Correspondence
MITCHELL, TIMOTHY A. & HICKEY, ANDREW J. & LUKASZEWSKI, LEON & TOWNLEY, RALPH & McCAULEY, JOHN & FINLEY, MITCH & GERRA, MARTIN J. & KIRWAN, MICHAEL
Correspondence A bad spell Walnut Creek, Calif. To the Editors: Re yours of Jan. 14, pp. 3 and 5, Orthography for '83 Conveys some joke too rare for me Still wondering if you've ever known There...
...Scott has been arrested for demonstrating against our nuclear madness...
...of us at both houses followed by a Mass of Thanksgiving, fed twenty-five men and women on the heating vents around the State Department and were able to accommodate all that came to us...
...To the Editor: This is an open letter to all Michael Novak critics that I've read so far [Jan 14] Turn, if you please, to Novak's piece in the collection of essays titled Church-State Relations in Ecumenical Perspectives (Duquesne Univ...
...We do need prayer desperately...
...I think that Mrs...
...I say God bless him...
...The church has...
...The poor man has sometimes objected to being governed badly...
...So the houses are active, prayerful, happy and sad...
...If you are in the Washington area, please visit...
...lady novelists in the nineteenth century were advised to as well as kings, popes, monks and nuns: some for advantage, others because of the dictates of tradition, many for convenience and a few just to get published...
...He probably has helped many students already and he may help us all yet...
...But there is no thought of going under...
...All that the church recommends is that we should not sink into Utopian reverie but should face up to reality...
...To the Editors: I would like to know where Abigail McCarthy went to school [Dec...
...It reads in part: "If that hope (i.e., "tomoveoutof a position which was morally defective and politically dangerous") were to disappear, the moral attitude of the Catholic church would certainly have to shift to one of uncompromising condemnation of both use and possession of such weapons...
...When the screen goes black at the end, surely it is nothing more - and nothing less - than a theatrical device telling us that a light has gone from the world leaving us all bereft...
...The man has obviously gotten himself free of the Catholic Fortress...
...John Garvey's article on "The Bishops and Their Critics" [Jan...
...RALPH TOWNLEY Life from new angles Lake Oswego, Or...
...But why not attack, as Cardinal Newman would, with mature scholarship and a gentleman's inhibition against needless hurt...
...To the Editors: Peter Steinfels's "Michael Novak and His Ultrasuper Democraticapitalism" [Jan...
...To the Editors: I do not believe in self-flagellation and yet I continously exercise that ritual when I obsessively devour each issue of Commonweal...
...To the Editors: We at St...
...Box 26209 Washington, D.C...
...Incidentally, the draft supports the "buildup of conventional forces" that he opposes and it is odd that he has not joined the critics on this one point, just as it is odd that, as a "pacifist," he is critical of the "episcopal silence in Germany during the Nazi period" but silent about the episcopal silence in America during World War II...
...No doubt we Catholics have our shortcomings, but, from what I have observed over a lifetime, anti-Semitism is not one of them...
...When I was a child, in parochial school, King David was a hero, the Israelites were the "Good Guys" and the Philistines were the "Bad Guys...
...we had a big Halloween Party for the neighborhood kids (fifty came...
...And shouldn't this be done whether he is writing in a socialist, liberal, or capitalistic campground...
...Garvey demolishes straw men, tilts with windmills, and is less than forthright in describing the views of those who are not satisfied with the still evolving U.S...
...ANDREW J. HICKEY In Kingsley's debt New York, N.Y...
...JOHN McCAULEY Man who was Novak Spokane, Wash...
...It has been open again since Labor Day and we have over twenty women living there...
...He's excited - seeing life from new angles...
...we spent the day after Thanksgiving looking at thirty-six acres of land around Emmitsburg, Maryland, with the hopes of acquiring it for a Catholic Worker farm (if we come up with the down payment...
...the rich have always objected to being governed at all...
...It brought to mind these words from G.K...
...Of course, I ask myself whether those who consider themselves as "political liberals" ever trouble to read opposing views...
...14] is a case in point...
...Colin L. Westerbeck Jr's two reviews of the film [Gandhi, Dec...
...To the Editors: Mr...
...bishops' letter does not demand (it can not) that a person "under pain of sin or excommunication" must "support a certain legislative cause," it is another matter to assert that "in this case," the "bishops are not likely to...
...Ben Kingsley's skin seems to have got under Mr...
...And when Gandhi dies he can say, as many do when they die, "oh God...
...McCarthy has done a disservice to the cause of ever improving Jewish-Catholic understanding...
...MITCH FINLEY Bishops & critics New York, N.Y...
...Westerbeck owes Mr...
...enobled commoners from Thailand to the Thames have to...
...immigrants did by the million...
...If Novak wants to sit in a "free enterprise think-tank" and write about "democratic capitalism" shouldn't he be judged from the point of view of his fundamental enterprise - or, if you prefer, from the whole body of his writings...
...he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht...
...We have had Friday night meetings for clarification of thought as Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day advised...
...3 and 5, Orthography for '83 Conveys some joke too rare for me Still wondering if you've ever known There are two u's in D'Aubuisson...
...At no time have I found in Commonweal mention of the more conservative views of the European bishops whose flocks have felt the ravages of war and experienced the tyranny of Hitler and Stalin...
...There is much to do...
...Even if it were not, there is nothing odd about changing a name: women do it all the time...
...MARTIN J. GERRA Catholic Worker Washington D.C...
...We distributed over fifty food baskets to the neighborhood, fed all...
...MICHAEL KIRWAN The Catholic Worker P.O...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...14] is excellent, and I enjoyed it thoroughly...
...To the Editors: While John Garvey is (Continued on page 125) Correspondence (Continued from page 98) right that the second draft of the U.S...
...Press, 1966) page 109: ". . .the whole point of the model of the open society and the open church is that the human community can be a community of conscience and reasonable discourse and mutual respect...
...Man must, therefore, learn to live with armaments and warfare so that evil which cannot be remedied may not occur...
...We sometimes get a little too morose even for ourselves...
...17, Jan...
...The rich man hasn't...
...If she wants us to believe that "some of us are Klansmen at heart," let her offer proof...
...McCarthy's unfortunate and incorrect innuendoes...
...always known that an absolute 'no' to armaments and warfare is impossible because right must be defended and oppression combated...
...For the text here is not quite that clear...
...Diversity . contributes to the fundamental enterprise (italics mine) that countless finite men (usually he would say persons) in their variety may mirror back the infinite loveliness of God...
...Scott, Claire and Susan are carrying a tremendous burden, immensely draining, physically, spiritually and emotionally...
...Benedict's, the other night, had forty-five men and with each house only having four rooms that made for much tension and confusion yet all were accommodated...
...Scott took a dozen guys to the movies from the house and the women went on an outing with lunch in a cafeteria downtown...
...19 issue of Commonweal...
...I think Mr...
...Box 26209 Washington, D.C...
...Why, Mr...
...If, to Mrs McCarthy, "the current criticisms of the State of Israel . . . seem sometimes little more than convenient cloaks for the old prejudices," let her consider the flood of criticism of the government of Israel from many Zionists, with impeccable credentials, such as Jacob Timerman...
...Benedict's and Mary Harris Catholic Worker Houses of Hospitality, want to thank you very much for printing our letter in the Nov...
...20001 The Catholic Worker P.O...
...as an avid reader of Commonweal I know I do...
...actors have always done so...
...Westerbeck...
...The Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of the Diocese of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Monsignor R. P.Bar, has responded to the call by the Dutch section of Pax Christi to ban nuclear weapons throughout the world in a forceful statement in the NATO Review (February 1982...
...Much has changed in the houses since then...
...However, I think they should know that we wrote that letter in August and didn't realize that it would be printed at a much later date...
...Garvey, do you not play fair with your readers and give them a more balanced presentation of the nuclear issue so that they have an adequate basis upon which to form a right conscience...
...At Thanksgiving we had much to be grateful for...
...We have made a good start but we need your physical presence to help us continue...
...After that we need volunteers, even if only for the day, during the day...
...Mary Harris house was only closed for two weeks while we did much repair and cleanup...
...Kingsley something...
...I want your readers to understand that...
...Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on nuclear arms...
...With the winter, it will only get more intense...
...In Catholic high school, and later at a Catholic university, no anti-Semitism or any other bigotry was tolerated...
...TIMOTHY A. MITCHELL Editor, Pro Ecciesia The Common Good European views Kensington, Md...
...Chesterton's novel, The Man Who Was Thursday: "The poor man really has a stake in the country...
...The response from your readers was tremendous...
...20001...
...LEON LUKASZEWSKI Anti-Semitism Upper Montclair, N.J...
...In such a community diversity prospers...
...Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...Actors are not expected to be articulate off-stage, and even if they were those that are not may feel touched by something more than the role they are paid to portray...
...Russian" ballerinas surely must...
...Academics love to peck each other's loose feathers...
...There is increased violence, bitterness, despair brought on by so much drug addiction and mental illness...
...I sincerely hope that Commonweal readers of Jewish faith will not be misled by Mrs...
...14], for the statement that the actor "passed for white" is surely as odious for us as it is an opprobrium for Mr...
Vol. 110 • February 1983 • No. 4
