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CORRESPONDENCE Distorting "rescuers" Port Charlotte, Fla. To the Editors: In your editorial ["Bloody Kansas," September 27] you say of Operation Rescue that "its physical harassment of women...
...Yet liberals and conservatives are so busy arguing about the arrangement of the deck chairs on the barque of Peter that they don't see the drowning multitudes overboard...
...Elie is correct in that we desperately need to share the fiches of our whole tradition...
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...It would be a fitting tribute to one of the truly dedicated teachers of our time...
...Patrick's Cathedral was, to argue that its depiction in a documentary should be censored on television in deference to Catholics as a minority deserving the same protection accorded other minorities ("PBS would never have shown such a bigoted and untruthful film about the women's movement, Jews, or blacks") seems to me to misunderstand the role of the church in today's society, and to encourage those who see it simply as a repressive institution...
...McConnell on O'Malley Trappist, Ky...
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...Those who were never reconciled to the council are at first thrilled, but then disappointed when they realize our admiration of the past is not without its criticism and our criticism of the present is not without its admiration...
...It's not surprising that it gets a little warm at times in this kitchen...
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...Witness the September 15 report by Adam Clymer in the New York Times...
...To drugs...
...Lost to a mindless materialism that really does see my own comfort as more important than other human beings and knows nothing of the liberating, self-sacrificial love that Jesus proclaimed...
...Operation Rescue's program is not a peaceful protest, nor an exercise in civil disobedience to educate the public on a specific moral issue...
...The editorial evidences the degree to which the civic confusions of our Catholic bishops becloud that which, happily, is crystal clear to the historically wellinformed Judge Kelly...
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...You ought to know better at this late date than to pass on such misinformation without checking it out...
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...To the Editors: In your editorial ["Bloody Kansas," September 27] you say of Operation Rescue that "its physical harassment of women seeking abortion only hurts its estimable cause...
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...Yet I find that something is preventing this exchange from occurring: fear...
...From "A" to "Z," Catholics have let the pro-abortion forces frame the public discussion...
...p. 647, Columbia...
...Thus, there is nothing "dubious" about Federal Judge Patrick Kelly's application of the law enacted by Congress in 1871 to authorize federal assistance where local authorities were overwhelmed by organized lawlessness...
...Like other Catholics, we seek to discern what God has in mind for us and what this means in our careers and relationships...
...When politicians can generate knockdown, drag-out debates with more courtesy than Catholics, we're in trouble...
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...RICHARD H. HIRSCH The writer was secretary of communications with the United States Catholic Conference from 1979 to 1989...
...Gleijeses's bias--the view that Guatemala desperately needs Arbenz-type reforms-seems indisputable...
...However regrettable the event of December 10, 1989, in St...
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...CATHERINE M. CORBIN A s e l f . s t o p p e r e d church...
...Biography - Revised "Peace Pays a Price" by Dorothy Vidulich...
...they are meant for salvation...
...If we would lift up our eyes and see them maybe then we could have the exchange Mr...
...editors' reply, July 12] about the influence in Congress of the pro-Israel lobby, and Eugene Fisher's letter [September 13] is overreaching in its criticism...
...To the Editors: As a priest born in 1960 and ordained for three years, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed Paul Elie's "The Everlasting Dilemma" [September 27...
...And the John Hopkins prof's academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate...
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...To the Editors: A double coincidence: Frank McConnell's article "O'Malley of Notre Dame" [September 27] appeared just as the first biography of Frank O'Malley, written by John Meaney and bearing the same title, made its appearance (University of Notre Dame Press...
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...Its initiators and organizers have simply adopted the tactics of the post-Civil War white supremacists, who perceived that by defying local and state laws they could frustrate the efforts 626: Commonweal of the newly freed black slaves to exercise their liberty...
...Fear that I have seen in the eyes and heard in the remarks of many older Catholics when (Continued on page 669) 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 editorial also obscures the legal issue...
...I also believe that the controversy did supersede concerns about the video's quality or content and should have had church involvement in the ensuing discussion on television...
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...I'm glad there is concern for us, but I'd rather be considered a "regular adult" Catholic, not some separate species of not-quiteCatholic...
...The treasures old and new of the church today are meant for more than "something grand...
...The Ninth Collidge Research Colloquium will be from June 4 to July 2, 1992, in Cambridge, MA...
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...To the Editors: Bravo to Paul Elie for suggeting that people stop labeling us "young Catholics" and focus instead on the faith we share...
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...To a sexual morality that asks little or no commitment and sees the self as a product to be packaged and sold...
...Continued on next page) 8 November 1991:669 No generation gap Pelham, N.Y...
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...Fisher protests too much...
...I worry for our spiritual health as a church when I see such venom, such lack of courtesy...
...design, p. 639, Antonucci...
...Shattered Hope is thoroughly documented--to the tune of 1,500 footnotes--so the reader has a solid, if opinionated, basis on which to make up his or her own mind...
...Clymer describes the lobby as "one of the most powerful" in the capital, and says of its most important component, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that its lobbyists "can get congressional attention in a hurry," adding that "[flew lobbies do it as well...
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...Granted the extent of the scourge, the seeming apathy of parts of our society toward AIDS, and the desperate screams for help of those afflicted with it, "Stop the Church" was indeed a newsworthy event, not because of the quality of the documentary but because of the societal crisis it depicts...
...Both the Wanderer and the National Catholic Reporter seem to me equally venomous and I find both painful to read...
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...This is the only point I really disagree on with Mr...
...Have salvation and damnation disappeared...
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...If you mean more than that, you have bought into the mass media's distortion of what occurs at rescues...
...I'm uncomfortable with the "young adult" categorization...
...In the fifteen or so rescues I have witnessed in the past several years, including several this summer in Wichita, I have never seen physical harassment by rescuers, nor have I heard credible reports of such harassment in other places-although, as John Leo has written in U.S...
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...Are not people we see every day, people we know, being lost...
...Are we afraid of dialogue on a subject of such significance in this society...
...Our approach may be different, our backgrounds diverse, but we're all still Catholics...
...To the Editors: Your editorial "Bloody Kansas" [September 27] fails to point out that Operation Rescue's forcible interdiction of entry to clinics contravenes our Christian belief in the unique moral identity and personal freedom of the individual person, the very belief upon which we base our efforts on behalf of the unborn child...
...Elie and I fervently hope for...
...Catholics my age are lectors, eucharistic ministers, members of the choir, and youth leaders...
...Because you can't get all that worked up about young people going to hell, you mostly worry that if you fail to sponsor a Catholic identity in them, the religion you've known will go out of this comer of the world, and the kids will have missed out on something grand...
...He diagnoses the condition but fails to see its centrality...
...Besides his fine essays in Review of Politics, O'Malley made significant contributions to Renaissance and Orate Fratres (now Worship), and authored many unpublished works now in the Notre Dame Archives...
...Similarly, in Wichita and elsewhere, Operation Rescue has sought to overwhelm the capacity of local authorities to ensure civil peace and order...
...some sixty political action committees gave $4 million to proIsrael House and Senate candidates in the 1989 election campaign, putting them on a par with real estate and oil and gas interests and making them "the biggest ideological group" among such committees...
...In short, we're trying to learn about and practice our faith...
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...We are some 54 million people in this country who identify ourselves as members of the Catholic church--a "minority," yes, but unlike any other...
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...Perhaps more to the point, we have a vocal leadership which more frequently than not phrases its statements in authoritarian terms and challenges the most popular assumptions prevailing in our culture...
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...Is it that you have accepted the use of that terminology by NOW and NARAL to refer to blocking clinic doors...
...Full- or part-time...
...Anti-abortion and pro-abortion groups together gave only $750,000 in the same campaign...
...This happened as hundreds of O'Malley students were about to meet at Notre Dame in early October for "A Tribute to Frank O'Malley...
...sponsors and catechists, and work on retreat teams and programs for the homeless...
...This revised edition is a compelling biography of Margaret Anna Cusach 18291899...
...McConnell's article captures well something of what made Frank O'Malley the great and legendary teacher he was for so many...
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...MARGARET C. PARSONS The Israel lobby Colts Neck, N.J...
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...Registered nurses needed, work with inner-city families as part of team with other professionals...
...News and World Report, rescuers have sometimes been subjected to much outright physical abuse by the police and by proabortion persons...
...My hope is that some day the most important writings of Frank O'Malley will be collected and published in a single volume...
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...So please don't divide us from the rest...
...Rather than trying to get this sorry documentary killed--and then, after failing in that, opting out of the type of discussion aired by KCET in Los Angeles and WNET in New York--I believe we should welcome the chance to have our value system gain a hearing...
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...You do not make clear just what you refer to by "physical harassment...
...An exchange of views between us who are products of Vatican II and those who made the Vatican II church, in all its extremes and centers, would be very helpful...
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...My friends and I (in our twenties and thirties) just join right in rather than sit around feeling different...
...Operation Rescue's tactics raise precisely that same issue...
...able than he makes them out to be...
...Dir., ARIL, Box 1931, Brown Univ., Providence, R102912...
...Catholic doctrine and social teaching are graphically contradicted in Operation Rescue's direction and tactics...
...Others offer their skills, from carpentry to public relations, to the church...
...All this is well known, and has been documented at book length by other competent observers...
...L I CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 626) a product of the Vatican II church either criticizes that church or, horror of horrors, expresses some admiration for that preVatican II church he or she never knew...
...The issue in 1871 was not the civil rights of blacks but society's right to civic peace and order...
...Over half of North Carolina retirees came from Florida--learn why[ North Carolina golf & lake homesites from only $10,900...
...Now "thirtysomething," I too find it odd that I'm considered a "young" Catholic...
...I know the exchange is needed because it's very hard right now to look at Catholics and say "how they love one another...
...WILLIAM J. BAUSCH Elie is almost right Syracuse, N.Y...
...We seem to have gotten our minds off the real issue, saving souls, and onto a peripheral one, how to implement the council...
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...A convert to Catholicism during the Oxford movement, Cusach was a prolific author dedicated to social justice and political reform...
...Salvation and damnation exist all around us...
...Some take theology courses and study Scripture...
...Conscience is never to be coerced, for whatever cause...
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...Elie that the real divide is not so much age as whether or not one experienced the "pre-Vatican II church...
...631, 642, Ross, Rothco...
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...Commonweal needs to do some more incisive examination of these confusions...
...If liberal and conservative Catholics would just realize that some of us "younger Catholics" are heartily sick of liberal/conservative squabbling and litmus tests (perhaps I'm the only one who is), the needed exchange would happen a lot sooner...
...To the Editors: I agree with John Coleman's assessment that "'Stop the Church' gives a full dose of hateful and demonstrably untrue statements about the Catholic church...
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...MARK GRONSCESKI "Rescuers" distort New York, N.Y...
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