Correspondence
Correspondence A different article Boston, Mass. To the Editors: Eileen Reilly's "stunned reaction" [Correspondence, December 20] to the absence of "any mention of women, changing images of...
...Serials Data program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...In a word, my silence on these issues comments, not on their (undeniable) importance, but on the limits of Vatican II...
...Fortunately, the silence of these years is giving way to a determination to rid the world of abortion...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...The women who come to New York Works want to break the syndrome of dependency for themselves and their families, but because of lack of training, self-confidence, or knowledge of where to begin, they need a support system to prepare them in needed skills, to ensure that vital concerns such as child I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY RUBEM ALVES A beautiful evocation of the central Christian mystery by one of the Third World's most prominent theologians...
...Receive ecclesiastical permission of Bishop/Reliclious...
...Sll}kt.iit)l liI)r, ir,, and I'L'%r t'S and tlII),III ( OIltt'xI +I11 tlt\ tttIl i2, i'll\ It t)tlltlt'IIt I~ ",t't' .tntl dis{ ,)vct the' t'+ olttti<m of inittv.,ti \ it,,t'll...
...He hints at this problem as he calls for an ecumenical convocation that expresses, not simply for Rome but also recognizable to the other churches, the "foundational apostolic faith...
...68r three times...
...Supenor...
...For brochure contact: Thomas O'Neill, Institute of Gerontology, College Commonweal: 190...
...One measure of that success was that, of the women who were placed in full-time jobs, 80 percent re~k HER STORY Women in Christian Tradition BARBARA J. MacHAFFIE "...a fast-paced, readable introduction to the status of women ~n Christian h~story from B~ble times to the present, with an emphasis on the American scene...
...monthly in advance for more than three times...
...I Classified RATES: 75r a word, one time...
...Each of us can make a difference...
...There can be no doubt that it was a remarkable instance of courageous behavior by individuals who have decided to abandon no longer the most helpless in our society9 Perhaps Ms...
...m I l U l,llEd~U . . . . . . . . I~U~l nmarl Exciting Fulfilling .,'~ :',, . . . . ,,, ,, , .,,,~,, , ,~,,,,, ,,..~,~,, ~l,~,,;~,=,~,,,,'~,,~;~.~l,~r~,',~,,,,,,'Vr~,' AI Ch pl i r Force a a ncy ' ~ ~'~;'~.~.~A~.~zL' .,~ ~ , ~ , ,~, Relevant Necessary ,~-, , ,, ,, r ~ . o. = h , c ; , ~ . ' r c ,.,,~ . ",.,~;'rc't . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I, io...
...They are those from whom Kerewin, Joe, and Simon, have been ultimately alienated, cut off from divine roots...
...A few days after the election [the bishops] issued a draft pastoral on the U.S...
...To many people, there can be no greater evil in the world today than the deliberate slaughter of millions of unborn children in the name of women's rights9 It has taken some years for Christians, among others, to appreciate the enormity of the evil they have allowed to fester and grow...
...to do general updating m thc./,<~q .m/ I. ,.a~: h ..t a tl.'.lo~: :d mctlwd.l.o' I. help me m m~ l:J.~c m:~:,ma...
...I had some trouble with John Deschnet's use of the term "apostolic faith," because he seemed at times to assume a unity of definition that, I fear, does not yet exist among us...
...Rubem Alvas offers a provocative collection of prayers, meditations and questions which explore the themes of longing and life...
...As my first paragraph makes clear, my topic is the impact of Vatican H on American spirituality...
...Illustrations: Cover & pp...
...Surely also the inculturation issue within Black Protestantism is instructive as Roman Cathol-, icism faces it also in Africa...
...E nga iwi o nga iwi...
...They form a quaternity now, rooted in the Earth of kinship, and representing the future of a nation-people, part Maori, part Pakeha...
...Kerewin, after a self-diagnosis of the swelling in her belly, packs her bag with opiates and hallucinogens and goes away to die...
...64r six times...
...I would like to bring to your attention a new effort in New York State which is beginning now in New York City and will expand to Westchester County by April...
...To the Editors: As a not-unbiased reader, I was deeply grateful for your editorial, "'Bread at the Bone" [January 31...
...9 . . His focus on Rome...
...It is encouraging that the synod affirmed the "basic communities," if they truly live in unity with the Roman Catholic church, as a true expression of communion and a means for an even more profound and hopeful communion...
...the taxpayers' tax burden will be reduced as more workers return to the work force from public subsidy...
...Professor John Deschner ["What to Do with a Convergence," January 31] similarly assesses the Roman Catholic church9 He challenges it to significant ecumenical leadership because of its apostolicity, catholicity, and unity...
...At that rate the first year's contribution alone for the new CSF means that 250,000 kids will live rather than die...
...stirred my own thinking...
...Commonweal: 162her will, becomes involved...
...p. 176, mccurso...
...by telling us about h~s desires...
...As a Presbyterian Protestant "outsider" to that "community of the faithful," I find the danger, even in this carefully written synod report, more likely to lean toward the "immobile closing" than to "easy accommodation...
...Managing Editor Ecumenical Trends Productive 8z real New York, N.Y...
...they are the secret inner power drawn from one's ancient roots in the Earth of origin and of redemption...
...To the Editors: John Deschner's thoughtful response ["What to Do with a Convergence," January 31] to the recent synod and his question -- what kind of leadership should we expect from Rome concerning the church's oneness in relation to the world, to the Gospel, and to the divided churches...
...It combines the selfmotivation of workers with the real needs of business...
...and the individual worker becomes independent and productive through access to a real job in private industry...
...but as he ties bleeding in the sand (with Simon by his side crying for him), Kerewin is stricken with a spasm of abdominal pain which will become her nemesis and lead her as a wilting, guilty follower toward the grave...
...I think this needs a sermon at least as often as abortion...
...To the Editors: At an international meeting in Assisi last October, I heard youth express disaffection for the institutional church because, they repeatedly said, the church represents the past...
...less than 42 years of age at the time of appointment...
...The Supported Work model', as tested in various cities across the country from 1975 to 1980, proved that "in the case of welfare mothers.., the experiment was a resounding success," as reported in the New York Times...
...Your editorial mentioned Bread for the World's efforts in getting Congress to establish a Child Survival Fund two years ago, with a first-year appropriation of $25 million -- increased last year to $37.5 million...
...Everything seems hopeless, but -ta-ra...
...Joe is grateful...
...He says, "Chnstians discovered that this man, Jesus of Nazareth, is God's answer to the question, 'Who are you?' And he answers us...
...tlw need,, <.i luini,,tt~ is the }htIlIllAI k t>[ ( i , t l h t ) h ( lheoh~gt~ ,d L'III()II, ()IIC <)1 lilt" ]~tl'U,t'SI R~>tiian (:ath,di( ~r h~+(,l', ~)I thcoh>gy m the [ 'nitcd Stalt's, wc .uc the thc~,h)~..tl l~<,mt" t<, ~,\'t'r thirt'+ rt'ligi~>u.,, ( <)IllllltllllliC'-, ()f lilCII ~ll/d Wf)ltlCII ,IS wctl ,t+ t,) I l l , I l l \ htv v,<mwn and i~it'ii, l,,,~ atcd ill tilt" l Ivdc l',uk att'a o'I ~+ il~i~ ,Ig...
...The bottom line for a program such as the one New York offers is that it must make business sense as well as social sense...
...government reduces its costs for dependency programs...
...But I see no hope with this pope, or for the ERA, with this president9 BOB TWlTCHELL Roman heel New York, N.Y...
...ie~ inlu~ roll Global Ministry Parish Oriented Global Vision which reported candidly Bread for the World's financial hardships and cited a few of our successes...
...The synod report warns against an "easy accommodation" and an "immobile closing in upon itself of the community of the faithful...
...is the weak point of his presentation...
...they are temporarily reunited in friendship...
...The concept is based on the same Supported Work model as the Massachusetts "ET" program in which the key component is that the program is a voluntary one...
...I join him, however, in calling the Roman Catholic church to demonstrate ecumenically its affirmed "missionary openness for the integral salvation of the world...
...The Bone People belong to the landscape, to the life force (maoriora) of the Earth, to the culture (Maoritonga) and kinship of a people...
...48 pages of full color Illustrations with excerpts from apocryphal gospels and Mary legend traditions, cloth $19.95 care are addressed, and to open doors in industry...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...Their power of binding and healing and uniting will pass to the new and future Bone People: Kerewin, Joe, Simon, the magic trinity (the author's word), reunited and healed by a mysterious fourth...
...A helping hctnd Washington, D.C...
...They are the old ones, the relatives, the ancestors who Aeneas-like sailed their gods to New Zealand in the great outriggers long before the coming of the Pakeha (white settlers...
...That is a task large enough to invite partnership within the church universal...
...Knowing the ending spoils nothing...
...Differences within Roman Catholicism could so preoccupy it that the larger ecumenism must wait for a "convergence within...
...ARTHUR SIMON Executive Director Bread for the World Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...Aging Religious" Our Responsibility Workshop: June 22-27, 1986...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...v:e:./X=, ; ,, ,..e I:, A c itizer., o...
...B.th the h~h qlmhl~" .] tem'hm~ .ml P.' /h'~d,d:/y ,,/lh+" :. ademu 1. o~am e..l,lcd mc t. realize h.tt~ .~.a/, " Rc.,l><.l~d~ng ~ Ic.uivt'l~ t...
...Rcli~I~+tts lilt'It '.ttI<l w<)mt'n as x+cIl a+ i.r rc.t~,iug...
...THADDEUS HORGAN, S.A...
...KATHLEEN W MURNION Vice-President, Marketing New York Works, Inc...
...BERNARD F. SWAIN Reconsidering 1984 Markham, Ontario To the Editors: The review of Ferraro: My Story by Mary C. Segers ["Running Difficulties," January 31] was a disappointment to any who might have hoped for a more rigorous analysis of that troubled campaign...
...Handy paper $9.95 MARY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT RAYMOND E. BROWN, KARL P. DONFRIED, JOSEPH A. FITZMYER, S.J, and JOHN REUMANN, editors "A remarkable achievement .. the study has potential to bring about a greater clarity and convergence of mind between 28 March 1986:189mained in those positions for at least a year, an astoundingly high retention level...
...Ninth Annual Workshop for those working in programs for the aging in religious communities...
...Classified payable with order...
...ta-ral -- out come the Bone People from the god-hoisting tackle...
...God is love" Powerful Illustrations by the Italian artlat, Guldo Razzl, accompany the text...
...When an author has as much promise as Keri Hulme, a first edition of a first novel kept in mint condition can be a good investment...
...The work provides a good survey of much new ground that has been uncovered by recent research, and concludes with useful suggestions for further reading...
...For the moment, the pain passes...
...312 ) 324 -8( )()[I...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 Madison Ave., NYC 10016...
...Joe forgives her the beating...
...Robert 7...
...Why not buy two copies...
...In writing, I deliberately excluded consideration of developments from other sources (e.g...
...By combining worker and business needs, business gets highly motivated, loyal workers...
...the only issue prominent members of the Catholic hierarchy really cared about," Segers writes, "was abortion 9 She notes that the bishops said little about their pastoral on war and peace...
...A bill toward that end has been introduced in both the House ~nd the Senate under the title "The Universal Child Immunization Act...
...it clings to the past, and only has past solutions to current issues...
...When she catches him in the act, HA// -- she cuts him down with martially trained hands and feet...
...Now we are trying to get the CSF expanded as part of a global immunization campaign...
...The renewal of the papacy is essential to any future within the ecumenical movement, and is absolutely basic to the Roman Catholic communion's future9 (REV...
...New York State has granted a performance-based contract to New York Works, Inc., a private corporation, to train and place women receiving public assistance in entry-level jobs in major companies...
...The papacy has to be challenged to be ecumenical within the Roman Catholic worldwide communion...
...The program also addresses the needs of business to fill entry-level positions that are often plagued with low productivity and high turnover rates...
...To the Editors: Eileen Reilly's "stunned reaction" [Correspondence, December 20] to the absence of "any mention of women, changing images of God," etc., in my article on spirituality since Vatican 9 II ["Spirituality in Ferment," October 4] is understandable, and calls for explanation: The title is the editors', not mine, and may have led some readers to expect a different article...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road...
...That is why I welcome John Deschner's Methodist challenge to Roman Catholicism to take the lead in further ecumenical creativity beyond convergence dialogues9 Diversity within Roman Catholicism must seem much more profound to those within it than to those outside9 This is true of the National Council of Churches of Christ, U.S.A., as well...
...That's five children for every Bread for the World member...
...the United States of Amenca...
...Believable gods they are, though, as believable to us, probably, as the gods that came to the C TI IE( )I / )( ;I( ] \I . UNI( )N "'1 + amc I. (.'TI ' /.~ t...
...James P. Grant, director of UNICEF, says that for every hundred dollars spent on basic nutrition and health needs such as those specified in the CSF, at least one child's life is saved...
...Geraldine Ferraro and other Catholic politicians may one day thank Archbishop John O'Connor for opening their eyes to the requirements of the faith they profess to follow...
...But the child's behavior arouses even Kerewin's wrath, and this time Joe's beating sends the boy to the hospital with severe and perinanent injuries...
...Keri Hulme begins this timeless novel with the End, and ends it with the Beginning...
...liberation spirituality, feminist spirituality)9 My own judgment -- which saddens me, and with which others may not agree -- is that the council (itself an exercise in patriarchy) deserves littledirect credit for the movements Reilly cites...
...Surely the experience of the Protestant churches with women in ministerial roles needs to be studied with close attention to what the Holy Spirit might be saying through them to Catholicism and Orthodoxy...
...In between is the dance, in which all of humanity is revealed in three of the dancers, and the universal Earth in a particular island on which they dance...
...a~r l'hc~)h,gIc.d S~ ho<,Is...
...PEGGY L. SHRIVER Assistant General Secretary National Council of the Churches of Christ A 9 for partnership New York, N.Y...
...170, 179, 182, Paul Valerry, West Germany...
...PATRICK REDMOND The other sermon Indianapolis, Ind...
...It was that determination that led to the pronouncements against abortion and its advocates by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the 1984 presidential campaign...
...d,,<> ~+I h't t oll.d)<)r:~t iv~ + rt'l.~tl<)n,,hIlJ', with the .\~)~ i.tti<>n <>f (ill...
...numl-~et-'+ t)I Ia'+ ntcn ,tti~i wt>mcn f]tld t)tlI ate Oml)li.',ht'd I:tc tilt...
...Arrested, Joe loses custody and goes to jail...
...These "gods" may be seen as the inner graces of the characters themselves, but these graces transcend any human individual...
...One reason this would be so unfortunate is that many of us Christians outside Commonweal: 188the Roman Catholic communion feel that we have a role to play in a convergence that includes us all...
...Ann Arbor, MI 48106 and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
...Deglees Offered: 9 \l.t',tt't ~t 1 hc~.hh~u al ~.tt.luc', 9 X,l,tstcl ~1 AII'~Ill I hUII]ll~X Specializations: 9 \~,ud,~ndk%,~t~h~ t, 9 \X~,tht \l~m Continuing Education Programs: 9 Mallet ~t 1 hc<dogttal Stt, hc~ 9 (:c) tzt, ,to m P,~u,t ,d Studlc~ 9 t~zbl, al %t>Jlltu,dit~ 9 l ~ l , . ' l Stud', 9 lIlth~,tualh l)cslgned Sat>t)atl~al Oual u't I~) 1"~, t~,,t c Jtlt<,l i l l A t , , l , ~all or ~t ilc: ,Xdmi~si~>tls ()trice, (i,uh~,hc 1 hc<>logic,d t'mon, 54t)1 Sintth (kn nell, (;hicago, lilt i,~s ~i~ t(il ,'3- 56t.l...
...economy which also deserves many sermons . . . . Mary Segers's main point was that the Catholic hierarchy was sexist, and I am sympathetic...
...Although private assistance will continue to play an indispensable and increasingly important role regarding both domestic and global hunger, public policies -- our nation's public policies -- will do even more to determine whether people eat or suffer [starvation] and die...
...She learns of the beatings and is sickened...
...Copyright (~) 1986 Commonweal Foundation...
...paper $4.95 MARY JAROSLAV PELIKAN, DAVID FLUSSER and JUSTIN LANG In this illuminating and appreciative book, a Protestant, a Jew and a Catholic reveal the many ways Mary is perceived in the Judaic-Christian world--focal point for theological discussion, symbol for those who suffer and endure, wife and mother through whom flow love and devotion...
...We in the NCCC sometimes feel" (Continued on page 188) Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...ca ~on...
...RAI)t'AIE S ( I I I ( ) ( ) I . ~)1: .MINIS 1 RY rescue in Greek theater were to the audiences of that day...
...p. 172, Mitro, Ta Nea, Greece...
...i~ Call Father Eugene Gasparowc collect at 202-767-1485...
...O the bones of the people, O the people of the bones...
...My appraisal: A-plus...
...To the Editors: Your recent editorial "Let Workfare Be Workfair" [January 17] offered an excellent overview of the pros and cons of various permutations of the workfare concept...
...Correspondence I (Continued from 162) dizzy with the height of our differences (from Quaker to Greek Orthodox), but many an observer has the NCCC typecast as monolithic and predictable...
...To the Editors: Mary Segers's indictment of the Catholic hierarchy in her review ["Running Difficulties," January 31] of Geraldine Ferraro's book was well done and long overdue...
Vol. 113 • March 1986 • No. 6
