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CORRESPONDENCE Which way Garvey? Cobden, 111. To the Editors: As often happens, John Garvey's column this time "Christianity and Morality" [November 21 ] moved me to think about matters...
...Proud of it, led by it, formed by it much of that time...
...And whose side should the Christian left be on...
...And that bureaucratic treatises on peace and economics, resting solidly on the sand of social "science," may represent a refusal to accept the Gospel, the Way of Jesus...
...Write: Director, Israel Programs, Catholic Theological Union, 5401 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 60615...
...I have great difficulty understanding how one who professes to believe in Jesus can, at the same time, attempt to use (sicl) him for "righteous" social and political causes...
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...The point of that story is no less valid in 1987 than it was in 1492, in 1066, or on the day of the telling...
...Moreover, Borge wields great power and his influence in the directorate is growing...
...Cort concludes that he is hopeful that the newly appointed papal nuncio will play a positive and moderating role between the Sandinistas and the hierarchical church...
...Vocation certain...
...LEE HOINACKI ridiculous to have the consummate, the ultimate, the perfect Person of all persons represented by a clever machine, all in the interest of depicting His "impassibility" and/or "the sense of the presence of the 'unchanging' " (though I don't think those two ideas are exactly synonymous...
...One of these is that even "the committed, active Catholic probably harbors considerable doubt about the utility of anything approaching specific direction from the clergy on matters of economic policy...
...James DiG/acomo: Youth and the Church...
...Blind obedience...
...Not only ironic, but perhaps indicative of serious flaws in Messiaen's understanding of God, and reality in general...
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...Again what a pity for Mr...
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...It crops up in almost every piece, from correspondence to review...
...Times (which also carried a full-page summary of the pastoral and major stories on other days...
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...He is a man worth watching...
...Our holiness is not in our jobs, but in ourselves...
...To the Editors: The pessimistic premise of "After the pastoral" by R. Bruce Douglass and William J. Gould, Jr...
...Such a system is more than a version of Richard Daley's southside Chicago precinct-based fiefdom, and it has not evolved simply due to the illegal and cruel interference by Reagan and the contras...
...Did not Mr...
...Did not Mr...
...Our difficulties in articulating this reality, in presenting a formal explanation, should not blind us to what is happening...
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...ROBERT DYLAK Nicaragua & the left New York, N.Y...
...Douglass and Gould contend further that the "real reason this pastoral has had such a difficult time getting a serious hearing is that it challenges by its very nature" various assumptions about the U.S...
...Cort to subscribe so quickly to anything that might bring a modicum of peace...
...Biblical Institute 22nd Biblical Institute, Trinity College, Burlington, VT 05401, June 21-26, 1987...
...Building better reactors is no more likely to make one holy than washing shirts...
...sally Campbell The oshcan school West Point, Nebr...
...He may end up on top, aided by Reagan's stupid, approach...
...p. 89, Bas, p. 96, Ross, Rothco...
...To the Editors: Half way through David B. Noble's piece on Messiaen ["Intoning Reverence," December 5], it struck me as funny that the composer chose to represent God with a "French electronic keyboard," the ondes...
...More likely, it is the dignity of the sweeper, the depth of faith, and a clear concern for others that actualizes the words of Christianity...
...Priesthood DESIRE PRIESTHOOD...
...file clerks and janitors generally work to live...
...Cort would actually dwell upon the differences between the crowded, enthusiastic "revolutionary" Mass and the staid, sparsely attended "bourgeois" Mass, as if that's the criterion for evaluating the life of peoples and their future...
...December 5] is flawed, undermining their basic argument...
...but the reality is already being lived by many people of many ' 'classes'' and occupations...
...In this world of religious privatization and linguistic secularization, it is difficult to see how worldly occupations can even be discussed as religious vocations, let alone 92: Commonweal exist as such in actual fact...
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...1 doubt that Michael Williams or George Shuster would recognize themselves in your pages, as they surely would in The New Oxford Review, or, for that matter, The New Republic...
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...After a brief flurry of comment in 1984 most of which was negative the letter has been reduced to a minor story on the religion pages of major publications...
...rather, the Sandinista leader (a woman) gave a rather pedantic, even insulting indoctrination to the peasants of the barrio in Leon...
...Even poor old Olivier Messiaen is entrapped for not sticking to his music ["Intoning Reverence," December 5...
...Without doing any research, I can recall that in the two weeks after the bishops' pastoral was approved, the following appeared in "major publications": editorials in the N.Y...
...and a syndicated column by Msgr...
...680, three times...
...Cort discover that these In Abigail McCarthy's column "Readers & Writers" [January 16], a printer's error mistakenly called the Kentucky Book Fair the Kennedy Book Fair...
...a one-hour TV special about the pastoral, "God and Money," which ran on the Public Broadcasting System's affiliates across the nation in November...
...The first of the author's "three great obstacles" to on-the-job holiness is a class factor relating to work...
...Discussion and development of theology are important...
...The "witness" is not the work...
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...Too bad...
...He says what needs to be said, and for this I am grateful...
...Tomas Borge, the interior minister (sic police) is an avowed supporter of his mentor Fidel Castro...
...p. 68, Renault, Sacramento Bee: p. 74, ©Punch...
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...FRANCIS SCHMITT ticeforAll, has not "really succeeded in stimulating much debate in the public realm...
...640, six times...
...To the Editors: It was disappointing to read David R. Carlin, Jr.'s observations on "Vocations to the Laity" [October 10...
...Our vocation "in actual fact" is in the world...
...Yet, among other things, the nuncio said upon his arrival that "good Christians" obey the laws of their country...
...Carlin skates over the thin ice separating voluntary victimhood and a spirit of sacrifice...
...His generalizations (Comte and Engels, for instance) added little to my understanding of the Chicago conference and the American lay experience...
...But I feel that Garvey makes the task more difficult through his choice of examples...
...When Jesus told the young man how to fulfill that desire, the young man went away saddened...
...Our Catholic press often reflects the Gospel values being lived in our time by those extraordinary, ordinary-seeming people who are the life blood of the Mystical Body of church . . . I am reminded of the haunting Gospel story of the young man (probably he had a good job) who came to Christ and said he wanted to "do more...
...Annoying because his report was so predictable and reflects an inability or unwillingness on the part of so many of the so-called Christian left to probe what is going on in Nicaragua...
...To the Editors: As often happens, John Garvey's column this time "Christianity and Morality" [November 21 ] moved me to think about matters still rather unclear in my mind...
...Vocations ORATORIAN LIFE: A new Oratorian community is forming in the diocese of Brooklyn with an emphasis on stability within a small community dedicated to the Liturgical, Spiritual, and Intellectual life...
...And while it sounds pietistic, a well-swept floorgiven the proper motivation may be a path to holiness...
...75 and 78, Mitro, Te Nea...
...it is "working...
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...It may well work musically, but theologically it seems Flawed & unexamined Chicago, 111...
...What I miss is precisely the old Commonweal stance of being uncommon, of leading...
...Where have they been for the last two months...
...What a pity...
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...For sure the Sandinistas will not be a threat to the world, but they may be a threat to the Nicaraguan people if Mr...
...If we have trouble finding the apt experience in the lives of those around us, then perhaps this is a sign that we must seek more diligently to be an exemplary experience/or others...
...I'm sure it sounds great...
...Illustrations: Cover and p. 70, Paul Valerry...
...Cort's report is his favorable use of the expression "Christian ideology...
...I am surprised that Mr...
...The exchange between people in the marketplace is important...
...I did when I was there two years ago...
...66: Commonweal CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 66) ways than one, is scarcely examined by them...
...Haven't we in the twentieth century seen enough of "obedience," enough "nationalism," enough "ideology...
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...To the Editors: I take no particular pleasure in letting my Commonweal renewal notice drop in the ash-can, for I have been a part of the magazine's readership for something over fifty years...
...It is precisely here, inter-acting with other people who share a common purpose, that we (the laity) are called to bring Christ...
...Doesn't that have a disturbing ring...
...This fascinating observation, with which 1 agree in more (Continued on page 92) God's instrument Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y...
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...To understand and live the teaching of Jesus, we must face the specific situation in which we find ourselves, citizens of this society...
...Is there no consideration of "justice" in the "Christian attitudes" he would have us bring to our jobs...
...economy...
...Philip Neri and Cardinal Newman contact: Vocation Director, Brooklyn Oratory, P.O...
...Borge and his crowd finally win out...
...Of its nature Christian faith cannot be ideological how dare we, how foolishly do we, restrict God, his Spirit...
...But never mind...
...I agree that we must try to avoid a Christian politics...
...Write: Sister Miriam Ward...
...Janitors and file clerks can and do bring that presence, reminding corporate executives (I hope) that a human being's intrinsic value is not related to the size of one's desk or paycheck...
...What I no longer care to abide is its nearly paranoid following of the accepted AP wisdom on church issues: the Vatican, the gays, an inverted feminism, Donahue-theologians and authoritarians...
...Thinking about such questions is not easy...
...It has been planned and long in coming...
...To the Editors: I have just written my two senators (Moynihan and D'Amato) asking them to vote to rescind the remaining $40 million for the contras...
...Our examples, to be instructive, must come from here...
...All laws, any laws, any time...
...same peasants need ration cards, and that in order to have a card one must be a true-blue Sandinista...
...His closing remarks help us appreciate the author's dilemma...
...But how far does Garvey's argument go...
...Several studies (on computer cottage industries) have shown that many people have a need to come together to experience a "sense of work...
...p. 77 © Parolini...
...Times and the Chicago Tribune...
...They write that the U.S...
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...It was hardly democracy in action...
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...May we also say that a Christian social doctrine is a kind of oxymoron inadmissible for one who believes...
...This seems an important distinction...
...That having been noted, I found John Cort's "Raised Voices in Nicaragua" [November 21] annoying and disturbing...
...George G. Higgins referring to various editorials...
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...Pope John Paul II clearly made this point in an early encyclical...
...Adios, old friend...
...Cort attend a local CSD meeting (Committee for the Sandinista Defense...
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...Engineers and college professors may live to work...
...Dostoevsky in his Grand Inquisitor passage confronts nobly and directly what is really at stake in such situations...
...And what of the party control of the television (all media for that matter...
...In addition to being elitist, the statement ignores certain realities, introduces a theory without supporting data, and (to my mind) begs the question...
...An uncomfortable thought...
...And while the very idea of "holiness" may make many of us uncomfortable given present lifestyles and values it is dishonest to believe we are called to less...
...frontpage articles in the Chicago Sun-Times, AFL-CIO News and the N.Y...
...Really...
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