Correspondence
Correspondence A little bit of bigotry? Philadelphia, Pa. To the Editors: The advertisement for The New Oxford Review ("Defend the Family Sensibly") in the May 8 issue struck me as a bit odd for...
...10 ]. I share Samuel Hux's enthusiasm for Catholic social thought for its insistence on the social nature of property, its legitimating of state intervention, for the common good, to restrict the extent of the package of property rights and at least since John XXIII its espousal of co-determination schemes in industry...
...I think the staff of Commonweal should re-think this thing and give this ad the can -it reeks of fascism and bad vibes...
...To the Editors: Here's an insider's response to "An Outsider's Look at Catholic Social Thought" [Apr...
...As a homosexual, I found particularly offensive the equation of gay politics with "the lethal forces at loose eating away at the health of the American family...
...The Spirit is forever revealing to us and being gay is part of that ongoing revelation, that fresh discovery about the many paths to sexuality...
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...preferably, in workers' investment funds contributed from corporation profits-for re-investment toward productivity...
...The Catholic bias, of course, would assert that workers have a just claim on investment savings collected in their name by the state or...
...My surprise turned to indignation when, in the May 8 issue, you permitted another ad by New Oxford Review titled, "Defend the Family Sensibly...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...p 399, LNS, Gazette...
...To try and cloak it as some kind of intellectual forum, and then to put a "Christian'' label on it, is to play into the hands of the hate groups surrounding the likes of Jerry Falwell...
...Rather, they wish to live, love, and work within the universal human family...
...Illustrations: Cover and p. 397, Religious News Service Photo...
...I was a bit surprised that Commonweal would offer advertising space to a publication baiting potential subscribers with cheap sloganeering, naive rhetoric, and simplistic observations of the world and the Christian church...
...They have and will continue to organize and fight oppressive structures and thinking which deny them full human rights, or as the New Oxford Review, in rather glaring contradiction later in their ad stated,' 'affirmation of the dignity of every human life...
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...Yours has been a magazine often critical of the institutional church...
...Still, few economic planners will long listen to the rightful Catholic distributist claims (the glory of the tradition) unless they are balanced, much more than they have been, with equally rightful claims for increased productivity...
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...Recently, I notice you have been carrying subscription ads for The New Oxford Review, which among other things purports to defend the orthodoxy of the pope and Christian church, provide a "sensible alternative to the network of Catholic opinion in journals purveying dubious theology and pre-Christian morality ,'' (whatever that may mean), offer a monthly column on "personal sanctity from, of all places, Berkeley...
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...Certainly, it was to this human family that Christ spoke...
...I should hope that you would more carefully scrutinize ads such as those for the New Oxford Review...
...And is the implied message in this advertisement that a little bigotry is okay, provided it is reasoned out and cushioned by such Reaganesque terms as "family," "life-affirming," etc...
...p. 402 Emil Antonucci...
...tom nickels Gay politics San Francisco, Calif...
...First, as Richard Camp shows in his The Papal Ideology of Social Reform, Catholic thought never really has giveo adequate emphasis to economic growth as a basic requirement of social reform or exhibited sufficient appreciation for conditions of modern industry and commerce which provide this growth...
...you have invited debate, reflection, and new insight into the many issues of our day...
...Gay people have long struggled for their dignity and there could be nothing more vital to that struggle than gay politics...
...I wonder, though, if he is fair in seeing the main obstacle to its wider acceptance in an American allergy to things Catholic...
...What the devil, for instance, is gay careerism-hairdressing, lumber jacking, play writing...
...I took particular offense at a part of the ad which included "gay" politics as one of "the lethal forces at loose eating away at the health of the American family...
...p. 401, Crossroad Publishing Co...
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...p. 405, Pilgrim Press...
...Your many fine columnists, perceptive commentaries, and diverse film and book reviews are to be lauded for their contributions toward a healthy and informative press...
...Granted that Catholic pre-occupation with just distribution acts as a healthy couriterweight to those who pretend that an increase in GNP alone counts, however distributed...
...a family, a kingdom beyond class and economic status, beyond rigid roles of male and female, beyond human institutions so often repressive and demeaning of life...
...I have learned from other outsiders' views to see some of the inherent flaws in the social tradition itself...
...Gay people are not out to undermine the American family, convert children, nor dehumanize "sacred" institutions of society...
...405, Pilgrim Press...
...To me, this kind of rhetoric is pure Moral Majority, nothing more, nothing less...
...To the Editors: The advertisement for The New Oxford Review ("Defend the Family Sensibly") in the May 8 issue struck me as a bit odd for a magazine of your liberal persuasions...
...To the Editors: Your magazine has become an integral part of my reading on a variety of today's issues...
...CRAIG M. MACHADO Some inherent flaws...
...Is it because Commonweal needs funds that it needs to solicit advertising revenue from groups such as this...
...It doesn't belong in a magazine of integrity and intelligence...
Vol. 108 • July 1981 • No. 13
