Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Thanks & no thanks New York, N.Y. To the Editors: Some praise and a complaint: Thank you for the discussion of the morality of a policy of deterrence. I was particularly...
...MARIAN BURKHART Dancing in circles Philadelphia, Pa...
...Most Catholic colleges have also strengthened student chaplaincies in recent decades...
...The complaint: Andrew Greeley in his role as sociologist has said pertinent and useful things about Catholicism in America, and he might be worth listening to on theology in general, but his notions of sexual satisfaction — both male and female, I dare say — come, as do his fictional techniques and his fictional style, from bestselling tripe...
...Let us hope that the bishops gathered in synod attend to the lived experiences of lay people like Rosemarie Brickley...
...For the one group, the Spirit stopped acting between the New Testament and the Reformation...
...The Newman Movement began with the very purpose that Maura Moynihan laments: to enliven Catholic students with the church's rich deposit of faith, culture, and literature...
...To the Editors: Referring to what I imagine were her days at Harvard, Maura Moynihan writes ["Out of India: Karma & Christ," August 14], "We Catholics on the block never had anything like Hillel House...
...To the Editors: Although she would probably resist the description, Rosemarie Brickley ["God Isn't Finished with Me Yet," July 17] clearly demonstrates one of the most exciting and promising developments in today's church, the spiritual awakening and maturation of the "ordinary" lay person, a development which has received scant attention in the relatively fruitless debates about the "proper" roles of clergy and laity...
...As director of Georgetown University's Theological Certificate Program, I continually stand in awe at what God is doing for and with the people with whom I have the privilege of working...
...Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world...
...The whole subject may be enjoying far more importance than it deserves only because of what we are making of it...
...And the good archbishop's letter reads as if it had been written in the nineteenth century...
...With clever wit and insight, Brickley has dramatized the centrality of one's relationship to God and the tension inherent in trying to live out the implications of that relationship in the concrete decisions and circumstances of daily life and work...
...RON SHEGDA 639...
...Most importantly, she has discovered her own unique way of discerning "the ways in which God chooses to act in and through the human...
...That is why Cardinal John Henry Newman remains so fitting a patron...
...Thank you for recognizing out loud that Reagan deserves impeachment...
...These centers, which predate the Hillel Foundation by forty years, exist on nearly 400 campuses today...
...THE REVEREND MICHAEL R. BECKER I stand in awe Washington, D.C...
...Newman's writing in The Idea of a University still has much to say today — notably on the university's purpose in molding the student: "If then a practical end must be assigned to a university course, I say it is that of training good members of society...
...One can only hope that in the face of this issue, and many others as well, the Holy Spirit will be given half a chance to speak, and above all, to be heard...
...Moreover, he was someone deeply immersed in the issues of his century...
...11] sent in reply to Richard McBrien's article ["Homosexuality & the Priesthood," June 19...
...All churches are going to have to face this question honestly and rationally with a minimum of emotional gut reaction, for it will not simply go away...
...As it is, gay clergy are being forced to lead double lives, which is, in the long run, extremely destructive behavior...
...There appears to be a shared fundamentalism between Protestants and Catholics wjien it comes to the possibility of ongoing revelation by the Holy Spirit...
...He stood for the thinking Catholic, the believing thinker...
...In fact, Catholics at (Continued on page 639) 610 (Continued from page 610) American secular colleges can lay claim to a substantial bulwark of faith and identity — the Newman Center...
...We might not have suffered Irangate — or even Reagan — had the Watergate caper come to its logical conclusion: the impeachment of Nixon...
...To the Editors: I know of no other subject which causes such an irrational and heated response as homosexuality, unless it is the subject of giving money to the church...
...ANTHONY T. MOORE Newman & Hillel Philadelphia, Pa...
...Thank you for the articles on Bork in the September 11 issue, articles generating more light than heat on both sides of the issue...
...it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life...
...I was particularly struck by the succinctness of Nicholas Rosa's letter in September 25 issue...
...And as an Anglican, I probably ought not to be talking at all in a Roman Catholic publication, and wouldn't if it were not for the fact that my own church exhibits an equal amount of ambiguity and ecclesiastical dancing in circles when it comes to homosexuality and the priesthood...
...Rosemarie Brickley is a perfect example of these people, spiritually alive and facing up to the challenges and difficulties of being the Lord's active presence in today's world...
...I have a priest friend who, contrary to common opinion about never mentioning religion, politics, sex or money, says that as far as he is concerned, these are the only four things worth talking about...
...This seems to be amply demonstrated in the letters [Sept...
...He obviously takes his novels quite seriously, but need Commonweal nourish his illusions by devoting so large a hunk of its single August issue to refuting him...
...A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end...
...for the other, along about the fourth-century...
Vol. 114 • November 1987 • No. 19
