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 Vol. 124 Issue 001 (January 17 1997)
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Vol. 124 Issue 002 (January 31 1997)
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 Correspondence On gender and religion, different takes
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Thanks for honesty I write with gratitude to John Shekleton and Commonweal for "Homosexuality and the Priesthood" [November 22,1996]. The gratitude is from a sense...
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Editorials Bad karma
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Bad karma Excommunication sounds worse than it is-at least we hope that's true. Ideally, or so the technical definitions suggest, excommunication is a pastoral tool of last resort used both to...
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Et cetcras Neighborhood saints
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NEIGHBORHOOD SAINTS After four years of absence, the saints have returned to El Museo del Barrio on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The musem has opened a new, permanent exhibition of forty-five...
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Et cetcras Good questions
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GOOD QUESTIONS - The lead-up to the January 7 Supreme Court hearing on physician-assisted suicide showed a less-than-skeptical media preparing the country for the inevitable: Physician-assisted...
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Et cetcras Research news
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RESEARCH NEWS - Headlines from three major newspapers on January 9,1997: Abortion Study Fuels Debate on Cancer Link (Wall Street Journal). Big Study Finds No Link in Abortion and Cancer (New York...
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Et cetcras Reading Balasuriya
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READING BALASMRIYA - The following articles by Tissa Balasuriya, O.M.I., appeared in Commonweal: "Communism in Asia," January 22,1965; "World Apartheid," December 24,1965; "Opinion on Vietnam War,"...
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Two churches Our columnist sees an unbridged gap between a la carte and fixed-menu Catholicism
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY TWO CHURCHES Fixed menu or a la carte? Hast fall I wrote a speech for a college leadership conference on what it was like to be a layperson in the Catholic...
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Relativism in perspective Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was recently reappointed for another term as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith He is a busy man, in absolute terms, and now hopes to inoculate us against an epidemic of relativism
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Clooney, Francis X
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Francis X. Clooney RELATIVISM IN PERSPECTIVE Rereading Ratzinger On January 4, 1997, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that it had excommunicated the Sri Lankan theologian...
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ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY FACE TO FACE Muslims remember the Crusades and the era of colonialism Christians focus on the threat of fanatical factions within Islam To deal with today's political realities, both sides need to reflect on their own histories
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Esposito, John L
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ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY FACE TO FACE An old conflict & prospects for a new ending John L. Esposito The recent Taliban capture of Kabul and control of much of Afghanistan, Hamas's continued threats...
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FRANCE & ALGERIA
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Prusak, Bernard G
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France & Algeria nudging from the forensic evidence, investigators have indicated that a Decembers, 1996 subway bombing in Paris was likely perpetrated by the same Algerian terrorists responsible...
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THE PILLARS OF ISLAMIC FAITH
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Burrell, David B
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THE PILLARS OF ISLAMIC FAITH What we should know & why David B. Burrell The watershed for Catholics with regard to other religions is the Vatican II document, Nostra ae-tate. Celebrated for its...
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A TALE OF TWO PRELATES
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O'Grady, Desmond
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A TALE OF TWO PRELATES An ecumenist & a schismatic Desmond O'Grady That day in the cathedral in Yaounde, Cameroon, one of the two choirs accompanying a solemn Mass sang Gregorian chant; the...
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REMEMBERING THE MARTYRS
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Dardess, George
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Remembering the martyrs In March 1996, seven Trappist monks, including their prior, Dom Christian deCherge, were abducted by Islamic sectarians from Our Lady of Atlas Monastery in Tibherine,...
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Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne
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Egan, Robert J
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When philosophers talk about God Robert J. Egan Many Commonweal readers will remember a time when caring about philosophy seemed an integral part of being a Catholic. With a robust confidence in...
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God Has Ninety-Nine Names
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Fischel, Judith Miller,Jack
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PROMISED LAND? God Has Ninety-Nine Names Reporting from a Militant Middle East Judith Miller Simon & Schuster. $30.574 pp. Jack Fischel Until last year's election of Benjamin Netanyahu as...
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THE LAST WORD Amen! In sh' Allah! One monk's last testament on the possibility of martyrdom and the forgiveness of his murderer Christian de Cherge
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THE LAST WORD AMEN! IN SH' ALLAH! Christian de Cherge What follows is the testament of a Trappist priest killed by members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria in May 1996. The document was...
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