Correspondence
BINDY, WILLIAM & JR., WALTER H. CLARK & FENCHAK, PAUL & ZEITLER, (REV.) JOHN & LAYLIN, EDWARD H. & NEUHAUS, (REV.) RICHARD JOHN
Correspondence No double standard Apache Junction, Ariz. To the Editors: I must protest Jeremiah Baruch's admiring approval of the late Phil Burton's reapportionment of California's congressional...
...The process and product of the U.S...
...Congratulations, Ms...
...EDWARD H. LAYLIN...
...How can any who profess to be followers of Jesus remain silent...
...bishops on peace may be a model...
...REV...
...Especially interesting is Smith's observation, starting at page 389 of the anthology: "But in the wildest dreams of your imagination you cannot conjure up a possible conflict between religious principle and political duty in the United States, except on the unthinkable hypothesis that some laws were to be passed which violated the common morality of all God-fearing men...
...Those who understand the religious grounding of personal and societal reality must, on the one hand, debunk the myth of seculari-ty's value neutrality and, on the other, turn public policy in a direction that empowers people (families) to transmit the values by which they would live...
...Food follies Des Moines, Iowa To the Editors: "Amen...
...Catholics and Lutherans in particular should reclaim this cause rather than surrendering it to the forces of the Religious New Right which evidence little understanding of the problems and promises of the American experiment...
...It's O.K., Adolph, nobody will bother you...
...To the Editors: I must protest Jeremiah Baruch's admiring approval of the late Phil Burton's reapportionment of California's congressional districts, [May 6], the effect of which was nothing less than blatant gerrymandering...
...An effort to awaken the consciences of all Christians for a study of all twentieth century holocausts is eagerly awaited...
...Does not our nation's rush towards an ever-increasing nuclear arsenal constitute such a law...
...Let's study the twentieth century holocausts chronologically...
...then why shouldn't the killing of 7,000,000 Ukrainians in the Russian man-made famine of 1932-33 be considered a kind of license for Hitler to murder people...
...Gom-brich [Apr...
...7,000,000 Ukrainians Baltimore, Md...
...As a companion piece to that document, or a foundation of the document on the economy, would the bishops address the principles that would form an agricultural policy for this nation...
...We lurch from disaster to disaster with haphazard programs...
...EDWARD H. LAYLINers of Jesus remain silent...
...May we as church have the faith to address long-range agricultural policy...
...What I like best about the review is its backlighting, the skill and economy with which a context is established...
...It's amazing how many writers about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust (Whose holocaust is the...
...As a starter the following are suggested for equal time and equal space: Armenian Holocaust (1916), Ukrainian Holocaust (1923-33), Jewish Holocaust, Holocaust of Chinese Nationalists (1946-1949...
...Here was the real Christian failure...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...How shall we agree on a rational, international, agricultural program...
...does not now have, nor has ever had, consensus on a rational agricultural policy...
...If he would condemn such actions by Republicans, surely to condone them by Democrats is to be guilty of a double standard of political morality...
...Elliott Wright's analysis underscores, I believe, the urgency of that reclamation project...
...of Maryland, Inc...
...WALTER H. CLARK, JR...
...He goes on to point out that in such a case the reactions of Protestants and Catholics would be the same...
...WILLIAM BINDY The neutral & naked New York, N.Y...
...As skeptical as we must be about the Religious New Right's claims about a "secular humanist conspiracy' ' theirs is a fundamental (fundamentalist...
...The underlying problem is generally acknowledged: The U.S...
...Not so much by conspiracy as by mindless precedent and incremental errors we are being forced to what I have called "the naked public square," a practice of the polis that is rigorously and undemo-cratically sterilized against the influence of religiously-grounded values...
...Wright's excellent article appeared at a time when, in connection with a related project, I was examining again Diane Ravitch's The Great School Wars (1974...
...A century later the work of those pioneers is more pertinent than ever...
...Gifford...
...In many ways this ought to be "the Catholic moment" in American public life, and education is a critical sphere for that moment's fulfillment...
...alternative schools into which ultimate values did not have to be smuggled...
...The present price support programs will probably cost over 20 billion dollars this year...
...That's an exorbitant price to pay for (Continued on page 447) Correspondence (Continued from page 418) their very limited success...
...Once we assent to this we cannot but see the importance of what Gombrich is saying...
...PAUL FENCHAK President, Ukranian Education Assn...
...Then Roman Catholics and some Lutherans, understanding the impossibility of value-neutral education, pioneered Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...In truth, food policy is every bit as demanding of the church's attention as is nuclear war...
...slice off the Nazi Holocaust of Jews as one pound of cheese from a slab and then forget that it was processed with and connected to the larger whole...
...If Hannah Arendt is correct in asserting in The Origins of Totalitarianism that Stalin was Hitler's teacher - and didn't the Germans learn some of their concentration camp techniques from visiting and studying Russian operations on Solovetsky Island in the White Sea...
...RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS The well-lit review Ann Arbor, Mich...
...REV...
...JOHN ZEITLER Program/Outreach Coordinator National Catholic Rural Life Conference Religion & politics Columbus, Ohio To the Editors: The article "Why the Pastoral is Shocking," by Gerald P. Fogarty in the issue of 3 June 1983, which seems quite good to me, brought to mind the remarkable letter of Al Smith to Charles C. Marshall, in the May 1927 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, and which is included in Edward Weeks's "Jubilee" collection of material from that magazine which was published in 1957...
...I don't think I have ever seen a more graceful display of the reviewer's art as it concerns works of intellectual consequence...
...I tend to distrust reviews in which the author doesn't find it necessary to quote at any length from the book being reviewed, but this is a glorious exception...
...intuition of considerable merit...
...To the Editors: If there are prizes for book reviewers, I hope you will nominate Nell Gifford for her discussion of The Image and the Eye, by E.H...
...The only people to benefit are the speculators and the agribusiness giants who can manipulate the government policy-makers...
...I was struck by the prescience of folks like Bishop John Hughes who in the nineteenth century foresaw many of the developments agitating public debate today...
...To the Editors: Elliott Wright's incisive analysis of Supreme Court muddlings over religion and government schools [April 8] goes to the heart of current confusions about secularization in American public life...
...How can we ever get a discussion going...
...to your May 20 editorial, "Down on the Farm...
Vol. 110 • August 1983 • No. 14
