Central American policy: the dangerous drift
Hehir, J. Bryan
I N CENTRAL AMERICA, events are Church/world watch If the Sandinistas cannot be moved moving in the wrong...
...COMMONWEAL, 15 ment before the more remote and larger Dutch St., NYC 10038...
...Salvador, the same can hardly be said What it does immediately is make the about Nicaragua...
...needed, they should be pursued by $100 million in aid to the contras means other than taking the lives and amounts to a declaration of war, and ravaging the lands of Nicaragua's peasleaves no room for the kind of visible ant population...
...Nicaragua policy will just drift or be duced - a strong, unified condemna- While I am not of the view that they do, driven by the loudest voices...
...Box firms the urgent significance of relation- diplomatic openings, the rhetoric has al- 884002, Walled Lake, MI 48088...
...Herbert of inter-independent small groups is fully Gintis and Kevin Ryan vs...
...turf have excluded self-giving love, policy will now...
...The identical argument and vocal dissent within Nicaragua that can be made against the armed left in El Bishop Vega was determined to con- Salvador...
...I N CENTRAL AMERICA, events are Church/world watch If the Sandinistas cannot be moved moving in the wrong direction...
...REV...
...policy in Biblical Meditation Songs...
...conviction that we have now passed be- for job description to: Search Committee - DRE, St...
...The consequences, Roxanne Bradshaw vs...
...Their economy is in ruins...
...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...
...The political case contras a more sophisticated fighting in Congress, the intensified attack by is more mundane but no less signifi- force...
...dictable...
...When it came to pursuing Original...
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...Chester Finn vs...
...trust, and respect between persons...
...The vote is significant both for If too little attention is being paid El J. Bryan Hehir what it does and for what it promises...
...conneeds to negotiate with his own military sequences of the contra vote are preas if it were a separate government...
...The contra vadorans...
...flicts lies -a set of unanswered ques- United States - has been a moderating In the background of this discussion tions...
...policy...
...Just as the tion...
...Primary emphasis -Adult Educapersons that could justify imposing on a tions in Nicaragua can also be rescued...
...ogy, because fear, suspicion, power, and macy on the back burner...
...In view Caper...
...Personal/Convalescent use...
...it is a different moral question that A column in Commonweal may jus- Undoubtedly opinions differ in the needs to be highlighted here, one intifiably begin with a concern for the church outside Nicaragua about how to volving the relationship of means to Nicaraguan church...
...Ocgrounds to press for diplomacy...
...What it promchurch-state grounds on which the case ises, in brief, is to assure that the miliagainst the Sandinista action can be - 45 (Continued on page 446) 15 August 1986: 425 unwarranted jump to an implicit Unitar- argue more dynamically and evolutionar- C. Callahan, and all were from men...
...The direction of events in Central affirmed...
...Unless these questions are force in the international debate over lurks a large question: do either the conspecified, they cannot be answered, Nicaragua...
...If negotiations are what is that the U.S...
...levels...
...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...
...Experience American policy would be a growing necessary...
...nati, Ohio 45246...
...But for that objective, one observer stunned by the Sandinistas' started a fight they cannot afford to can readily answer that the means being political ineptitude...
...To the contrary, it will put diplo- can education to American democracy...
...I cannot help nearly agreeing with Ms...
...What logic, one relate to the Sandinistas...
...House vote to provide for any number of reasons...
...Heidelberg cisely the opposite attitude is needed...
...In the achieving their end...
...Crosstones...
...Beneath the surface of daily con- Western Europe, the church in the the regime...
...As long as Catholics cannot have tober 23-25, 1986...
...640, six times...
...An all-male dozen sponses, and these were also from men...
...But however the contra vote is If that is what the contra aid does assessed, the Sandinista response was right now, what it promises to do may .clearly self-defeating...
...tention by the debate over Nicaragua In the U.S., the action turns not on but, nonetheless, very real for the Sal- Central American the church but the state...
...A policy: the vote is as damaging here as the Vega "low-intensity" war bleeds their na- decision is in Nicaragua...
...Some need...
...Henry Giroux...
...There are solid be even more serious...
...Classical moral thinking about asks with a degree of puzzlement and reflects much deeper splits within the war contains a principle of "reasonable frustration, drives the Sandinista policy Nicaraguan church itself., But the hope of success...
...This in turn ends...
...Classified payable the neighborhood, the local community, with order...
...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...
...For of that bleak truth, the temptation is Information: American Dreams Symstrong to resign ourselves, to believe that posium, School of Continuing Education, Intimate burdens events must simply run their course...
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...Russell Kirk vs...
...A true trinitarian political theology Covington, Ky...
...Requirements: Masters in Religious woman the particularly intimate burden The worst fate that can befall Central Education and/or Theology...
...Send resume and/or request of bearing an unwanted child...
...The Sandinista action tras or the United States have the moral and unless they are answered, guarantees - indeed, has already pro- or legal right to unseat the Sandinistas...
...by reasons of piety, they should at least The war in El Salvador grinds understand those of sheer political on, partially obscured in American at- logic...
...ALFONS BELL Sidney Callahan's article, "Abortion & ogy and is not the thorough trinitarian the Sexual Agenda," received three re-undergirding the writers attempt...
...of Foreign Service at Georgetown...
...Modern/ without attention to the Catholic social Nicaragua...
...A president of impeccable inten- dangerous drift reaction to Bishop Vega's expulsion tions is increasingly paralyzed by the was predictable, so too the...
...principle of subsidiarity, since this af- Hour cassette: $6.50...
...Church-state rela- cation...
...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...
...The contra aid vote and is being - made...
...The decision on Bishop Vega used are both disproportionate and inManagua's official explanation is should be reconsidered and rescinded appropriate...
...68¢, three begin in smaller units first: the family, Fetus & Fundamental Rights," by Joan times...
...ian "God on .the throne" political theol- ily...
...sure" time to work...
...But ships...
...be to give "the pres- Eleanor Smeal...
...Callahan...
...Official WashingBishop Antonio Vega...
...Central America as the Catholic the level of suffering, mostly for peasQuantity of attention, however, does church...
...Few believe that $100 million the Sandinistas on the Catholic hierar- cant...
...monthly in advance for more the nearest and smallest level of govern- than three times...
...The logic of Featured debates: Phyllis Schlafly vs...
...this activity must tained nine responses to the article, "The RATES: 75¢ a word, one time...
...By most standards, the wider ants in the contested areas...
...Cassettes I do not understand how a "trinitar- (Continued from page 425) ian" political theology can be discussed tary option will drive U.S...
...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...
...Sandinistas but to create pressure for ecclesiastical figure leaves an outside To be blunt, the Sandinistas have negotiations...
...Director of Religious Education for 2000 argued that "there are insurmountable The effects of the vote can be restrained family suburban parish...
...ley Chisholm...
...This is an understanding both denying the administration a serious mili- Symposium Democratic politicians and a still too au- tary option has at least given Congress tocratic church structure desperately Education and Ideology Symposium...
...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...
...ways been stronger than the reality...
...tion...
...tion from all those quarters...
...Pre- IUP, Indiana, PA 15705: (412) 357-2227...
...PASCHAL BAUTE neither peace nor reconciliation...
...finish...
...J. BRYAN HEHIR The Ouzo Prophecy (J...
...Even in pursuit of a of confrontation with the Catholic church's institutional response to the justifiable objective the means emhierarchy, a confrontation now raised expulsion of a bishop is certain to be ployed must have a possibility of to a whole new level by the expulsion of unified, powerful, and sustained...
...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...
...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...
...No outside institution so directly will give them the capacity to overchy in Nicaragua - these have made influences world public opinion on throw the Sandinistas, but it can raise Nicaragua front-page news...
...defect in our Catholic manner of arguing all sides can reconsider and reverse the too statically where it is necessary to dangerous drift...
...For a regime words of government policy and inter- ton's response is that the objective of beset by internal and external forces to national perceptions, that institutional the contra aid is not to overthrow the expel the nation's second most visible response will be the controlling view...
...The contras not guarantee quality of analysis or in- church - the Holy See, the church in can increase the pressure but not change sight...
...tinue...
...Abbie Hoffman on Activism...
Vol. 113 • August 1986 • No. 14
