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wish to repudiate publicly the recent de- the signers of the controversial October Correspondence velopments of...

...FR...
...Forrester Church com- by hardcore believers as soft on God, and evils they are in getting down to earth...
...The theme of his book is that if F. Forrester Church crusade for nuclear peace...
...And they call it progress...
...God and each of us...
...The Devil and Dr...
...abolitionist, hellbent on bringing moral then clips its front legs and repeats the Church reveals his qualifications up issues into collision with political con- command...
...p. 690, Alan Cavalier, To the Editors: We, a body of concerned process in these cases as well as to the Circle Films...
...He is deft in minister was a German, Charles Follen, Church offers a tale with a twist for Sariding them all and more in his race to in fact, a professor of German literature...
...He almost always talgic about childhood longings for freeJ full of wisdom, sharpened with wit appears in drag...
...Church is com- PATRICK GRATTON Commonweal: 696...
...So accorded Archbishop Raymond Hunt- Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...We object strongly to the lack of due Food for the Poor...
...the researcher orders it to jump again, ing in his ecumenical and compassionate Satan contrived to persuade the respecta- and the flea fails to respond, the experimission at All Souls Unitarian Church on bles in the congregation that they could menter pronounces it deaf...
...your editorial reveals...
...684 & 688, Karen Sue Smith...
...Peter Finn's issues...
...Charles Curran paid at New York, N.Y...
...Thus, just as American ive and receive no censure, while Cardi- dialogue...
...A tunnel-visioned researcher keep up with the Devil, the alter-ego of He was also an abrasively militant first trains a flea to jump on command...
...The road not taken Popes & bishops We are even more chagrined to learn Roswell, N. Mex...
...bishops sur- To the Editors: Even before the bubbles To the Editors: The demand for explana- veyed by that Jesuit apparently do not (Continued on page 696) tion issued by over a hundred Seattle feel courageous enough to state publicly Catholic leaders was not aptly titled, that they favor optional celibacy for the Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to "What Kind of Church Are We Becom- clergy and that 8 percent of his respon- Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, ing...
...none...
...His sociological markings enliven he warns, quoting Aldous Huxley's his theology, broaden the reach of his novel about 2105, written in 1948...
...Continued from page 674) burst and the froth subsides, the pathEven without the atomic bomb, ways are plain enough: Let those who Belial could have achieved all His wish to follow St...
...we don't deal with it, it will dispose of Harper & Row, $12.95, 88 pp...
...tan's tail...
...experience...
...W.C.C ecumaniacs hausen of Seattle and Fr...
...KATHLEEN QUINN "We are living in a world in which it is Jesuit priest, Terrance Sweeney, is told (REV...
...Catholics, lay, priests, and religious, manner in which the Vatican reacted to Commonweal: 674 (about residents of Amarillo, Texas, read along with Hope in Hard Times in parative literature at its best, doing douwhere nuclear bombs are assembled...
...Glen Ellyn, Ill...
...From the archives of All Souls magicians on display with their heads analysis threaded by anecdote, and as itself, Church fishes up a confrontation turned backwards...
...We are the abuse of power...
...Let those PEGGY ROSENTHAL, author of Words and perhaps, but just as surely, men who think they know better about faith Values (Oxford University), is a member of would have destroyed themselves and morals seek whatever comfort they the Genesee/Finger Lakes Nuclear Disar- by destroying the world they live may find in other denominations or relimament Network...
...It arms- ds for dealsubstance do not usually make for read- Unitarians have been viewed askance ing with economists as the necessary ing on the run...
...The roadmap Church relies on to pur- us...
...He refers us to people in need...
...We are concerned theological forums...
...Church is a prod evangelism with his heritage from the minister...
...His German accent muffled his for ears to hear while we can still jump...
...order to hear the full range of popular ble duty as a call to political and ethical Commonweal, September26) need to be responses to living in the nuclear age...
...dialect and his dialectic gave the Devil a ped too, its rear legs are clipped...
...who feel we have a responsibility to let defense of innocent human life in the To the Editors: Bravo to the editors for thinking Catholics and others know that womb...
...hurly-burly of politics...
...We are offended when Bishop We call on the churchmen mentioned productive activity, but by passive Joseph O'Keefe can impute motives to herein to work with all the people of God obedience and the ensuing approval by Cuomo's criticism of a diocesan direct- in a context of mutual respect and the authority...
...do not arrive at well-being by our own beings...
...We INGRID RAMOS had hoped for more from an order known for its appreciation of intellect...
...Without this collaboration, the Catholicism becomes increasingly out- nal O'Connor feels deeply insulted and moral credibility of the church will suffer spoken and relevant, it seems this is con- morally libeled when an archdiocesan di- further erosion, as will its prophetic witsidered behavior (and thought) worthy of rective is subjected by a public official, ness to society...
...Satan aspired to be an dom, but grim in assessing ignorance of and learning, leavened with love of author, thereby unmasking his pride and how to use freedom...
...and Shakespeare sa- Dante's sketch of the goings Do in the do not usually go together...
...They were the advocacy preached with the force of that shows they can be self-defeatingly forefathers of our modern breed of humility but voiced with satire born of hard-headed too...
...JAY ALLAIN or face expulsion from the Jesuits...
...de facto for even longer...
...wish to repudiate publicly the recent de- the signers of the controversial October Correspondence velopments of suppression, intimidation, 7, 1984 ad in the New York Times...
...Prosperity...
...John Dearie, to a similar charge of politi- (SR...
...At the local level, we object to and dom of thought and speech on certain it is consoling to encounter the wisdom are embarrassed by Msgr...
...believe that the U.S...
...What we object to are the your lucid and cogent defense of the em- the best of the Catholic tradition is ill- strong-arm tactics of some churchmen battled Seattle archbishop, Raymond served by ecclesiastical bullying on the who reflect the Vatican policy that is all Hunthausen ["An Archbishop part of people who do not distinguish too ready to draw on the ugly and shameWronged," October 10...
...A little more slowly, main in the Catholic church...
...demonstrating pastoral concerns in his diocese, the latter for articulating them in Illustrations: P. 679 & 680, Paul Vallery...
...CAMILLE D:ARIENZO This also gives an eerie relevance to cal motivation...
...Church moral for the young reared in illiterate reminds us that the Devil among us is captivity to televised violence...
...After He knows first hand, as he is demonstrat- heaven-sent chance to get him purged...
...p. 287, Jackson Heigins, N.Y...
...PAUL SURLIS virtually impossible to be honest and re- by his superior to destroy all his research JOANN KRAUS main alive...
...Serials Data program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & since Trent...
...As he puts it, the assumption is: "We Cuomo to learn how to execute human tion in terms...
...When the flea jumps, and front for writing this account of our an- venience...
...punishment by the Vatican...
...that 25 percent of the U.S...
...REV...
...His father was the clarion call...
...KURT A. SPENGLER of Catholic University, the former for monweal Foundation...
...During times between loyal dissent and subversive at- ful tactics of the past in suppressing freewhich are already ominous for the planet, tack...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...He blends his not understand the message of their flea...
...It should have been titled, "What dents feel too timid to reveal their favor- Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Kind of Church Have We Become...
...EDWARD F. DOHERTY the words George Orwell uttered in 1948: We are sadly disappointed when a (SR...
...Charisma and erudition explaining his fall...
...eighth circle of Hell...
...Peter's successors reREVIEWERS purposes...
...Second-class postage what else is new...
...The sanity of Church's call to transform our hell on Destroying earthly hells earth into a heaven within our reach clears our minds to cope with the nuclear THE DEVIL AND DR...
...In his late work To Have Botha to speak to Blacks...
...Copyright © 1986 Combeware...
...Let no insult, and shoddy comparisons that have one twist the intent of this letter so as to come from some authorities in the use it to support abortion on demand...
...He is nosUST eighty-eight pages - and chock cloaked in virtue...
...bines them with authority worn casually, by hard-core atheists as simply soft- Dante puts diviners, astrologers, and as literature unveiling philosophy, as headed...
...An orgy of criminal imbeELIOT JANEWAY is the author of the Jane- cility...
...Charisma and luted him as a gentleman...
...CHURCH ethical message, and enlist him in the menace...
...responsibility sanitized against the sanctimoniousness of Satan...
...We are the Manhattan's Gold Coast...
...sue the elusive trail to God tracks the Church gives a tender but pointed Eliot Janeway tricky appearance of the Devil...
...gions or self-started congregations or in...
...In able position on the ordination of Digest and Book Review Index...
...The coincidence of Follen's jumps again after its middle legs are clipcient and guileful traveling companion...
...l, 1924, to current issues available through the Latin Church, all bishops have indeed women...
...So The Devil and Dr...
...His latest book is Prescriptions for ture...
...God's shadow side," forecasters...
...His citations range from as he calls the Devil, infiltrated the Con- To emphasize the need for realistic Scripture to Upton Sinclair, from Dante gregation in the fight over slavery...
...As she has...
...bishops deserve We are loyal members of that church high praise for their early and consistent Northampton, Mass...
...Correspondence mother's family Democratic dynasts in "The Devil is way ahead of schedule," Idaho...
...Its response to the peril in which we live, to Dostoyevsky to Huxley...
...late, great chairman of the Senate Church's pen arms urbanity with Foreign Relations Committee, his dynamite, and facility with urgency...
...pp...
...or To Be?, he writes that in conventional ashamed of Finn's apparent attempt to To those who do not share our faith, theological thinking, disobedience from gloss over the repugnant prayer of a we hope we have given evidence that a the church is deemed synonymous with police chaplain calling for Governor thinking adult Catholic is not a contradicsin...
...We Art of control Roman Catholic church...
...University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann become auxiliaries of the pope de jure We are most appalled by the treatment Arbor...
...equating an invitation to Mario Cuomo to To our sister and brother Catholics, we Another illuminating source in such address Catholics with an invitation to hope that our words have offered some matters is the work of the psychoanalyst Yassar Arafat to address Jews or to P. W. reasons to continue to hope and to resist Erich Fromm...
...The church will survive the deparway Letter...
...699 & 708, Emil Antonucci...

Vol. 113 • December 1986 • No. 22


 
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