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Correspondence Whole new attitude Detroit, Mich. To the Editors: I congratulate Commonweal for publishing the editorial "Are Nuclear Wars 'Winnable'?" [Mar. 28], and I agree fully...
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...When Pope Paul cried out at the United Nations, "'War never again!," he was calling all Catholics and all people of good faith to this new attitude...
...Bryan Hehir if they knew the man they were talking about...
...PurceIl says, ag, Mr...
...a, non-Western voice presents the Trinity as a paradigm of what community can be in today's world...
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...The memory of making love lay like a ban- dage across the front of his mind, day and night...
...Purcell says that my review of without blinking an eye, that it's a f Hitchcock's book "makes the assump- that "in the seventies the Left is f tion one can't attack contemporary mally, verbally schismatic...
...Higgins, when Higgins's defensive columns about Brennan were being so recently syndicated in the parish press...
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...He will have to excuse me if, on the basis of thirty-six years experience at U.S.C.C., I simply ence between ninety-nine percent to c refuse to do so...
...That way, people won't peer in and see what she sees whenever she closes her eyes, and sometimes when they are wide open...
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...He stills feels guilty whenever he thinks of Cletus...
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...What else is Hitcheock to do but cite the available data (or posthumous memoirs) and suggest likely explana- tions from Rieff and Peter Berger...
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...Ishe seriously suggesting, then, that Fr...
...The narrator returns at the end of the story...
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...Whether after a while he and his mother were able to look at each other without embarrassment...
...In other words, Catholicism & Mod- ernity simply applies the standard New- Class theory--standard except to Higgins?--to the U.S...
...But already these charges are confused by the separate implication that Hitchcock himself has inadequate inside knowledge of U.S...
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...The narrator offers these'pages in retribution for the sin of not speaking in that school corridor and it is one of the great gestures of kindness in all literature...
...And after that there was no way that I could not have done it...
...In its place he gives us a much more telling moment...
...clergy were foisting their own iden- tity crisis on lay students undergoing a religious revival...
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...Surely the evidence in The Brethren, about Justice Brennan's backstage maneuvers in the abortion de- cisions, was already available to his old friend, Msgr...
...To the Editors: I congratulate Commonweal for publishing the editorial "Are Nuclear Wars 'Winnable...
...Purcell blandly replies that this in no way disproves Hitchcock's gratuitous accusation against Fr...
...Wilson had been having an affair with Cletus's mother for many months...
...But a certain sense of camaraderie grows bet- ween them until the night when they...
...Maxwell "do it...
...I didn't speak...
...It is here in a bold imaginative leap that the narrator takes himself out of his story and moves back in time to a point before the murder...
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...JAMES MARK PURCELL The author replies: To the Editors: A friend of mine (not a member of the "incestuous" Catholic bureaucracy, by the way) has accurately characterized Mr...
...It is C|etus's father who kills Lloyd Wilson...
...Fifteen days after Lloyd Wilson's mur-der, Cletus's father is found dead at the bottom of Deer Creek gravel pit, an appa- rent suicide from a bullet wound to the head...
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...liberals, Catholic liberals in particu- lar, are inconsistent in their application of general principles...
...Let me also point out that if Hitchcock and Purcell really think that they can divide and conquer by trying to play off Bryan Hehir against his religious superiors, they are badly mistaken...
...Whether he was spared the sight of his father's drowned body...
...He tries to rest...
...When he does not, there is no sense of loss...
...say--as has been their innocent custom throughout their brief friendship--"So long, see you tomorrow...
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...His point is well taken--but, anyhow, here goes...
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...Higgins's words on Rieff unfortu- nately substitute for a lucid account of the book's main sociological thesis: that one large section of U.S...
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...Does Higgins believe this...
...Purcell wants to have it both ways-wants to have his cake and eat it-when it comes to providing ''proof" or "evidence" of Hitchcock's innumer- able accusations against the "bureauc- racy" and the members of its staff...
...Hehir...
...Stephen;s- crown transaction either refute Hitch- cock on the narrgwest grounds of fact...
...And this offering, like the story of Swann, is a long meditation on desire...
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...I think, first, Higgins confuses "proof" with valid evidence...
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...The review's professional charges against Hitchcock are that his book is both inadequately researched and over- partisan...
...delega- tion which returned the crown to Hun- gary and noted for the record that I took on that assignment with the full approval of church authorities in Hungary and at the Vatican...
...I also wonder about him, about what happened to him...
...or refute his generalpolemic point: that U.S...
...Purcell's letter as a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition and, accordingly, has advised rrIe not to waste too much time trying to rebut it...
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...The narrator, like Marcel imagin- ing Swann pursuing Odette, writes of events he cannot possibly have witnes- sed...
...Aside from the social fact that in the seventies the Left is formally, verbally schismatic, while the Right still claims at least to be defending "Christianity," Higgins is here only reviving the crude logical fal- lacy, for example, about pro-life: that it has no credentials with our intellectual establishment unless its members each certify their liberal respectability on Panama, the B-l, and gun control...
...The gestures and the words build until we approach the moment when the murder will be committed...
...And whether the series of events that started with the murder of Lloyd Wilson-- whether all that finally began to seem less real, more like something he dreamed, so that instead of being stuck there he could go on and by the grace of God lead his own life, undestroyed by what was not his doing...
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...Higgins's reaction is that Hitchcock doesn't prove his case...
...We just kept on walking until we had passed each other...
...Bryan Hehir) was guilty of following a double standard because, having opposed an American treaty with Franco Spain, he later sup- ported the return of the Crown of Saint Stephen to Hungary...
...The review makes the assumption one can't attack contemporary Catholic lib- eral misbehavior unless one also spends fifty percent of his words on Catholic conservative misbehavior...
...Cletus's family moves away from town...
...But it isn't only my failure that I think about...
...Anyway, in case Higgins dislikes this particular illustra- tion, there are many more examples, supporting this proposition i~r Hitch- cock's book...
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...Hehir, who is the most modest of men, I would say that, from the point of view of the American bishops and church authorities at the Vat- ican, he is one of the most highly re- spected priests in the United States...
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...Fi- nally, Higgins's ~ore trusting readers will never learn the author of Catholicism & Modernity paid his liberal dues back when the Catholic Far Right actually had some political muscle...
...Aunt Jenny has pulled the shades to the sill...
...But it is still possible to say Hitchcock's book re-ceived an inadequate review...
...On the one hand, he says that there is "valid evidence" for these accusations and also, presumably, for Hitchcock's al-most compulsive tendency to interpret other people's conscious and subcon- scious motives...
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...To the Editor: Commonweal is to be con- gratulated on adequately showcasing its notice of James Hitchcock's important Catholicism & Modernity [March 14] Msgr...
...According to Hitchcock, this reflected "a habit, wide- spread in religious circles.., of protest- ing injustice only in Western nations, (Continued on page 284) I Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Cathofic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Vexse, Book Review Digest and Book Review index...
...As Catholics we've got to take that cry seriously...
...One doesn't have to be a apologists like himself, Hitchca mathematician to understand the differ- doesn't need any enemies or critics...
...One day during the first week or so of school as I was hurrying along a corridor that was lined with metal lockers I saw Cletus Smith coming toward me...
...If Catholic liberal misbehavior unless one thinks that, in making this preposterc also spends fifty percent of his words on statement, he is accurately reflecting h Catholic conservative misbehavior...
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...On the other hand, he says that "Monsignor Higgins surely un- derestimates the difficulty of getting 'proof about motives when one is in the establishment and has buddies to caver for him...
...Purcell would be so mean-spirited in their criticism of a Fr...
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...Correspondence (Continued from page 258) never behind the Iron Curtain...
...Maxwelrs people speak and think in simple terms but the words burn...
...He provides no evidence, no proof, but simply, with- out blinking an eye, makes the flat state-ment quoted above and asks us to accept it as an article of faith...
...munity sends her son, Cletus, to play with him...
...That is to say, what- ever he may think about the U.S.C.C., it was utterly reprehensible on his part to smear the rephation of a Bryan Hehir- one of the most competent, most dedi- cated, and profoundly rtligious Ameri- can Catholics, clerical ar lay, whom I have ever been privileged to meet...
...He wants to know what it is like to be a child whose father will come to murder a man...
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...He doesn't say who is covering for whom or on what issues...
...The narrator's father remarries, gets a promotion and moves his family to Chicago...
...The technique is reminiscent of Proust...
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...A book of importance for us in the West because it is an authentic and relevant voice of the Orthodox Churchof South India...
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...The double bed in the front room is made up and Cletus is lying on it, with his shoes extending over the side so they won't dirty the spread...
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...He is lying on his left side, in the fetal position, as if he is trying to get out of this world by the way he came into it...
...In a book critical of Marxism...
...If you really think that church au- thorities in Hungary and at the Vatican Commonweal: 284 were wrong in supporting the return of the crown, why not say so...
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...Nor are your sophisticated readers likely to accept either l-liggins's implication that Philip Rieff is only a marginal intellectual source...
...In commenting on this statement, I reported that I was a member of the U.S...
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...In Hitchcock's personal view of the matt all charity, I can only say that that's sheer I can only say that with friends a nonsense...
...Whether he had as lonely a time as I did when he first moved to Chicago...
...Then he wants to know more-- what it is like to be that very man, that man's wife, the lover himself...
...Hehir must be charged with following a double standard because he favored the return of the crown but that the highest church authorities in Hungary and at the Vatican, who also favored i~s return, are not to be charged with the same offense...
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...Cletus, staying at his Aunt Jenny's house, fears that his father will return, while fearing as well that he will not...
...It reinforces my conviction about the urgent necessity of a genuine conversion to a "whole new attitude toward war...
...I seriously doubt, in this connection, that either Professor Hitchcock or Mr...
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...The narrator is overjoyed to have a friend at last, though Cletus is much less enthusiastic, feeling that he was wrongly pressed into duty...
...Maxwell's greatest concern has al- ways been with how people manage to survive...
...He didn't speak...
...Catholic clerical middle-management has developed its own incestuous bureaucratic momen-tum...
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...Professor Hitehcock, in Catholicism & Modernity, explicitly charges that a staff member of the United States Catholic Conference (Ft...
...intellectu- als, are not made relevant to what Hitch- cock has to say about the public behavior of many Catholic clerisy...
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...and because it is a foundation of social ethics without sec~darisrn on trinitarian grounds and much more radical than our radicals:' -JURGEN MOLTMANN THEOLOGY OF A CLASSLESS SOCIETY by Arthur F. McGovern "This carefully documented study is a model of objective scholarship...
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...They are instead effectively at war with the American laity--often fi- nanced by anti-Catholic law fUTnS, foun- dations, etc., which also supply job- boltholes after their cover as "Catholic" priests and nuns gets blown...
...If so, the logic of his argument com-pletely escapes me...
...because it is a helpful contributipn to discussionon the trinitarian understanding of God...
...At the risk of embarrassingFr...
...Higgins is to be congratulated on his tact, coherence, and moral serious- ness in dealing with a text which seems to have caused him some pain...
...Or quote Paul Goodman to the effect that the U.S...
...I recommend it enthusiastically and without quali- fication as themost impressive work of its kind in the English -MSGR...
...Higgins surely underestimates the difficulty of getting "proof" about motives when one is in the establishment and has buddies to cover for him...
...It goes without saying that Professor Hitchcock is perfectly free to criticize that segment of the church bureaucracy known as the united States Catholic Conference (even though, to the best of my knowledge, he has never really studied the organization), but all is not fair in love and war...
...It is the sight of those shoes that is so moving...
...It is here that Cletus reappears...
...I don't, for instance, understand how Higgins's details on the St...
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