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 Vol. 124 Issue 015 (September 12 1997)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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Welcome to the Web I just checked out your Web site for the first time. Quite well done. You are to be congratulated. I'm looking forward to frequent visits. Thanks for making Commonweal available...
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Editorial
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STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Poetry: Rosemary Deen Design:...
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Suffering & God's love
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Garvey, John
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JOHN GARVEY SUFFERING & GOO'S LOVE Given to the just & the unjust alike 0 ur society is probably the first in which we agree to keep what matters most to us out of our common dis course, because...
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Affirmative action
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Dionne, E.J. Jr.
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E.J. OIONNE, Jr. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION just & unjust at the same time resident Bill Clinton's initiative on race is already running into the classic problem of American ven tures in brotherhood and...
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A new American tribe
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Feuerherd, Peter
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Peter Fenerherd A NEW AMERICAN TRIBE Intermarriage & the racial divide P resident Bill Clinton has urged Americans to talk with their families and friends about race relations. I took him up on...
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A church that votes
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Ramirez, Antonio
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Antonio Ramirez A CHURCH THAT VOTES Episcopalians in convention he American Episcopal church's General Convention meets every three years to elect officers, adopt a budget, enact canon law, and...
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Half a loaf
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Nilson, Jon
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Jon Nilson HALF A LOAF Lutherans draw a line What a testimony it would be, in the midst of this balkanized society, i f two churches, long separated, could affirm each other and begin to knit...
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Forgiving The Unforgivable
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Ferrari, Frank
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FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE An interview with Archbishop Desrnond Tutu Frank Ferrari r lea for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation ~nmission-the topic of the interview that fol s-sprang...
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Twelve Years Old in Bangkok
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Blaquart, Norrie
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Norrie Blaquart Twelve Years Old in Bangkok Gag the nightingale Bruise the rose Tear petals away Wherever flowers grow. Last night in a dream I slept with my mother, Then he woke me The...
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Half-way to Healing
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Fireside, Harvey
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at them. Remember who they are? They had a nightmare they called apartheid. It has ended. Your nightmare will end too. They had a problem which people said was intractable. They are solving it. So,...
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War & Remembrance
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Bacevich, A.J.
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A.J. Bacevich WAR & REMEMBRANCE On not forgiving Robert S. McNamara F or most people who labor in the imperial capital, chance meetings with notables are a side benefit of the job. Not for me....
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Smile, When You Say 'LAITY'
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McCarraher, Eugene
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SMILE, WHEN YOU SAY 'LAITY' The hidden triumph of the consumer ethos Eugene McCarraher already run the church." Reacting to Charles WMorris's question on women's ordination, Joan Peters of Saint...
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Orphans
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Daly, Daniel
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L est my example be dismissed as merely local, let me refer to two other communities: Washington, D.C.'s Holy Trinity Parish, chronicled recently by Jim Naughton in Catholics in Crisis...
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Ulee's Gold; Mrs Brown
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva MELODRAMAS THAT WORK H ow nonviolent and unlurid
can a melodrama be and yet
remain a melodrama? Ulee's
Gold, written and directed
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Woza Afrika!
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren AFTER APARTHEID LiriColrl Ceiifer-> Afrikw • r happens when -yenr non out enemies? This plaintive ;.ut stion, uttered by one of ht protean figures in the :L. n: •i;:h:Africanone-act...
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American Catholic
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Where we are, how we got here American Catholic The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church Charles R. Morris Times &.+ks. I pp_ John T. McGreevy A t the installation of...
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Liberal Racism
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Sleeper, Jim
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CAM WE REALLY BE COLORBLIND? Liberal Racism Jim Steeper Viking. 7'1.43 08 pp. Don Wyelirtf D tiring my college years in the late 1960s, the high tide .,i black militancy, some of my more...
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Heart of the World, Center of the Church
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Schindler, David L.
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servative the free marketplace allows the pursuit of self-interest to work for the common economic good; and for Hesburgh the commonly accepted academic criteria predefine what a university,...
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Striving towards Being/The Journals of Thomas Nerton
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Faggen, Robert; PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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FIVE VOLUMES & COUNTING Striving towards Being The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Robert Faggen Farrar. S!r n amt Girnux. $21. loll pp W The Journals of Thomas...
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You're So Beautiful/Normal
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Gerald, Eileen Fitz; Nevai, Lucia
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STORIES FROM NEXT DOOR You're So Beautiful Stories Eileen FiizGerald St_ Martin's PrM.521.95,198 pp. Normal Stories Lucia Nerrai Algonquin Boob of Chapel Hill, S1 7.95, 217 pp. Jacqueline...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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O wen Chadwick's history of
Christianity is an old-fash
ioned, straightforward nar
rative, but it is never a lock
step chronological series of Great Events
and Great Persons. To be sure,...
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The peasant who defied Hitler
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Zahn, Gordon C.
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THE PEASANT WHO DEFIED HITLER Gordon C. Zahn Saint Radegund is a village too small to have its own post office, too remote to be reached by normal transportation facilities. Yet in the tiny...
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