EDITORIALS:
CORRESPOND- NEWS & VIEWS: 418 CORRESPONDENCE: 418 ENCE EDITORIALS:...
...We have Jewish, or, for that matter, Catholic bedroom and smuggles food to her as failed them, not as they imagine by dissenters do not similarly flourish in if she were some mad Bronte wife squelching their pretensions, but by not any society where Catholicism is the chained in an attic...
...It would be more salutary for (Continued from page 419) others to enter into their fantasies as us to recognize ourselves in these men...
...Novakian Logic For one thing, the prices of such basic "poor" foods as rice and beans have increased much faster than those of middle-class foods...
...It is his Nothing is more painful than the in- nesses to values our society desperately surefooted common sense that comes tellectual pretensions of one all too needs, because we have chosen to be...
...Deedy finds it hard to believe cent more rapidly than the size of their food stamp allotments...
...been changed...
...The message of olic political impotency is summed up lot of money building a basketball Christ becomes diluted to pop psy- on "The Bottom Line," to wit . . . court for young blacks...
...this book...
...What we miss is re- and, at the same time, flaunt all the for at least one instance of a well- morse, a sense of responsible inade- airs of the majoritarian culture of directed buskin getting to the bottom quacy, a crying out for God, some Catholic Christendom...
...Page 423: Ann Arbor Sun/LNS in which the New York Times handled our editorial on homosexuality [News JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant & Views, June 141, perhaps it was be- COLIN L. WESTERBECK...
...Protestant, Item: a pastor keeps a woman in his These men are our brothers...
...Deeds that do not hurt others of Michael Brennan in the July-August many heads are bashed...
...Copyright © 1974 Commonweal Publishing Co...
...four years, the price of dried beans rose by 256.3 percent and that of To the Editors: Congratulations to rice by 124.3 percent, while the cost of sirloin steak rose by only 38.9 Michael Novak on his marvelous "put- percent and lamb chops by 31.3 percent...
...legislation, then perhaps he would do World stockpiles of food are at a dangerously low point, and if the well to take a course in logic...
...I'm sureto cheaper foods as those in the middle-class are doing these days, because (Continued on page 439) they are already eating the cheapest food available...
...A country pastor be- (We are responsible, not some vague The second part, "The System: By dazzled by a seminar totes $300 worth "powerful minority" or "American ProWhose Authority?," presents three of "new theology" back to his rectory...
...through...
...priests and a bishop who have col- The swishier aspects of the liturgy are HENRY H. BROER lisions with their superiors...
...Item: other with effecting public consequences, hatred, prejudice and suspicion of neighpriests do not drop whatever irrelevan- whose self thereby becomes scattered bor is endemic...
...The moral wants to speak in the righteous, aglisteners to stern lectures, docile re- achievement of another is to discover grieved tones of an oppressed minority cipients of ultimata...
...JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry cause he remembered his own days as BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin editor of a diocesan paper which liked EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager to call itself "official...
...One begins to long that he's okay...
...ever suspected...
...So amply demonstrated at the recent hearings of Senator George McGovern's Bishop Costello's statement was more Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs...
...same five-year period, for example, while welfare allotments for a family of four rose 14.5 percent, the cost of food in the government "economy Further, the Times reporter had been plan" basket rose by 41.7 percent...
...US and Canada: $15 a year...
...the poor just can't afford it...
...On the contrary, the than "technically correct," particularly needy in America are worse off than they were five years ago-so much so since the archdiocese has never enso that a substantial number of families in urban poverty areas are said to gaged in the flip-flopping implied in be eating cat and dog food for needed protein...
...Are priests in the pay' of stage are, however, craven, patient the pharmaceutical industry...
...into the real world...
...In the end it does not seem to be just wonder what in the devil the assistant Whatever its intent, that is the plea of a matter of sex or semantics but just a is up to...
...centrating on the grim prospect of a global food shortage, with particular The Advocate has never claimed to attention to the plight of the developing nations...
...But the plight of the poor in this country is not the world Managing Editor, shortage of food-it is their shortage of money...
...He wonders if his assistant us all...
...they have nowhere Commonweal: 419 The book is divided into three parts...
...She has no face, no two cases, not even the names have ROSEMARY RUETHER personality, not one memorable trait...
...palpably illiterate...
...Commonweal: 439...
...But if his con- COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public A*airs...
...To proclaim innocence...
...A particularly are amoral, no matter the doctrine of issue of The Sign...
...Item: a bishop's Caricatures capture general truths...
...world of conferences, confrontationsthat the reader is apt to despise these Unless, perhaps, we are all after all and human beings who persist in being practitioners of, if not public confes- okay...
...other valence...
...IOOIb The New York Times carried a cor- MUrray Hill 3.2042...
...Secondly, the poor cannot shift on" in the June 28, 1974 issue...
...Catholic Novak men in their Lives," we are given three where such thoughts belong...
...cies they are engaged in to join in a and diffuse, out there, a behaviorist Compare Novak's thoughts with those march with blacks on city hall where shadow...
...all too human...
...and the aged participating in the food stamp program increased 22.6 perIf Mr...
...The account of her puncturing them long since...
...testantism...
...in less than Sommers, Conn...
...430 East Orange, N.J...
...His reason for Cathinsensitive colleague actually spends a the Mystical Body...
...Shades of a man who confuses moral rectitude by other areas of the world where of Father of the Bride...
...In the good/ bad old days, we Abigail McCarthy (Copt...
...Total spending for federal Mr...
...is utterly generic...
...Despite the increased government spending and expanded programs, then, "Five that one can espouse a principle without opposing a stand taken by others years after President Nixon's promise to end hunger in America, the nation's on specifics of a particular piece of needy are hungrier and poorer...
...Foreign $17...
...What we want is was reminded of some historical facts the real world, the abiding finitude of some inchoate thirst for sanctity, an that he seems to have forgotten...
...If, in reading it, we weep very large order, an ideal far off, in a This could be a dangerous book in but are not wounded, too bad for us...
...by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madison Ave., New York...
...The food is in the American The Advocate supermarkets...
...culture in whose name Mr...
...And there is the usual nonmeant to see bishops as mindless sense about Humane Vitae with the Washington, D.C...
...He lightened subordinates...
...It is time he of the matter...
...No one should imagine, speak for the archdiocese and in fact however, that hunger is a problem foreign to the United States, as was does not speak for the archdiocese...
...In the same way, according to the advised not to identify The Advocate experts who wrote the Senate group's report, food expenses for the needy as "official" since we do not claim to be official...
...God help 000000000 bedroom...
...Save in majority culture...
...Literature and the Arts...
...The he must have been influenced by similar master of ceremonies treats cavalierly generalized portrait which emerges is writings in the Northern Irish Press and the lush staging for a first Mass...
...in the official becoming official, depending on circumstances...
...Single copies SOc rection because its headline reporting that "A Diocese Backs Homosexual Bill" (which was more than the editorial had done, for it in fact disclaimed HUNGER AT HOME competence to judge the merits of the Our July 12th issue was devoted to the subject of World Hunger, conbill) was false...
...If em- flourishes in Protestant America and accounts of dalliance told largely with- barrassment lingers-and these ac- gets fat grants from the WASP foundaout remorse or sensitivity...
...Novak now Finally, in "Of Mortal Flesh: Wo- Such thoughts turn inward, finally, purports to speak...
...sion, then public display, of psychologi- 000 000 000 The first, "The Church of Stone: In- cal streaking, as it were...
...We are stressed...
...Deedy's comment about the unfood programs rose sharply in these years, but it was not enough...
...Needless to say, it is glimmer of religion...
...It the human situation, their own fluctu- awareness that suffering and reversal was Anglo-Saxon Protestants, not Euroating enthusiasms and incredible are not signs of failure but the uni- pean Catholics, whose world view alnaivete rather than the bogey of the versal lot to which grace can give an- lowed for that pluralistic, libertarian system that do our heroes in...
...do his Catholic ethnic thing...
...He is meant chology and pop theology...
...SOLZHENITSYN'S LONG CRY OF RAGE: Saul Malof 431 To the Editors: If John Deedy's under- SOLZHENITSYN'S CRY TO THE SOVIET LEADERS: Richard M. Mills, Judith M. Mills 433 standing was strained by the Newark BOOKS: J. Anthony Lukas, Ralph Mclnerny 438 archdiocese's response to the manner ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover and Page 431: New York Times/Harper & Row...
...We are politically weak, ineffective witto represent wrongheadedness...
...science still bothers him, it is hardly Second class postage paid at New York...
...CORRESPONDNEWS & VIEWS: 418 CORRESPONDENCE: 418 ENCE EDITORIALS: 419 LEARNING ABOUT THE FAMILY: Dennis J. Geaney 420 THE MOTHERHOOD OF GOD: Abigail McCarthy 422 Rx FOR HEALTH CARE: Mark R. Arnold 423 Official Logic ABORTION AND THE LAW: Selected Responses 427 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...The sad fact is that inflation is hitting America's needy far harder than anyone else, for several reasons...
...They tempt sensitivity," presents three priests who one to feel, by comparison, almost CORRESPONDENCE were all but undone by the failure of saintly...
...danger of mass starvation in Africa is now somewhat lessened, it has not JOSEPH R. THOMAS disappeared...
...tyrants whose delight is to thwart en- equally usual ignorance of the ovula- To the Editors: Michael Novak seems to want to have it both ways...
...Printed in the USA and published weekly, fair to work out his problem at the except biweekly Christmas-New Year's and June to mid-September, expense of others...
...The narra- counts show an appalling want of taste tions of the Captains of Industry to tives veer in the direction of Bacaccio...
...that too can be turned to our profit...
...To protect the innoShe is simply the woman in the pastor's cent...
...The bishops on tion method...
...The reader begins to were urged to pray for our priests...
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