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IssueVol. 129 Issue 021 (December 6 2002)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors A glorious inheritance Apropos Peter Quinn's engaging discussion of "The Catholic Novel" (November 8): The attempt to use a "mark" of the church-namely...
Paid articleEditorial: The state of war
The state of war Will Iraq comply with the rigorous demands of UN inspections? Hopes are high that Saddam Hussein's resolve to stay in power will over-ride his desire to conceal nuclear, chemical,...
Paid articleEt cetera: Exploiting the bishops
ET CETERA Exploiting the bishops From Bishop Wilton Gregory's November 11 presidential address to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: "There are those outside the church who are...
Paid articleThe virtue & vice of deadlines
Callahan, Sidney
OF SEVERAL MINDS SIDNEY CALLAHAN THE VIRTUE & VICE OF DEADLINES The last 900 words Hail and farewell, fellow readers. I am quitting the column business-cold turkey. Total abstinence is the only...
Paid article'Los dos amigos'?
Grayson, George W.
George W. Grayson 'LOS DOS AMIGOS'? Vicente Fox & George W. Bush Until September 11, Mexico's President Vicente Fox and George W. Bush were soul mates. They called themselves the "two amigos,"...
Paid articleFAITH & GOVERNMENT
Cuomo, Mario M.
FAITH & GOVERNMENT What religion demands & pluralism requires Mario M. Cuomo I have been asked to reflect upon the experience of elected officials who try to reconcile person-al religious...
Paid articleFORGIVE US OUR SINS
McLaughlin, Robert E.
FORGIVE US OUR SINS But how? Robert E. McLaughlin For the past twelve years, I served as the pastor of a large parish in the heart of Chicago. Because the parish was in the downtown area (where...
Paid articleThe Note Judas Left
Cate, Hollis
The Note Judas Left But I knew something, you see: martyrdom required a kiss. This silver was just incidental and had to be offered and taken in the scheme of things. I heard a voice saying: "Do it...
Paid articleComedian
Cooper, Rand Richards
SCREEN Rand Richards Cooper STANDUP GUY 'Comedian' Is it true, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked, that there are no second acts in American life? Few celebrities are better positioned to...
Paid articleThe godfather
Alleva, Richard
CULTURE WATCH Richard Alleva THE GODFATHER The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara-the play A few drops of water sprinkled on a child's feverish forehead and the words of baptism secretly muttered by...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas
Sheahen, Laura
BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Laura Sheahen Laura Sheahen is religion producer at Be-liefnet.com. If baby-boomer Catholics have been puzzled by their younger Gen-X counterparts lately,...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas
Bergonzi, Bernard
Bernard Bergonzi Bernard Bergonzi, a longtime contributor, writes from Warwickshire, England. His biography of Matthew Arnold's Catholic brother, Tom, is forthcoming from Oxford University...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas
Abell, W. Sheperdson
W. Shepherdson Abell W. Shepherdson Abell is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. I don't read many novels but one I have greatly enjoyed is Mark Salzman's Lying Awake (Alfred...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas
Marget, Madeline
Madeline Marget Madeline Marget, the author of Life's Blood (Simon & Schuster), is working on a novel. When Kathryn Harrison's memoir The Kiss (Harper-Collins, $11, 207 pp.) was published in...
Paid articleCritics' choices for Christmas
Townsend, Tim
Tim Townsend Tim Townsend, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, is a student at Yale Divinity School. If you're offended by graphic descriptions of bestiality, incest, Satanism, sodomy, racism,...
Paid articleSpecial delivery
Godfrey, Aaron W.
THE LAST WORD SPECIAL DELIVERY Aaron W. Godfrey For the last several years, my wife and I have led a weekly Communion service at the local nursing home. It makes me very uncomfortable, as it...
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