premier Catholic moral theologian writing in English today. His many years as the chronicler of current writings in moral theology, under the rubric of...
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Where the Spirit Breathes:
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Skillin, Edward S
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IN BRIEF Where the Spirit Breathes: Prophetic Dissent in the Church, by Jose I. Gonzalez Faus. Orbis Books, $10.95,140 pp. Who would question the love for the church of those saints who stringently...
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