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Correspondence Precarious balance Collegeville, Minn. To the Editors: I want to support Avery Dulles's media via solution to the problem of authority ["Authority: the Divided Legacy," July...
...A Canadian church and human rights delegation which observed the elections concluded: "We have unanimously concluded that the elections conform to the highest international standards for free, open, and democratic elections and were conducted in a manner that is in the best of democratic traditions...
...they were studying Irenaeus...
...and W.G...
...How a city could place new buildings to facilitate integration in a school system with white enrollment dropping from 53,593 to 15,327 in ten years, as black also sank in numbers from 31,963 26.662 is indeed a conundni" 18 October 1985...
...Nor did the Sandinistas adopt a Soviet model for their economy...
...Ford does not name the new schools he had in mind...
...Since Mr...
...In Hiroshima, Ogura was one of the first people I looked up, and he turned out to be a valuable guide for foreigners interested in a deeper understanding of what it meant to be a hibakusha than one received from most written accounts...
...Between January and June of this year we have distributed 51.000 copies of our draft pastoral on equality...
...They arc rea priests...
...RODNEY BARKER Commonweal: 590...
...Ogura felt that Lifton had known what he was looking for ahead of time, and that the manner of his investigation all but assured his conclusions...
...They have continued a mixed economy while resolutely trying to give economic benefits and power to the poor...
...ADFXAIDE A WILEY Cop-oat on evil Minneapolis...
...Adding support to her suspicion that Lifton's claim (hibakusha underwent a "permanent encounter with death") is overstated and tends to neglect a whole range of more positive reactions, I would like to relate the following: While researching my book The Hiroshima Maidens, published on August 6, 1985, I interviewed Robert Jay Lifton in his Yale office...
...By comparison, the first draft to the bishop's pastoral on the economy received 1000 personal responses...
...To the Editors: Rachelle Linncr's piece on Hiroshima ("City of Myth & Reality...
...Celebrating a hoped-for outcome at the time of a painful loss smacks of smugness that makes me most uneasy...
...Then a little girl many teachers considered not too bright, said...
...Mimi D'Aponte has done laudable work in identifying various groups addressing women's issues ["Finding Our Voices...
...September 61 should not deter us from noting that the "gays" who contract it are rarely, if ever, monogamous but participate with multiple partners...
...I object to the use of loaded phrases which insinuate without informing...
...I was a subscriber then, and was grateful Commonweal expressed my reaction and that of my friend and neighbor as we wept together under her clothes-reel...
...Perhaps it is time for Commonweal to take off the ethnocentric blinkers and get off the fence...
...mining of Nicaragua's harbors...
...And I told them of the priests, all young, all volunteers, who went to Grosse Isle and how all eight of them died...
...Your statement that the outlcxik espoused by the Sandinistas "has a worldwide track record of economic failure" is again a substitution of loaded rhetoric for informed analysis...
...Well," she said, "in our church there are many priests...
...We celebrated our tenth anniversary in July...
...This means they increasingly see (if only implicitly) that human potential for evil is quite sufficient to account for whatever evil we find...
...people are less willing to accept temptation by devils to account for their evil...
...for treatment through the work of Norman Cousins...
...He said he had...
...Respect for International Law...
...It was the best kind of school...
...June 21...
...funded contras have focused on destroying the economy with estimated damage to the state and cooperative sector alone of $237 million as of last October...
...churches organized by the Division of Overseas Ministries of the National Council of Commonweal: 588 Churches of Christ concluded in 1984: there is "no basis for the charge of systematic religious persecution...
...I shared the story with my fifth graders when we were studying immigration during the nineteenth century — how contact meant certain infection, how only one physician, a Dr...
...White says...
...As for priests who 1 >k in the door but are unwilling to go near an AIDS patient, well...
...To a large extent they arrived at this conviction not by reading the contemporary Catholic authors...
...He said there: "Secularism's gift to modern religion is the fact that religious traditions must now make sense in some way or be abandoned...
...August 1945...
...Subsequently she shared her house for a month with two of the Hiroshima victims who came to the U.S...
...Early to learn Bronxville, N.Y...
...Shortly after overthrowing U.S.-backed dictator Somoza the Sandinistas promised to hold elections This promise was kept in 1984...
...I think she would be tow the same accolade upon Father Jin and his fellows...
...JOAN Ri-MPLh BISHOP For one & only Chicago III...
...After his entry into the Catholic church...
...The Committee does not deny that abuses have occurred, but states that these were neither ordered nor condoned by the Nicaraguan government...
...The United Stales used Us considerable power to slander the electoral process and to prevent countries from sending observers...
...To the Editors: Father Jim Nicckarz's piece on AIDS victims and the priests who do, or don't counsel them ["Our Fragile Brothers...
...May 17...
...The Sandinistas moved quickly and efficiently to renegotiate the debt (not to repudiate it...
...I often use this sensible assertion...
...They had to do with the mystery of the church and the struggle of the church to live in history...
...Perhaps his witness will prompt us to that precarious balance...
...He was convinced that for a thing to be true it needed more than to be spoken in Rome...
...Thomas Walker, a political scientist and specialist on Nicaragua, states: "The only sigificant opposition paper La Prensa which, after most of its staff resigned, dedicated itself from the spring of 1980 to slanted, alarmist attacks on the revolutionary system...
...You do not spell out what such liberties are...
...He knew about the project that brought twenty-five disfigured Japanese women to America for plastic surgery in the mid-fifties, but only in general terms...
...March 27, 1981) should be invoked to correct his recent view...
...but that he did not recommend it because he felt that Lifton had had very definite ideas about the survivors' experiences before he had conducted his interviews, and that the information and anecdotes Lifton had elicited from his subjects tended to conform to his research objectives...
...In fact...
...Her children and ours learned an early awareness of the horror of the use of the atom bomb, eleanor hayes gisolfi Pastoral on equality West Hyattsville, Md...
...Garvey some years ago ("The Pope's Two Voices...
...but the following list occurred to me: Free elections...
...WILLIAM H. MARNELL Like the denied dragon Kenmore, NY...
...I can say only this about the present in the Boston schools: except for the most dogged admirers of the Emperor's new clothes...
...Here is how it could correct a "satanic" solution to Hitler's evil: Already, since Vatican 11...
...This balance in Newman between theological freedom and theological discipline was achieved at the cost of considerable pain...
...I can only say that there were new schools built in Boston in the decades since World War II, but not many of them...
...The Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America, a Toronto ecumenical group, has studied the situation of the Miskito people using direct church contacts...
...This was a magnet school, drawing the best from all over the city, before magnet schools were invented...
...a man who had been the main interpreter for him while he was interviewing survivors for his book Death in Life...
...Ward...
...used its power to block World Bank loans...
...The U.S...
...The U.S...
...During one of our conversations I asked him if he had kept a copy of the questions that Lifton had posed to survivors, thinking it might be a useful aid to my own interviews with the Hiroshima Maidens...
...July 12] reminds me of the priests of Grosse Isle, off Montreal, who ministered to fevered Irish immigrants in 1846 and 1847...
...Garvey feels it is necessary to account for the unique evil of Hitler and company by seeking to identify a satanic force outside society...
...May I pass over without comment the racial slur and proffer instead what Theodore White, historian of the American presidency and a Boston Latin graduate, had to say about Latin School in his day, when the student body was about "forty Jewish and forty Irish, and the rest everything...
...May 3]), I have experienced alienation in the lack of the church's recognition of the pain I feel on the occasion of the death of people who have touched my life, with the result my pain grows like the denied dragon in the children's story...
...Besides my particular interest in the articles on women and the church ["The Discipleship of Equals," by Elisabeth Sch\:ussler Fiorenza and "Finding Our Voices," by Mimi D'Aponte], I was happy that you rcpublishcd your comments on Hiroshima...
...kilian McDonnell, o.s.b...
...In rereading the history of the Oxford movement this summer I came to appreciate again what the discovery of a center of authority meant to Newman...
...August 9) provided a welcome, overdue critique of Robert Jay Lifton's perspective on the "death city...
...O.S.B A welcome critique Forestville...
...Monsignor Talbot...
...Augustine, Cyprian, Athanasius...
...Ford's article ("Boston's Schools After the Battle," April 19] the thought occurred to me that you would be willing to listen to a voice from the past...
...Grassroots 1985," August 9...
...What is a real priest...
...Nicaragua was the first Central American nation to sign the Contadora peace proposal...
...Bostonians view forced busing as a stupid and tragic blunder that has brought nothing but trouble in its wake and has decimated the city school system...
...If the Nicaraguan economy is now in trouble, it is more accurate to lay the blame on the U.S.'s undeclared war against Nicaragua, a war which has targeted the economy...
...Trying to pin even part of the accountability on satanic forces is a copout...
...Kaoru Ogura...
...They put people to work in the literacy campaign and in providing health services in rural areas...
...To the Editors: I want to support Avery Dulles's media via solution to the problem of authority ["Authority: the Divided Legacy," July 12...
...We raise only one point for the record...
...The choice is not between theological freedom and theological discipline...
...The 1950 census showed that Boston had a population of 801.000...
...interference in the region...
...However, I dissent substantially on one point in his exploration of nonviolence [ "Murderous Evil," September 20...
...the Wilberforces...
...A city with a population dropping at that speed needs few new schools, and fewer still have been needed during the busing decade when the school population, by Mr...
...For Newman liberalism in theology was a species of rationalism which made the human mind the measure of the mystery of God...
...Douglas, went to Grosse Isle each day...
...Basil, and the two Gregones...
...By the end of August we were anticipating more than 500 personal responses and comments on the draft...
...SONDRA GORDON LANGFORD Drawing the best , West Yarmouth, Mass...
...The class was silent except for one Irish-American footballer who sobbed...
...They all say the same things, but some of them really mean it...
...and Manning...
...Newman never allowed this kind of ecclesiastical narrowness to deprive him of his openness to contemporary culture, modes of theological language, and to authentic regionalism...
...To the Editors: I follow John Garvey faithfully and profit greatly from his articles...
...589 might note carefully that last statistic...
...In 1983 Reagan slashed Nicaragua's sugar quota by 90 percent, and in 1985 announced a total boycott of Nicaragua...
...Nicaragua's own peace proposals have been consistently dismissed without serious consideration by the United States...
...From the patristic writers they learned a respect for authority at the heart of the mystery of the church...
...There is no substitute for the difficult and time-consuming task of studying Nicaragua in the context of Central American history and U.S...
...They inherited a country with severe problems: housing shortages in Managua due to the 1972 earthquake and the 1979 bombing by Somoza before he left, a textile industry 90 percent inoperative due to revenge bombing by the National Guard, a huge national debt, massive illiteracy, virtually no medical services for ordinary citizens...
...one choses them both simultaneously...
...they would have gone to that island...
...In short...
...In evangelizing for acceptance of unnatural sex, it is unseemly for deviates to label as "sinful" those who oppose their lifestyle...
...Nicaragua's gross domestic product grew at the fastest rate of any Central American country in 1980 and 1981...
...He suggested that when I went to Hiroshima I consult Mr...
...Free Press Much as been made of the censorship of La Prensu...
...Continued on page 588) Commonweal: 548 (Continued from page 548) In particular...
...the early achievements of the Sandinistas were quite remarkable...
...It was the United States, not Nicaragua, which showed contempt for the World Court regarding U.S...
...Standing in awe in the face of mystery makes sense...
...Newman suffered from the Roman obscurantism of Cardinal Barnabo...
...I asked...
...The article had me sitting up with an, "Aha, maybe there's a place for me in the 'new' church after all...
...Like Avis, we'll gladly take second place, but watch out your excellencies . . . ! REV...
...American policy has never been, and is not now, motivated by respect for the rights of Central Americans...
...NAMF...
...To the Editors: Having read Maurice DcG...
...JAMES N STUDER...
...JOSEPH A DEARBORN Removing blinkers Sydney, Nova Scotia To the Editors: I would like to respond to your editorial "Should We Go to War with Nicaragua...
...It gave everyone the same chance, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Protestant, black, then flung them out ruthlessly when they didn't make it...
...Ironically, when Lifton's book was translated into Japanese, the title was reversed and came out Life in Death...
...Unfortunately, the upshot of this is that, as the Reagan administration escalates its campaign of lies about Nicaragua, the truth moves conveniently to the right...
...Ford's figures, dropped from 93,647 to 55.135...
...To the Editors: A big thanks to John Garvey for facing the pain in suffering and death ["The Last Solitude...
...There is black flight from the Boston schools as well as white, but not so fast...
...Here I find a model in Cardinal Newman, who fought on two fronts against what he termed "liberalism" and obscurantism...
...WITHHELD The 'truly priestly' Chatham, N.J...
...The sense of continuity and apostolic life were bound up with a structure of authority which was not reducible merely to the canonical and legal aspects of the church...
...How widespread is the confusion without it...
...Your conclusion that "current developments demand an unmistakable protest" is welcome, but the editorial is flawed by the comfortable assumption that one need not take sides...
...To the Editors: Kudos to you for your series on unanswered questions in the church in anticipation of the extraordinary November synod...
...We have members in thirty-four countries around the world (New Zealand is the latest country to be represented...
...By 1960 it had dropped to 697,000, in 1970 to 641,000, and in 1980 to 563,000...
...Religious toleration and minority riahts A report of U.S...
...George R. Kish's letter...
...Father Faber...
...Not only can I not relate to a "liturgy of death celebrating the happiness of death as entry into eternity" (referred to by Abigail McCarthy ["The Final Sting...
...They were real priests...
...Toward a Full and Equal Sharing, to such groups as LCWR, CMSM, Chicago Catholic Women, NARW, Women's Ordination Conference, Quixote Center, NFPC, each bishop in the United States, and each priest in the archdiocese of Detroit...
...The piece shows a distressing tendency to assume that the truth can be found by simply finding the middle ground between two extreme positions...
...And one might wonder how many victims were seduced as children...
...Ford finds the Boston schools "homogeneous to a stifling degree," finds a lack of innovation not surprising in a system dominated by persons of Irish descent, a system so humdrum and deteriorating that "Gradually even many Irish began to realize that something must be done...
...Thus you say that Nicaragua's leaders " appear captives of an outlook that scorns bourgeois liberties...
...I suggest that an assertion by Mr...
...The United States is already waging war against Nicaragua...
...To the Editors: The August 9 issue was splendid...
...To the Editors: Compassion for the tragic AIDS victims [cf...
...While D'Aponte has only recently learned about Priests for Equality, PFE is one of the earliest grassroots organizations working for sexual equality as mandated by Vatican II...
...Ford's cited figures bear this out...
...Further, the Committee provides evidence that the Sandinista government has taken steps to see that such abuses stop and that in fact "the treatment of the Miskitos by the Nicaraguan armed forces improved significantly in 1983 and 1984 despite the problems imposed by increased and brutal incursion of foreign-supported anti-government forces in the region...
...A Canadian observer in Nicaragua noted that La Prensa posts copies of all censored articles on a bulletin board outside its office, and that the maioritv of these articles deals with rumors of goods-shortages designed to promote economic panic...
Vol. 112 • October 1985 • No. 18
