CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Sticks & Stones New York, N.Y. To the Editors: The question-"How much autonomy does a Catholic organization enjoy-if, indeed, any?" [News & Views, March 28] is not open. Vatican II...
...Commonweals opinions seem better expressed in discourse, rather than compressed into labels...
...Louis, Mo...
...This technique is dealt with in sophomore debate manuals...
...WILLIAM J. MONAHANMONAHAN...
...Commonweals identification of Waugh's snobbery as "astringency," a quality, I believe, reserved for reasoned argumentation, is an adulation expressive of the same "reptilian" character which Waugh deplores...
...The easy analogy made between the St...
...Any opposition to legislation affecting family life can be called reminiscent of opposition to the Child Labor Amendment and accordingly dismissed...
...Louis Review's opposition to the ERA Amendment and opposition to the Child Labor Amendment is lazy argumentation, more specifically, guilt by association...
...Decree on the Laity) timothy a. mitchell St...
...Instead of drawing out and testing the analogy, Commonweal simply asserts the analogy and then labels those who disagree with it as "inane...
...To the Editors: "News & Views" of the March 28 issue contained two examples of careless journalism in "Winsome Waugh" and "Odds and Ends...
...If the intent of "News & Views" is the creation of a pithy journalism in which other practitioners of the art are caught in their own snares, it would be better to do just that, rather than to commit new blunders...
...Vatican II closed it with these words: "No project, however, may claim the name 'Catholic' unless it has obtained the consent of the lawful Church authority...
...Neither the modern liturgical movement nor Vatican II has set forth, as an objective of liturgical reform, the entertainment of English country gentlemen...
Vol. 102 • May 1975 • No. 5
