Ferraro
Segers, Mary C.
German actor, Klaus Mafia Brandeaur, is adequate as a rascally and constitutionally unfaithful Baron Blixen, whom Streep tries to eonvert with genuine love. When he cannot reform, Streep turns to...
...TOM O'BRIEN Books: RUNNING DIFFICULTIES FrRRARO: MY STORY Geraldine A. Ferraro with Linda Bird Francke Bantam Books, $17.95, 340 pp...
...Pointing to a letter Fertaro had signed and sent to congressional colleagues two years earlier, O'Connor contended that she had misrepresented Catholic teaching on abortion by claiming that church teaching was not monolithic...
...The fruit of that experience is found in a Foreign Affairs article (Winter 1985/86) and in a new book, I s L0uis n/tJ r itp Ig e010gitaI tubtr Doctor o! Philosophy and Master of Arts in i t0rital t!je010gp Master of Arts in religi0u ztul iez additional information...
...Why did the bishops treat Ferraro differently from JFK...
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...each in his own wa)~ confront | ~ . ~ ' , the shocking news and probe for r ~ r ~ ~ ' ~ , - x _ r . answers to Cathy's life and to her ~*L~ ~ [ ~ , ~ . ~ death...
...His singling me out was highly unusual, a contradiction of the longstanding policy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, which strongly opposes the targeting of any political candidate by name...
...Unfortunately for him, you also can't separate the social context from what legislation actually says . . . . Carlin has argued forcefully in the past on the abortion issue...
...Ferraro's incredulity was justified...
...the opposition to the war in Vietnam...
...The style of the book also seems rather sterile and clichdd, geared more to a mass-market, bestseller audience than to the serious reader interested in learning first-hand, from a major par-' ticipant, the historical import and consequences of the 1984 election...
...In Brief TAKING SIDES: THE EDUCATION OF A MILITANT MIND, by Michael Harrington...
...While women are a majority (53 percent) of the population, they hold only 14 percent of state legislative seats, 4 percent of gubernatorial posts, and only 5 percent of congressional seats...
...This "exile" passage is also painful to watch...
...the depoliticization of the novel and the hidden utopianism of Disneyland -- the topics illustrate both stages in Harrington's political engagement and recurring objects of his concern...
...Mary C. Segers tion on anti-satellite weapons or Marvin Kalb asking her on "Meet the Press," "Are you strong enough to push the button...
...LOUIS, MISSOURI 63108-3395 The Other Walls: The Politics of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process [American Enterprise Institute, $17.95, $9.95 paper, 177 pp...
...Publishers Weekly i rizing tale is an examination of the .~ " ~"~florces at play within contemporary ln his latest novel, AngeisofSeptembe~, _ ~..t ~ ~societ)~ the family, the clergy, and the Andrew M, Greeley reaffirms his remarkable ~ " ~ v- ~,~ ~ ~ ~Church hallmarks of another Greeley capacities as a spellbinding writer...
...Streep, understandably, wants reliable company...
...Mark Searle Sanctification in Judaism...
...I wasn't prepared," Ferraro writes, "for the depth of the fury, the bigotry, and the sexism my candidacy would unleash...
...is now expending on the Middle East...
...in Theology or Liturgy during the Summer Session held on the beautiful campus of Notre Dame...
...Among those rules can be prohibitions of discrimination against homosexuals...
...Actually, he shows up and saves her life too predictably when a lion endangers her...
...In response, Ferraro claimed that the disputed sentence was not a reference to church teaching...
...Not the specifics of treaties or the size of the delegations, but the political conditions which allow leaders to negotiate is something he believes the U.S...
...First, women -- Catholic and non-Catholic -- could not help noting that Ferraro was being criticized for daring to hold the same position on abortion policy that the most prominent male Catholic politicians in America -- Senator Edward Kennedy, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- had held unchallenged by the hierarchy for over a decade...
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...In beauty it approaches the heights of Streep's trips across Africa...
...The pro-choice position adopted by many Catholic political leaders with respect to law and policy simply reflects this traditional analysis...
...zestful irreverence is a delight as he glee- darkness wage a bitter war for Anne, fully bashes Popes, bishops, cops, pols and Underlying the events of this mesmeprofessors...
...That, in fact, is where the film, Anteaus-like, takes its strength...
...No such restraint characterized the actions of certain bishops on the abortion issue...
...I can imagine a better director of Out of Africa (Caroll Ballard of The Black Stallion and Never Cry Wolf...
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...Saunders is closer to Friedman than Ajami...
...Of special interest to Commonweal readers is the way in which this campaign revealed what might be called the underside of American Catholicism...
...It makes you wish deeper and harder for the happiness of a film character than in quite some time...
...I believe Saunders should be read and heeded...
...The Angels of September do not give up easily In a final, climactic battle the demons and the Angels, the earth political activism...
...In this context, the Democratic party's nomination of Ferraro as the first female vicepresidential candidate represented a significant advance in the struggle for political equality...
...Notre Dame is situated in northern Indiana, within driving distance of Lake Michigan and of Chicago with its museums, shows, restaurants and shops...
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...A central theme of Governor Cuomo's lecture was that bishops may rightly define abortion as immoral for the individual Catholic, but that church doctrine does not dictate particular political strategies for converting that or other moral teachings into law...
...Plot interregnums are often awkward, but Pollack makes a virtue of necessity, providing a quick sequence of shots of her Kenyan home and Streep's voice-over describing her yearning to go back...
...Michael Cook The Mystery of God...
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...The American electorate was treated to the streetcorner spectacle of the arch.bishop of New York, in full episcopal I MARY C. SEGERS, associate professor of political science at Rutgers University, is a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School this year where she is teaching a course on the American Catholic bishops and public policy...
...Ferraro's warmth and humor are evident in the details of the campaign: her decision to keep on wearing feminine dresses instead of dress-for-success suits, her decision to shake hands with voters rather than press finger-tips, her Consider...
...In New England, eighteen bishops led by Archbishop Bernard Law of Boston issued a statement declaring abortion to be the central issue of the election...
...can help create...
...Oddly, it involves a time when Streep has to leave Africa to cure syphilis, contracted courtesy of her husband...
...the powers of darkness reach up ~ ~ " :~1 [mr tuousstorvofaw~mantarn eagerly to claun her...
...Second, no previous Catholic candidate for high national office had been treated the way Ferraro was by the American bishops...
...we're just passing through...
...So she withdrew, thus allowing Philadelphia organizers to avoid a confrontation with Krol...
...But since the Republican and Democratic party platforms were antithetically opposed on the abortion issue, the bishops' emphasis on abortion as the most important issue of the campaign was tantamount to an endorsement of the Republican ticket...
...We learn that, because she was a party activist, she was the choice of "Team A," a small group of Washington insiders -- female civil servants and congressional staffers -- who spent a good year before the election working to advance the concept of a woman as vice-president...
...Bernard Gets Assodatanarrative we catch glimpses of an astute political professional able to do what public leaders must do -- consider the consequences of laws, policies, statements, actions...
...But land, and what one can hope for it, becomes a leitmotif that ties the film together and gives it power...
...Since Aquinas, church teachers have warned against imposing legislative answers to debated questions of public morality where community opinion is genuinely and seriously divided...
...It was left to Governor Cuomo, a non-candidate in 1984, to articulate in his Notre Dame speech what Ferraro in the heat of the campaign did not have the time or leisure to explain...
...While the Mondale-Reagan contest was never really close, Ferraro's candidacy generated tremendous enthusiasm -- recall those large crowds at the rallies -- as people realized the significance of this first in American politics...
...We also learn that she opposed a threatened convention walkout by women's groups if a female candidate were not nominated...
...a woman to be a candidate...
...J. BRYAN HEHIR Correspondence (Continued from page 34) gay-baiting remains alive and well...
...But Anne has cut them out of her life...
...Robert O'Gorman Liturgy and Ministry...
...She is co-author, with James Foster, of Elusive Equality...
...Thomas McGonigle Art and Liturgy...
...Streep, who initially describes IIII I I I I I herself as merely a"mental traveler," quotes a native proverb that "the earth was made round so that we would not see too far down to the end of the road...
...There are other fine lines in the screenplay, but they axe often detachable from their dramatic setting...
...and with it he makes one section in Out of Africa unforgettable...
...I am, if n, ,~hing else, a pragmatic politician...
...She is reported brutally raped and murdered at the hands of a Latin American dictator...
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...poverty in America...
...yet the statements and actions of Archbishops O'Connor and Law suggested that the only issue prominent members of the Catholic hierarchy really cared about was abortion...
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...Deciding what is moral can and should be left to a broader culture, including bishops and generally eloquent columnist-legislators...
...role in creating the political setting for diplomacy...
...Once Ferraro was nominated, O'Connor intensified his attack...
...516) 423-0499 31 January 1986:57dent law and policy -- just as they expect public leaders to respect the right and competence of churchmen to define church teaching: this is one meaning of religious freedom and church-state separation in American politics...
...When Streep sounds too possessive of the natives who work on her farm, he reprimands her, "It's always my Kikuyu, my Africa, my farm...
...And she rightly wondered about O'Connor's political motives in raising a firestorm about her alleged misrepresentation at the height of the 1984 election campaign rather that at the time of publication in 1982...
...Were the American Catholic hierarchy fully committed to the struggle for equality and equity for women, I suspect they would have refrained from the excesses of a partisan, single-issue attack on Ferraro...
...But one never really cares about the outcome, partly because the issues are presented in a cliched fashion, and partly because Redford doesn't make his part convincing...
...Of interest also is how she paced herself through nineteen-hour days by keeping to a strict personal daily schedule "so as to avoid / burnout...
...At the outset of 1986 Saunders sees a modest but crucial U.S...
...Whether it was Ted Koppel rudely cross-examining Ferraro on "Nightline" regarding her posiI III II no male candidate faces...
...If we situate the Ferraro candidacy within the context of women's continued exclusion from American politics, we may appreciate the seriousness of the bishops' error during the 1984 campaign...
...Reading Ferraro's story, one gets a sense of how difficult it is generally to run for high public office in the United States and how particularly difficult it is -- in these times of conservative and anti-feminist backlash -- for...
...Ultimately, they discover I r ~ M~N~ that Cathy had become what she ' ~ ' ~ songht to be-an impassioned v ginand n tyr...
...Part of the argument has been that a stand against permissive abortion laws is based on genuinely pro-life suppositions and does not imply a punitive sexual morality...
...Moreover, they deliberately postponed the release of the first draft of their economics pastoral -which was implicitly critical of current administration policies -- to a week after the election so as to appear nonpartisan...
...t ~ompemng as love ltselfl has borne the terrible secret guilt of a f f ~ ' ~ J t ~ ~ t ~ |~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . crim~ r cnmmitt~ a~ a eh'rid,_a ~ q ~ ~ ~ u B...
...John Baldovin Marriage...
...Ferraro herself comes across as a capable, smart, shrewd congresswoman...
...When John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960, the Roman Catholic hierarchy was largely silent on the fact that he, who was to become the nation's first Catholic president, opposed some church policies, including aid to parochial schools and the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican...
...When he cannot reform, Streep turns to an English hunter played by Robert Redford...
...The Sadat visit to Jerusalem made the Camp David negotiations possible...
...h psychotherapist...
...The viability of democratic socialism, both here and overseas...
...COSTS THAT AREN'T UNGODLY Rock-bottom room and board on a beautiful campus located a short walk from beaches and fifty minutes from Manhattan Min~mum tuition...
...By any measure, they are grossly underrepresented in the halls of power in this country...
...Always the realist," she initially had strong doubts whether the Democrats would select a female candidate for vice-president...
...One indication of her effectiveness is the $6.1 million she amassed at fundraisers (the first time that a Democratic vice-presidential candidate ever amassed as much money as the presidential candidate...
...is a masterful storyteller...his most ha~takeno "d ~" "" " ' . intriguingnovelyet'-NelsonDeMille, na emomc aspect, ~ m = = , ~ ~ ~ ' , . - .. " . . . . . . . . threatening her sanity and perhaps...
...hiring a speech consultant to help mute that famed Queens accent and slow her speedy delivery at the podium...
...Commonweal: 54"...His best novel yet...a vivid pk ure of a good wonmn struggling to come to terms with her fairy an old- e Catholicism...
...Lawrence Hoffman Liturgy and Religious Education...
...Beginning in June 1984, Archbishop John O'Connor of New York, in company with the leadership of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, argued that Catholic politicians like Governor Cuomo of New York and Congresswoman Ferraro could not justify their stance of personally opposing abortion while accepting legalized abortion...
...she reasoned that a walkout would only undermine the Democrats' primary effort of defeating the Reagan-Bush ticket in the election...
...In the article Saunders distinguishes between diplomatic negotiations and the political process which makes diplomacy possible...
...Pollack is fond of staging battles of wit between two points of view, never quite reconciling them...
...So has Commonweal...
...Then, over Streep's own voice, Pollack floats some soft Kikuyu chants...
...Her lover;, Blacki RTdn, her parish priest...
...or George Bush's press secretary saying, "She's too bitchy," it becomes clear that a woman running for high of...
...Who are these nowadays saviors...
...The problem here is that Redford's just isn't interesting...
...Paul Bradshaw Liturgical Year...
...Roger Brooks The Letter to the Hebrews...
...No archbishop so much as uttered a peep when Kennedy said: "I do not speak for my church on public matters -- and the church does not speak for me...
...And O'Connor was not alone...
...the legacy of the New Left...
...The New England bishops did not mention Ferraro by name...
...and a young police officer...
...l ~ , . , , ~ ~a love story us powerful and For more than forty years, Anne Reilly ~lZi] ~"f~/L...
...Michael Harrington has brought together twenty-five of the many essays he has written over the last three decades...
...Redford's best line concerns not love, but land...
...John Coleman Interpersonal Ethics...
...As Ferraro states in her account of this unfortunate episode, "I couldn't believe Archbishop O'Connor was coming after me personally...
...government...
...After organizers invited Ferraro to march in Philadelphia's Columbus Day parade, John Cardinal Krol threatened to pull out all the Catholic schools and bands if Ferraro marched...
...fice will probably encounter opposition I I I II I G ERALDINE FERRARO'S memoir about the 1984 presidential campaign is disappointing in some respects but it is a pleasantly readable, informative book overall...
...Sutthe ~ngeisof ~g~- r~.~ exr ,'x ss here...
...The essays are ushered onstage with a number of brief but provocative introductions and, at one point, even with some of Harrington's own poetry...
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...Any observant Catholic woman, noticing the differential treatment accorded a female candidate by the bishops, could only conclude the worst in 1984 -- that some bishops became overtly partisan and, moreover, put on an un-Christian display of outrightly sexist behavior...
...Tying legislative questions into the questions of "the inner life, quest for perfection" calls that distinction into question...
...It will take more attention and activism than the U.S...
...Instead, because of the highly visible attacks of several prominent bishops, the Catholic church appeared to be reactionary rather than progressive, and failed to celebrate the history-making candidacy of the first woman ever to be nominated by a major party to high national office...
...It registers the ~ director's surest grasp of the dignified nostalgia of Isak Dinesen herself...
...us an evocative, complex and totally ~ .dw: .~k.~ ~ , , , - Am,~ri,.~'~ masf~r ~to,~li,'r human story of love, faith, and passlon...
...But one of Pollack's great strengths is tight film editing (was any movie ever better edited than Tootsie...
...Harold Attridge Tlie Catholic Reformation...
...Government was my profession," Ferraro states...
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...Michael and his angels-join battle "~ .t/ . . . .,..~_.,__ .r--.-..f-=., . . . . . "- -. - ,, Lamerlne ~OlIIus, seasual anti beautiful, leaves the convent for a life of with the powers of evil to save Anne and redeem her...
...Commonweal: 56regalia, attacking in partisan fashion the Democratic vice-presidential candidate while neglecting to say anyting about the positions of the Republican candidates...
...she and Redford get involved in a tug of war about freedom, which has to carry the middle of the film...
...The film sequence of marching Masai is worth many other movies this year...
...From a careful reading of this letter, it is apparent that O'Connor took an ambiguous sentence and pushed it out of context, thereby misrepresenting exactly what she said and meant...
...Three men-among them , ~ ~ Father Blackie Ryan-who knew her and ~--11 ~ loved her...
...Church/world watch I (Continued from page 40) eral major positions in the U.S...
...Contrary to Carlin, it often does take courage to be publicly supportive of gay rights . . . . Carlin is absolutely right that you can't separate legislation from its social context...
...William Vendley, Assc)ciate Dean, Seminary of the Immaculate Conception Huntington, Long Island, N.Y...
...bringing ~ ~ Y ~ ~masterwork...
...i~/t~/S of September is an..excellent blend . ~uilt that denrives this aifled and J[ of the sensual and the spiritual, the celestial ~eantiful w~nan of pence and ~-'A.~~[~W]j~Ir" :i:and the supernatural...
...John Barry Ryan Liturgy of the Hours...
...Fourth, although the bishops had issued a much publicized pastoral letter on war and peace in 1983, they said precious little about arms control, defense expenditures, and the nuclear freeze during the 1984 campaign -- even though there were clear differences between the major parties on these issues...
...Itl S I aumor o~ wora or uonor her immortal soul...
...pul)lished VIRGIN AND MARTYR She slips toward the precipice of ~ ~ ~ in hardrover...
...John Olin Christology...
...We are told that she backed John Glenn for president in the early days of the campaign, and that in 1982 she was asked to be national chairperson of the Mondale campaign (she declined...
...rather her sentence meant that, descriptively, not all Catholics agreed with or conformed to church teaching on abortion...
...The book is essentially a political autobiography written with an eye to possible future campaigns, which means that the reader expecting a complete, unvarnished account of the 1984 election will come away from Fe~aro's book unsatisfied...
...he believes stalemate in the region is not benign...
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...What also comes through in this book is Ferraro's ability as a political campaigner...
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...I refer here to the very troubling issues raised by some Catholic bishops' openly partisan attacks on Ferraro during the campaign...
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...A set of rules for ensuring minimum social order" is a fine ambition for lawmakers...
...d,~.,,n,~o,,'~.~.~ damnahon...
...Third, the NCCB specifically cautioned against a single-issue approach in the election...
...Two of the essays originally appeared in Commonweal...
...Negative comments are not intended to detract from the merits of this account, however...
...In the end, bishops should respect the judgment and competence of public officeholders as to pruEARN A MASTERS IN THEOLOGY DURING SUMMER VACATION...
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