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...68¢, three begin in smaller units first: the family, Fetus & Fundamental Rights," by Joan times...
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...priests as long as they stay out of the among the marginalized . . . " I would The protectionist sentiments in the catechism class and CYO gatherings...
...homosexuality, premarital even more than the last one...
...DAVID GARRISON is writing a dissertation For those unfamiliar with the players, the present Mulroney government is on the process of Keats and Coleridge...
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...But when Brooklyn College It's not just that there are a lot of us out words like "probable" and "possible" here who think that Curran is wrong and are excised from a theologian's vocabulary in areas of non-infallible teachings, Lies & innuendos the Vatican is right about questions in dispute: abortion (What in the name of all the elements are there for a new Silver Spring, Md...
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...in this the answer to Archbishop Weakland's volume may be found the historical studies upon comment to the priests of the diocese which Acton drew to explicate his understanding of here on Long Island that the principal the idea of liberty...
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...Polish University of America, which above all up portraits of our soullessness from anti-Semitism," "Hispanic laziness," others represents the Roman Catholic within his fictional kingdom of extremes...
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...He was talking about the seemly and unreasonable because, if the stop trying to write a novel of ideas, and wholesale lies in a plethora of books, Vatican cannot insist that in the Catholic get down to what he does best: drawing articles, movies and lectures...
...school systems to the sacristy laundries in Despite its focus on how women are operation...
...made in their lives as a result of having worldwide recovery which barriers to inBut these problems are nothing new...
...Nonetheless, generation of Catholic women who came given the existing U.S...
...Director of Religious Education for 2000 argued that "there are insurmountable The effects of the vote can be restrained family suburban parish...
...As I read of lows that while feminist thinkers, women American Catholic church can continue to the struggle against the patriarchy, I' like Rosemary Ruether and Anne Carr, rely on us in this way is questionable, not realized how little has been gained since are hardly in the mainstream of the Catho- because the church has changed, but be- the days when The Catholic Encyclopedia lic power structure, they are the leaders in cause we are changing," Dr...
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...American Dreams: members of Congress claim that the, con- The National Debate About the Future of their human rights accepted and re- tra aid, now almost assured, will focus spected in their own church, the church, attention on the administration's diplo- Education" Conservatives, liberals and radicals debate the relationship of Ameriitself is denying its own trinitarian theol- macy...
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...I suggest that this is an 15 August 1986: 445 unwarranted jump to an implicit Unitar- argue more dynamically and evolutionar- C. Callahan, and all were from men...
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...Volume, Editor's Note, List of Abbreviations, Index...
...Included are several essays not printed §ince Acton's time and his most important historical essays WILLIAM GORMLEY from the Rambler, Home and Foreign Review, North British Review, and the English Historical Review...
...Herbert of inter-independent small groups is fully Gintis and Kevin Ryan vs...
...Cassettes I do not understand how a "trinitar- (Continued from page 425) ian" political theology can be discussed tary option will drive U.S...
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...If Dunlea moth-eaten apocrypha about the incom- is correct that Mauriac's English translapatibility of responsible inquiry and tions are the chief obstacle to such an Unreasonable outrage Roman Catholicism...
...Where two or three are Special Events: The San Francisco Mime America cannot be ignored: it points to gathered in my name, there am I in their Troupe performs "The Mozamgola midst...
...Disastrous" is too strong a word...
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...In her survey, church's hierarchy...
...However, this new breed of Cath- of sexism and modem Catholicism in a briefly, at evolving Catholic feminist olic women, while angered by pa- nineteenth-century entry in The Catholic spirituality, from Saints Teresa and triarchal exclusivity, has not been suc- Encyclopedia about "Women" that says: Catherine of Siena to the God/ess movecessful in breaking into the old boys' net- .. The female sex, is in some respects ment...
...Requirements: Masters in Religious woman the particularly intimate burden The worst fate that can befall Central Education and/or Theology...
...BRENT SHORT indeed does the magisterium of that church amount to...
...I do not a movement that is gathering momentum...
...be to give "the pres- Eleanor Smeal...
...plains, some feminists have chosen to found fulfillment within narrow confines...
...To the Editors: In re-reading "Rights, These two volumes, edited by J. Rufus Fears, Economics, & The Trinity" [March 14], Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, Himes and Himes suggest that rights be will be followed shortly by a concluding volume, grounded in the self-giving relatedness of Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality, which includes a significant selection from the unpublished the Trinity, with each relationship bring- Acton papers...
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...priests suggested that priests suffering Noting that renewal for many sisters (Continued from page 418) from this problem never be allowed to has meant an assault on social sin, Dr...
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...Indeed, Mauriac goes deep Tachydromos, Greece...
...tions of the Congregation for the Doc- William Dunlea rightly calls for a re- p. 430, Edd Uluschek, Edmonton Journal...
...have nothing to be proud of in this regard...
...obstacle to overcome in ourselves and the Writing on such diverse topics as the divorce of faithful is the prevalent wrongheaded Henry VIII, Leopold von Ranke, and the History of the Papacy, Acton argued that history should be view of Christian faith being concerned impartial, based on archival research, and founded in with private and personal matters only, moral judgment...
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...Nothing at all, as far Assaulting Canada as I can see...
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...Weaver leaves the impression that humiliated by "investigations" services director of Michigan or be sev- there is some cause for optimism for an spearheaded by the hierarchy, these ered from her thirty-three-year relation- integrated and equitable church...
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...Bryan Hehir is senior research "The Ouzo Prophecy," unpublishable Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects scholar at the Kennedy Institute of worldwide, but forcing the revision of Entreated in its pages...
...NANCY MAXFIELD would elucidate how "perichoresis," To the Editors: It was a point of interest each loving person so self-giving as to be to me that the June 6 readers' discussion, Classified inside the other, is the model for all rela- "Abortion, Pluralism, Feminism," contionships, and how...
...political minis- should serve to remind your readers that priests, who are sexually attracted to chil- try, especially, is a pertinent question as every time the United States sneezes, dren, should be permitted to function as nuns understand religious life as living Canada catches a cold...
...A jump too quick The volume concludes with Acton's famous Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Lexington, Ky...
...Catholic higher appreciation, his plea should be heard: Nahant, Mass...
...Mauriae's tangle Ottawa, Ontario You are a thousand times right to insist Brooklyn, N.Y...
...Administrative difficulties in finding a compelling ar- - and the logic of the policy it embodies position to assist all facets of parish edugument for the recognition of fetuses as should be reversed...
...contraception Paul VI may have been better summary of his work, or review of He was talking of such lies as TV's "The more right than wrong, despite my earlier his latest work, Children of Light, than Holocaust" sequence in which a Warsaw conviction to the contrary...
...aware that when Cardinal Glemp decried sex, and indissolubility of marriage JAMES R. LANGFORD "the myth of Polish anti-Semitism" (Jesus and/or the Bible seem perfectly [editorial, "Beloved of God," May 9], he did not deny the existence, past or clear and Curran's "theology of com- A Stone rejected promise" does not...
...Abbie Hoffman on Activism...
...As long as Catholics cannot have tober 23-25, 1986...
...general academic community...
...Personal/Convalescent use...
...Whether the with a terrible sense of loss...
...reacting on the Curran affair ["Doctrine allegiance to Catholic tradition and, in so JACQUES TRAVERS & Dissent: the Curran Case," March doing, it has earned the respect of the Professor of French 28...
...PASCHAL BAUTE neither peace nor reconciliation...
...was speaking of direct lies and of inJuli Loesch has persuaded me [Com- To the Editors: As an interested reader of nuendos of the kind that the editors themmonweal October 13, 1985] that even on Robert Stone's novels, I have seen no selves appear to be bent on propagating...
...ways been stronger than the reality...
...It is theme of the essays collected in the first volume of this edition, Essays in the History of Liberty...
...A true trinitarian political theology Covington, Ky...
...p. 422, Arnold Wiles, To the Editors: Congratulations on your Paris, falls in love with the fiance of her England...
...BOGUMIL KO9CIESZA of that church, where indeed and what seriously...
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...Stanley Perhaps the full energy of the Spirit short- and long-term, may be far more Aronowitz, former Congressperson, Shirwill be released only when the synergism tragic than we currently imagine...
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...Edited by J. Rufus Fears It is written with the unction found in the Fathers, the insight of the mystics, his second volume of the LibertyClassics edition the clarity of a contemporary scholastic, of The Selected Writings of Lord Acton brings and the urbanity of mature American together lectures, articles, and reviews which scholars...
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...present, of anti-Semitism in Poland...
...Ocgrounds to press for diplomacy...
...For a ternational trade presented...
...While the patriarchy remains dominant enter Catholic academia as a way of es- The American church, particularly on the over the institution, there is nothing men parish level, has always relied on female can do to women who work at an easel or a volunteers to keep everything from the typewriter...
...Church-state rela- cation...
...But fewer and fewer women making a difference, this book left me tablishing a place in the church...
...The direction of events in Central affirmed...
...Send resume and/or request of bearing an unwanted child...
...Weaver reaffirmed women's inferiority...
...HUGH GRANT LibertyClassics Noting a breakthrough SELECTED WRITINGS OF Southampton, N. Y LORD ACTON To the Editors: The Himes brothers essay ["Rights, Economics, & the Trin- VOLUME II ity," March 14], on the doctrine of the ESSAYS IN THE STUDY AND Trinity as the foundation of a political WRITING "OF HISTORY theology relevant to the economics pastoral, has all the marks of a break- By John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton through...
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...To the Editors: Congratulations on the on due process, but Father Curran seems To the Editors: William Dunlea's intense attention paid to the issue of Canadianto have had plenty of opportunity to de- and extensive study of Franpois Mauriac American free trade by Jordan Bishop fend his positions...
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...To the contrary, it will put diplo- can education to American democracy...
...Weaver documents cases of "offi- anger, yet one can not read about the inference meetings in Baltimore and Detroit cial repression" like that against Agnes sults women continued to endure in the have not escaped the notice of the Mary Mansour, who was given an ul- church and not be outraged...
...Trivialized and timatum by the pope to resign as social Dr...
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...Acton's concept of liberty was the unifying ship there is no equitable gratitude...
...The ac- into the arcana of our misere...
...She al- have found this fulfilling...
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...that of Robert Jones in the May 23, 1986 Ghetto execution squad wears Polish But most of all, your outrage is un- issue of Commonweal...
...Commonweal: 444 Finally, it's no small commentary on the state of the economics profession that the economic insights expressed in the article come from someone outside of the LibertyPress profession...
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...I cannot help nearly agreeing with Ms...
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...defect in our Catholic manner of arguing all sides can reconsider and reverse the too statically where it is necessary to dangerous drift...
...We have been grateful for a more rigorous United States conjure up memories of the are scraping the bottom of the clerical examination of the changes women have Great Depression and the obstacles to barrel here...
...Callahan...
...She also looks, too visible...
...I wish she had broadened her survey work which dictates the power structure of inferior to the male sex, both as regards to include Catholic women who are writ- . the Roman Catholic church...
...Russell Kirk vs...
...Forgotten Partners," May 23...
...Hayes, from God's Image (Seabury, 1978...
...ALFONS BELL Sidney Callahan's article, "Abortion & ogy and is not the thorough trinitarian the Sexual Agenda," received three re-undergirding the writers attempt...
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...Copyright © 1986 Comqueyroux falls, attempting to poison her monweal Foundation...
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...T108 port, the national government to be the Indianapolis, IN 46250 agent best able to assume duties imposed by rights claims...
...Paul's Church, 241 S. Main It seems to me that there is a general yond the point where policy-makers on St., North Canton, Ohio 44720...
...Biographical Note, Essays in This rights...
...Chester Finn vs...
...Weaver introduces the women who doing its best to achieve this end without VALERIE HENDY is a publicist in New York are "re-imaging" a church that counts having to integrate its efforts with those City...
...I regret, however, espe- Vol...
...administration, to maturity during the Vietnam War and free trade between Canada and the REVIEWERS civil rights struggles of the 1960s, these United States can only result in an atLEON V. SIGAL, the author of Nuclear Forces factors have shaped our consciousness of tempt to extend the assault on the system in Europe (Brookings), teaches government ourselves as women more powerfully than of social security northward...
...education in the U.S...
...turf have excluded self-giving love, policy will now...
...It work with children...
...and that history demonstrated and not those structures of society that progress and unity through the story of liberty...
...Weaver finds strains of backlash fers commentary on the theological and and laywomen, feminists all, who are try- against feminism going back to immi- philosophical works of (former Catholic) ing to make women more visible in an grant days in the United States...
...demonstrate Acton's lifelong devotion to the study of For the gift of such faith-filled scholar- history...
...Heidelberg cisely the opposite attitude is needed...
...ing with it responsibilities and therefore 581 + xxvi pages...
...There is no dispute ["A Genius for Passion & Purity, May (Continued on page 444 about what he teaches...
...The task To the Editors: I think you are over- strides in combining free inquiry with is quite worth the while...
...want to waste another instant of energy on Events like the Women's Ordination Con- Dr...
...I wish I feminists continue to hang on...
...Church/world watch...
...levels...
...Experience American policy would be a growing necessary...
...dollars...
...A recent article in The New York Times also mentions Sister Clare Dunn...
...Commonweal: 418 philosophers, theologians, nuns, sisters, Dr...
...conviction that we have now passed be- for job description to: Search Committee - DRE, St...
...The contra vote is a serious mistake, but Employment Opportunity To the Editors: Joan C. Callahan ["The Fetus & Fundamental Rights," April 11 ] it is not the final word on U.S...
...Microfilm from Catholic writer...
...monthly in advance for more the nearest and smallest level of govern- than three times...
...Black criminality," or "Jewish usurichurch, theologians shall be employed I agree with Robert Jones: if and when ousness" are all myths, equally to be who also represent the preferred teaching Stone does, we could all take him more condemned...
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