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IssueVol. 124 Issue 007 (April 11 1997)
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Paid articleCorrespondence Critical minds at work on many targets
FAULHABER, CLARA WILL; KOLISS, JOAN A.; McMENAMIN, ELIZABETH; RIGA, PETER J.; PIEPER, JEANNE; STRAULMAN, ANN; GLENDON, MARY ANN; SCHULTZ, KATHERINE; ZMUDZINSKI, EDWIN S.; BRAY, BOB; SULLIVAN, ROSE
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Claws exposed Commonweal, claws exposed and teeth bared, has taken its annual lazy and tiresome leap at Catholics for a Free Choice [editorial, March 14]. One...
Paid articleEditorial Jerusalem
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Jerusalem The Israeli government's decision in February to allow construction of a substantial new Jewish suburb in Arab East Jerusalem, and the violent Palestinian reaction, have brought the...
Paid articleNotebook The NCR accuses
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
NOTEBOOK Margaret O'Brien Steinfels THE 'NCR' ACCUSES Our editor responds I guess I wasn't looking, but at some moment during my two decades of editing four high-brow, low-circulation journals, I...
Paid articleThe tyranny of time Some of us have so little time we can't even think about it
Callahan, Sidney
SIDNEY C ALLAHAN THE TYRANNY OF TIME Let's cast it off Now is the time for all good men (and women) to throw off the tyranny of time-if we can manage it. I know too many enslaved people. They (we)...
Paid articleTaming the big bucks Only a democratically reinvigorated electorate can offset the influence of money
Jr, David R Carlin
DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. TAMING THE BIG BUCKS Democratic activism is the only way Given the attention the press is paying to the issue, I suppose it is inevitable that we'll have a campaign finance...
Paid articleCharacter counts We should have known that Bill Clinton is flawed
McCabe, David
David McCabe CHARACTER COUNTS A Clinton voter reconsiders Bill Clinton's ascension to the presidency proved just how deep was the yearning among millions of Americans for a candidate who appeared...
Paid articleCrisis in Ecuador
Jameson, Kenneth P
Kenneth P. Jameson CRISIS IN ECUADOR Who's in charge here? On February 5, nearly 3 million Ecuadorans-about one-quarter of the population-demonstrated in the streets against the president they had...
Paid articlePROTECTING THE GUILTY John Salvi III, a killer, still deserved better than he got
Pope, Stephen J
PROTECTING THE GUILTY Did John Salvi deserve his fate? Stephen J. Pope On December 30, 1994, John Salvi III went on a murderous rampage at two Brookline, Massachusetts, abortion clinics that left...
Paid articlePrayer Grows a Body
Cornell, Deirdre
Deirdre Cornell Prayer Grows a Body Freed from the charge of my grandmother's soul (Pray for the family living and dead, pray for your self, pray for the world), I no longer pray the rosary at...
Paid articleAnniversary
Barnes, Daniel R
Daniel R. Barnes Anniversary for Ramon Barnes, 1918-1954 "They have pierced my hands and my feet; they have numbered all my bones." -from the Roman Catholic ritual for Good Friday I have...
Paid articleTHE DESCENT INTO HELL Eastern and Western views of the time between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection
Ryan, Jerry
THE DESCENT INTO HELL Abandonment or a victory over death? Jerry Ryan The first time I assisted at the Russian Orthodox Easter Vigil at Saint Mary's in Chelsea, I was disoriented and somewhat...
Paid articleA Bible for the plowboy An exhibit at the New York Public Library reminds us that getting a vernacular Bible into the hands of Christians was of paramount importance to reformers Often it cost them their heads
Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill A BIBLE FOR THE PLOWBOY Tyndale at the New York Public Library At last count, the Bible has been published in more than 1,700 English vernaculars. It is difficult, amid...
Paid articleBad Land by Jonathan Raban The "land of big sky" finds its Conrad
Cooper, Rand Richards
The frontier that failed Bad Land An American Romance Jonathan Raban Pantheon, $25,324 pp. Rand Richards Cooper By 1909, when the U.S. Con-gress passed the Enlarged Homestead Act, doubling the...
Paid articleLiberating Conscience by Anne E Patrick
Keenan, James F
WHAT IS MORALITY? Liberating Conscience Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology Anne E. Patrick Continuum, $24.95, 252 pp. James F. Keenan Since Vatican II there have been relatively...
Paid articleUSA by John Dos Passos
Wheeler, Edward T
A CONTINENT-SIZED BOOK USA John Dos Passos Library of America, $40, 1,288 pp. Edward T. Wheeler The imprimatur of the Library of America is one indication of the significance of this book and,...
Paid articleReligion booknotes Books on John LaFarge, Ita Ford, Jacques Galliot, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas Cranmer
Cunningham, Lawrence S
RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Biographical / autobiographical writing is a favorite of mine. A few of the works under review here can be read in a single sitting, but others demand...
Paid articleTaxation without salvation
Feuerherd, Peter
THE LAST WORD TAXATION WITHOUT SALVATION Peter Feuerherd Hall him Restless in Seattle. He phoned the "Rush Lim-baugh Show" not long ago. Seems like the middle-aged guy from Washington State has...
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