Abortion
Hoyt, Robert G.
longish essay on Great Britain and Ireland, not surprisingly, is a full chronicle of the SOMETHING LEFT OUT attempts of a very conservative church to MODERN CATHOLICISM Vatican II and After...
...an event which was, it might be safely said, a watershed in the long history of Catholicism...
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...are of such brevity that they cannot reach the level of theological sophistication found, say, in Alberigo's The Reception of Vatican//(1987) with its sug- gestive pages on conciliar hermeneutics and its nuanced sense of Reception Theory as applied to the council...
...The come to grips with the council...
...In the arbitrary curfews and school closings imposed on Palestinian towns...
...The editor's selections are fair and judi- cious...
...that took note of the interview...
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...Other areas of the book concern them- selves with what I like to call "The Higher Chit-Chat": what pope x thought of the- ologian y; what bishop tried to head off which curial members...
...Additional background in liturgy and adult education is welcome, but not essential...
...The promise of even greater disparity in the distribution of the region's meager water resources, a disparity which restricts a Palestinian to forty-five gallons each day while giving seventy-two gallons to an Israeli citizen...
...Two of the selections are reprinted from Commonweal(one by Sidney Callahan, the other by Daniel Degnan, S.J...
...Whoever the folks at the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel are, they are certainly not informed...
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...A necessary job, well done...
...CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2 74) related topic imaginable...
...More questions...
...Though I have not seen the rebuttals that may have appeared, the piece seems to me most thought-provoking...
...Was the Herald the only Catholic pub- lication in the U.S...
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...A defender of the legality of abortion, DeParle sifts skeptically through standard liberal and leftist rhetoric promoting "choice...
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...Of those who defend "choice" and the Court, Gloria Steinem is the best known, but that general position is well articulated by many other contributors...
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...I have not seen any reference to it in the secular press...
...The signers see "promise" in the increas- ing immigration of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews into Palestine/Israel...
...The somewhat gossipy spirit of much of this book (one senses the presence of Peter Hebblethwaite everywhere in it) is, paradoxically, the source of much of its strength and much of its weakness...
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...The essays in Hastings's collection are, of necessity, more descriptive than analytical...
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...Modern Catholicismrepresents a free idea very im- perfectly realized, which may well be a direct result of its overly ambitious inten- tions, l~ IN BRIEF ABORTION,edited by Janet Podell, H.W...
...The fullness of that essay contrasts sharply with the relatively few pages devoted to the vibrant (but problem-filled) church in Africa...
...In the continuing set- tlements of Israeli citizens on land stolen from the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...
...The Jesuits get a separate essay but there is none on the collapse of women's religious orders in the West which would have made a stunning companion piece to the parlous statistics recorded in the essay on the state of the priesthood...
...Like others in a series called "The Reference Shelf' issued by the same publisher, it is a compilation of articles, interviews, transcribed debates, and book excerpts, all dealing from one perspective or another with one aspect or another of the abortion debate...
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...and (3) survey the state of the church in various parts of the world as a result of those conciliar sea-changes...
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...so also her introductory comments on each of the sections (though some read- ers may be offended that she uses "proabor- tion" and "antiabortion" rather than "pro- choice" and "prolife," and "developing baby" rather than "fetus...
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...Where is Israel's claimed commitment to the peace process...
...Spirituality gets no essay and the one headed "devotion" is thin beer indeed with its preoccupation with such epiphenomena as Matthew Fox and the Madonna in Yugoslavia...
...Nurses Needed You know the problems--become part of the solution...
...Can we see it in the continuing deporta- tions of Palestinians from their own home- land, without trial...
...longish essay on Great Britain and Ireland, not surprisingly, is a full chronicle of the SOMETHING LEFT OUT attempts of a very conservative church to MODERN CATHOLICISM Vatican II and After Edited by Adrian Hastings Oxford University Press, $29.95, 544 pages Lawrence S. Cunningham e are now a quarter of a century away from the Second Vatican Council...
...Along with the residents of Palestine at the time of Jesus, we look for signs...
...The very handy section on the conciliar documents them- selves, for example, many of them written by recognized authorities (Robert Taft, S.J., on the Eastern church...
...By contrast, the essay on India and Sri Lanka is almost a textbook description of how difficult the problem of inculturation can be when Western assumptions, say, about liturgy are mod- ified through the impact of another culture...
...LARRY & MARY HANSEM CLASSIFIED RATES: 80r a word, one time...
...The promise of more land being stolen from Palestinians...
...Two other articles from these pages (by David Carlin, Jr., and Daniel Maguire) are abstracted in the bibliography, and other current or for- mer Commonwealcontributors (Mary Ann Glendon, Daniel Callahan, Jo McGowan, John Leo, and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin) 300: Commonweal are also represented in one way or another...
...The promise of a continuing increase in the outmigration of indigenous Christians from the Holy Land...
...The very scope of what this volume attempts limits its thoroughness as does its desire to provide both narrative history and theological analysis...
...Some of the indi- vidual pieces are informative enough (and some are very good) but on the whole I found this a rather quick and bewildering view of that complex reality known as the postconciliar Catholic world...
...One wonders just what "promise" they see...
...We can also send free listings from our National Crisis Pregnancy Centers Directoryand from our National Adoption Directory for up to five states...
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...Aylward Shorter on the missions...
...The sec- tion on "Aspects of the Church after the Council" is, by turns, banal and informa- tive...
...To the Editors: In response to the editorial "Good enough for us" [March 22], com- menting on Archbishop Rembert Weakland's pastoral letter, it may be of interest to take note of an interview with Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil, a Franciscan, which appeared in the Italian Catholic magazine II Regno...
...The twenty-four selec- tions are grouped in five sections: "The Right to Choose," "The Right to Live," "If Abortion Were Illegal," "Ethical Debates," and "Approaches to Compromise...
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...To the Editors: The advertisement on the back cover of the March 22 issue disturbed us, to put our revulsion in the most char- itable terms...
...Adrian Hastings, an English academic, has put together a hefty collection of essays, composed by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, to (1) recall the events leading up to the council...
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...This is an interestingvolume which is both read- able, informative, and yet--and yet-- unsatisfying...
...Whatever opinion you may hold on the abortion question, you are likely to find it ably defended and ably challenged in this book...
...THERESA K. TAYLOR The writer is librarian of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse...
...It was a shame that the majority of bishops, above all Europeans, voted against it," Cardinal Arns said...
...As for "efforts by outside powers to impose a solution," we assume that the authors fail to see that billions of U.S...
...Its very impor- tance has spawned enough literature to sink a fair-sized ship and enough comment to stagger even the most dedicated student of its significance...
...They come with warning labels...
...2) describe once again the thrust of all of the conciliar debates and the documents that emerged from those debates...
...These lists include Birth Parent Support Groups, too...
...Frankly, we'd prefer cigarette adver- tisements...
...for instance, "Open Adoption Versus Traditional Adoption," which we can send her free...
...We vote to impede that kind of progress...
...For this reviewer, perhaps the most interesting single article was "Beyond the Legal Right," by Jason DeParle, reprint- ed from The Washington Monthly...
...BASIL E. JANASKIK, O.EM...
...So also the whole volume...
...for- eign aid dollars have indeed imposed a "solution"--but only on the Palestinians, who are approaching the twenty-fourth anniversary of military occupation by Israel, nearly a quarter century of rule by military decree which has increased in bru- tality with each passing year...
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...Moreover, if perchance one of the students in the research project described in the arti- cle had called us, he/she would have been given the names of four crisis pregnancy centers in Jamaica, N.Y., all of them Catholic...
...A summary appeared in the Milwaukee Catholic Herald, the news- paper of Archbishop Weakland's own archdiocese...
...Job may require relocation...
...The entry on North America is, in actuality, about the United States with nary a word about Canada in general or Francophone Canada in particular...
...A bibliography uses the same categories to group thirty-five books and pamphlets and thirty-one abstracts of additional articles from periodicals...
...he also reports interviews with writers prominent in its defense, gently and without malice bringing out inconsistencies in their positions...
...The cardinal said that Pope Paul VI was ready to allow married priests in the Latin Rite had the change been approved by the 1971 World Synod of Bishops...
...Most (not all) of these writers question the morality of abortion and/or the con- stitutionality of Roe v. Wade...
...In the section devoted to the different regions of the Catholic world we find Enrique Dussel citing the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 as emblematic of the prophetic spirit of the council (!) but not a word about the increasing strength of evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity in Latin America...
...Precisely because it was both important and is now becoming his- tory (all the students I teach were born into the postconciliar church), it is useful to sum up where we have come from and where we are in relationship to that council even if many of us have lived through those changes and think we understand them...
...What I have noted above are only a sam- pling of essays among the sixty-two that make up this anthology...
...What might have been Livonia, Mich...
...As for the article's suggestion #4 on demanding at least proportionate funding for birth assistance as is now available for abortion, Congress established this Clearinghouse (in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986) to be a pos- sible alternative to abortion, as one of its reasons for being...
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