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which Commonweal was frequently at later a Cardinal and second-in-com- than it has received. For allowing for odds. mand to Cardinal Ottaviani. I...
...Father Murray's superiors had be taken for granted that the Thus there has been achieved what banned him from all further activity in Catholic Bishops are implicitly Dante had in mind when he counseled that area, a restriction that remained endeavoring that this should one in the opening lines of De Monarchia: in force until in 1963 Cardinal Spell- day come about after a perfect man rectified the theologian's exclusion fashion...
...Catholics in the United States from the beginning of their organized religious life in 1790 when John Carroll took is 00000000000*000000 over as first Bishop of Baltimore...
...All men on whom the Higher from Vatican Council II by naming him Paul Blanshard, whose name appears Nature has stamped the love of a peritus...
...then a consultor of the Holy Office, I listened to death's breathing...
...their voices thin...
...For allowing for odds...
...While Commonweal showed an awareness of that history, it ventured only occasion- EDMUND PENNANT ally into this theological thicket, but always with unvarying support for the QUESTIONS American system...
...At his request I supplied a copy of the 1948 statement of John What is our business here, T. McNicholas, O.P., Archbishop of on shores so whitely littered Cincinnati, in which the latter had with death's cancelled receipts...
...Noting that the substantially fulfilled...
...Van Allen with the subject of his book made rich by the efforts of generIt was an issue that had plagued has merited a more generous support ations past...
...life-giving sea with adornments After several months I had a letter, dated February 28, 1953, in which my to be admired in lamplight...
...mula by which Catholics in this country could live at case with their fellow citizens, I eagerly accepted the I sit on a throne of sand and watch the planet grow dim offer of a priest acquaintance to be of service during his forthcoming extended about them...
...Ultimately he was more than more than once in the Van Allen book, truth should especially concern vindicated when as principal author of could not have asked for more...
...It has served can Catholic subscribed...
...I shall the mistakes that inevitably accompany The editorial of August 7 was clear, never forget the discouragement with an enterprise of this kind, the implicaforthright and sensible, embodying which I read Browne's analysis of the tion of the journal's title has been views to which virtually every Ameri- McNicholas statement...
...stay at Rome...
...maintained that Catholics would be the last people in the United States ever to They will return from the seething seek a union of Church and State...
...26 July 1974: 408...
...Church and those contained within the him the ranking authority on the sub- between Church and State, it must best traditions of American democracy...
...1971), while we were collecting shells...
...Roman correspondent stated he was enclosing the response he had received What did you do all alone from Michael Browne, O.P...
...ject...
...In an effort to search the evening beach to probe for some kind of helpful for- for death's exquisite trinkets...
...themselves in laboring for posthe Declaration on Religious Freedom In conclusion the thought comes to terity, in order that future generahe witnessed the promulgation of that mind that the journal of opinion whose tions may be enriched by their important document by Pope Paul VI first fifty years have provided Rodger efforts, as they themselves were in December, 1965...
...In able to improve the position of Father The Catholic Bishops perhaps are so doing Commonweal has played a John Courtney Murray, S.J., whose not making such endeavors ex- notable part in the unfolding of both scholarly writings and lectures on rela- plicitly, but as it is Catholic doc- the ideals nurtured by the Catholic tions of Church and State had made trine that there should be union...
...It was one of the few theological problems of those years Mother and child have left me about which I felt keenly...
...Needless to Bishops had an obligation to bring the 'commonweal,' often with uncomsay, it had no influence in changing the about a union of Church and State, mon courage and always with fidelity mind of the curial Cardinal, nor was it he declared: to truth as the editors have seen it...
Vol. 100 • July 1974 • No. 17
