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IssueVol. 126 Issue 019 (November 5 1999)
IssueVol. 126 Issue 020 (November 19 1999)
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Paid articleOur reviewers are reviewed.
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors The reviewer's task As a fellow reviewer of George Weigel's Witness to Hope (for L'Osser-vatore Romano), I couldn't but wonder whether Eamon Duffy and I read the...
Paid articleSeventy-five years!
COMMONWEAL Seventy-five years! J ournals of opinion come in all shapes and sizes, and in varying degrees of persuasiveness. Readers pick up some to be consoled and reas sured, others to be...
Paid articleNovember 13,1924
From the archives Throughout 1999. Commonweal lias been celebrating it* 75th anniver- sury. Here from the first issue, No- vaulvr 13. 1924, is an excerpt from an editorial introducing the...
Paid article'Sensation' in Brooklyn
Garvey, John
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY 'SENSA¥1ON' IN BRMKLYN Art, free speech & tax money T he controversy surrounding the "Sensation" exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum has generated a number of...
Paid articleTaking religion seriously
Pfaff, William
O F S E V E R A L M IN D S WILLIAM PFAFF TAKING RELIGION SERIOUSLY They do it in godless Europe A striking difference between intellectual debate in Europe and in the United States...
Paid articleManny in the Wasps' Nest
Jacobsen, Josephine
Manny in the Wasps' Nest Small, dark, with big spectacles and the voice of a corncrake. He knew where he was. He kept it clean but he kept it fast. He was the only thing moving, and there sat the...
Paid articleMEA CULPA, MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Can the church admit error?: France & Germany shoe the way
McBrien, Richard P.
MEA CULPA, MEA MAXIMA CULPA Can the church admit error? Introduction ¦ Can the church confess error? Will it ever do so? If so, how? Those were the questions Commonweal put to the four...
Paid articleMEA CULPA, MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Can the church admit error?: Rome, si, California, no
Neuhaus, Richard John
Richard John Neuhaus 'SENTIRE CUM ECCLESIA' Rome, si, California, no T he questions posed by the editors are, I am glad to say, very easily answered. Yes, the church can confess error. She...
Paid articleMEA CULPA, MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Can the church admit error?: What error looks like today
Johnson, Elizabeth A.
Elizabeth A. Johnson GALILEO'S DAUGHTERS What error looks like today C an the church confess error? Of course we can. Whenever a human community realizes that its beliefs or practices have...
Paid articleAfter Psalm 137
Porter, Anne
After Psalm 137 We're still in Babylon but We do not weep Why should we weep? We have forgotten How to weep We've sold our harps And bought ourselves machines That do our singing for us And who...
Paid articleMEA CULPA, MEA MAXIMA CULPA: Can the church admit error?: The lesson of Dei verbum
Komonchak, Joseph
Joseph Komonchak RENEWING AUTHORITY The lesson of Dei verbum F irst, let me set the stage by offering three brief anecdotes about the anxieties raised by doctri- nal development and change...
Paid articleTHE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism A COMMONWEAL FORUM Introduction ¦ As part of our anniversary celebration, Commonweal has been reexamining some of the magazine's founding ideas, liberal...
Paid articleTHE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: The cardinal explains
George, Francis
• The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism • HOW LIBERALISM FAILS f HE CHURCH The cardinal explains Francis George A s some of you might know, this event was con ceived, in part,...
Paid articleEntranced
Ponsot, Marie
Entranced I For openers any wall has doors in it. Openers (who want a door not for air but for passing through) open & shut it forcefully, under heavy pressure from the atmosphere...
Paid articleTHE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: Between powerful enemies & dubious allies
Steinfels, Peter
• The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism • REINVENTING LIBERAL CATHOLICISM Between powerful enemies & dubious allies Peter Steinfels L et's not waste a minute: What is a crisis?...
Paid articleTHE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: But liberals do
Noonan, John
• The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism • John Noonan Liberalism Doesn't Exist But liberals do I 'd like to begin with the proposition, error has no rights. That is a proposition...
Paid articleTHE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: Not if history is any judge
McGreevy, John T.
John T. McGreevy An Exhausted Project? Not if history is any judge Hlace yourself, if you can, at that most revealing late twentieth-century event—one sure to interest late twenty-first-century...
Paid articleTHE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: Even the pope
Dionne, E.J. Jr.
• The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism EJ. Dionne, Jr. We're All Liberals Now Even the pope First of all, I think we might imagine today's event as a three-hour rebuttal to Governor...
Paid articleA CRITIC'S MANIFESTO
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva A CRITIC'S MANIFESTO Why I saw it, why I didn't T V programs such as "Enter tainment Tonight" offer to take you "behind the scenes" and show you how a movie is shot. For...
Paid articleDesire of the Everlasting Hills
Cahill, Thomas; Johnson, Luke Timothy
BOOKS The gospel according to Cahill Desire of the Everlasting Hills The World Before and After Jesus By Thomas Cahill Voubkday, $24.35,343 pp. Luke Timothy Johnson T his is the third in...
Paid articleCommonweal Confronts the Century
Jordan, Patrick; Baumann, Paul; McGrory, Mary
DEPRESSING & EXHILARATING Sommonweal Confronts the Century Liberal Convictions, Catholic Tradition Udited by Patrick Jordan & Paul Baumann l't<nJist<»n\. US, 411 ;>;;. Nary NcGrory T his fat...
Paid articleA Star Called Henry
Doyle, Roddy; Elie, Paul
IRELAND WITHOUT TEARS A Star Called Henry By Roddy Doyle Viking, $24.95.343 pp. Paul Elle_________________ T he early novels of Roddy Doyle were recognizable simply by the way they were laid...
Paid articleThe last word hasn't been said. Yet
O'Gara, James
THE LAST WORD ACTUALLY, THE LAST WORD HASN'T BEEN SAID. YET James O'Gara I can't say exactly when I started to read Commonweal, but I was probably in my early...
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