Correspondence
Correspondence Spirit of tolerance Harlem, N.Y. To the Editors: The articles by various individuals relating to the topic, "From the Council to the Synod" were very profound and illuminating....
...To the Editors: I have just read your October 18 issue — it has almost been an "ecclesial event" for me...
...All we do is work...
...Those articles run the gamut of laical opinion from A to B. Ye gods and little fishes...
...Their concern seems entirely personal, which, of course, is important but wholly insufficient in today's world...
...We get yanked around, patronized, disdained, demeaned, and still we keep showing up to pray for the world and ourselves, to iron the altar linens, to clean up the used tissues, to visit the sick, to give food for the hungry, and to do anything else that needs doing...
...As imperfect as it was, the Declaration on the Jews in Nostra Aetate was epochmaking...
...For me, the single greatest effect, I think, was the breath of fresh air that swept through the church in the matter of tolerance...
...The Second Vatican Council called by Pope John XXIII has had a profound effect upon me as a black and a Catholic by choice, as well as upon other blacks who have been attracted to the church...
...48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & Ho well, Wooster Ohio 44691...
...What a service to enable us all to hear these voices and to extend the conversation in the church beyond stereotypes and polarities...
...Thank you ever so much for lifting up this rich, disparate lay voice of the church...
...We're the ones who daringly take a class in Bible study...
...We're the ones who pay the bills...
...The Declaration on the Jews opened the way for the understanding, tragically delayed, that Israel is at the center of human destiny...
...Serials Data program No.: ISSN 0010-330...
...CLAIRE HUCHET-BISHOP A testimony of riches Minneapolis, Minn...
...To the Editors: Your series on the synod has been great...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...p. 690, Virginia Broderick...
...We're really nice people, once you get to know us...
...Your issue purporting to present the views of the general laity missed it...
...p. 696, Bas...
...As one ordained in 1965 who felt compelled to dissent from the teaching of Humanae Vitae, but often in the wrong spirit, I am grateful I can read Juli Loesch's experience with respect and admiration sensing I still have much to learn, yet still formed by the experiences of those who gently chide Rome for the act of not listening to those who have the authority of the sacrament in their lived experience...
...And more of the time like Rodney Dangerfield...
...Illustrations: Cover & p. 701, from a drawing by Jacopo Bellini...
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...I am deeply moved...
...That is a very, very small slice of "laity...
...p. 720, Cede...
...From then on there would be ups and downs, wild hopes and bitter disappointments in JewishChristian relations...
...JIM EGAN, S.J The ninety-nine Alexandria, Va...
...Work at our jobs during the day, at our parish churches during the evenings...
...Vanier and Tom Fox...
...We know that the main outcome of the synod will (Continued on page 711) Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...We're the ones who feel at times like Rodney Dangerfield's weathervane...
...Commonweal: 690...
...it marked a point of no return to the centuries of contempt, persecution, or indifference...
...All you have expressed is that Commonweal is as prone to tunnel vision as anyone else...
...Thank you...
...However, it does not seem to have struck a chord in the Catholics who reminisce in Commonweal...
...A healing publishing event...
...As editor of Jules Isaac's works in the United States, I expected to find some mention, at least in one of the articles, of the breaking of the two-thousand-year-old deadlock of the church attitude regarding the Jews...
...How privileged I am to be a part of a body that gives birth to such concrete faith and love...
...We're the ones who stage the spaghetti dinners to support the parish shelter...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...still a fraternal encounter has become possible as never before...
...GERALDINE L. DANIELS Member New York State Assembly Distressing lacuna Paris To the Editors: Your October 18 issue on Vatican II and what it had meant to some Commonweal contributors was both interesting and distressing...
...Believe it or not, there are a lot of us out here who have no advanced degrees, have never thought ourselves "called," have never been able to write a book, have never started a Center for anything, have never advised a single high official...
...Instead, you present the views of non-ordained persons, most of them writers, most of them holding advanced degrees, many of them former seminarians or former women religious...
...p. 698, Emil Antonucci...
...Microfilm, from Vol...
...p. 702, Ulm cathedral...
...This tolerance, espoused by the council, opened the door a little wider and encouraged others to attempt to come through...
...Perhaps the fault is mine: I thought you were going to present the views of the general laity...
Vol. 112 • December 1985 • No. 22
