CORRESPONDENCE Catholic "Fundamentalists"? AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS The big distinction Annandale, Va. To the Editors: I found John Coleman's recent article ["Who are the Catholic...
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Crimping the accords W e do not claim the right to order the politics of Nicaragua. That is for the Nicaraguan people to decide." President George Bush's statement last month announcing bipar-...
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REPORT FROM ROME AUDITION FOR TRAGEDY A ROAD PAVED WITH EXCUSES The American archbishops left Rome pleased by their meeting with the pope and Vatican officials (March 8-11). In the words of...
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Sharpening the silence Last week I lost my voice: It was just laryngitis brought on by me combination of a cold and all the talking leaching requires. It didn't hurt when my voice started sounding...
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OF SEVERAL WINDS John Garvey GOD'S TRUE BREW SOME SOUPS CANT BE WATERED DOWN In a recent column (December 16, 1988) I suggested that the differences between religions sometimes matter more than...
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WRITING WITH INTENT THE ARTISTRY OF MURIEL SPARK ROBERT E. HOSMER, JR. In Muriel Spark's fifth nov*el, The Bachelors (1960), Ronald Bridges, an epileptic graphologist, announces, "To me, being...
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Charlotte F. Often Two Sons Dead 2 Samuel 21 Her face crisscrossed by telephone wires Two sons dead for Saul'-; blood-guilt, Or was it Nam that crucified them? Green-bellied, flowers burning at...
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HANGING IN THE BALANCE EL SALVADOR'S FUTURE & THE LIMITS OF U.S. POWER LINDA ROBINSON El Salvador is replacing Nicaragua as the United States'primary Central American obsession. The nine-year-old...
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SCREEN SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS AVILDSEN'S 'LEAN ON ME' Lean on Me is loud, simplistic, overly optimistic, and dramatically repetitive, but it is also valuable and inspiring. The story is based on...
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BOOKS When celibates were a brash new elite Peter Brown, I think, would agree with something that the late Yale religious historian E.R. Goodenough once told his students. In Victorian society, as...
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MYTHS OF DOMINATION LOST Of THE LAND OF OZ The Search for Identity and Community in American Life Madonna Kolbenschlag Harper & Row, $16.95, 204 pp. I AH OF IRELAND Women of the North Speak Out...
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Catholic America Lawrence S. Cunningham To celebrate the bicentennial of the appointment of John Carroll as the first bishop in the United States (1789), the American bishops com-missionejd a...
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