Editorials
From Commonweal twenty years ago: "A funny thing happened to the Republican Patty on the way to the Cow Pair Barry Goldwater captured it. By purely peaceful and legal means he and his supporters...
...The congresswoman was chosen, at least in part, to appeal to Catholic voters...
...The achievement of this self-styled "not per- fect" leader -- and of the political party that has had to contain the energies he loosed --must be acknowledged...
...Your shoulder and chest are splattered with red goo...
...FDR was there, of course, recalled in courseless configurations...
...Years, if not decades, must pass before the full sweep of the profound changes which are now being unleashed can be intellectually digested or fully comprehended...
...Those who wish to join his crusade are welcome...
...It had turned the streets and sidewalks into griddles --hot, humid, harrowing...
...Everything you need to play Skirmish is supplied...
...rice, she also represents the American Dream in its post-World War II dress: the struggle to get through college and into a profession, the move to a nice neighborhood, the two vacation homes, the private schools and Ivy League colleges for the next generation...
...It is almost impossible to see how the moderates and liberals can remain within the party...
...They are made by a leading drug company, and break easily on contact...
...What Roe v. Wade sanctioned by way of a massive resort to abortion has got to be reversed...
...At the same time, Mrs...
...As the Democratic vice:presidential nominee sits in center stage over the next few months, we wish she would clarify and refine her position, possibly with some sound theological advice...
...For her and her child, the round pellets have not washed out...
...It is silent, incomprehensible, and unnoticed...
...Ferraro, it is hard to see that anyone will come out a winner...
...But there is more than one position that a Catholic politician can take, in keeping with good church tradition, about the role of govern- ment in that reversal...
...She knows that problems for so many mothers and their children do not end at birth but may in fact begin there...
...Imagination is all that is needed to find a 'foe...
...The justified excitement generated by this irrever- sible fact, however, makes it more difficult to assess the candidate herself...
...But to heal, it must be drawn up and tasted...
...Congresswoman Ferraro's position may well have roots in her experience in the Special Victims Bureau of the District Attorney's office, where she worked daily with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence, including child abuse...
...The Reverend Jackson preached...
...But it was Mrs...
...Whether abortion will really be an important issue in the presidential election is an open question...
...By purely peaceful and legal means he and his supporters have already effected what is almost certainly an irreversible revolution in American politics...
...but others have not...
...While wr were walking to lunch one day on a crowded street, a crazed stranger suddenly strikes an uncomprehending woman full in the mouth...
...The II I I I consciousness...
...Indeed, the Democratic convention was a reminder, if one is still needed, of the pervasive importance of religion in our public life...
...No one can react until the second blow has driven a dull, bloody thud into our dazed consciousness...
...Ferraro's own position is, unfortunately, five years old and not very extensive...
...At the same time, her position appears to be equally rooted in the conventional liberalism that would pigeonhole concern about the value of fetal life as a matter solely of religion and take refuge in the individualistic shibboleth about not imposing beliefs...
...They are non-toxic, biodegradable and wash off easily...
...Goldwater's acceptance speech, with its ringing endorsement of extremism "in the defense of liberty," was strictly a take-it-or-leave-it proposi- tion...
...I have been blessed with the gift of faith...
...Is there nothing that ordinary moral reason- ing can tell all of us, Catholic or non-Catholic, believers or unbelievers, about the rights not only of the "fertilized ovum" but of the well-developed fetus...
...Election '84 CONVENTIONAL GHOSTS YOU CAN'T EAT MEMORIES W~fie TRE MOST important delegates to the Democratic onal convention ghosts...
...It is the water that can wash all tears from our eyes, void the canyons of our divisions, and flood the lethargy of our consciences...
...You've been hit...
...A woman, New York City crime widow and welfare mother, writes at the same time in the Times, "I lost my husband a year ago in a street shooting and robbery...
...Not only the first woman but also the first Italian-American to be nominated for the second highest of...
...but so, in a different, more philosophical, and more Catholic mode, did Governor Cuomo...
...I firmly believe, given my current situation, that I could never have an abortion...
...Only the invisible bander of "unthinkable- ness" has kept women from greater political leadership...
...But if that is a challenge to Mrs...
...Ssssplat...
...But what an irony: others he brutally and publicly writes off...
...It announces "Skirmish USA," the "Poconos Friendly 'War' Game: Exciting, Challenging, Competitive...
...You'll be among friends...
...She vividly illustrates the possibility of a range among Catholics of personal and political responses to the abortion problem...
...Where is the camaraderie, where the helpers...
...To all appearances she is a competent, conventional liberal...
...If many Catholic women feel forced to choose between the church's apparent refusal to acknowledge legitimate differ- ences on abortion and the credibility of a strong and independ- ent woman like Mrs...
...Fair enough, in one sense...
...There is only time to lunge before a third blow, and the crazed one escapes into the throng...
...Yet it binds those who play "Skirmish," those who walk the city streets, those who labor in sorrow and ceaselessly without pay...
...For her and thousands like her, the real skirmish is still on...
...Since then, after my one child started attending kindergarten, I have been seeking work...
...it has already become clear -- win, lose, or draw --that the moderates will have to contend with a party apparatus which, being dominated by ideologues, will become far more cohesive and tightly-knit than any major organization has been in our history...
...The key issue, of course, is abortion, especially since her views (like Mr...
...Ferraro is faithful enough...
...A twig...
...with Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial posters attached to their Near the 42rid Street bus terminal thousands stream in Mondale or Hart signs...
...Your heart drops with a thud...
...now the question is whether Mrs...
...The only explanation we have seen of Mrs...
...She is an undoubted be- liever and faithful practitioner, reared in a Catholic home, educated in a Catholic college and Catholic law school, a wife of two decades, a mother of three children...
...A film on the life of or Roosevelt sent young women rushing around an's wounds will be measured for seasons...
...I would be so self-righteous...
...At the Shatt al Arab...
...The womuted, a mustard-colored invitation to escape the city streets...
...But it is precisely this urge toward the middle of the road which was overthrown at San Francisco...
...Out of the game...
...Skirmish" boasts of being the adult version of capture the flag...
...In East Timor...
...There are several elements in this statement we find disturb- ing...
...The greater ambiguity has arisen because of her religion...
...The new Mach Ipistol...
...Ferraro's use of the phrase "so self-righteous" is peculiar, as though what was at stake in cases where women refuse abortion was generally a matter of one degree or another of self-righteousness, Third, there is her disconcerting calculus of the pecuniary cost of abortion com- pared to the burden on the taxpayer of supporting the un- wanted...
...Thus the delegates chose the one man who stands even farther to the fight than the congressional wing of the party...
...There is much less ambiguity about the step that was taken with the vice-presidential nomination of CongresswOman Geraldine Ferraro...
...It washes the streets of New York, San Ysidro, and San Salvador...
...The leaflet pictures smiling men and women in army camouflage fatigues, intent, but buoyant in camaraderie...
...Mon- dale's) appear in sharp contrast to the president's...
...Ferraro is no working-class hero, nor even a pathbreaker as a legislator, but she has retained a solid liberal view of governmental responsibility at home and re- straint abroad often abandoned by others who experienced the same kind of economic success...
...They do so for the mo- ment only because they hope to recapture it after a Goldwater defeat in November...
...Mondale evinced, as always, the re- served bearing and restraint learned in a Methodist home, as the son of a minister...
...Whether he wins or loses, his campaign seems destined to produce a heavy rightward drag within the Ameri- can political system as a whole...
...It is an axiom of politics that any two-party system has an inherent bias toward moderate centrism...
...You're marked and out of the game...
...Ferraro's candidacy that has put religion to the fore...
...Second, Mrs...
...I am not so sure, however, if I were the victim of rape...
...I have no right to impose my beliefs on them...
...She has not found it...
...If she does not rely in a more nuanced way on the church's teachings in this area, how much of that is due to the fact that the church's perform- ance has fallen short in compassion and respect both for the problems of women who are victimized and the accom-plishments of women who have struggled and achieved...
...First, while the "gift of faith" may indeed have some- thing to do with perception of the value of unborn life -- as it may with the perception of the immorality of nuclear devasta- tion or the equality of all men and women --is this simply a sectarian matter...
...A shot...
...Ssssplat...
...This summer...
...That barrier has been shattered now, no matter the outcome in November...
...at least until the action starts...
...From Commonweal twenty years ago: "A funny thing happened to the Republican Patty on the way to the Cow Pair Barry Goldwater captured it...
...As a Catholic," she declared on the House floor, "I accept the premise that a fertilized ovum is a baby...
...And finally there is the stock phrase about not impos- ing one's beliefs...
...Walter Dean Burnham, "The Goldwaterite Revolution" August 7,1964 in 1960, the question was whether JFK was too faithful a Catholic to be qualified for high office...
...The cost of putting an unwanted child through the system far outweighs the cost of funding these procedures...
...A two-hour game can be scheduled for $15...
...Ferraro, her candidacy is also a challenge to the church...
...There's a sharp crack behind you," the brochure writes effectively...
...In San Ysidro...
...The pellets are soft, round gelatin capsules filled with water soluble coloring...
...There is, we're told, an infinite variety of play (but always, always one conclusion...
...and Sarbanes, Governor 10 August 1984:421...
...holds over 30 pellets powered by a standard C02 cartridge...
...To us, it is an important issue...
...Secondly, a very large number of these moderates will almost certainly be swept out of office -- and hence out of any contest for party power -- by the anti-Goldwater landslide which is in the making in their Northeastern heartland, if not in the country at large...
...BY THE RIVER The blast of summer had struck this "How'm I doin' ?" city...
...In El Salvador...
...And afterwards, you can go whitewater rafting: "You'll sleep like a rock, and you'll never be the same again...
...There is a river, scarlet, that descends from a different mountain than the Poconos...
...Ferraro's refer- ence to rape is an honest recognition of the uncertainty we must all share about our own moral decisions under pressure, but Commonweal: 420 reference to cases where a woman has been so unambiguously a victim of violence is also too frequently a way in which public sentiment is garnered while the more common reasons for large numbers of abortions remain undiscussed...
...A friendly handbill is being distrib- speeches by Senators Hart, Kennedy...
...The men in control have extremely long-range plans, which very probably include the cheerful acceptance of the right kind of defeat in November if it will help them in 1968 or 1972...
Vol. 111 • August 1984 • No. 14
