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The note struck in her latest call for political situation of the country, and the Correspondence civility in...
...In fact, Justice proving rural roads as well as rural water and Peace has successfully pressed the supplies...
...most hopeful model for food security on Most important, Parker completely this badly wounded continent...
...But this purMaundy Thursday provided the wit that gatory can be an opportunity for the is so helpful in probing the wisdom in the That prophetic edge country to reassess its direction and rehistorical event...
...Yet, even enced many both inside and outside the should be viewed uncritically,- merely there, a proper treatment of Zimbabwe church with her concern for social that it deserves the same complex and would tell readers that torture and every action, for the sacredness of life, and multi-dimensional reporting one would other abuse occurred on an incomparably for the "divinity that is hidden in the poor...
...McCarthy's concerned about this powder keg to the Your ruminations about the bishop of wisdom and eloquence grace your col- South...
...thinking...
...The Reagan adminisHe forgets to tell readers that Prime tration is no friend of Zimbabwe, yet its Minister Robert Mugabe and his party annual country-by-country report on Afwere last year overwhelmingly re-elected rican economies (submitted to Congress in a multi-party election which even their by the U.S...
...It would note that this govern- II PAULIST PRESS government combines an authoritarian ment, unlike its predecessors, often 997 MACARTHUR BLVD...
...Serials Data proand to your readers on the return of panding the Christian faith within their gram No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...p 304, Mazzotta, Ft...
...The note struck in her latest call for political situation of the country, and the Correspondence civility in debate and consideration in recent elections, completed while I was contact ["Infectious Incivilitis," April in the country, seem to have reinforced 11] typifies the mission we have learned the polarization of forces...
...Second-class postage Abigail McCarthy to your columns...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through New York, N.Y...
...cantly expanded to population not previParker does a major disservice to the ously reached, extension services in brave members of the Catholic Justice communal (peasant) lands have inand Peace Commission by claiming that creased, and noticeable improvements Zimbabwe's government pays no atten- have been made in expanding and imtion to church criticism...
...It is a plex realities of Zimbabwe, I wouldn't acknowledge, as does your editorial, that mistake, however, to judge this country (Continued on page 319) "Feet and reason at . . . times stumble...
...Bevilacqua...
...poverty and imprisonment first-hand...
...Cer- missionaries from my own diocese, I Proper quibbling tainly that included women...
...Having visited the country within vised, "Go out to the highways and bi- the past year, spending some time with ways and compel them to come in...
...ELIOT JANE WAY Maybe Zimbabwe is in a sort of purfemales from having theirs washed on gatory at the present time...
...I know our own missionaries are we have to laugh...
...Pittsburgh's foot fetish forbidding umns...
...A care- by Jim Forest ignores the achievements which make fully designed farm policy helped peasMugabe's government so popular with ants achieve production gains unpara- Using a popular style that has the lled in Africa without alienating or un- immediacy of fiction, Forest covers the most Zimbabweans: the unbelievable span of Dorothy Day's life from her advances in health, education, and eco- dermining the white settlers who operate early childhood in New York to her nomic opportunity experienced by the commercial farms as productive as any in death some five years ago...
...My own experience of If Parker's article thoughtfully Let us hope that the resistance within liturgy at the cathedral in Harare, for explored any of the confusing and comhis own diocese will encourage him to example, was hardly inspiring...
...These communities, Vol...
...the spirit in Jesus' model lesson of equal- that the world has ended in Zimbabwe This will only happen if the church conity and service...
...religion in general seems to be an To the Editors: Everyone here in Zimeditorial subsides there remain, alas, ineffectual formalism with no practical babwe missed the "explosion of 1981," many estranged Catholics, including import...
...More, Catholic church within it, is going some stones in the way...
...He is able to dismissed by Parker - offers the average portray Zimbabwe as a grim totalitarian Zimbabwean no "Marxist purgatory," state only by distorting or omitting essen- but heaven on earth compared with the tial points on every issue...
...She knew average person here since the overthrow the U.S...
...p. 297, Balbalis...
...p. 300, Rita Coramong us by blocking communication and church policies in Zimbabwe...
...the few African countries where A.I...
...Cloth $14.95 Zimbabwe is an unpredictably chang- under many black-led African governing new nation full of contradictions...
...Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to The young communities of Christians in Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review the small towns and villages are full of Digest and Book Review Index...
...to that conclusion...
...velopment) last year said: "education Mugabe is one of only two or three dem- and health services have been signifiocratically chosen African leaders...
...P...
...not less, or fewer, or selectively...
...White clauses such as that published by Bishop main cities of Zimbabwe might lead one minority rule actually ended in 1980...
...between us...
...DAVID BRUNING tainly not from the Lord who also ad- cence...
...1-201-825-7300 grass-roots decision-making power...
...She culture...
...writes in the great tradition of humane the situation does not seem as hopeless as letters, building bridges of understanding Father Parker would like us to believe...
...or the Catholic church within it on the CAMILLE D'ARIENZO, RSM basis of life within the two largest cities...
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...impulse among some top leaders with heeds protests from the church and other MAHWAH, N.J...
...certainly not overly optimistic about the Commonweal: 290 The Third Hour, a small but significant government which enjoys widespread ecumenical journal, keenly missed since support is guilty of severe human rights her death...
...What conpressed statement of frustration - If it themselves to discern the functional cerns me more at the present time is the weren't so serious, I'd have to laugh - realities obscured by statistical opera- impact which an explosion of the situato a more tenable position in a frail and tions, and to give exercises in observa- tion in South Africa would have on Zimfallible church: Because it is so serious, tion a fair hearing against sloganized babwe...
...of the pre-1980 apartheid-style govern- These achievements don't excuse, and Her conversion to Catholicism was a ment...
...FurtherBrooklyn, N.Y...
...cannot be balanced against, the terrible move some people could not understand...
...Yet throughout all, she influNone of this means that Zimbabwe brutality in Matabeleland...
...Agency for International Detoughest critics say was free and fair...
...abuses against an ethnic minority...
...Like Nicaragua, Zimbabwe has achieved incredible human services advances despite the terrible economic Correspondence damage wrought by a powerful, destructive and hostile neighbor (South Africa, (Continued from page 290) in Zimbabwe's case...
...bother to quibble about dates and details...
...However, I to entrust to this worthy daughter of don't believe that the church has comA serious tickle Erasmus...
...I am bin...
...07430 important and growing elements of human rights advocates...
...Microfilm from Erasmus's daughter life and enthusiasm...
...pre-1980 system...
...would challenge Parker's assertion that Harare, Zimbabwe When the laughter released by your...
...Translating my respect for her pletely lost her prophetic edge...
...government to halt some (though not all) In agriculture, Zimbabwe offers the serious human rights abuses...
...Its ments...
...Cer- through the growing pains of adoles- FR...
...p. 294, Dan Hofoss, Canada, p. 296, Bas., tagonisms which freeze the divisions "worst-case scenario" for governmental Tachydromos...
...Illustrations: Cover, p. 299 & p. 318, Paul Valacross the gaps responsible for the an- I also believe that his article develops a erry...
...ZimThese memoirs are written with grace, babwean officials bitterly denounce Amcompounded by good sense...
...They refrain nesty International, yet this is the one of from any unkind or purposeless word...
...Zimbabwe's sophisticated mix of Unfortunately, Parker misses the capitalism and socialism - ignorantly nuances as well as the facts...
...gifted exemplars...
...With feet...
...They convey the elan of a remarkable publications critical of the government generation, and the breadth of one of its can be bought in local bookstores...
...Ecclesiastical preoccu- Toledo, Ohio flect upon the principles of reconciliation pation with the letter of the law overlooks To the Editors: Roger Parker may believe which helped launch the nation in 1980...
...Meyers News-Press...
...A STEVE ASKIN 23 May 1986: 319...
...Long may Mrs...
...leadership into my concern for my own more, I believe that Mugabe has to To the Editors: The editorial, "Ecce craft, economics will not be harnessed to realize that he cannot achieve his oneVir," [April 11 ] advances that oft ex- serve us until economists discipline party ideal on his own terms...
...which Roger Parker keeps referring to in women whose return to the Lord's table I can understand how a cursory exami- his foolishly confused report ["A'Tangis (stumbling) blocked by exclusionary nation of church activities within the led Revolution," February 28...
...primarily lay-led, are beginning to take University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & To the Editors: Congratulations to you responsibility for maintaining and ex- Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...Surely, problems do exist, but paid at New York, N.Y...
...A Tangled Revolution," February tinues to work as a prophetic voice within "If I, your Lord and Master, have 28 ], but I believe it would be more accu- the country...
...Her emphasis was clear: "Love is expect from Commonweal in reporting wider scale under white rule here, in the measure b which we will be on, say, Nicaragua...
...We cannot despair simply washed your feet, how much more ought rate to say that that country, and the because the revolution has tripped upon you to wash one another's feet...
...neighboring South Africa or, sadly, judged...
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