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 Vol. 126 Issue 015 (September 10 1999)
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••Cover Page••
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 Correspondence: Cuba, Kevin Doyle
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C O R R ESPONDENCE To the Editors Mischievous modifiers I enjoyed Paul Elie's remembrance of Ted Hughes ["A Poet's Unmistakable Voice," July 16], muted though it was, except for this statement:...
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Editorial: Expelling Darwin
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grudgingly amended when a distinguished philosopher and an equally distinguished historian of world religions pointed out the theological claims packed into those first two adjectives. At the...
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From the archives: November 24, 1926
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From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. Here from the November 24, 1926 issue is am excerpt from "Autocracy versus ...
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Sexuality & homosexuality
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Callahan, Sidney
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OF SEVERAL HINDS SIDNEY CALLAHAN SEXUALITY & HOMOSEXUALITY The church's Gordian knot Resolved: However provoked, no Christian will use the word "homophobia" or "patriarchy" in heated...
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Saving Social Security
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL HINDS ABIGAIL MCCARTHY SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY Keep it public At a recent panel discussion at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center titled, "Social Security...
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Shadows
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Payne, Gerrye
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Shadows If the great downy underwings carry hidden shadows, we below, through our distracted, rushed sympathies, understand that when we are lost there can be the strange flutter, where we find...
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HOME AT LAST
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Goldweber, David
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HONE AT LAST The pilgrimage of Claude McKay David Goldweber There have been a good number of conversions of twentieth-century intellectuals to Catholicism, but few are as intriguing as the...
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OUTSIDE THE CHURCH
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Davidson, James D.
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OUTSIDE THE CHURCH Whom Catholics marry & where James D. Davidson Are more young Catholics marrying outside the church today, without seeking its approval? The answer seems to be yes. While...
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CATHOLICISM LITE
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Schommer, John J.
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tian denominations? Don't they need to be acquainted with the dogmatic claims of their own Catholic tradition before they can talk intelligently with their peers from other Christian...
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BROKEN BODY TO BROKEN BODY
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Brignoli, Lyn Burr
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BROKEN BODY TO BROKEN BODY Learning the languages of faith Lyn Burr Brignoli There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning.... 1 Corinthians 14:10 one...
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EYES WIDE SHUT
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva FINAL CURTAIN Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' Not every great artist brings his career to a splendid dose. How could they, when few know they're on the way out? (Even the...
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Behind the Basilica
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Johnson, Hank
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and Desire was apprentice work, scarcely seen at all.) This gangster movie is nothing but an exercise in moviemaking-Kubrick teaching himself to shoot a boxing match, then a love scene,...
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DOSTOEVSKI'S SHADOW
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Wren, Celia
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and Desire was apprentice work, scarcely seen at all.) This gangster movie is nothing but an exercise in moviemaking-Kubrick teaching himself to shoot a boxing match, then a love scene,...
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Martin Luther
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Marius, Richard
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BOOKS Recasting the reformer Eamon Duffy Richard Marius is one of America's most distinguished Renaissance scholars, and the author of a superlative (and far from hagiographic) biography of...
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For the Time Being
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Dillard, Annie
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A GOD'S-EYE VIEW Peggy Rosenthal In 1982, Annie Dillard found herself, as part of a tour group in China, standing above the excavation site of thousands of life-sized clay soldiers, modeled...
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The Bible and the New York Times
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Rutledge, Fleming
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Commonweal 30 September 10,1999 THE WORD OF RECORD Robert P. Imbclll Recently, while preparing a Sunday sermon, I came upon a quote from the English novelist P.D. James. "Sermons," opined...
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Human Voices
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Fitzgerald, Penelope
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Commonweal 11 September 10,1999 A LISTENER'S GUIDE Edward T. Wheeler The trouble with memory "is that it develops its own defenses, against truth telling and in consequence against...
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The Unread Vision
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Pecklers, Keith F.
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MASS APPEAL Rembert G. Weakland In hindsight many writers assert that it would have been better if the Second Vatican Council had not begun with such a sensitive subject as liturgy. They often add...
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Mr. Quilisma
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Godfrey, A. W.
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THE LAST WORD MR. QUILISMA A.W. Godfrey It seems easy to forget what it was like being Catholic prior to World War II. It was a long time ago and American Catholics are different now. They...
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Vol. 126 Issue 016 (September 24 1999)
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