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Disposing of Perot Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. To the Editors: From reading Irving Horowitz's article ["Waiting for Perot—Not," June 19], one would gather, now that Jerry Brown has been effectively...
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...Lay people over and again voice their concern that their spiritual, indeed sacramental needs are not met because of the reduced number in the ordained ministry...
...I thought so...
...As for "the faint whiff of authoritarianism" Horowitz finds wafting from Perot, this sounds like stereotyping to me...
...Today the church needs a new Pentecost...
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...Before categorizing Perot as a potential demagogue, let Horowitz spend more of his considerable talents ferreting out authoritarian types among the Democrats and Republicans...
...John Paul II, as did Peter, desperately needs men like Paul and Barnabas to teach, challenge, and assist him if he is to be a credible leader of a united church...
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...Dear Cardinal, Archbishop, Bishop: We can recall the moving, terribly human scriptural story of the first Pentecost...
...If Congress makes a law on the subject and the president signs it, then it is a choice by government...
...The church suffers not only Become a Commonweal Associate from reduced numbers of priests but also from a lowering of the quality of those who aspire to the priesthood...
...3) a satire on Bruce Willis and his through-the-looking-glass movies...
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...There is no more fitting time than Pentecost to pray with and for each other that we will be open to God's guiding Spirit, which to be sure will lead us down the sometimes winding path of warming, healing, and unity, and not down the straight but narrow road of chilling precedent...
...Many are not only discouraged but bitter because our bishops do not courageously face this systemic problem which weakens every part of the body of the church...
...To the Editors: I wonder if Richard Alleva and my husband and I saw different Players ["Robert Altman Is Back," June 5...
...JOSEPH BREEN Trust mothers first York Harbor, Maine To the Editors: It is sometimes stated in Catholic papers that the term "prochoice" is used as a euphemism for "pro-abortion...
...But I will bet that the next president will be decided by the House of Representatives...
...p. 24, Ross, Rothco...
...To the Editors: From reading Irving Horowitz's article ["Waiting for Perot—Not," June 19], one would gather, now that Jerry Brown has been effectively muzzled, it is high time for the intellectual elite in the Democratic party to dispose of Ross Perot...
...But I also saw terror in Tim Robbin's open mouth, a plea for understanding...
...But was it sexy...
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...The bedding scene was, in my viewing of it, of course, a nonflesh (faces don't count, do they...
...As long as Perot remains prochoice, antigun, focused on the national debt and the need to create more meaningful jobs for people, and idealistically expecting more efficiency from government, I, and many others, will enthusiastically vote for him...
...To the Editors: I share with you the following letter, which I have sent to all the bishops of the United States...
...It is willing to accept the risk of "gridlock," and indeed relishes the prospect of political and possibly constitutional crisis...
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...So Altman undercuts the critics of nude love scenes while saying that love-making is both funny and terrible...
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...They have only the flimsiest historical and theological justifications, and they fly in the face of political, social, and economic realities...
...The issues involved here have been covered extensively in national papers, magazines, and journals—both religious and secular...
...It decides the outcome of national elections...
...HENRIETTA DANA RAYMOND A different movie Nashville, Tenn...
...With growing alarm about the "population bomb" on planet earth, this is quite possible...
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...Rap bashing and single-mother trashing seem to provide a good living for the leadership of both parties—and at taxpayers' expense...
...The experience of those priests who might return would be invaluable...
...The middle class feels betrayed and is thoroughly disgusted with politics as usual and with politicians in general...
...I am a priest fully dedicated to the ministry of the Lord...
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...The middle class votes...
...That force is the willingness of the great American middle class to take a gamble...
...They became a new people, a new creation...
...p. 22, Paul Valerry...
...Rome's attitudes and practices relating to women, sexuality, and authority are not in harmony with the mind of the universal church...
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...But if goverment has the power to choose, it might choose to allow only one child or two children per family, or only children that the parents can afford to support out of their own pockets...
...Let's send in the heavy hitters—distinguished professor types—to warn the voters of the specter of fascism lurking behind a Perot presidency...
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...The Player we saw was a multi-layered satire with some of the most trenchant scenes I've seen in any Altman movie...
...If you do care, as you must, then you and others must stop talking about the pope and start talking to him...
...10038 that is just beginning to register with political analysts...
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...Would that we had more people in and out of government making such demands...
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...As a mother of five, grandmother of fifteen, and great-grandmother of (so far) six, I am definitely not pro-abortion...
...Or it might limit families to one child apiece, as is done in China...
...Ordained in Rome, I had the privilege to have the example of John XXIII for my four years of theological studies...
...Paul and Barnabas had such a love of the church that they confronted Peter and others with prayer, discussion, and argument...
...However, I am also a lifelong student and teacher of history and government...
...2) a satire on Julia Roberts' s last "dying" movie...
...For example, the electric chair scene was (1) a satire on syrupy movie death scenes...
...I'm waiting for Perot—yes, you bet...
...To me it seems much safer to trust mothers to choose than to trust government...
...The Spirit descended upon them...
...I think it should be pointed out that whoever decides whether an embryo (first three months) or fetus (later pregnancy) is to be carried to term or aborted is making a choice...
...As a result, they all came to deeper understandings...
...No mean feat...
...It wants change so badly that it will take a chance on Mr...
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...2:17 July 1992 Commonweal CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) without faith or courage...
...I pray that the bishops will approve the voluntary return of those married priests who are otherwise in good standing with the church...
...Get someone with a comic sense to discuss the teapot scene in the police station...
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...We saw a fundamentally comic movie, in pacing, dialogue, cutting, characters, plot...
...To the Editors: Though I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Horowitz's article on Ross Perot, I must say that he has altogether missed the central force at work, something COMMONWEAL BUSINESS MANAGER In the next six months, we will be adding a business manager to our staff...
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...Most mothers love their children...
...and (4) a satire on the plot where Griffin Mill, a murderer, also comes home to the little women through "bitchin' traffic...
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...It might decide (as two states do now) that it will withhold welfare payments to provide food and shelter for more children than it will allow...
...This cannot be taken as a shocking or startling statement...
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...Many priests see the papacy as dysfunctional and many of the bishops as codependent...
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...ROBERT C. TASH The writer is professor of sociology at Mercy College...
...If the mother decides, then she makes the choice...
...Bush only because I cannot vote for anyone who approves of abortion...
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...My day-to-day experience teaches me that the most discouraging condition of our church today is that our bishops do not respond to the crisis caused by the severe Commonweal shortage of priests...
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...They would have to be in desperate straits indeed to abort them...
...According to Professor Horowitz, Perot's "demand for efficiency in government....is a dangerous form of demagoguery...
...Filled with the Spirit, they ventured forth, proclaiming the Lord and his goodness...
...Later they gathered at the Council of Jerusalem to look for the truth to help them to act as the much-needed leaders of the early church...
...Despite what some people say and write, I must believe that many of the bishops truly care about the priests and the church...
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