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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES The revised edition of Jack ghanistan,...
...five in Dachau...
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...Space forbids me the leisure viewer's cliche, but I must say that this no longer a "stain upon our love for neighto give in capsule the results of this sur- collection is a mixed bag: all of the essays bor" in Ambrose's words, is our natural vey, but it is important to note some of are highly competent but some, from my right, writ large upon the "artificial perthe useful observations made by the au- perspective, are more meaty than others...
...As feminists remind us, 'our heritage is our power.' But only if we pass it on...
...Holocaust looms throughout his article, he Perhaps all this represents a trade with should have added, even if parenthetical- the world: the massive failure of the ly: Catholic laity vis-d-vis the Holocaust will "Of course, however corrupted or mis- be overlooked...
...Like his imagination (he tells us when) and and lower clergy as well as the hatred many Ambrose and Augustine, Thomas regarded sound scholarship to tell an interesting story felt for papal/episcopal/parochial taxa- the ideal of nonviolence as regulative...
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...Synagogues around New York City, merely as one norm among many, but as communication and mediation between echoed with praise and gratitude for Pius the wellspring of our form of life...
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...RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES The revised edition of Jack ghanistan, India, Pakistan, and China...
...And why did the currency is not debased...
...Indeed, acThe writer is assistant professor of so- norihern Italy (Wyman, Abandonment of cording to a Times report, the child who cial ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology the Jews...
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...ciple of national survival," our application words in which he approvingly para- Pius's words needed little deciphering...
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...total up those who were "selected" from Wunderli's work is marred by a few erthe camp to be sent to the killing lagers rors: The presence of animals in Nativity 28: 4 June 1993 Commonweal RELIGIOUS BOORNOTES CORRESPONDENCE scenes does not derive from old folk mo- printed books and pamphlets were in the (Continued from page 2) tifs...
...He died a few Two generations later (in 1525), the weeks before the liberation of the camp peasantry of Germany revolted in a frenwhile serving as a volunteer in a typhus zy fired by the preachers of the so-called ward on the Dachau "plantation...
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