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judgments and the way church au- gies fall under this maxim. One may thorities are using...
...I teach on a Cathothe American Association of University bishops can be, and has been, wrong in lic campus...
...Alexandria, 'Va...
...And who is the church...
...In some alma mater on the AAUP's list of "Cenmary end of marriage, historical criti- classes, 25 percent of the young women sured Administrations" for violation of cism as useful in biblical exegesis, etc...
...bers with such heavy-handed authoritar- Cuomo...
...One purpose of the Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to governments...
...If book was otherwise so thorough and sonalities, four political leaders, seven I am not mistaken, rank-and-file Cathohelpful, I felt this omission more painful lics are fairly evenly divided on 'his isthan if the volume had remained within sue...
...There is a disturbing re- the issue to which a moral norm is Illustrations: Cover & pp...
...Reagan is using the label "Communist" certitude for one's judgment...
...Our young people indulge in Professors, high on his list of qualities its judgments, as anyone with even a pre-marital sex about as much as other exemplified by Jesuit institutions of slight acquaintance with church history young people...
...Box cal Review...
...responsibility to cut out the banal and women to thirty pages of a 500-page belabored in the essays, and, worse, has book, but might have raised and analyzed from a historical perspective the question stuffed his introduction with both...
...p. 327, Duncan, England...
...of responsibility: "Man was not put on formed with the express purpose of lookEven an editorial lament that the pres- this earth primarily to buy philosophical ing for heresy in the classroom, reflectmerchandise before examining it, just as he was not put here to turn out hit record ing, I am afraid, the climate abroad in the albums, or to be utterly irresistible to the church...
...17.95, 218 pp...
...And may I ask been refined and enriched precisely be- respectful discussion be more helpful Father Schroth, just what is this "Jesuit" cause some voices, particularly among than rigid authoritarian pronouncepriesthood you refer to...
...p. 328, Punch...
...Embarrassing mention church is neither a for-profit corporation The ad also raised the moral issue: nor an army...
...In summary, scholars and teachers of BRIAN SWANN, a professor of English at nity of believers...
...The index lists three women In Brief there is a glaring absence of black clergy in a list of 175 names although a few and adherents of institutional religions more women than that are mentioned in THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION, edited in general...
...p. 331, Bas., Tachydfor those who disagree with his political dential judgments about political strate- romos...
...Would not candid and troit is also on the list...
...We think the church dissent from the political judgments of Vol...
...One may thorities are using the abortion issue as a agree with the bishops about the moral Correspondence test of orthodoxy and even a justification evil of abortion and still disagree with for excommunication...
...Cooper Union in New York City, recently In your editorial you try to make some the Christian tradition, as well as interested readers, will find this volume a edited Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Nauseful source of information and insight tive American Oral Literature (Univ...
...Even the teaching function of the church as troversial issues, e.g...
...The teaching office of the ordination of women...
...television, I have taken every opportu- JANET KALVEN nity to defend rationality and to discour- Living with brackets age the idea that it can be achieved with a minimum of effort...
...Surely pru- p. 330, Emil Antonucci...
...The main point of the Times ad of October 1984 was precisely Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Times ad is .suppression of free speech to say that Catholics can in good faith Digest and Book Review Index...
...The life amendment...
...by Phillip L. Berman Dodd, Mead, Variety in literary style and in subessays...
...His latest book of poetry is The Father Frechette to buy bricks to Middle of the Journey (Univ...
...The more complex and specific ian repression...
...The church is a community of ecclesiology, let me turn to the experiexpertise of Jesuit teachers in America...
...higher education, I continue to be embarcan demonstrate - cf...
...As I read bachelor's degree from Marquette Uniissue or on which candidate to vote Charles Curran's guidelines, it too could versity in 1951, I must be somewhere against in an election year, as certain fall under the maxim that permits dissent...
...build his projected orphanage for spirituality has been intellectually MARGARET R. MILES is a professor of historexplored and concretely lived...
...Dissenters have often been The way that both the moral and the treated harshly, silenced in a manner legal issues are being used by a variety of Widening the gap reminiscent of modern totalitarian re- church authorities from the Vatican to Loveland, Ohio gimes, but eventually the new insight - local bishops to college administrators is To theEditors: I was disappointed in your whether Galileo's view of the heavenly definitely having a chilling effect...
...Some editorial "Right to Free Speech" [March bodies or John Courtney Murray's ideas of my colleagues are afraid to say what 14...
...Microfilm from within the church...
...they use contraceptives...
...Reason is not all...
...Second-class postage its witness when it treats its own mem= November 1, 19851 about Governor paid at New York, N.Y...
...JAMES E. BIECHLER dissent...
...of Readers who wish to enable on the diverse strands by which Christian California...
...Serials Data prolove, but that it destroys the credibility of Diversity & Endorse Discussion," gram No.: ISSN 0010-330...
...them about the desirability of a human Your analogies limp badly...
...The irk- bits of primeval dust" by Jane Goodall...
...Szabo, Rothco...
...Her most recent book is Image as 400...
...Because the and scientists, five show business per- one of those issues for many Catholics...
...Other highlights It would not have been too much to A collection of thirty-two essays by include stories by Jules Olitski and the expect a whole essay on women's "prominent contemporaries" which is questions about "the chance gyrations of spirituality in some part of the time period under discussion...
...6 June 1986: 349...
...others have you berate the signers of the ad in the You write: "Catholic pluralism in re- been actively discouraged from dealing New YorkTimes, March 2, for not taking gard to the legality of abortion must be (Continued on page 349) up the case of priests and prelates suffer- considerably wider than in regard to the ing suppression at the hands of various morality of it...
...This question ordinates on how to vote on a particular is also complex and specific...
...Steve Allen combines his irresistible humor with a sense with it, even in an off-campus setting...
...answer yes to the question: have you ever these principles...
...Perpetua, Egeria, and a few are deeply moving reflections (Continued from page 322) Hrothswitha, the Ancrene Riwle, or the on personal beliefs...
...To the Editors: Having received my dent of General Motors instructs his sub- times be a moral choice...
...I don't think that the presi- "that abortion, though tragic, can someNarberth, Pa...
...believers, seeking the truth in love, ences that led me to sign the ad...
...Copyright Q 1986 Commonweal Foundation...
...contraception, though Father Schroth places the princiCharles Curran explains so well in his pre-marital sex, divorce and remarriage, ples of academic freedom, espoused by many books...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through has an important witness to give to the the bishops, a position which you defend University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & world on issues of justice and peace and eloquently in your editorial ["To Admit Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...abbesses and queens discussed by Bede Most recently a group of students has might have entered such a discussion...
...Thus Rabbi Harold To the Editors: I was surprised and disKushner: `.`In recent years, I have come appointed by your editorial, "Right to increasingly to appreciate the role of the Free Speech" [March 14...
...I observe That education makes me a bit uncomstruggling since Vatican II to free itself that the gap between official teaching and fortable with Father Schroth's tendency from hierarchical structures (inherited the practice of many believing Catholics ["Tough Choices on Campus," March from the Roman Empire) and to become is widening, as the gap between official 281 to equate Catholic values with a People of God, all of whom - pope, teachings and the thinking of Catholics "Jesuit presence...
...06770...
...Naugatuck, Ct...
...Abortion, it seems to me, is historical time and place...
...need not have implied the isolation of some part is that the editor has shirked his K.S.S...
...Insight (Beacon...
...332, 336, 339, Paul semblance between the way President applied, the less it is possible to claim Valerry...
...rather, one would have at least acknowledged the rest of my soul starved...
...some of us ical theology at Harvard Divinity School and abandoned children in Hocduras (May 9 issue) should send contribuwill grieve that it does little to correct the the associate editor of the Harvard Theologiimpression that Christian spirituality was tions to: ORPHANS...
...The University of DeErrors have been corrected, doctrine has had an abortion...
...It is the commuits...
...Surely you are disingenuous when on religious liberty - wins acceptance...
...I submit that while these experiopposite sex, to use cocaine, or to wear ences may not negate our first amendthe tightest possible jeans...
...Sometimes the latter bishops, theologians, faithful - share in has already widened on a variety of contakes precedence over the former...
...theologians and laity have been raised in ments...
...stance carries the book...
...could put that issue or those issues, io presence of approximately half of those While we are never told how the con- brackets - hold it in abeyance - until it engaged in Christian spirituality in every tributors were selected - eight doctors is resolved...
...near the midpoint of the one million who have benefited from the dedication and members of the American hierarchy did But rather than elaborate on his in 1984...
...p. 338, J.G...
...ment rights, they do nothing to foster a "From lecture platforms and in per- healthy intellectual life in Catholic sonal contact, and even in speaking on higher education...
...they think about the issue...
...Such an essay both irksome and ingratiating...
...Commonweal: 3'22 "types of God" that is important and writers, five religious professionals, two interesting in the history of Christian teachers, and one artist in a pear tree - spirituality...
...A wise Cathoirrational in religion . . . I have come to lic theologian once advised that if there ence of women is so difficult to detect in understand that living and thinking ra- were certain Catholic teachings which a tradition that has willfully and/or tionally nourishes only the top two or were at odds with one's conscience, then thoughtlessly marginalized women three inches of my being, and leaves the one need not leave the church...
...usury, slavery, many of them are involved fairly deeply rassed at seeing the name of my own religious liberty, procreation as the pri- with alcohol and/or drugs...
...of Alabama...
...exclusively a male phenomenon...
...Correspondence as to whether there is a distinctive wom- Even so, several essays are brilliant en's spirituality...
...It is more narrow intellectual and geographical limREVIEWERS than just the hierarchy...
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