Correspondence
DOLLEN, REV. MSGR. CHARLES J. & PETERSON, DANIEL R. & SEYMOUR, RAYMOND J. & O'MALLEY, THOMAS F.
CORRESPONDENCE Cunningham's choice Poway, Calif. To the Editors: The religious booknotes by Lawrence S. Cunningham are uniformly superb. His choice of books and depth of perception are always...
...To the Editors: I wish to compliment Rev...
...In both of these examples one might detect a lack of confidence in the faith of the Cristifideles...
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...Religion or should I say spirituality is really where the meeting is taking place...
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...some was due to feeling more comfortable in the open, active, Afro-American community...
...That same faith, which the church has always presumed, is subordinated to the understanding that they seek...
...we are using the language of Aristotle's logic by setting up these categories (life...
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...When we ask [about the fetus] "is it alive...
...As a Catholic I wish I could go along with the church...
...I am a product of the Catholic schools (seventeen years) and also a physicist...
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...Brother Daniel doesn't like to go to Mass...
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...or "is it a person...
...The property of belonging or not belonging to a category is the counterpart of a binary variable, one with only these two possible values...
...and then asking whether something belongs to it or not...
...This apparently was done without concern for the lack of historical precedent or the ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox churches...
...But, when, I wonder, will it modernize its language to the point where its teachings can speak to his followers...
...dollars by International Money Order or by check on a U.S...
...While canon law suggests the age of discretion as the proper time for the sacrament of confirmation and popes have warned that it should not be postponed past the age of twelve, my diocese has recently mandated a much later age...
...That is what we can do: we can meet at the true rock the rock of Christ...
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...Permit me to add a few more examples of obstacles being placed in the way of the faithful who ask for nothing more than what they have a right to as Catholics...
...Canon law establishes no minimum time but does establish a maximum time...
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...This, in spite of canon 1116 (# 1) which states that if there are no impediments, Catholics have the right to be married within a month...
...More than that, at forty-five, I have spent more than half my adult life willingly living in predominantly black neighborhoods...
...His choice of books and depth of perception are always refreshing...
...My own diocese has recently issued guidelines by which a six-month waiting period is apparently mandatory...
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...Rather than inform the couple of their rights, the diocese has placed a barrier in their way...
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...To the Editors: Like the Daniel featured in the October 20 issue, "Daniel: Beloved by God and by Me," by Bridget Balthrop Morton, I "sometimes think like a black person...
...The language would probably sound fine to my former classmates who are lawyers, but from the point of view of a scientist, each of the terms seems to demand a continuous variable...
...When the church then speaks on abortion, using terms like "life" or "personhood," it is using a language that my discipline has generally left behind...
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...I believe his instincts may have been more valid than his (or the church's) thinking...
...CHARLES J. DOLLEN Daniel & rap Livingston, Mont...
...Joseph M. Champlin for his insightful article "Barriers to the Sacraments" [October 20...
...The kind of variable that scientists since Galileo have used to describe these spectra is a continuous or many-valued variable, e.g., height =5.5 or 6.0 feet as opposed to just "tallness...
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...he would rather listen to some "bad" rocking rap...
...and at additional offices...
...But almost any attribute we think of can be located on some spectrum (or several spectra...
...The reason is that each corresponds to a spectrum, with "life" running from a primitive cell to the adult human, and "personhood" involving everything from the higher functions of thought and love, down through the animal operations, and on to the lowest functions which an early fetus shares with a vegetable...
...While in most cases it may be preferable for a couple to wait for a minimum period of time before being married, in at least some cases this is inconvenient or impossible...
...RAYMOND J. SEYMOUR A physicist's view San Jose, Calif...
...But as a scientist I can only see its reasoning on this subject as something from a different century, not the thirteenth, but rather Aristotle's...
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...Well, Daniel, I have found that cultural overlay just scratches the surface...
...In fact, some of it is created by some downright sick individuals...
...But Galileo has given us a real improvement on Aristotle's categories...
...In part this was due to Christ's admonishment to be concerned about the poor...
...THOMAS F.O'MALLEY 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...
...The church rehabilitated Galileo several years ago...
...To the Editors: I liked David Carlin's observation on abortion ["A Tragedy Without Villains," October 6] that his feelings were prochoice while his thinking was prolife...
...DANIEL R. PETERSON Roadblocks to faith Loretto, Pa...
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Vol. 116 • December 1989 • No. 21
