Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE All in 'la famiglia' Budoia, Italy To the Editors: As an American living abroad in Italy, your selection of arguments for the editorial "The Family Way" (Feb. 13] belies that...
...it is the premise of my book...
...I hope he is also correct in judging that "the liberation theologians have largely abandoned the crude Marxist rhetoric of the 1970s...
...Maternity leave is generous (true...
...7) makes clear, frames my whole book...
...To the Editors: Paul Sigmund in his book review [March 27] was kind to call Will It Liberate...
...To the Editors: Thank you Michael Gallagher [Jan...
...All their limited wisdom is wiped out with the acceptance of nuclear deterrence policy as morally acceptable...
...Do I have reason to feel very confused...
...I believe legislation should be focused on keeping 'Jamiglia nostra" together rather than supporting apartness as your statistics would indicate: shared jobs (Friuli railroad-crossing custodians), family work (Tuscan women driving tractors), children helping (bikini-clad teens pitching hay), reversal of roles (male waitresses...
...Maybe our European neighbors can teach us about how to' 'reorder our priorities.'' WILLIAM R. ROSSEY Abandoning rhetoric Washington, D.C...
...My own judgment in the book was: "Finally, I should add that over the past fifteen years, many liberation theologians have been progressively modifying their initial infatuation with Marxist analysis, in response both to real experiences and to public criticism...
...THE EDITORS 306...
...I write this letter from an American prison because I do not find nuclear deterrence at all morally acceptable...
...important," and no doubt correct to call it "flawed...
...Let us hope that Professor Sigmund and I are correct in trusting the support liberation theologians have begun to extend to democracy...
...As I watched Giovanni, my pensioned neighbor, building his home to the specifications of his son and daughterin-law, I realized that "family wage" here is for "cosa nostra," not a singleparent way-station...
...but here, rather than trust an illusion, home industries (the Napoli glove factories) are winked at by the carabinieri...
...16] for expressing the truth that the emperor has no clothes, namely that with all their public huffing and puffing the American Catholic bishops' pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace," was a fiasco...
...MICHAEL NOVAK The author replies: To the Editors: Michael Novak is correct that I failed to note the appendix chapter concerning Hugo Assmann's discussion of democracy (which was added after the draft version that he kindly gave me...
...He says I say "nothing" about the central importance the liberation theologians are lately giving to democracy or about the paper given by Hugo Assmann at my invitation in 1985...
...does not even mention the basic ecclesial communities that are now the central focus of liberation theology, and much more important than the outmoded Marxism that Novak attacks so vigorously and effectively...
...But, in fact, the new concordance on the value of democracy, as the introduction (p...
...PAUL E. sigmund Pastoral fiascoes Sandstone, Minn...
...As a member of the Plowshares group, the Silo Pruning Hooks, I took it on myself to help disarm a nuclear bomb targeted at other human beings in my name...
...An irony of our present official morality is that it is not all right for a homosexual to exist in a situation beyond his control, suffering from an "objective disorder," but it is morally acceptable for the U.S...
...The full sentence reads: "Perhaps if our latter-day Thomists were so courageous as he in their critique of the contemporary heirs of Siger of Brabant...
...13] belies that title...
...Nothing is ever secure in life, including jobs...
...He did misstate one fact, though...
...PAUL KABAT, OMI Correction: In Fr...
...Robert Imbelli's "Letter to the Editor" (May 8), a printer's error deleted an essential phrase which our proof readers failed to detect...
...A certain fluidity is manifest, and public argument clearly plays a role in advancing the discussion...
...The incomplete sentence from the final paragraph should have included both latter-day Thomists and Bonaventurians...
...Our asilos (pre-schools) are state-supported, most often run by nuns, but still expect parents to pitch in and help...
...It is still true, however, that Will It Liberate...
...to stockpile 30,000 nuclear warheads to kill many millions of people...
...and our latter-day Bonaventurians boldly denounced the dishonesty of the reactionaries, the fragile via media might yet prevail.'' Our apologies...
...Has our religious leadership sold out to an animal called "consequentialism...
...And there are more than two pages on Assmann's presentation...
...In my prison bunk, I sleep well knowing I have done my best to live and to speak as Jesus Christ...
...but equally helpful is universal medical coverage...
Vol. 114 • May 1987 • No. 10
