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 Vol. 130 Issue 014 (August 15 2003)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence Lots on Steinfels & more on Johnson
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To the Editors Bring it on You made my day. My July 18 issue of Commonweal just arrived, and I saw the blurb that you will be featuring an article by Archbishop Rembert Weak-land in a future...
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Editorial Orders from Rome
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Orders from Rome One wonders what the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) hoped to accomplish with the July 31 release of its statement, "Considerations Regarding Proposals to...
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Et cetera Rembert Weakland
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ET CETERA Rembert Weak land - Several correspondents have asked about the decision to publish Archbishop Rembert Weakland's article ("Looking Forward," see page 18), especially in the light of our...
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A death in India
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McGowan, Jo
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JO McGOWAN A DEATH IN INDIA Priestcraft & usurers Sat Pal is an office assistant in the school where I work here in India. He has an eighth-grade education and limited intelligence. When his...
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End-of-life decisions The problem is communication
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Lustig, Andrew
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ANDREW LUSTIG END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS A failure to communicate Not long ago, I visited my older sister, who teaches re-ligious studies at a high school in Washington State. At her request, I spoke...
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Poet in Rome Talking with Czeslaw Milosz
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O'Grady, Desmond
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Desmond O'Grady POET IN ROME My meeting with Milosz When writing my book, The Turned Card, about Christianity in Central Eastern Europe before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I found...
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Just-war doctrine Why it failed in Iraq
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Foster, Gregory D.
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Gregory D. Foster JUST-WAR DOCTRINE Lessons from Iraq The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq have prompted renewed attention to the ethics of war. Most discussion has tended, characteristically,...
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NOT ALL THE NEWS IS FIT TO PRINT What's missing in the sexual-abuse story
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SCHILTZ, PATRICK J.
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NOT ALL THE NEWS IS FIT TO PRINT What the media missed in the sexual-abuse scandal Patrick J. Schiltz Ham often invited to present the "other side" of the clergy sexual-abuse "story." I receive...
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LOOKING FORWARD Bringing laity & hierarchy closer together
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Weakland, Rembert G.
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LOOKING FORWARD An archbishop examines himself & church structures Rembert G. Weakland From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required" (Luke 12:48). That admonition weighs...
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Parking, April 23, 2001
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Fogel, Aaron
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Parking, April 23, 2001 An old man, backpacked And squat, offers, on seeing me Put six quarters, one after the other, in the meter (Usually I bicycle over the bridge Today I am indulging a need...
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ARE DEACONS THE ANSWER? An evolving ministry
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Gaillardetz, Richard R.
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ARE DEACONS THE ANSWER? Two assessments Richard R. Gaillardetz One of the fastest-growing ministries in the United States and Canada is the restored permanent diaconate. Not only have deacons...
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ARE DEACONS THE ANSWER? An evolving ministry
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Baker, Thomas
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Thomas Baker The restored diaconate is still so new that we deacons are thrilled whenever anyone writes about us-even when, as in Richard Gaillardetz's article, it ends up mostly being about what...
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Dirty Pretty Things
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN Rand Richards Cooper DOWN & OUT IN LONDON Stephen Frears's 'Dirty Pretty Things' Movie stars tend to fall into two groups-chameleons, who assume a different per-sona with each new role,...
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The Laws of Rubble
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Fogel, Aaron
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The Laws of Rubble High priest loses, which is no surprise, To the assault of the earth and the hoe's reach- And had Samson waited, among Dagon-flies The temple would have fallen of its own breach....
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A People Adrift by Peter Steinfels
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Allitt, Patrick
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Navigating the future A People Adrift The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America Peter Steinfels Simon and Schuster, $26,376 pp. Patrick Allitt A People Adrift argues that American...
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The Book against God by James Wood
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SAVANT, JOHN J.
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CATECHISM OF DISBELIEF The Book against God James Wood Farrar. Straus mid Giroux, $24, 257 pp. John J. Savant If you've read James Wood's critical manifesto, The Broken Estate (Random House...
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Diminished Democracy by Theda Skocpol
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Mattson, Kevin
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ALL POLITICS IS NATIONAL Diminished Democracy From Membership to Management in American Civic Life Theda Skocpol University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95,366 pp. Kevin Hattson To make a dent in...
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Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell
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Andersen, Robert
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HELL ON EARTH Blood Diamonds Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones Greg Campbell Westview Press, $26,251 pp. Robert Andersen West Africa is a netherworld of diamonds and...
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Gary MacEoin, R.I.P.
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Palumbo, Gene
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The Last Word GARY MacEOIN, R.I.P. Gene Palumbo Gary MacEoin died last month at the age of ninety-four. He was that rare journalist who combined the breadth of an Irish scholar (he was a lawyer...
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