Bad thoughts:

...While we you "entertained" or "dwelled on" got downright interesting as we waded may regard that part of the past with them...

...I re- it were...

...being died for-but was it possible, or is seemed to be hurt in some way...

...but at least in Catholic left brought to our understandconfession which I remember...

...A Tory in Quebec is in much the same unprecedented eleven and one-fourth percent in an effort to position as a llepublican in Alabama in 1932...

...In the school my children atheads down on the desk, arms folded for and we heard the wonderful miserly tend, for example, confession is handled a pillow, eyes closed for privacy, while asound of the word "covet...

...know they will all die some day, but in other things a real perception, and not an not better (well, not necessarily) or the meantime my children are in school...

...geance or murder...

...I realized pictures of wheat and a few unchallenge- consciousness: American Catholics have when she said this that the same thing ably pleasant words, something in me had to think of themselves specifically as was true of me, and that the friends who yearns for a holy card of St Lucy bearing Catholic in a way which doesn't happen didn't fall into those categories tended her very real looking eyeballs on a plate: anywhere else on earth...

...I carrying something in both hands...

...It comes and goes...

...The rest was with a refreshing difference...

...insisted upon by some educators...

...Trudeau and boredom with Mr...

...We've read were more interested in the dreadful de- the city...

...In the end it may of federalism rejected by English Canada in a Tory sweep of come down to a measure of the comparative strength of dislike the country accompanied by a Liberal sweep in Quebec...

...It is, nevertheless, true, It is something nobody ever accused one, American Catholicism had to unand the reason could be that Judaism, Catholics or Jews or Southerners of be- derstand itself from the beginning in a Catholicism, and being Southern are all fore, but it is worth worrying about when new way, and this contributed immeas"think cultures," ways of life...

...then it picked up as Hundreds of thousands of Catholics ing to do with sex, which were sinful if we moved through the violent fifth, and went through this sort of thing...

...I have a strong feeling about blandness...

...Taminoto . . . was the Dresden, Hamburg...

...no one has been education, without the fake democracy because of pain, held their arms up as if able to do anything about it...

...But when I go into ship accommodate that...

...The eye- Photographs have helped us to see...

...Clark...

...institution to be defended like a bank or worse, but certainly different...

...It must have been designed to intricate as brocade (red brocade, in did (as one writer said a few years ago, it make sure, that if you hadn't had a bad fact...

...She was bered that parochial schools were culture could have produced the fierce afraid, she said, that she might some day founded because of a deliberate effort on and utterly right anger which the Berri- have a vision...

...now there's religion...

...Self-consciousness about Of several minds: Thomas Powers being Catholic, and therefore about being different, helped us toward a realization that some ideas and values matter deeply...

...It surely doesn't require were naked or in shreds of clothing...

...Those of us who have reexamination of conscience which was pure touches, and with our eyes closed mained Catholic despite everything may read out to us once a month in the sixth the whole deck of sins took on a detail as not regret having gone through what we grade...

...WASP desire for universal good citizensing something...

...The One thing appears certain in the wake of the October by- Liberals have cut the federal sales tax -the one that no one elections: the Tories' hopes of building a constituency in ever sees-from twelve to nine percent to see whether that will Quebec have little or no foundation...

...Some One thinks of war the way one thinks think Socrates was right, but what do you were vomiting as they walked...

...Of course it fre- FROM JOHN HERSEY'S Hiroshima: 100,000 dead in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, quently got silly, and of course there "Mr...

...The management of the economy...

...If you you meet people involved in religious ureably to the most revolutionary insight come from one of those backgrounds you education who speak of "input" and of the Second Vatican Council, the unknow, among other things, that you are "output" and even "throughput...

...My cency as it is possible to get, but this was that the latter scary picture of the way the daughter not long ago expressed an enin large part a reaction to their assump- world works may be closer to the truth...

...Are they better off hearing from a young an armory...

...Even Joe Clark seems to stimulate the economy...

...JOHN GARVEY the part of the American public school system to de-Catholicize the children of immigrants...

...couraging fear, one which seems to tion of superiority...

...The the game goes on...

...The horrors of war were oddly enthusiastic teachers who only person making his way into have not been kept a secret...

...budget deficit as a stimulus to the flagging economy...

...We know all that: picture, the odd sentence buried in a Commonweal: 168...

...It was always roughly BAD THOUGHTS accurate...

...A contest based on the by-elections they appear to have smiled on the Liberals...

...the Tories would almost certainly have been returned, perhaps conservatism and budget cuts to impress the electorate, the even with a majority...

...Meanwhile, Levesque and his party, this would represent a rejection not hockey is more exciting...

...The to do with idolatry, profanity, missing couldn't blame you for confessing too phrase didn't mean thoughts of ven- Mass, servile work on Sunday, and dis- much...

...clarity-suddenly, vividly, intenselythe dreadful examination of conscience and not for long...

...This culture close friends were either Jews, the kids bring home cards with stylized has also produced a unique selfCatholics, or ex-Catholics...

...parochial schools we were able to hear ing of the war in Vietnam-could the But I think my children may be mis- that some things matter to the death...

...free enterprisers who do not believe in governmental manageAs for Rene Levesque and the Parti Quebecois, they can for ment of the economy, are attacking the government for misthe moment look to the future with some confidence...

...Of several minds: John Garvey anti-climactic, and after a prayer to the Holy Spirit we were trotted off to church and into the box, one at a time, where we made the same confessions we had made for months on end...

...I am not about to defend some of the priest who worries about getting in touch When I go to Mass and listen to the flat differences...

...Noth- personality of the two leaders is as uncertain as is the attempt to ing in fact wbuld suit them better than to have Trudeau's brand discover who is on what side of what issue...

...there was no chance of its ever becoming the worst way...

...Others, war is a terrible thing...

...Many of his own mortality: in flashes of great think, Billy...

...The Tories, many of them why they bother at all...

...I derstanding that Christianity is among somehow different from other people...

...it meant thoughts hav- obedience to parents...

...This, of course, was why elections were Tories have apparently decided in favor of a radical new look not called, and it is now beginning to look as if Mr...

...he met hundreds and hundreds about napalm, cluster bombs, free-fire tails of martyrdom than in the principle who were fleeing, and every one of them zones in Vietnam, starvation in Biafra...

...Jordan Bishop, a regular contributor, teaches at the ColNow that the ruling Liberals have chosen the way of fiscal lege of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia...

...For for Mr...

...The empha30 March 1979: 167 sis is less on law, more on reconciliation, am glad that is something my children gan brothers and other members of the and there doesn't seem to be the dread of won't have to suffer...

...Both words, "entertain" and into the sixth: now we got to the meat, as amusement, or loathing, or nostalgia, "dwell," had a nice salacious air...

...you learned how to tone down WHAT WORRIES ME IS BLANDNESS the most shameful things by being a bit modest about them and sandwiching them in between relatively innocuous sins, and if you exaggerated the number " AD THOUGHTS" meant one list of specific sins was read out-boring of times you had sinned you figured you thing when I was a boy in St...

...Clark at deficit budgeting...

...one wonders restore the fortunes of the dollar...

...Everyone agrees any other American system of common hung from their faces and hands...

...Last year an Ottawa-financed reductalkk less about the future of his party in Quebec in recent tion in provincial sales tax failed in this...

...Stories of saints who had died for THE NEXT WAR the faith let us know that there were times when the stakes were high, and sacrifice WHY FEAR OF WAR ISN'T MUCH USE would be called for...

...people saved it instead months...

...The Bank of Canada has raised its rates to an alien to Quebec...

...Since it had for the most part to be Southerners...

...only of Trudeau's Liberals by "les Anglais," but also of JORDAN BISHOP Quebec itself...

...never been an established church, and I confess: that's narrow, parochial in What I'm worried about is blandness...

...I began to wonder what It may still be there...

...During this exercise we put our wives-we all knew what that meant- routines...

...for the first four commandments, having were automatically covered: God Agnes Grade School...

...Joe Clark has come out in favor of a larger peaked too soon, although the Tories still lead in the polls...

...it possible, for values to be discussed in brows of some were burned off and skin We're well-informed...

...PQ does not take part in federal elections, but in the October There are in fact few real issues...

...A routine that we were put through, and I But why go on...

...But there is hope...

...it was when a friend of mine, a Jew, a church and see banners which say you have to come from a tradition which mentioned the fact that almost all of her things like "Have a Nice Day" or when knows that kings can be evil...

...I don't think so...

...We had a lull through the seventh was funky), but I think most of us are thought at the time the reading began, and eighth commandments...

...As the country awaits spring Quebec Liberal Party saw a short spurt of new life and blood elections with a certain air of resignation and acute boredom, with the election of Claude Ryan as leader...

...There was a smug sense of with his feelings, or from the weird but lack of cadence which characterizes our superiority to Protestants (identified, by God interesting people who believed liturgy, and when I see some of what my during grade school, with public school that the devil was around the corner wait- children bring home from school, I worry kids) which was as far from simple de- ing with a ball bat...

...then there happy that our children are not going you would certainly have had several by was the ninth, about other people's through the same obsessive, legalistic the end...

...The fact is that the Tory image remains inestimably of spending it...

...It has to be remem- And I have to ask myself if any other me quintessentially Catholic...

...Here we heard about lustful few of us are sorry that those days have member an excruciatingly explicit looks, immodest dress, lewd books, im- gone forever...

...That has gone...