Up in the Park
Jordan, Patrick
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...I just talked about what it is like to be the Classified RATES: 70r a word, one time...
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...Besides the park's free-wandering deer, the Shannons' only neighbors are the papal nuncio and the president of Ireland...
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...Shannon sets down some rules for her tenure: " I will not leave Ireland known merely as 'the American ambassador's wife.' I will not complain about the weather...
...How to Save the Catholic Church makes a convincing case for developing positive models of the sacramentality and asceticism of sexuality, a position supported by Cardinal Bemardin in his introductory remarks to Mary G. Durkin's Feast of Love: Pope John Paul H on Human Intimacy and Marital Intimacy: A Catholic Perspective...
...We had an interesting visit with the elderly bishop [of Cork], but I'm afraid that as a woman, a liberal, and an American Catholic, my views and those of the bishop are very, very far apart...
...Surely not all of us have lost sight of the gospels as "good news" in our fashionable eagerness to embrace Kierkegaardian despair...
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...Shannon to be either bland or uninvolved...
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...I have no problem appreciating their ability to get to the core of things and suspect that even many New Yorkers might agree with me...
...Who could fault someone whose last ambassadorial act was to plant a tree, a copper beech at that...
...Shannon's reflections touch all the bases of Irish social problems - - women, work, welfare, wine...
...For over a thousand years the official church has allowed Neo-Platonic, Gnostic, and Manichean wodd and flesh negation to obscure the message of life and world affirmation contained in the Christian understanding of Christ as homoousios, fully God and fully human...
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...more likely, it will be its one principal virtue: too much depressing and painful history about the Vietnam war, served up too plainly -- and, in that case alone, all too true...
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...The appreciation of women as analog of God, while firmly grounded in New Testament (and some Old Testament) evidence and kept alive in much of our mystical and artistic tradition, has been far too long overshadowed by the Augustinian distrust of femininity...
...Imbelli belittles Greeley and Durkin's suggestions for positive action...
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...After she appeared on Irish television's "Late, Late Show," Elizabeth Shannon, the wife of William V. Shannon, President Carter's ambassador to Ireland, noted in her diary: "My appearance was noncontroversial and bland...
...The charge of "Rotarian optimism" is a fit counterpart to Sheehan's simpleminded village-atheist agnosticism which I hope and pray does not constitute the true description of the state of the question...
...She opens her heart and her house not only to the glittering, but to itinerants, the handicapped, the elderly...
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...Her book has such a reach...
...Surely Imbelli does not mean to imply that only Irish Catholics are sexual beings...
...Yet, significantly, it is also amazingly close...
...Somehow, Father Imbelli manages to make nostalgia and aspiration seem dirty words, without realizing that hope-fullness and faith-fullness coupled with thoughtful respect for tradition are among the most essential characteristics of Catholic Christianity...
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Vol. 111 • December 1984 • No. 22
