Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE From prison, with thanks Muncy, Pa. To the Editors: If I were to try to memorialize the content and impact of Commonweal journalism, I would find myself at a loss for adequate...
...First, Origen's Hexapla contained the entire Old Testament not "in six different Greek versions in parallel columns" but rather in six columns made up of the original Hebrew, the Hebrew transliterated into Greek characters, the Septuagint (with corrections indicated by Origen), and three post-Christian Greek translations...
...WALKER PERCY No outsider, he New Haven, Conn...
...Get rid of "Rome" and what will be left in the end is California...
...42-49...
...on Ps...
...I thank Mr...
...Man as consciousness (Freud...
...To the Editors: If I were to try to memorialize the content and impact of Commonweal journalism, I would find myself at a loss for adequate language...
...This was one of those rare instances in which environmental problems were mentioned in the Catholic press, and while I was pleased with Mr...
...Translate: John Paul II is the villain...
...judith p. wagner Rome isn't the villain Covington, La...
...What do Catholic leaders have to say about global warming, endangered species, or off-shore drillings...
...Jerome knew the Hexapla...
...bishops made reference to the major environmental problems we are facing as we recklessly use up natural resources in our quest for ever increasing profits and consumer goods...
...To the Editors: One might be lulled by the fastidiousness of Lawrence Cunningham in his recent "Religious Booknotes" [October 20,1989], so a few clarifications are in order...
...THE EDITORS Jerome & Origen Berlin, N.Y...
...Reilly suggests...
...What remained in my room after the "invasion" were all my back copies of Commonweal...
...As a Catholic who works in the environmental community, I am heartened by this, although I have seen very little evidence of this process...
...I was disappointed, however, that of those essays, the shortest was written by William Reilly, focusing on the...
...challenge to protect "the natural systems that sustain life on this planet...
...Man as organism (Skinner...
...And they will endure despite these chic brush-offs of "Rome...
...They said that all people face the "challenge to develop a new ecological ethic which will help shape a future that is both just and sustainable...
...Perhaps Commonweal can help lead the way in the next ten years and devote more of its own pages to the environment...
...on Titus 3,9) and indeed to have gone back through it a second time (Comm...
...In the meantime, I hope that more attention will be given to environmental issues in the Catholic press and in the pulpit...
...he simply did not list it as such in Letter #33 to Paula where he provides an exhaustive litany of Origen's work...
...The New York Times Magazine was disposed of, the New American Review was donated to the prison library, the New York Times Book Review was sent home, and the London Review was used to offset a giant puddle in the bathroom...
...Here are examples of what has apparently come to be the new Commonweal line: "Roman abuses of authority," "chilly winter fogs flown in over the seas from Rome...
...It was the enormousness of that list which I wished to emphasize...
...There is still a year or two to go on my incredible journey through the "system," but the traveling was lifted to a much higher elevation because of your presence with me...
...Klimon for the clarification...
...In the prison community in which I live there are periodic "room searches" where the prison authorities effect a type of housecleaning and disposal of unwanted matter...
...For these odd fellows are turned on precisely by these claims of the church, breathtaking in their singularity and exclusivity, i.e., the magisterium and the Eucharist, and how these have endured with the people of God through these kinds of thicks and thins for two thousand years...
...There are some things that are such a wellspring of thought and inspiration that they can not be given up...
...Klimon is correct in both instances...
...WILLIAM M. KLIMON The author replies: Mr...
...Perhaps we will soon have a pastoral on nature and stewardship, as Mr...
...Thank you...
...This novelist can only observe that if the magisterium and the sacramental orthodoxy of the church are compromised in the name of "creative pluralism" or suchlike, there may be a lot of hugging and kissing and good feeling going on, but there won't be any Catholic novelists around...
...In the economics pastoral, the bishops admit that "Catholic social teaching on the care of the environment and the management of natural resources is still in the process of development...
...Jerome claims to have made thorough use of that original at Caesarea (Comm...
...JAMES TERENCE FISHER More on environment Brooklyn, N.Y...
...Reilly's contribution, (Continued on page 61) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 34) I wish a more substantive treatment could have been included...
...Jerome was unfamiliar with the Hexapla and implies that the reason was that it existed in only one copy...
...CLAIRE E. RUSOWICZ Your wish is our command...
...One of the central themes of the work (ignored by Hoyt and untreated by Catholic historians) concerns just this interaction-and the deep if underlying tension-between noble converts (along with a few unbaptized fellow travelers with tastemaker's clout) and "ethnics" in the struggle to produce a workable American Catholic identity...
...What is our understanding of such issues as toxic waste disposal, energy conservation, and tropical deforestation...
...I wonder how prepared we Catholics are to jump into the fray and to contribute to efforts to meet this challenge...
...I'll admit it's an understated theme but I was surprised by Hoyt's lack of interest in the homeboys I found most sympathetic, Irish Tom Dooley and Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Jack the beatific...
...I am obligated, however, to register my dismay at the obligatory hostility to "Rome...
...Professor Cunningham further suggests that St...
...LAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAMclarification...
...To the Editors: Sidney Callahan's article, "Getting Our Heads Together" [November 17], is a valuable and timely call for a renewal of Catholic intellectual life...
...These issues could be debated, as indeed they often are, but here's how it appears to one novelist...
...I meant to say "six versions"not "six Greek versions...
...To the Editors: I very much enjoyed your sixty-fifth anniversary issue [November 17], especially the short essays on "Challenges Facing U.S...
...He may be consoled that I got it right when I chalked them up on the board for my students this term...
...Not only is the time ripe for educated Catholics, who are not good at such things, to talk to each other about the faith, but also there is, in my opinion, a special contribution the Catholic intellectual tradition can make what with the present demoralization of the social and psychological sciences, for which other scientists and laymen have no use, and whose practitioners cannot even name the subject matter of their sciences...
...However, I can relate a true story...
...See "The Sacrament of Creation," pp...
...To the Editors: Robert G. Hoyt may have been misled by my place of employment in criticizing the "outsider" perspective of my book, The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 [November 17...
...As to the second point: my emphasis may have misled...
...But in fact, St...
...I'll get over the unintended slight to my Newark and Brooklyn-Irish forebears (and present connections), but I must note the irony in Hoyt's concession of "insider" status to precisely those Catholics (particularly Day and Merton) who had least in common with the citizens of the immigrant church...
...LAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM...
...During my own room search last fall, I was forced to rid myself of endless copies of all manner of publications...
...In their pastoral letter on the economy a few years back the U.S...
...Catholics" in the next ten years...
...If such attacks continue and are successful, the result will be pleasing mainly to the secular liberal establishment, who are in fact calling the shots, and destructive and divisive to the Catholic people...
Vol. 117 • January 1990 • No. 2
