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 Vol. 123 Issue 003 (February 9 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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FAHEY, ROBERT J.; FAHRIG, BROTHER DON; Beck, Henry G. J.; Gans, Herbert J.; BROPHY, ROBERT; LAWBAUGH, WILLIAM M.; CLEARWATER, DON; Senser, Robert A.; KERSTEN, HERBERT H.; CHEW, MICHAEL
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Bitter, worldly, arrogant Your editorial ["Responsum dubium," December 1] is deeply offensive. For you to accuse the pope of inflicting wounds on the body of Christ is to claim both an authority of...
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Editorial Political default
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Political default In spite of the drama of presidential vetoes and congressional brinkmanship, the Battle of the Budget is not exactly a clash of Titans. Skirmishing policy wonks looks more like...
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Et cetera
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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SPICY IS OUR NIDDLENANE Commonweal'swery high profile and even higher tone continue to draw comment. Early in November we got ourselves mentioned in both the Nation (November 6) and the New York...
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Is black white? If a cat may look on a king, a columnist may query a cardinal
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Callahan, Sidney
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SIDNEY CALLAHAN IS BLACK WHITE? Seeing purple Hear Cardinal Ratzinger, If you instruct us as loyal Catholics to submit in mind and will to the "infallible" teaching that women cannot be ordained...
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Teaching values in school About the only thing we have in common is our disagreements-about abortion, adultery, affirmative action, euthanasia, etc
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Jr, David R Carlin
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DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. TEACH1NG VALUES IN SCHOOL Which ones? Whose? There is much talk nowadays about the need for public schools to teach moral val- ues. In a society which, for thirty years, has...
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From Zagreb to Mostar Our correspondent finds out firsthand what war has wrought in Bosnia
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Kelly, Mary Pat
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Mary Pat Kelly FROM ZAGREB TO MOSTAR A Bosnian Journey The fighting had stopped in Bosnia. At Split airport the lines of UN peacekeeping troops were heading out, while civilians like ourselves...
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LEAVE IT TO THE STATES Governors who champion tax cuts are usually out of office by the time the bills come due
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Kelly, Kevin
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LEAVE IT TO THE STATES And it won't get done Kevin Kelly By the time the Clinton administration put forth its balanced-budget plan in early January, it was clear that the stalemate in Washington...
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In the South Bronx
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Furlong, Tom
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Tom Furlong In the South Bronx Knee deep in broken brick and splintered glass, a girl no more than nine hopped out from an empty lot, and asked a stranger in the street, "Who made this?''-the...
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PROCLAIMING THE CATHOLIC FAITH A theologian urges pastoral ministers to present the faith, make distinctions, and trust the faithful
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Gaillerdetz, Richard R
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PROCLAIMING THE CATHOLIC FAITH The scope & limits of pastoral ministry Richard R. Gaillardetz Several years ago in America (May 2,1992) magazine, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels argued that the recent...
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'Imitamini Quod Tractatis'
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Kinsella, John
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John Kinsella 'Imitamini Quod Traciatis' For Priests in These Difficult Times The day you were called to break bread for a living was the day you were called to be broken. The days you...
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How 'Seinfeld' was born The joys of a sitcom about 'nothing'
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McConnell, Frank
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Frank McConnell HOW 'SEINFELD' WAS BORN Jane Austen meets Woody Allen Being Irish, I think it's important always to have a few really good reasons to be depressed-otherwise you'll start feeling...
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A melancholy 'Boss' Republicans have praised Bruce Springsteen in the past Are they listening to him now?
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Gerics, Joseph
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Joseph Gerics A MELANCHOLY 'BOSS' Springsteen's new sound In 1975, New Jersey-born rocker Bruce Springsteen exploded onto the music scene with "Born to Run." As other hits followed, Springsteen...
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The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is widely regarded as a master of English prose I In his first major work since coming under the fatwa, the story he tells echoes the life he lives
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Maitland, Sara
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The author is too much with us The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie Panlhmn, $25,437 pp. Sara Haltland Salman Rushdie is-and I think this can be said fairly uncontroversially-one of the most...
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In Good Company by Stanley Hauerwas
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Jordan, Patrick
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A MUSCULAR PACIFIST In Good Company The Church as Potts Stanley Hatwrwas University of Notre Dame Press, $29.95,20$ pp. Patrick Jordan Stanley Hauerwas, Methodist theologian and university...
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The real birth of affirmative action
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Gebhardt, John C
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THE REAL BIRTH OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION John C. Gebhardt One reason-not the only reason-that I'm in favor of affirmative action is that my family and I, down to and including the third generation,...
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Vol. 123 Issue 004 (February 23 1996)
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