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 Vol. 129 Issue 009 (May 3 2002)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence Sex-abuse crisis, Christology, the 'mandate'...
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MAHONEY, GEORGE L.; ROMERO, ALEX; McMahon, John J.; MARTIN, REGIS; CALLAHAN, PATRICK; FOY, DONALD; McGOVERN, THOMAS J.
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COROSPONDENCE
What's needed
I commend Commonweal for its editorials on the Catholic Church's sex-abuse crisis ("Priests & Pedophilia," March 8, and "The Whole Story," April 5). Considering the...
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Editorial When in Rome
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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EDITORIAL
When in Rome
As we go to press, thirteen U.S. cardinals are meeting with the pope and his advisers in an effort to formulate a response and a policy that can restore the church's...
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Et cetera Prayers for the church
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Prayers for the Church m Nicholas Clifford and Dennis O'Brien, two frequent contributors to Commonweal, have proposed that Sunday May 19, 2002, the Feast of Pentecost, be considered a special day of...
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Et cetera James Finn, R I P
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James Finn, R.I.P.
James Finn, who served as a Commonweal editor from 1955 to 1961, died on March 20, 2002 in New York City. Jim remained a good friend as well as a steady contributor to these pages...
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Married priests? Celibacy, pro & con
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Garvey, John
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JOHN GARVEY
MARRIED PRIESTS?
It works for the Orthodox
We must pray for the strength of the Catholic Church," an Orthodox monk once told me. "If they collapse we will look pretty foolish, and we'll...
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Primary boomer From Eugene McCarthy to Bill Clinton
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Baumann, Paul
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PAUL BAUNANN
PRIMARY BOOMER
Bill Clinton as scapegoat
The tall, gray-haired man walking purposefully down the hall at Commonweal's old Dutch Street offices looked vaguely familiar, but it wasn't...
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Looking for Simone Simone Weil's importance for the modern believer
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Giles, Patrick
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Patrick Giles
LOOKING FOR SINONE
Saint of estrangement
I took twenty-seven years, much longer than I'd imagined when I made this promise to myself, but last October, during my first trip to England,...
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'THE LONG LONELINESS' AT 50 Was Dorothy Day a 'material girl'?
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McCarraher, Eugene
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THE LONG LONELINESS9 AT 5O
Dorothy Day's enduring autobiography Eugene NcCarraher
Dorothy Day was a material girl." My seminar students laughed when I said that in the middle of a discussion of The...
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WHY & HOW DAY WROTE IT A writer among other writers
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Elie, Paul
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WHY & HOW DAY WROTE IT
Paul Elie
One afternoon in 1949 Dorothy Day took the ferry from Manhattan to Staten Island. When she was in her twenties, she had owned a beach cottage on the island, and the...
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BETWEEN THE LINES Could Day have written a better book?
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Jordan, Patrick
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BETWEEN THE LINES
Patrick Jordan
In a brief letter to the editors (November 3,1939) commending Commonweal on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, Dorothy Day wrote that Catholic Worker...
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Elaine Stritch at Liberty The Last Five Years
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren
STAGE STRUCK
'Elaine Stritch at Liberty' & 'The Last Five Years'
Life is a performance that, for most of us, is all too rarely broken by applause. You're out of the spotlight- or, even...
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True confessions What Caesar & the Rat Pack have in common
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva
TRUE CONFESSIONS
Fifteen years of 'Biography'
The A&E television series "Biography," now in its fifteenth year, has become a many-tentacled phenomenon. There are Biography magazine, a...
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A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power No end to genocide
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Easier said than done
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Genocide is the problem from hell. Right behind it is the problem of getting anyone to do anything about it. Samantha Power surveys the horrors of...
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Passionate Uncertainty by Peter McDonough & Eugene C Bianchi
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Martin, James
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SOCIETIES OF JESUS
James Martin
Passionate Uncertainty is a disappointing book. This is something of a surprise because Peter McDonough is the author of the generally well received Men Astutely...
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Atonement by Ian McEwan
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Wheeler, Edward T
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THE LIES OF NOVELISTS
Edward T. Wheeler
English writer Ian McEwan has built his house of fiction in traditional patterns, seemingly avoiding forms of postmodern construction. In his novels,...
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Bethlehem now
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Tabash, Robert
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BETHLEHEN NOW
Robert Tabash
Friday, April 5,2002. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reoccupied Bethlehem in the early morning hours of April 2. A gun battle in the center of town ended with some...
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Vol. 129 Issue 010 (May 17 2002)
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