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CORRESPONDENCE God bless us, every one! Hempstead, N.Y. To the Editors: As the year ends I must tell you that Emil Antonucci's "Are Toys Us?" [December 21, 1990] gives us the loveliest and most...
...CORRESPONDENCE DOROTHY DILLON The writer is co-chair of the Foreign (Continued from page 34) Policy Task Force of the Woman's National Democratic Club...
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...But my point is more modest: Would Mr...
...No pussyfooting around the fact that a human being shall die: violence is an integral part of life and history, and the weak are the first to be pushed from the lifeboat...
...If world politics San Diego, Calif...
...Perhaps some argument could be made to defend these practices in regard to those people who are chosen to play public roles of official leadership in the community, that is, church officers...
...One might argue that by taking these vows, a person enters into a state of life which is recognized, confirmed, and blessed by the church...
...Does the church have a right to require silence or conformity from married Catholics or Commonweal editors...
...In fact, any argu- ment between Father Egan and me on the matter would end quickly with a joint com- muniqu6 celebrating our solidarity...
...3-7, 1992...
...When we listen to other persons, three things can happen: (1) We may agree with everything being said...
...Cooperating institutions assess their own fees...
...and at additional offices...
...Since it will lead an unhappy life, better we should kill it now, and thus spare the suffering that lies ahead...
...Consisting of four one-week intensive study sessions for two consecutive years with inter-term directed readings and a management project, the MB.A...
...Could they have only the burden...
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...and hence it is expendable without any more moral con- sequence than putting down a dog...
...2. The fetus is subhuman (or not fully human, or less than human...
...This is how our club operates...
...Applied Ministries This program is designed for ministry professionals--cler- gy, religious, laity--who wish maximum flexibility in study-time and study-loca- tion...
...a great many Catholics are not in the least confused about abortion...
...That seems the most honest approach...
...The study design is the same as for Pastoral Counseling--four quarters with first and fourth at the Foundation and second and third at one of our cooperating institutions (w First quarter is Sept...
...in Church Management is $5,000.00 ($1,250.00 per session...
...but the same could be said for the staff of Commonweal...
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...Nancy Amidei's credo, "...neither do I think a fetus is fully human from the moment of conception" ["Variant Vielvs on Abortion," October 26, 1990] leads one to conclude she is happy to run with the second group, the mandarins who have the power--and the chutzpah--4o define when someone is human or not for the purpose of deciding whether to take his or her life with impunity...
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...He talks about intra-ecclesial questions concerning "the church's right to require silence or con- fortuity from persons who are seen to speak on its behalf" and about "the import of religious vows...
...A New York appellate court ruled that damages could be obtained for the child even if the injury was inflicted before he or she was viable [Kelly v. Gregory...
...Immediately thereafter, however, certain bystanders, also Catholic, would enter the discussion, and it would go on, and on, and on...
...ROBERT G. HOYT Women & the Gulf Washington, D.C...
...34: Commonweal in international relations...
...In fact, not since Dickens...
...to all of you...
...4, 1991 and fourth quarter is April 25-29, 1994...
...36, 71...
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...We specificallyt suggested sending an emissary to Saddam Hussein to ensure there was no misunder- standing about our respective positions...
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...I don't think we should endlessly mul- tiply "rights...
...Total cost of room/board/tuition for the M.B.A...
...Several weeks ago the Woman's National Democratic Club sent a letter to President George Bush supporting his efforts to mobi- lize world opinion against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait but urging him to talk rather than make war and to give more time for the embargo to do its work...
...Illustrations: Cover design, pp...
...bank...
...Is that a sin...
...DOCTOR OF MINISTRY PROGRAMS (30 months) Pastoral Counseling This program is designed specifically for ministry pro- fessionals--clergy, religious, laity--who are primarily engaged in pastoral coun- seling in either parish or institutional settings...
...Application deadline is June 1, 1991...
...Canada, $61...
...and might makes right...
...Duncan, Punch...
...First and fourth quar- ters are at the Foundation and the second and third quarters are at one of our cooperating institutions (w This program is tailored to maximize flexibility in timetable and geographic location...
...Room/board/tuition for the Foundation's residence portion is $2,500.00...
...CORRESPONDENCE God bless us, every one...
...December 21, 1990] gives us the loveliest and most sensitive Christmas thoughts I've read in a long time...
...Archbishop Weakland lis-tened to the women of the Milwaukee arch- diocese...
...Great harm is done to the Catholic church when a wonderful and understanding man such as Archbishop Rembert Weakland is treated in a disgrace- ful way...
...First quarter is No...
...Such women must The fetus & the law operate in a manner that their male coun- terparts will understand...
...Other Nazi leaders coined the term "humanoid subspecies...
...George G. Higgins ["Vatican Targets Weakland," December 7, 1990...
...64, 72, Paul Valerry...
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...Admission requirements are a bachelor's degree and five years professional experience in ministry...
...but the same could be said for those in a Christian maniage...
...Copies of this letter were sent to Democratic congressional leaders...
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...Happy New Year...
...2) we may agree with some of what is said...
...Most states have statutes which grant the common law right of inheritance to an unbom child...
...There is a sense in which all the baptized speak on behalf of the church, especially when, in word or action, they proclaim the gospel..But nobody defends that scale of official control...
...By defining the object of the knife, gun, gas chamber, out of the human race, one can liquidate him/her without qualm...
...To the Editors: In his thoughtful review of No Turning Back [December 2 l, 1990], Robert Hoyt goes too quickly past a point which requires explanation...
...3) we may dis- agree altogether...
...We com- municate directly with those responsible for decision making on both foreign and domestic issues...
...for- eign, $67...
...He calls these ques- tions "endlessly arguable...
...The Vatican is wrong...
...Room/board/tuition for the Foundation's residence portion is $2,500.00...
...The author replies: Well, no...
...Hoyt want to call such questions "endlessly arguable...
...Indeed, when we do communicate our views to the media, they receive no publicity...
...Four quarters of one-week each plus directed readings and a doctoral project are required...
...One might argue that at least religious are involved in a public apostolic ministry which is iden- tified as Catholic...
...Calling these questions "endlessly arguable" was a way of hurrying (or slid- ing) past what seemed to me secondary issues raised by No Turning Back, but I didn't want to imply that in my opinion the arguments for and against coerced con- formity have equal merit...
...p. 61, Rita Corbin...
...But religious women have none of the powers, pleasures, or pre- rogatives of official leadership...
...One remembers Field Marshall Walter von Reichenau who defined the Jews as "sub- human" in his infamous order of the day...
...Application deadline is May 15, 1991...
...Some twenty-five years ago the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that the rights of an unborn child were violated by his mother's refusal, on religious grounds, to submit to a blood transfusion needed to preserve the lives of both the mother and her unborn child...
...Program dates are August 19-23, 1991 ; Jan...
...11-15, 1991 and fourth quarter is March 21-25, 1994...
...As for women in public life, be they leaders of their nations or opinion leaders at lower levels, they still must operate in (Continued on page 78) 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...
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...For example, Professor Presser wrote [Law of Torts, third edition, 1964] that "an unborn child in the path of an auto- mobile is as much a person in the street as the mother...
...We are talking here about moral discernment and an existing practice of requiring silence or conformity from cer- tain people in the church under threat of certain penalties...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...program meets one week in August at the Mercy Center on Long Island Sound in Connecticut and one-week in January at the Lindenwood Conference Center in Indiana for two consecutive years...
...4-8, 1993...
...Concentrations include Pastoral Care, Spirituality, Liturgy, Creative Arts, and Scripture...
...This may also be the experience of other women's groups...
...6-t0, 1992...
...foreign, $37...
...3. If the child is allowed to be born, it may not be loved or cared for...
...were dominated by women, so that women To the Editors: Three common justifi-leaders were dealing with other women cations for current abortion policy have leaders, we would probably see a signif- emerged: icant change in both style and substance 1. The fetus, although human, is inconM.B.A.in CHURCH MANAGEMENT (18 months) This program is designed specifically for the improvement and refinement of management and administrative skills necessary for ministry professionals-clergy, religious, laity--to better discharge their responsibilities in the management of church programs, personnel, and properties under ecclesi- astical jurisdiction...
...ROBERT J. EGAN, S.J...
...A problem for all these groups is that for decades our legal system had been push- ing toward developing protections for the unborn...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...To the Editors: I fully agree with the thoughts and reflections of Msgr...
...It seems to me that all the good arguments are on the side of denying that religious women (or men, unless they are ordained) "speak on behalf of the church" in this sense...
...21 Bristol, IN 45607 .9 219/848-7920 venient (population explosion, or, less abstractly, this child will create personal problems for the mother, etc...
...w Cooperating universities/seminaries are located in MA, NH, VT, IL, PA, NY, GA, TX, I_A, CA, CO, N J, RI, DC, Vancouver, Oxford, and Jerusalem...
...ZOE L. BELTH Wrong target Eatontown, N.J...
...arenas dominated by men and their aggres- sive political culture...
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...45, 48, 51, 57, Emil Antonucci...
...p. 66, Frank Cotham, p. 74, Jean Chariot...
...To the Editors: There may have been more action by women and women's organiza- tions with respect to the Persian Gulf crisis than Abigail McCarthy is aware of ["War, Gender, Silence," December 7, 1990...
...I don't see why...
...Do they think we are all callow...
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