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the Soviet's? 'They didn't warn anyone virtue. Put simply, free spaces are...
...ustice lier marked her own leap to Marxism and The difficulty in a pattern of possibly indeed to post-war Czech Stalinism - excessive self-critique is that it distorts with all that it entailed, and that she reality, smears Catholic higher educa- "Pure gold:' would regret...
...ALFONS BELL can...
...The reader is young and the old don't like the same 40 the richer for it, as were all of those who things...
...So (Continued on page 479) "mainstream" my daughter in a church some of us had to talk about Original Sin, in which the ecclesiastical authorities tell Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to "realism," and "maturity," and other Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, her she will not be allowed access to roles Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review palliatives for the young...
...We must be more University 111110111" Catholic identity, a very genuine com- flexible, without losing the essentials, mitment to teaching excellence, and an and try to be more understanding of the Press increasing flood of scholarly publica- people's needs...
...Although her faithful ognize the leadership that has been pro- Liang Heng Stalinist husband was tried and convicted vided by John Tracy Ellis and David J. Introduction by Aryeh Neier in the trumped-up Slansky purges, she O'Brien...
...Nothing so an- AMERICA noys the young as an old-fashioned ser- The Physician Task Force Correspondence mon and vice versa...
...We should discuss can act with dignity, independence, and Promise & peril arms cohfrol.with such cold dissemblers...
...Frank Deford's Sports Illustrated article The New York Times Was Rosemary Kavan another of those on Catholic colleges and basketball...
...Is this Gorbachev's new scale institutions where ordinary _citizens straightforwardness...
...461 and 463, Emil Antonucci...
...Her story was in fact big league in basketball...
...It wouldn't hurt to use a tions...
...It does appear that at some point in are no longer central issues for lay rights...
...To be sure there is more to be editorial appropriately underscores the Brien's classroom way well allow the achieved, but the rapid improvements in implications of Chernobyl for the de- "reinvigoration of public dialogue Catholic higher education over the past structiveness of nuclear war...
...To the Editors...
...of Principles on Academic Freedom and swered questions before proceeding with Then O'Brien suggests that ecclesiasTenure declares that academic freedom further employment of this source of en- tical authority and freedom of expression "carries with it duties correlative with ergy...
...REV...
...Jean Mayer tic...
...Microfilm from Chernobyl could be viewed as "grace basis...
...459 and 466, Paul Valerry...
...In -John Bums, also magically to transmute in her own March, millions of Americans read Former Beijing Bureau Chief, person, and experience...
...Put simply, free spaces are setabout`th&`fallout, not their own people tings between private lives and largeCorrespondence i nor their allies...
...0'lence...
...Deford's conclu- Lilnc COLD infatuated English girl simply provide sion: since Catholic schools are bush WINDS, yet another variant of the old theme, the league in academics, they shouldn't be WARM God-that-failed...
...on Hunger in America We simply are going to have to give up our fetish for unity (spell that conformity (Continued from page 450) in all things) and introduce more variety...
...As I procedures such as student reviews, propower as the supply of fossil fuels runs write this letter I have a clipping from the vide us with a rather thoroughly accountout...
...At the same time, we must vigor- Boston Globe [June 5, 1986] sitting on able professoriate...
...Greeley's recent claim that constantly to literature), which often "there is no evidence that the Catholic concluded with a walk through the Old universities see the research function as Freedom/ Town and up towards the Hradcarny Cas- an important part of a contribution that tle...
...Theologians Summons to Responsibility," June 6...
...Vol...
...The $17.95 cl naive, trusting souls who give their all for article relied heavily on premises from a theoretical good whose practical reality the "breast-beating" literature on CathoLLa~ n is a nightmare...
...it Colorado Springs, Colo...
...RODGER VAN ALLEN remained, even after his death, in the adopted country whose spirit she came to "The most Preaching flexibility share...
...I "peaceful" uses of nuclear power and ethicists in today's church are in an disagree, however, with his description seemed to indicate that we are fortunate intellectual game of Russian (or should I of faculty as sharing in "unaccountable to have an indefinite "grace period" in say Vatican...
...But she captures' them in the same they should make to the church and to language, the same gush, which had ear- American life" is seriously misstated...
...Despite everything, she O'Brien's article ["The Summons to Rehunger simply had her children to raise, hon- sponsibility," June 6] about the probestly, and her life to live, honestly...
...Harry Boyte monweal Foundation...
...REV...
...RAWLEY MYERS 1-8oa638-3030 12 September 1986: 479...
...But how am I to pastoral ["The Challenge of Peace...
...The 1940 Statement which to address complex and unanOr vibrant...
...political...
...als included - is to find in the church Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...of the Nuclear Age," in which I was the intellectual enterprise" ["The SumTo the Editors: There is much to admire joined by two physicists, two political mons to Responsibility," June 6...
...Wesleyan edge the reality of institutions that are We live now in a very complex society...
...Roulette...
...vision...
...The challenge for all of us is to Nyet!'' mourn the loss of any of these free Roxboro, N.C...
...Out of that process we may see the perceptive and humane comment on the continuing birth of a more "vibrant and disaster that I have seen...
...Lament unhappy...
...I suppose of leadership or service on an equal Digest and Book Review Index...
...And we in cities let people gravi- IVY HUNGER were privileged to know Rosemary her- tate to the parish - conservative, liberal, self...
...They are institutions IntellectualLife in sistently, and with a humor that was part that have surged in excellence...
...Isn't it time we stopped beatit hard to deal with what they perceived to He urges us not to "marginalize reliing our breasts long enough to acknowlbe some ambiguities in the bishops' gion" in our lives...
...education "has failed to achieve excelAs for uses of nuclear weaponry, your Women out as preachers at Mass...
...different, if only because she lived it Catholic colleges and universities are WINDS through to the bitter end, honestly, con- not bush league...
...Threats: Liturgical practices challenged...
...but when I read what followed, and to build new "free spaces" where we for Chernobyl" [May 23], is the most I found comfort...
...ment for Chernobyl" [May 23], you wrote: `,'How can anyone possibly trust skills and values of cooperation and civic Commonweal: 450 friends, in a melody of tongues, returned schools...
...Even Andrew Greeley now con- Distributed by Harper & Row, Publishers little more common sense, while we're at To place your order, please call: fines his critique to Catholic graduate it...
...lems of intellectuals in the church - why in America in Freedom at a Price shows a woman's can't there be in cities, university more than experience, both as individual and as churches or university Masses, where a decade...
...In your editorial "Lamore assertive group identity, public pp...
...To the Editors: David J. O'Brien experiThis spring I organized a course at Bush-league fallacy ences the church as a "vibrant and hopeWake Forest on "The Promise and Perils ful community within which to carry on Villanova, Pa...
...This is hopeful...
...11111 • lul characterized by a conscious and creative we must adapt to it...
...ously explore alternatives, including the the desk in front of me...
...Do the experiences of this lic higher education...
...needed balance between compassion, Vatican roulette DAVID W. GAGNE caution, and constructive suggestions for New York, N.Y...
...To recog- Post Mao China English optimism, part dark Czech self- nize this more adequately is also to rec- Judith Shapiro and preservation...
...and with what she came tion, and misleads many people...
...The formal and informal procthe future we (and other countries more people...
...When I lead these lines, I was very spaces, to support those that still exist, To the Editors: The editorial...
...It does not pretend to be didac- priest-professors would preach...
...within the church" that he experiences, three decades need to be celebrated and Incidently, many of the students found but local dioceses and parishes do not...
...and Sara Evans, in their recent book Free Reader, pass on Spaces (Harper & Row), defines these as Heidelberg "environments in which people are able Illustrations: Cover and pp...
...those "free spaces" of public life in gram No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...Copyright © 1986 Comwhich we can live our faith...
...455 and 458, to learn a new self-respect, a deeper and Rita Corbin...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...It must be ancient history that esses of peer review, as well as other than we) must turn to some use of nuclear O'Brien teaches, not contemporary...
...The headline I also wonder if it is adequate or even question of what kind of civilization is reads: "Paulist Center Bows to Church's appropriate to say that Catholic higher desired, at what cost...
...policy...
...The on, David - what about Curran, Boff, olic intellectuals to responsibility ["The consensus of our discussions on the Daly, Kdng, and the others...
...It strikes the hopeful community...
...Serials Data proJAMES ALFRED MARTIN, JR...
...The key to the IN problem is the homily...
...The reality of bungling Stalinism was not something known from afar...
...With its own blend of English and We now have youth Masses because $17.50 c1 HUNGER IN AMERICA Czech humor, in fact, it provides both we have come to the conclusion the 8.95 pa history lesson and novel...
...DICK HOWARD or whatever they like...
...authoritative was constantly present to jolt her equally To the Editors: In regard to David profile of constant faith...
...acclaimed...
...professionalism...
...Come in David J. O'Brien's summons of Cathscientists, and an anthropologist...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through through tragedy," a theme not unknown University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann The challenge to all of us - intellectu- Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & in Christian faith...
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