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Correspondence I am pleased New York, N.Y. To the Editors: I was very pleased to see the tribute to Geno Baroni in the Sep- tember 21 issue; and very sorry that none of the other liberal and...
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...As I have teenagers at home, I cannot allow publications which pervert or dis- credit the Roman Catholic church...
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...589, 606, Mitre, Greece...
...To the Editors: I am not a liberal, a Democrat, or an American who is soft on Communism...
...Gen- erally, he seemed to favor a blend of Western politics and Eastern economics, an optimal mix of individual freedom and economic egalitarianism...
...p. 585, Nod Ford, Punch;pp...
...And we learn much about her father as a man his love of thinking, his intellectual restlessness, his quirks, and his occa-sional arrogance...
...I, as well as a great number of other voters, take abortion seriously and feel that it is the most shameful act for a "civilized" nation...
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...And, if those in patriarchal positions of authority can pull it off, they will once again sweep another appeal for equality under the rug...
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...The editorial states, "But it is time to clear the air and to say explicitly that there is as much 'room for sincere disa- greement about policy implementation among Catholics in the 'one area [abor- tion] as in the other [arms] ." . . . Where are you going to get the "room" for sincere disagreement...
...He was a guiding light behind a worker-owned Swiss cor- poration...
...As one might expect, she also very effectively evokes the Cheaper by the Dozen ambience of the Schumacher home in Caterham, England, with Fritz testing his intermediate technology in the vegetable garden, and his many children making faces at a much-disliked visiting Buddhist monk in the dining room...
...HUGH S. McCAFFREY I am moved Canton, Ohio To the Editors: I was moved by Mary Ann Flannery's article, "The Torch Lady" [ September 7], because it highlighted the insidious power of unconscious sexism over the lives of people -particularly women--who seek full realization of their rights...
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...To The Editors: I was appalled at the reasoning contained in your editorial on Geraldine Ferraro for vice president [Aug...
...619, Tom Brina, Rothco...
...of his moral responsibility" beyond "national, racial, occupational, [and] re- ligious" lines, he wrote in a 1937 letter to his wife...
...The development of a person toward good consists in a continuous broadening .9...
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...Unique among economists, Schu-reacher journeyed far into the realms of religion, philosophy, and politics...
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...To the Editors: The editorial "Religion and Politics: Clearing the Air" [Sep-tember 7] needs some air clearing of its own...
...While Reagan has promised to fight to stop two million abortions a year, many people believe he could be the cause of between 20 and 160 million deaths by starting a nuclear war...
...JERRY NOWAK Provocative new reading for Contemporary Catholics JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT HAD DISAPPEARED[[ THE PERSISTENT PREJUDICE by Michael Schwartz Anti-Catholicism is America's "invisible prejudice" says the director of public af-fairs for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights...
...However, when they quibble they do so outside the church...
...Hunger has killed more people in the ,past five years than have been killed in all the wars, revolutions, and murders in the past 150 years...
...and he followed a long spiritual quest that brought him from sci- entific rationalism in his youth to non- denominational deism in middle age and to conversion to Catholicism in 1971...
...But this publication is asking that some "prominent" bishops should publicly condone "policies" to the contrary...
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...p. 597, Uluschak, Edmonton Journal...
...They must not be forgotten or si- lenced...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 580) the political campaign has become religion...
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...To the Editors: After reading portions of Commonweal [September 7] I am puzzled as to why this publication claims to be Catholic...
...Commonweal: 580 Tribalism troubled him as well, espe- cially the jingoism by which rich nations systematically gouged and gutted poor ones...
...Catholics have no choice but to stand firm...
...The role of relics in Catholic life and what the Church teaches about them are all revealed and documented for the first time inthis unique story that is sure to be widely read and discussed...
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...Neither feminism nor sexism is new, yet contemporary voters are exposed to rhetoric which suggests such a conclusion...
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...Women and others who are not anatomically "correct" for inclusion in the white male system are constantly forced to re-invent the wheel of their val-idity because those in power --white males --systematically reject, denig-rate, or minimize their efforts...
...586, 603,613, Emil An- tonucci...
...they must not be reduced to "non-persons," and their efforts must not be dismissed as "non-events...
...Wood does a fine job explaining her father's economic and philosophical views...
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...I believe that some bishops who state the abortion issue takes first priority, do not understand that the arms race poses "a situation of extreme and immediate danger...
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...Unfortunately, the arms race, the def- icit, poverty, foreign policy and other priority issues have seldom been dis-cussed because the number one issue of (Continued on page 637) Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by Commonweal Foundation, 232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
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...As a Catholic, I am concerned about Catholic bishops who support Reagan in word or action...
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...Pope John Paul II and the Catholic bishops united with him still profess that abortion is murder and therefore to be opposed by all Catholics to the same ex- tent as rape, robbery, and ax murders...
...On page 451 the editors state that, "It is time for the Catholic bishops, or at least one or two prominent ones, to make themselves perfectly clear about the reasonableness of divergent views among Catholics on abortion policy...
...Geno was a signifi- cant figure in urban and other kinds of activism, as well as a memorable human being...
...Perhaps this lively and clear biography will help to return his good ideas to the prominence they had when he died in 1977...
...Must not Christians answer to God someday for ignoring the world's 500 million starving people because we support an administration that spends $1 billion a day on military programs...
...More specifi- cally, his many projects fleshed out his ideas...
...He fashioned a widely adopted strategy for third-world agricultural de- velopment using small-scale, or "inter- mediate," technology...
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...I appeal especially to the good Ameri- cans who are conservatives and ask them to please consider more seriously the one issue that could most change all of our lives drastically--nuclear war...
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...So isn't it a "consistent ethic of life" for Christians who fight against abortion to also oppose nuclear war and capital punishment and support the powerlefis, the old, the hungry, the handicapped, the unemployed and the terminally ill because there is a common denominator-respect for life from the womb to the tomb...
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...There are Catholic politicians who are quibbling on abortion...
...LEON A. De ASCANIS I am puzzled Seattle, Wa...
...With the high sensitivity of the outcast, he saw patriotism as thedanger it can be...
...Since the Democrats are more cautious and less likely to lead us into nuclear war and show promise of serving the common good better than the Republicans, I am voting for Mondaie and Ferraro~ despite my abhorrence of abortion...
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...Flannery has done us a service by high- lighting the fundamental connectedness among women and other minorities in reminding us that Ferraro is neither new nor anomalous...
...Personally, I would vote for a pro-choice politician much the same as I would for an ax murderer, regardless of what other benign beliefs one held...
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...Let others disagree...
...I speak only as a Christian and a citizen, who believes with all my heart, that President Reagan has failed many times to act in the best interest of this great nation...
...And he devised ingenious in- centive and promotional structures for the British coal industry, so that miners could look forward to something more than the dirty, dead-end job of digging...
...In the church there can be no disagreement on this most basic moral issue...
...A native German who fled what he called the "nationalist poison" of the Nazis shortly before World War II, Schumacher at times was both scorned as a traitor by some Ger- mans and shunned as a suspect alien by some of his adopted British citizens...
...The whole body of Catholic belief leaves no space...
...While you went to some length to point out where you disagreed with her regarding abortion, you cut the legs out from under your position by blaming Catholic education and culture for being at fault in the education and training of Ms...
...This forthright and hard- hitting book depicts anti-Cathofic senti-ment from colonial times to the present day...
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...Ignatius Loyola, Ortega y Gasset, and a host of other thinkers...
...Schumacher offered at least some answers to the problems he raised...
...Others have come before her...
...p. 601, Whitte- more, Rothco...
...The issue is paramount...
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...he practiced as- trology and yoga...
...Though delightful, these are mere sidelights to the proper focus of the book on Schumacher the polymathic economist.9 If anything, the need for his gentle, humane economics is more ur- gent now than when he began to conjure it up nearly fifty years ago...
...and very sorry that none of the other liberal and left publications I read eulogized him...
...Is no one at fault for his or her errors...
...SHEILA MURPHY | am concel'ned Milwaukee, Wis...
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