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...In any case, that debt is now absorbing 14 percent of the $28...
...Utilization of industrial capacity is below than they were two decades ago, although they may be the next 80 percent, far less than usual at an advanced stage of the target for the campaign of rugged individualists against "unbusiness cycle...
...Volatility, it is cheerfully theorized, is only due to the lock-step of large investors all Kara Kush: Robert Ochs 504 using the same sort of computer programs to plan their moves...
...Consumer spending has been bobbing up and The much-vaunted growth in jobs - admittedly an down...
...Witness the American workers fall into that category...
...Freedman said that perhaps one-third of computerized era, has been greatly insufficient...
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...the Christian of breaking even for the season...
...A heavy responsibility...
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...Instead of the Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly balanced budget which supply-siders promised, the nation enjoys the largest federal Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by deficit in its history...
...In an illuminating article in Dissent (Summer, 1986), H. Brand has compared the average annual performance of the economy in its last two cyclical expansions, 1975-79 and .1982-85...
...In a country where Cardinal Mindszenty was persecuted in face of international outrage, this, too, has an irony...
...Ecclesial authority Chief Justice...
...New York, promised a balanced budget, and produced record deficits instead, then went on to N.Y...
...Median family income has- recapital to the world into one of the world's great debtor mained almost steady, but mainly because married women, nations...
...including the majority with young children, have entered the Exports fell, imports grew, and despite the recent drop in the paid labor force and added another paycheck to the family exchange value of the dollar, the trade balance appears still to earnings...
...It turned out we had to go through a wringer of a recession first...
...Possession, sought...
...To There are no known dissident writers in prison in Hungary, attempt to achieve it at such times as these necessitates in- according to "The Limits of Liberalization," a report issued genuity and creative patience...
...Business investment has been similarly disappointing...
...body, and in serving it...
...Copyright © 1986 Com- of the Gross National Product...
...To enlightened despotism...
...You can argue about the way in which that deficit is calculated Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New and compared to past ones, or whether future deficits may not be quite as enormous York, N.Y...
...change from self-interest - whether individual or collective...
...by PEN American Center...
...Our new address is: Warsaw Pact...
...In Hungary -not only in a Chile under state of Commonweal, 15 Dutch Street, 5th floor, New York, siege or in a South Africa under emergency powers - it is the N.Y...
...Istvan Eorsi of the official writers' union that it is authoritative precisely because the Holy Spirit resides publicly called for the establishment of "explicit rules for what in the whole community...
...during the later expansion, it's 7.1 percent...
...The elderly certainly remain more secure peting economies...
...Home ownership now takes about twice the proportion of family income that it used to...
...Job creation has actually slowed in the borrowing...
...Employees of this sort get reduced benefits and work force appropriate to a flexible economy in a competitive, little security...
...It noted that the momentum of postwar prosperity, which came to a grinding halt in the oil-shocked, inflationary seventies, has never been regained...
...All were confisselves relentlessly what questions they should honestly be cated...
...What has come forth, however, is more Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Meanwhile, the number of raids on apartmendous gift to the church in those 1968 guidelines, a gift that ments, confiscations of manuscripts, passport/visa denials or should not be too quickly abandoned...
...If senators with doubts about Rehnquist's bear a special accountability to the whole church and to the ideology nonetheless are hesitant to vote against him on those world...
...26 September 1986: 483 headlined, "The Average Guy Takes It on the Chin...
...signs and bad signs, and all are probed like the entrails of Roman sacrifices...
...Responding to Senator Simon, It is the whole church, not just its officials, who are the body nominee Rehnquist hemmed and hawed but was honest of Christ, the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit...
...The church is rather "a spiritual communion always thought and acted on firm ideological grounds - and that has a social structure" (Yves Congar, The Word and the emphasized the results he valued over procedural principles Spirit, Harper & Row, p. 55...
...The paradox is well as confusion...
...like Old Bossie than a charging bull...
...It has been stopped almost dead in its tracks, reined in or, if you will, leashed...
...An August 18 article in U.S...
...dollars by International Money Order or by 1980, even despite the soaring interest rates...
...Growth in productivity - another key factor - worrying about "gentrification" if there weren't some young has shown only slight gains, not the real bound upward that gentry earning and spending enough to transform rooming was prophesized, and far less than the improvements in com- houses into condos...
...productive" citizens...
...This year's thirtieth anniversary preparations attest course...
...For them the answer the living voice of God in our day...
...Those who attempt to understand these ever relaxes these commands will be called "least in the events, and who approach both the people and principles kingdom of heaven" (Matt...
...Would to the power of memory, the craving for freedom, and the need that freedom be enough for you?' " Commonweal: 486...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., as recently expected...
...Clearly, to..emulate ing toward mediocrity...
...The hierarchical charism cannot fulfill its those of their own household who have attempted to grapple duty isolated from the rest of the church...
...Unemployment has dipped but remains unusually high for an economy that is not in recession...
...Every time the data collectors hold a All this has .taken its toll on the ordinary American's stan- mirror to the mouth of the economy, the foggy results show dard of living...
...The Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of other exception is debt...
...But perilous own materials in Hungary, the base communities were retimes can be in God's wisdom moments of extraordinary stricted "because they are not controlled by trusted hierargrace...
...and commonly considered by the West to be the most liberal of the subscription service operations...
...Up from recession...
...The perpetuation of an "underclass" lacking work skills and job well-off are becoming even more so, and cities wouldn't be experience...
...Phone: (212) 732-0800...
...To parliamentary bad image for the U.S...
...A man turning thirty in 1973, however, would have seen his real average income actually decline over the next ten years...
...The same goes for the self-censorship and submitting to a sort of "gentleman's aChristian community: we are to settle for nothing less than to greement" not to criticize the regime directly...
...We exclude here those cynics - chical charism within a communion of faith and love with the 26 September 1986: 485 for international criticism of press censorship in the nation Commonweal has moved its editorial, advertising...
...Same with poverty...
...The present in this very time...
...Friedmann 489 Subsidizing Pinochet: Peter Hakim 491 Living with apocalypse: David Toolan 494 THE GREAT Screen: Tom O' 500 Stage: Gerald Weale eales 501 ECONOMIC RECOVERY Improvisational notes: Mimi D'Aponte 502 No DISCUSSION OF the economy could be complete these days without the word "volatility...
...John 15:15...
...More important, almost a third of the new jobs added cially in "plastic," has shot up to a ratio of 84 percent of real to the economy since 1980 provide an average weekly wage disposable income...
...If we deny it, what For those who have lost their jobs as a result of public can we say are the real prospects for the church...
...chy...
...foreign, $33...
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...According to Isabel Sawhill and Charles Stone, that recession cost more than $3,300 per household in Staff lost income during 1981-83...
...The costs, however, were far from evenly distributed, They meant "billions of dollars of lost income for workers who were jobless or had Editor: Peter Steinfels to accept shorter working hours or lower wages, as well as more bankAssistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue ruptcies and lower farm and business earnings...
...Our families, our old ones, our children...
...with a radical challenge: we are each called to become that The bulk of writers, however, publish officially, observing very person God has in mind for us to be...
...solve" the deficit problem with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill, which, should it be belatedly inflicted on a sluggish economy, may well kick off another recession...
...That inflow transformed the U.S...
...Volatility refers to the sharp ups and downs of the stock Books market, mostly the downs, since it is a more reassuring word than "panic...
...economy...
...I said, `What is the meaning of relatively free...
...This was, of course, community...
...To the hierarchical leaders the call is the same, but the Anyone who looks beyond the headlines can sense the reckoning is always particular...
...If volatility is a worry, that may be due Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, to the sense that the economy is trudging forward on weak knees, and over Janice Gates Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor increasingly slippery ground...
...How might we answer Baron von Hi gel that "every as well as the publication, of unofficial literature is a crime...
...Publisher: Edward S. Skillin There are two exceptions to this picture of doleful continuity...
...And Such a work force can be taken on or dismissed by established investment in "human capital," the preparation of a skilled firms at will...
...They contemplated, Keillor community is distinct from any other type...
...It is true, cally alien as was his own to Simon...
...This presents us official criteria...
...The strong dollar also spurred the "other" deficit...
...507 disturbing is not the sudden jumps and starts, but the persistent shuffle...
...Over the earlier expansion, an average of 5.8 percent of the civilian labor force was unemployed...
...Itis the whole enough not to dodge the only conclusion that one could church that bears responsibility for carrying out the mission of reasonably draw from his remarks, his record, his writings: he Jesus, not just those dressed in purple or seated in the houses of would not hestitate to vote against a nomination as ideologi- princes, nor simply those holding university chairs...
...While it is to confirm a Court nominee with ideological views as funda- evident the church must have a social structure to help it mentally different from his own as Simon's are from Rehn- achieve its task, the church's nature is not merely that of a quist's...
...Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Then came recovery - the unleashing...
...It is that daily dogs Hungarian writers...
...Are these suggestions you are making going to weaken, or eventually shatter, this earthen vessel in which we carry our heart's...
...less than the poverty level for a family of four...
...No text ever feared for its job...
...Reagan's pledge to cut the size of the check on a U.S...
...work as a full-time writer may not cially in these times, "the traditional virtues of obedience and qualify as regular employment...
...PEN reports that although debating, and where their service should be directed...
...But for a "recovery," an for such they are - on both sides of whatever question, who, "expansion," a rebirth of American vitality, and all that, this strapped into their particular marching boots, are ready to is a pretty disappointing spectacle at best, a harsh and inequit- sweep down and exult over any perceived foe's . failures, able one at worst, a downright precarious one in any case...
...Canada, $30...
...quist's own approach to the matter...
...Working heads of poor families Smith, Patrick Jordan lost four to five times as much income during that period as did heads of high-income Production Editor: Anne Robertson Poetry: Rosemary Deen families...
...rate: U.S., $49...
...Contents Volume CXIII, Number 16 commoowem Correspondence 482 Editorials 483 Tolerance limits: John Garvey 487 The Vatican, Israel, & `holy Zion': F.G...
...you taking us...
...Vilmos Sos convinces us: "Everybody said Hungary Revolution, a revolution that failed to overthrow the Marxist was relatively free, we have not such big problems as the government, which in turn imprisoned 5,800 revolution- Soviet Union and other socialist countries...
...Ignac Kiraly and debases the humanity of millions, when humanicide and Jozsef Merza, for instance, possessed 110 theology books ecocide threaten an apocalypse - Christians must ask them- published by Catholic base communities...
...To monarchy...
...All times nineteen religious denominations are permitted to publish their are perilous, perhaps ours the most perilous of all...
...Slouch- democracy...
...Why does simple harassment in Hungary deserve concern HUNGARIAN OCTOBER when the tortured bodies of editors and reporters are being It is nearly Hungarian October - the time when dissidents deposited by belligerent governments elsewhere around the in that country band together to celebrate the 1956 Hungarian globe...
...but with wages and median income stuck and housing achievement that makes European nations jealous - is no costs way up, consumers can keep on buying only by increased magic cure either...
...bank...
...weakness, or reproval...
...But, PEN says, the liberal treatment The events of recent months have raised real questions of the press surrounding last fall's Helsinki Accord Cultural concerning the church's catholicity: the nature of that catholic- Forum in Budapest was a "deceptive lull" in the harassment ity, and whether the church really desires to achieve it...
...Perhaps in the process someone will have noted is derived from the church's unique mission...
...The hierarchy, as with the demands of the Gospel and its moral requirements in Father Congar writes, "can only be certain of its real hierarthis specific time and place...
...Second-class postage paid at government has not yet been fulfilled either: federal spending now equals 24 percent New York, N.Y...
...A July 13 article in the Sunday New York Times business section was bluntly Commonweal: 484 that the creature is still breathing...
...This calls for an immense effort...
...As of September 1, press important for the American bishops, following recent discus- restrictions, codified for the first time, specify that only offisions of their 1968 criteria for dissent in the church, to ask what cially recognized institutions which are granted permission is the role of subsidiarity, the role of collegiality in the univer- from the proper authorities may legally publish books, periodsal church...
...are antithetical to all those structures and societies we asked the nominee whether he, Rehnquist, would have voted generally find ourselves attached to or mired in...
...It warns that who= American Catholic...
...The censorship laws cut across categories of writing as At a time of unparalleled crises for this planet - when poverty diverse as punk rock songs and theology...
...Not surprisingly, home ownership among under-thirties has dropped since Another recession will mean even more deficit, and a huge 1981...
...All Interest on the debt comprised 7 percent of the budget in 1970 and 10 percent in Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...Poverty rolls swelled by 4.3 million people over 1981-82...
...Do you hear your people's anguish - are rank and file of American Catholics who are affected both by you near enough - or do you lay burdens on them too heavy their loyalty to the universal church and by their respect for for their shoulders...
...Matt...
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...Another 60 Neither stopping inflation nor unleashing debt has done percent of the new jobs were in service work that provide an anything for the nation's basic economic weaknesses...
...One is inflation...
...But espe- job for one month or longer...
...What is Van Dyken, Le Roy Smith, Jr...
...To said, the long uphill struggle toward mediocrity...
...ON PAIN IN THE CHURCH treasure...
...It realizes more profoundly than any could and couldn't say and so that censorship would be exerpolitical theory the dignity of each person and its perfection in cised over texts and not over authors...
...Senate may served but to serve" (cf...
...Household debt, not only in mortgages but espe- eighties...
...American Catholics who love the uniHumorist Garrison Keillor tells of his fictional smalltown versal church feel a deep sadness, a revulsion at such-woundbaseball team, the Lake Wobegone Whippets, who momentar- making...
...Telephone: (212) 732-0800...
...Jesus's call is one of repentance and radical said with irony...
...they purchase VCRs instead, or run up rates...
...News & World Report burden that will most likely inhibit effective anti-recession entitled "Middle-Class Squeeze" is another exploration of economic resuscitation...
...continuing findings about educational shortcomings and the Not everyone is doing poorly in today's economy...
...to be Christ an old logical conundrum tucked away in the debate...
...Beyond Anger: Karen Sue Smith 510 Six years ago the nation was told that the economy was going to be unleashed...
...It was a fascinating question because Rehnquist has social structure...
...by virtue of their training, office, and gifts, these members The conundrum...
...The tension forced labor to be meted out to anyone not holding a "regular" between them maintains the church on its course...
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...that might stand in the way...
...responsibility toward them...
...Such a mission - and such authority conundrum was posed when Senator Paul Simon (D., Ill...
...during the current one, the percentage is 14.4...
...5:17...
...foreign, $59...
...Canada, $53...
...The Gospel calls for a full, life-entailing response: The Curran case, as well as recent events in Seattle and New Serve me with your whole heart, your whole mind, your whole York, prove it is both an interesting and perilous time to be an body...
...This discrimination is known as "silentium...
...under Carter, it was 21 percent...
...That is not a what might it be compared...
...any of these would be to have settled for something less than the church's specific nature...
...new laws have augmented contempt for the government as The church is an authoritative community...
...In that sense, the church is the true writers could write so they would know clearly what they exemplar of democracy...
...Those who monweal Foundation...
...dissent, the pressure is twofold: another new statute allows Freedom and authority are two necessary poles...
...Audrey Freedman, labor savings rate - often underlined as the key justification for economist at the Conference Board, has advanced the notion administration policies like the 1981 tax cut - has actually of "contingent" workers - employees who are either partdropped, from 7.5 percent five years ago to less than 5 percent...
...living unity is constituted in multiplicity...
...Should you keep a man out Catholics have a right to ask their theologians: Where are of a club who wouldn't vote for himself as a member...
...There are, of course, good Verse: Dave Leedy, Barbara M.R...
...Over the earlier expansion, 11.7 percent of the population fell under the poverty line...
...Is rigorous conformity pressures on dissidents to emigrate, fines of up to two-months really the best and surest means for the unity of the church to be salary, and dismissals from jobs have increased...
...docility, important though they be, are no substitute for per- Writers who regularly publish samizdat have their work sonal integrity and open dialogue" (Avery Dulles, The refused by government publishing houses even when it meets Catholicity of the Church, Oxford, p. 123...
...be worsening...
...approaching anniversary that has given the government cause to step up its restrictions on authors, editors, and lyricists...
...Ecclesial authority rests not on the power of structures or COURT CONUNDRUM privilege, but on the example of Jesus: "I have not come to be By the time this issue reaches readers, the U.S...
...It is partly true, of supporters...
...Have the American bishops given perhaps a tre- icals, and plays...
...No longer do I call well have confirmed the nomination of William Rehnquist as you servants but friends" (cf...
...Houses, cars - and havIf the deficit has not been catastrophic to date, it is in good ing children - are becoming just too expensive for middlemeasure due to the foreign capital attracted by high interest income wage-earners...
...both people were fined...
...of, authority...
...The average yearly income of $13,600...
...After six years," noted Senator Moynihan Movies: Tom O'Brien recently, "you can say nothing's changed...
...presumably, volatilThe Church in the World: ity will be taken care of once the computer programs are clever enough to take into Jeffrey Gros 505 account all the other computer programs...
...Special two-year federal budget - 40 percent of Washington's spending on goods and services...
...involved without predetermined sets of rigid categories, have The duty of the theologian in particular is demanding: to make discovered but one conclusion: there will be no easy answers in the Gospel vital in each new time while maintaining its chaldetermining the full truth, in these matters and what is one's lenging fullness...
...The Body in Pain: Edith Wyschogrod 506 Not much else about the overall economy is volatile...
...what has become familiar territory...
...What example are you of the anguish that is afoot in the American church, notonly among suffering Servant who eats with sinners, calls all to repent, and those who have been proscribed and their supporters, but in the binds up wounds...
...That is what has been truly unleashed...
...ily lurched from haplessness to win a few games and dreamed By its very nature, ecclesiastical authority in...
...from a supplier of the aforementioned debts...
...and love your neighbor as yourself...
...Professor Frank S. Levy of the University of Maryland explained that a man who was thirty in 1949 would have seen his earnings increase by 63 percent by the time he was forty...
...And it is no surprise that the standards raised in the grounds because they think he is an intelligent, technically common mind concerning them and the fulfillment of their competent justice, why shouldn't theyy simply abide by Rehn- duties are nothing less than exacting...
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