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IssueVol. 122 Issue 021 (December 1 1995)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
O'CONNOR, (MISS) FLANNERY; Terzian, Philip; SHAFER, BENEDICT F.; SKOUSGAARD, SHANNON McINTYRE; Callahan, Sidney; LANGAN, BARBARA
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors An author displeased I suppose a Milledgeville girl ought to be pleased with most Any notice in Commonweal 31 years after the Event but I am not Over-Gratified to...
Paid articleEditorial Responsum dubium
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Responsum dubium When the Vatican archives for 1995 are opened, we hope that they will show that the pope and his advisers went through as much anguish in deciding to issue the latest statement...
Paid articleEt cetera A choice to forgive
ET CETERA A CHOICE TO FORGIVE - Aim is the newsletter of the Alliance for International Monasticism, which exists to foster links among Benedictine and Cistercian communities worldwide. This brief...
Paid articleThe trouble with angels Once a doubter, our columnist has finally heard angels front on high
Callahan, Sidney
OF SEVERAL MINDS SIDNEY CALLAHAN THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS My conversion experience Retraction time again. I was wrong to cavalierly dismiss the existence of angels ("Filling the Gaps," March 24,...
Paid articleSeparation anxiety Back to square one: Quebec is still in Canada, by a vote that revealed significant divisions in the province itself
Bishop, Jordan
Jordan Bishop SEPARATION ANXIETY Quebec fails to secede Even when it's finally over, it may not be over. That seems to be the consensus following October's hard-fought referendum on Quebec's...
Paid articleIs Quebec becoming two nations? It was multicultural Montreal that tipped the scales
Levesque, Charles W
Is Quebec Becoming Two Nations? Not only did the October 30 referendum fail to resolve the question of the viabili-ty of the Canadian confederation, but, more ominously, it evidenced a severely...
Paid articleReforming health care Health care, managed care, and your own care are about to change Our author explains how the "revolution" in health-care insurance is working, and how it is likely to work when Congress finishes "fixing" it
Koller, Christopher F
Christopher P. Koller REFORMING HEALTH CARE Managed care needs a cop The debate in Congress over health-care policy has begun to resemble a Fellini movie-there is something important going on,...
Paid articleLOADED AT THE TOP Americans are among the most productive workers in the world, yet take-home pay for the average American continues to fall Why? Look at your boss's paycheck Look at your pension plan
Senser, Robert A
LOADED AT THE TOP Where productivity gains land Robert A. Senser When I first went job-hunting, my uncle told me: "Remember, the harder you work, the more money you'll make." Later, economists...
Paid articleA HERO OF VATICAN II In the first stages of the council, Yves Congar, the Dominican theologian, got little respect from the old guard When the council closed, thirty years ago, most of his ideas for church renewal had prevailed
Komonchak, Joseph A
A HERO OF VATICAN II Yves Cougar Joseph A. Komonchak The Second Vatican Council ended thirty years ago, on December 8, 1965. As I am often reminded by my students, sometimes playfully, sometimes...
Paid articleSnail
Holladay, Hilary
Hilary Holladay Snail Twisting around at the sound of wind I inch below ice patched with oak leaves. It is winter, nearly Christmas. I ooze a trail of joy-Nobody sees my contentment with drainage...
Paid articleGet Shorty Elmore Leonard fans will enjoy a near-perfect movie version of Get Shorty
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva LOOK AT HIM John Travolta in 'Get Shorty' Hew of us can enact our dreams in our jobs. That lawyer so diligently adding codicils to your will may harbor fantasies of...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Miles, Jack
BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Jack Miles Jack Miles is director of the Humanities Center at the Claremont Graduate School, Claretnont, California, and author of God: A Biography...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Hampl, Patricia
Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl is the author of Virgin Time (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), a memoir. She is also the editor of Burning Bright (Ballantine), a new anthology of sacred poetry from...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Swick, Thomas
Thomas Swick Thomas Swick is the travel editor of the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the author of the travel memoir Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland (Ticknor & Fields). I may be the...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, writes for the...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Meilaender, Gilbert
Gilbert Meilaender Gilbert Meilaender is the Davis Professor of Religion at Oberlin College. His book Body, Soul, and Bioethics will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in January...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Pampusch, Anita M
Anita M. Pampusch Anita M. Pampusch is president of the College of Saint Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota. My bookshelf contains an eclectic assortment of vol-umes: philosophical clas-sics,...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words
Baumann, Paul
Paul Baumann Paul Baumann is the associate editor of Commonweal. Now this is fun! It's not every day, or every Christmas, that one gets to share space with two of the authors one is about to...
Paid articleAlone with God, and everybody
Cunningham, Lawrence S
THE LAST WORD ALONE WITH GOD, AND EVERYBODY Lawrence S. Cunningham At the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani where I visit, the office of vigils begins at 3:15 in the morning. The cantor intones...
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