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Vol. 124 Issue 007 (April 11 1997)
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Correspondence Critical minds at work on many targets
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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
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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...
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Editorial Jerusalem
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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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...
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Notebook The NCR accuses
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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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...
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The tyranny of time Some of us have so little time we can't even think about it
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Callahan, Sidney
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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)...
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Taming the big bucks Only a democratically reinvigorated electorate can offset the influence of money
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Jr, David R Carlin
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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...
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Character counts We should have known that Bill Clinton is flawed
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McCabe, David
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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...
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Crisis in Ecuador
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Jameson, Kenneth P
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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...
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PROTECTING THE GUILTY John Salvi III, a killer, still deserved better than he got
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Pope, Stephen J
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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...
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Prayer Grows a Body
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Cornell, Deirdre
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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...
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Anniversary
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Barnes, Daniel R
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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...
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THE DESCENT INTO HELL Eastern and Western views of the time between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection
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Ryan, Jerry
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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...
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A 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
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Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
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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...
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Bad Land by Jonathan Raban The "land of big sky" finds its Conrad
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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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...
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Liberating Conscience by Anne E Patrick
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Keenan, James F
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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...
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USA by John Dos Passos
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Wheeler, Edward T
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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,...
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Religion booknotes Books on John LaFarge, Ita Ford, Jacques Galliot, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas Cranmer
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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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...
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Taxation without salvation
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Feuerherd, Peter
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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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