Correspondence
Correspondence Saints & scholars Boston, Mass. To the Editors: In your brief commentary, "A Secular Saint" [Nov. 23], on Mother Teresa as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the...
...Russian migrants are especially dominant in the cities: the Kazakh capital, Alma-Ata, is only 12 percent Kazakh in population (1970...
...BARBARA FRANCIS IS February 1980: 95...
...Nonetheless, the Muslim birth rate is likely to exceed that of the Russians for some time to come...
...and I don't know what he means by "all over the English newspapers...
...The single disaster that no one predicts from a Chrysler collapse is a critical shortage of cars...
...Our unthinking acceptance of the job as a basic unit of wealth may prove our undoing...
...The job need not be a basic unit of wealth in any society and ought not be one in an industrial society, lest it choke on its own production, no matter who owns the means, and lose its social power to evolve...
...One minor issue, I do not believe that my preoccupation with Cardinal Basil Hume is to be put on the same level as Greeley's obsession with Cardinal John J. Cody, nor do I think it evidence of "provincialism...
...We should note, though, that growth has slowed—for whatever reason—in every Soviet Muslim Republic...
...23] draws attention to the shifting ethnic balance within the Soviet Union...
...to triple their present (1979) numbers by the year 2000...
...Therefore, a saint for all secularists, and one as deserving such popular recognition as she has inspired...
...I am grateful for his discriminating remarks...
...PETER HEBBLETHWAITE Kazakhs, Uzbeks, et al...
...The total population of the six Soviet Muslim Union Republics was 38 million in 1970...
...Also, may I commend the perceptive book reviews [Nov...
...No demographer I know expects the Uzbeks et al...
...Some clarifications are in order...
...31 number which contained Richard P. McBrien's comparative review of two books on the 1978 conclaves, one by A.M...
...These returns give population only by administrative units, not by nationality...
...Continued on page 95) Commonweal: 66 (Continued from page 66) Chrysler's function in our society is to provide jobs, not cars...
...I happen to like Hume...
...In the sixties, both factors were important...
...23], on Mother Teresa as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the subsequent editorial on this event in the New York Times, I at first had the same reactions that you had in this regard...
...In the latter's column this later became' 'the prediction in black headlines all over the English newspapers that Paolo Bertoli was going to be elected pope...
...So I do not propose to don the penitent's robes for that 'mistake.' It was not a bad description of the process which led to the election of Wojtyla the second time round...
...9] is one that Jonathan Swift would appreciate and that John Maynard Keynes foresaw...
...Greeley and the other by myself...
...The job's desiderata—cash, credit, status, self-respect, a chance to solve problems, use tools, interact with others* participate in processes with goals—have been provided in many other ways by many other societies...
...I never predicted that Bertoli would become pope at the seventh ballot, as McBrien suggests, following Greeley...
...Ann Arbor, Mich...
...thomas P. McDonnell Book Editor, The Pilot A venial scenario...
...If we get too lazy and fail to answer them, we may fail altogether, like the dinosaur: through sheer lack of imagination...
...However, the first results of the January, 1979 Soviet census provide no firm data on this...
...JOSEPH D. McCADDEN Rethinking jobs Albuquerque, N.M...
...9] by Pheme Perkins on Elaine H. Pagels's The Gnostic Gospels and by Maureen Mullarkey on Germaine Greer's The Obstacle, These are absolutely first-rate reviews, I think, especially in their having penetrated with such sound scholarship the very specialized feminist interests at which many reviewers, ostensibly, would have stopped first in order to serve that preferred purpose...
...Most of the other inhabitants are Russian, and strongly identify as such...
...That would require over 5 percent annual growth, whereas Liber admits that even the recent rate (between 3 and 4 percent) is "phenomenal...
...Rome To the Editors: It takes a long time for Commonweal to work its way through the maze of the Italian postal system...
...What we would do without jobs, without making cars or munitions or mining asbestos or uranium, and how we would live are genuine questions, not unanswerable objections to any fundamental change...
...So I have only just received the Aug...
...Declining native birth rates are one likely factor...
...There is one myth, however, that I would like to dispel, especially since a commentator has ironically suggested that it was my major contribution to the study of the conclaves...
...Liber points out some important possible consequences...
...Now I don't know what color Greeley expects headlines to be...
...Allow me to add that the growing surplus of rural Muslim labor hastwo possible outlets: either to Russia (which is now short of labor), or to Central Asian cities...
...I quoted him not for that reason, but because he is eminently quotable...
...The fact is that in one article in The Sunday Times I offered a possible scenario in which, with the conclave deadlocked, a compromise candidate, such as for example Bertoli, might emerge...
...To the Editors: George Liber [Nov...
...We already have quite a few cars, with more on the way...
...It is almost certainly true that the Muslim peoples of Soviet Central Asia continue to multiply more rapidly than the Soviet Slavs...
...Recapture" by the Muslims of their own cities is a prerequisite for modern nationhood...
...Natural growth rates and migration patterns will both be worth watching, when fuller census data become available...
...There is a significant difference...
...To the Editors: The Chrysler dilemma ["Should We Bail Chrysler Out...
...However, in simmering on it for awhile, it occurred to me that the "secular" refers not to Mother Teresa but to the origins of the award itself—in short, a saint chosen by secularists...
...We don't yet know how much of Central Asia's population growth in the seventies came from migration, and how much from natural increase...
...but the six native peoples of those Republics numbered only 24 million...
Vol. 107 • February 1980 • No. 3
