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CORRESPONDENCE The untouchable Thomas New York, N.Y. To the Editors: Good Lord, I don't know how you did it but, in your series of editorials on the Clarence Thomas nomination [August 9,...
...To the Editors: In his column on "The Proliferation Problem" [October 25], Bryan Hehir has again pinpointed with precision the nuclear risks the world faces resulting from the collapse of the Soviet threat...
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...Readers of the Gospels can a~ee that the Thing in Mary's womb threatened to make the parents' lives miserable...
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...It puzzles me why so many Catholic clergy, both bishops and priests, fail to draw the obvious conclusion...
...Why is that occasionally I find myself flipping back to the cover of Commonweal to make sure I'm not reading Commentary...
...To the Editors: I enjoyed the article by Bridget Balthrop Morton ["Hey, Bishop!," November 8...
...I am concerned about an equally imminent threat...
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...if I withdrew, I would be doing what liberals like myself (and conservatives as well) too often do, hold back criticism of one's allies in order not to hurt the cause...
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...She certainly could have been more candid about her intent...
...In both cases what I have translated "the Thing" is represented in the Greek by the neuter definite article followed by a participle...
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...And, in fact, to the extent that the cause of a person's misery is merely what happens to him or her, apart from the accompanying thoughts and attitudes (faith, for instance, or love), the Thing did cause misery for Joseph and Mary, in the womb and out of it...
...As a board member of CORPUS I was aware of the preconvention misgivings she had about participating in the event after she learned about the scheduled Mass and prayer vigil...
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...Moreover, she lost her job (ironically, she was the manager of a toy store) because the insurance premiums were raised so high that her employer said he could not afford to keep her...
...Similarly, in Matthew 1:20, the angel says to Joseph, "The Thing begotten in her [Mary] is of the Holy Spirit...
...With that threat greatly diminished, we may see more Desert Storms in the future...
...And I know of no coach worthy of respect who has conducted a scouting report of the competition or an analysis of his own team's strengths and weaknesses and who then elects to release the report to curious journalists and, thus, to the opposition...
...McConnell believes that"the mother--and the father, too, has the right to dispose of [the Thing in the Womb] if it would make their lives miserable, and if they both agree on that...
...what he had to put up with...
...I then informed McCabe in advance that my talk would be critical...
...As is common (and distinctly unsinister) practice, the talk was embargoed (not "blockaded") until the scheduled hour of my speech...
...My chief "end" in speaking was to persuade the members of the audience to reconsider taking part in the Mass--a goal that I am sorry I failed to achieve...
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...Unfortunately, many "prolife" people seem to condemn the party that favors such measures, and instead embrace the party that resists the use of tax funds for social purposes...
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...One Monday in the spring of 1993, the Supreme Court will announce the reversal of Roe v. Wade...
...She accepted, and both the baby and his heroic mother were saved...
...In my view, being prolife includes loving and caring for people of all ages...
...it seems 734: Commonweal to me to be generally accepted in Western ethics by those whose education has taken them beyond indoctrination...
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...Projustice, prolife York Harbor, Maine To the Editors: I think it is not accurate to put the label "pro-abortion" on people who believe that life is sacred but do not pin their hope of persuading others on the enactment of anti-abortion laws...
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...Our practice of excluding Ellen Grace and her sisters from serving at Mass is discriminatory, and therefore immoral...
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...More humane conditions of employment, a fairer distribution of wealth, a national health plan, and a family leave bill would make it far easier for many to choose life...
...Some seem to think that obedience has a higher moral claim...
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...Despite the curiosity of the press, those reports are internal documents on which game plans and campaign strategies are based...
...Mary, Joseph, & Thing Rome, Italy To the Editors: Frank McConnell [Correspondence, October 25], by declaring his belief that "the Thing in the Womb is certainly a living something," sparked the following biblical reflection: In the Greek text of the Gospel of Luke 1:35, the angel's words to Mary can be (Continued on page 733) 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...
...Subsequent events suggest she decided to use the occasion to her own ends, including the blockading of copies of her talk up to one hour before it was scheduled...
...I am pained not by what Steinfels said but how she went about saying it...
...on the contrary, if application of an unjust law entails injury to an innocent third party, one is bound to refuse obedience...
...And throughout all these hearings, there was poor Clarence...
...To the Editors: In giving her speech to CORPUS Steinfels seemed unaware that the tactic she accused CORPUS of using-staging a media event to advance its cause - - i s precisely what she did that day...
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...The "new world order" is not an acceptable solution, and I do not see governments or international bodies giving this very serious attention...
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...But when it came to Thomas, you were for him, sort of...
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...So what if he lied through his teeth during both hearings...
...Unquestionably, this potential proliferation of nuclear powers can be exponential, absent immediate international actions to prevent unbridled national and mercenary efforts to achieve nuclear capability...
...forget as well the record of his last ten years in public life, and hope that his black experience will resurface to make him a compassionate judge...
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...To the Editors: Good Lord, I don't know how you did it but, in your series of editorials on the Clarence Thomas nomination [August 9, October 25, November 8], you were able to cut through all the charges and countercharges and single out the true villains in the caper--Democratic liberals...
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...JOHN P. MURNION From the Editors: Our correspondent makes a number of points readers may wish to ponder...
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...So what if he used his color and his religious background in the most meretricious ways (did you see the picture of him and his wife in People magazine, the two of them on their couch locked in an embrace while reading the Bible...
...To the Editors: To argue his point that the Democratic party has kept its head in the sand rather than deal with the issue of "racialized politics," Fred Siegel ["Conservative Opportunism, Liberal Cowardice," November 8) cites Peter Brown, a journalist, as his source for a "fascinating episode," in which I, as Democratic National Chairman, "chose to deep-six" a report portraying the Democratic party in an unfavorable light...
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...While we're at it, since you're so open-minded, Corre_9 In our editorial "Courting Diversity" (November 8) we incorrectly stated that George Bush voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
...To the Editors: Who would not welcome the consultation between President Bush and Congress on future nominees to the Supreme Court that you suggest in your editorial ["Cynics at War," October 25...
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...and the USSR, yet that more or less balanced threat had a dampening effect on other conflicts because even adventurous governments had reason to fear the risk of touching off global nuclear war...
...So what if he proved that he wasn't even remotely as smart as his defenders claimed he was...
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...Yet there is no suggestion that mother and father ever sought to dispose of the Thing...
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...True, you did criticize George Bush for his cynicism in choosing Thomas...
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...Another young woman I know, close to death from an infection, was advised that a dose of antibiotics sufficient to save her life would kill the baby, and that the best chance for her and the child would be a Caesarian section without anesthesia...
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...Abortion explains the savagery of much of our political discourse and the cheapening of our culture...
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...Presumably he knew because as soon as I learned of the planned Mass I told the CORPUS representative who had invited me (Thomas McCabe) that I objected and was thinking about withdrawing...
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...He agreed that if I had a "problem in conscience," then I should withdraw...
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...That is the principle clearly endorsed at Nuremberg...
...On the contrary, upon heating the news of the birth of the Thing, now named Jesus because It would save Its people from their sins, the ruling authority became disturbed in mind and sought Its elimination...
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...The prolife movement is most successful when it relies on friendly persuasion...
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...MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 706) translated literally, "Therefore, the Thing being carried [in Mary's womb] shall be called Holy, Son of God...
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...By his own account, Robert Charpentier knew about my "misgivings" before the meeting...
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...As I read it, you chastised the dummies for not being open to a conservative black experience which Thomas could bring to the Supreme Court...
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...Abortion explains why Clarence Thomas was nominated, why he was opposed, and why his confirmation hearings became a grotesque farce...
...Still in a biblical mode, I would apply to this Living Something verse 16 of Psalm 139: "Your eyes could see my embryo...
...We will not solve the priest shortage by use of extra-ecclesial means but by humbly accepting the obedience Christ demands so that others may be led to intimacy with God...
...Commonwealreaders may draw their own conclusions as to the impact of race on American politics, but in this instance Siegel's reliance on Brown's inaccuracies lends no credence to his conclusions...
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...If I gave the talk I had planned, I would be complicit in that action...
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...Father Hehir needs to bring his formidable skills as a passionate advocate for peace to bear on this issue as well...
...And, besides that, they did the unspeakable by leaking the sexual harassment charge of Anita Hill...
...They have learned nothing from the rejection of that defense at Nuremberg...
...No one is obliged to obey an unjust law...
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...Yet so many of our clergy, who presumably learned that same ethical rule, either fail to see its relevance or, seeing it, fail to act upon it...
...J. Frank Devine, SJ Director of Admissions Weslon School of Theology 3 Phillips Place, Department C4 Cambridge, MA 02138-3495 Telephone: (617) 492-1960 Fax: (617) 492-5833 c.~oOL o,~, Weston School of Theology A National Jesuit Theological Center in Cambridge, MA 6 December 1991:733 But that is not to say the threatening Thing itself remained unthreatened...
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