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...Woodrow (Paris) And yet they testify to something else as well-a lingering wariness...
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...The Islamic revival for the Northern Ireland majority have quickly found thembegins to replay the West's history of religious wars...
...The Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, diminished papacy was also cause and effect of a maturing of Catholics...
...A man who had lived at the fiery heart of this century, Columnists: John'Garvey, Frank Getlein, the drama of its succumbing and resistance to totalitarianism, was now on the throne Abigail McCarthy, Thomas Powers Movies: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...IRA ambush...
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...That is the way we see the Pope's visit: a point of mailing operations...
...The Pope knows capitalism has won the battle against Com- Follow-up on Northern Ireland munism, hands down...
...post-Vatican Council church, however unlike the experience of Poland (as well as 14 September 1979: 483 light/Flash out wherever the Just/Exchange their messages...
...Joked Ms...
...and even as John Paul II's vigor and his tempering in the Commonweal, A Review of Public Affairs, Litera- crucible of Polish resistance provoke enthusiasm, they also provoke worries, ture and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly Christmas-New Year's and July and Au- qualms about that enthusiasm itself...
...of, Peter, a man who had known the disruption and loss of war, the searching of Poetry: John Fandel modern thought and art, the common pleasures of sport and comradeship...
...and figure who can be uncritically admired and followed...
...We especially regretted be represents the church as they would have it, retreating to passing up a remark reported by McDonagh when he wrote of "salutary neglect" when he deviates from their preconceived the ABT's difficulty in finding a suitably talented and tall male model...
...Contents Volume CV], Number 16 commonweal Correspondence 482 Editorials 483 After the killings: Jack Holland 484 The papal surprise: Desmond Fisher 485 Dead farms: Thomas Powers 486 The new face of spiritual authority: Paul Thibaud 489 Solidarity & opposition in a JOHN PAUL 11...
...The problem was that this "humanity" so often seemed like a momentary deviation, a Staff blessed relief, from the pope's official role...
...pluralistic church: Ronald Modras 493 The rebel function in AN AFFIRMING FLAME Catholicism: Edward Cuddy 495 Power without divisions: Fleming Rutledge 498 WWE HAVE A POPE...
...The introduction of a new system will light flashing out from the Just...
...So goes the ancient cry announcing the election of each individual to the See of Peter...
...On Karol Wojtyla's philosophical work: "He's convinced that August 23, Aleksandr Godunov defected...
...We hope there will be numerinevitably result in a fepv irregularities...
...So many who could always Executive Editor: Peter Steinfels say, as Roman Catholics, "We have apope," could now say, with a new, personal Editorial Assistant: Anne Robertson emphasis, "We have a pope...
...Their situation, in fact, resembled a throwback to the pre-modern era The Little Magazine in America: when vast barriers of distance and language divided papacy from the peasant, for Robert Gorham Davis 502 whom the pope was more of a cosmological fixture than a real person...
...Edward S. Skillin colony in the 19th century, initiated what Lord Durham called a relationship of "salutary neglect...
...years ago with Hitler's invasion of the Pope's Poland...
...We ask that readers ous affirming flames...
...ONE THAT GOT AWAY the preference of Rome), can be justified in the Pope's own Earlier this summer dance critic Don McDonagh turned in terms...
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...The result would be to rethink nothing, to learn nothpartner for ballerina Cynthia Gregory...
...The sight of Provisional overworked phrases and simplistic pipe-dreams, can we really IRA men waving their guns on the streets of Belfast...
...One is acts of violence yesterday that caused deaths and reminded of the "low dishonest decade" that ended just forty brought suffering to many families...
...Had we chosen to print that observation made by Alfred Bloch, one of the translators of review, it would have come off the presses on August 22...
...Gregory, ing, to foreclose any challenges to accepted outlooks...
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...The problem is saying Independent Ulster...
...We marvelled that the pope was, after all, "human...
...The devotion and goodness that shone from these men seemed to come Blessings: Marjorie Reiley Maguire 504 from a different age...
...Forgotten alof the church...
...Psychologically, however, the papacy Books had become a phantom of the solid presence it once was in the lives of these Catholics...
...And "Perhaps Aleksandr Godunov will defect this summer when John Paul II is rich with challenges...
...Not that he will have difficulty in generating ready is the talk of compromise-the talk of a "Lion-sectarian immediate excitement and attention...
...they did not appear to share in the modern experience of life, an The Caricatures of George appearance reinforced by careers that began with early entry into the seminary and Cruikshank: Gerald Weales 506 ended amidst the ritual, rhetoric and regalia of a Renaissance court...
...Auden took comfort only in the fact that "dotted everywhere,/Ironic points of Commonweal: 484...
...It is erated into politique: Communism, nationalism, "T'hird- tragically a part of Protestant experience that many of those Worldism"-they have proved more productive of wars and who genuinely sought to open new avenues of political thought refugees than of freedom or prosperity...
...Advanced capitalism draws a blank in meeting either its own "This act of shocking violence is an insult to human economic problems or the 'Holocaust" of starvation that the dignity and I firmly condemn it together with the other World Bank recently predicted for the poor nations...
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...There is no secular mystique which has not degen- back when those they lead make ugly noises of revenge...
...501 and justice, and gave a certain attention-increasingly desultory, it seemed-to his admonitions and governance of the church...
...have driven the Protestants and their paramilitary spokesmen This is true of his journey to America as well as his leadership into the old postures of threatened retaliation...
...Curiously enough, it's not between Communism and capitalism-but between capitalism ..and Christianity...
...Dare can terrorists...
...we're engaged in a titanic struggle for Western civilization...
...the imagine a society beyond the capitalist one we know, a society murder of Lord Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, by republiin which the prevailing values are radically different...
...Hence another theme running Canada, $20...
...Editor James O'Gara How that changed with the accession of John Paul II...
...Setting aside vague, Ireland's Protestant majority...
...TO OUR RERDERO: In order to improve service and and he prayed that he, "like them," might "Show an affirmminimize increasing costs, Commonweal has changed its ing flame...
...more than self-congratulation on the part of those who have frequently AFTER THE KILLINGS been critical of capitalism...
...He knows that the true, deeper struggle concerns the value structure...
...the massacre of 18 or more British soldiers in an we...
...Consider, for only one, the the Bolshoi comes to New York...
...The recent The Novel and the Cinema: barriers have also been of distance and language, but of a psychological rather than a Martin Turnell 502 literal sort...
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...If this accurately represents the Pope's position, then it should compel §omethin...
...Leaders who hold out the hand of peace pull it leadership...
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...it should compel a serious effort to COMPROMISE QUICKLY FORGOTTEN analyze in what respects there is a struggle between capitalism and Christianity, and what concretee forms of social and economic institutions might emerge from a successful prosecution of that struggle, and in what ways individuals might live and THE LAST MONTH has been a traumatic one for Northern act now to take sides in this struggle...
...two reviews, one of the American Ballet Theater's season, one The danger, of course-and Paul Thibaud warns us against on the Royal Danish Ballet's tour...
...Each time these Groucho: Steven Philip Kramer 508 men pierced these barriers and touched ordinary existence, the event was celebrated like a visit from afar...
...The Correspondents: Brian Wicker (Great Bri- excitement has been great, the new hope immense-as the articles in this special tain), Desmond Fisher (Dublin), Alain issue amply testify...
...something that will stir to life a world, East and West, North The history of Northern Ireland over the last decade is full of and South, apparently mired in stale beliefs and mediocre such reversals...
...Writing ---John Paul II on the murder of Lord Mountbatten at that time of a "world in stupor," W.H...
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...But for some time many Catholics have not Wives, mothers & heroes: Bogumil Kosciesza 500 had a pope...
...and the threat of more to come-all these events "The Pope's task seems impossible," writes Paul Thibaud...
...Yes, of course, they recognized the Holy Father as their spiritual leader, took a pride and an interest in his public actions on behalf of peace Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Having space for only one it-is that critical Catholics and sympathetic non-Catholics of these two reviews, the editors chose to print the latter and will take the Pope only on their terms-celebrating him when returned the ABT review with regrets...
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