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IssueVol. 121 Issue 019 (November 4 1994)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
not exist. Theology that ignores science ends up being disembodied, closed speculation. Science without theology ends up being arrogant, directionless technology. BR. ROBERT A. BARBATO, O.F.M....
Paid articleEditorial
columnists, and writers have so pondered. But no more than the philosophers or Schindler do we have a clear answer to how the moral crisis of liberalism will resolve itself on such questions as...
Paid articleRome speaks
HUCK, GABE
that the inclusive language in the NRSV met the criteria they themselves had established in 1990. The NRSV came to them with the recommendation of their own committees. If the assembled bishops of...
Paid articleKinship is forever
Callahan, Sidney
ens the obligations that we owe to the old. In the mirror I see my face turning into my father's face with the same wrinkles and deep shadows, while my-body slowly begins to resemble my mother's in...
Paid articleAn alienating culture
Garvey, John
7 OF SEVERAL MIMPS John Garvey AN ALIENATING CULTURE NO SENSE OF THE SACRED ¦ have friends who have decided to teach their children at home. We considered doing this briefly, when our children...
Paid articleDissent & communion
Steinfels, Margaret O 'Brien
just to both. Media saturation is a fact of the modern world. The church need not respond in a subservient fashion to that fact, bending to glib prophets of an electronic age. Baroque Catholicism...
Paid articlePoetry
Porter, Anne
Anne Porter In Another World It was the second decade Of our century When I began my life Large patches of the former century Lingered like snow in April Cities were quiet Though sometimes...
Paid articleMy patron, Thomas the doubter
Elie, Paul
much of Christian culture today seems to dispel faith rather than call it forth. The church, it is said, is Christ made visible. Put that way, the notion seems smug and dishonest, an echo from a...
Paid articleThe Community of Sant'Egidio
Imbelli, Robert P.
evasion of responsibility. The members of the church, like the church itself, witness not to self, but to Christ. Christ alone is the "light of the nations"; to witness to him and to announce the...
Paid article'Commonweal' & the 'Catholic Worker'
Jordan, Patrick
1 9 2 4 . S E V E N T Y Y E A R . 1 9 9 4 'COMMONWEAL' & THE CATHOLIC WORKER' CONNECTS & DISCONNECTS PATRICK JORDAN A nniversaries are for celebrating, and major ones the more so....
Paid articleSix decades of rewarding struggle
Skillin, Edward S.
Commonweal's just-war position, a fact that, for this particular writer, has presented frequent occasions for soul-searching. Commonweal continues to be a forum, however, where pacifists such as...
Paid articlePoetry
Partridge, Dixie
Dixie Partridge November Turning (for my mother at 70) The thin language of air thickens intangibly as night rises from the ground at my feet.... We know the white sleep, the slurred speech...
Paid articleScreen
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN BEATEN TO A PULP TARANTINO'S 'FICTION' M aybe you have to be able to see through Quentin Tarantino before you can enjoy him. Like all his previous movies, Pulp Fiction is packed with...
Paid articleMedia
McConnell, Frank
MEDIA NO FALL CLASSIC BURNS'S 'BASEBALL' It's an irony that has already been repeated to death, but it bears repetition one more time, because it isn't just an irony but, I think, a key moment in...
Paid articleTesting the Gospel story
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Meier has pursued with such diligence, intelligence, and integrity. I note with some bemusement that the advance readers' copy I am using for this review trumpets the volume as "John Meier's quest...
Paid articleFrom the Heart of the American Church, David J. O'Brien
Marsden, George M.
should separate Catholic and more traditional Protestant scholars. Yet Catholic schools seem reluctant to use the word "Christian." As one Notre Dame undergraduate explained to me, "Christian" is...
Paid articleTwo Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, John Leo
Hoyt, Robert G.
KEEP RUNNING TWO STEPS AHEAD OF THE THOUGHT POLICE Essays John Leo Simon & Schuster, $22, 319 pp. Robert O. Hoyt First, disclosures. (1) Years ago, the author of these essays was an editor of...
Paid articleCatholic Lives/Contemporary America, edited Thomas J. Ferraro
Freeman, Mary Lee
in these pages as "more or less that of a stormtrooper in jackboots," wants no part of that game. What emerges from the pages of this collection, then, is not a portrait of the church as monstrous...
Paid articleGender and Discourse, Deborah Tannen
O'Brien, Dennis
WHY YOU JUST DON'T GET IT GENDER AND DISCOURSE Deborah Tannen Oxford University Press, $19.95, 203 pp. Dennis O'Brien "In every known so- ciety, mankind (sic!) haselaborat- ed the biological...
Paid articleLiberal for the right reasons
Clancy, William P.
THE PENULTIMATE WORD Liberal for the right reasons WILLIAM P. CLANCY ¥he antipathy which the Catholic and the liberal have felt for each other is real, and its causes are basic to the philosophy...
Paid articlePoor for the right reasons
Day, Dorothy
THE LAST WORD Poor for the right reasons DOROTHY DAY The spiritual works of mercy are: to admonish the sinner, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel the doubtful, to comfort the sorrowful, to bear...
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