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CORRESPONDENCE Good out of Nazareth Saint Paul, Minn. To the Editors: Mary Pat Kelly's report of her interview with Hanan Ashrawi [October 81 was a humanizing addition to the reports on the...
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...p. 12, Antonucci, from photo by Alberto Huerta...
...That is all we have the right to demand...
...Illustrations: Cover design, Emil Antonucci...
...He seems to argue that, though charity is the greatest of virtues, you need clarity to achieve it...
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...Hoffa...
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...22:14 D 17 Scent of a Woman...
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...14:19 Ag 13 Lorenzo's Oil...
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...FRANK C. ARRICALE Smith was too timid Bronxville, N.Y...
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...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...ANN ENGLISH Phony academic freedom Bronx, N.Y...
...McConnell ignores the urgent, obvious, and overriding issue, the socialization of children...
...18:21 O 22 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) pecially for your editorial comments...
...for other parts of the world, $44 per year...
...To have supported this encyclical from within the academy (Catholic and secular) has been more courageous than the Reverend Charles Curran could ever imagine...
...To the Editors: Re: your editorial [November 19] on the Reginald Denny trial: Many pundits have glided uncomfortably past Denny' s forgiveness of the men who beat him...
...Garvey writes: "We can see the enemy clearly only when we see the enemy with love...
...17:20 O 8 Truly dishonest...
...He's one of the few men who don't measure their value by the oppression they exercise over women...
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...1:18 Ja 15 Much Ado about Nothing...
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...p. 17, Ray, Rothco...
...9:20 My 7 This Boy's Life...
...JOHN D. HAGEN, JR...
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...The problem is that we simply can't keep our eyes off Caesar and Mammon...
...4:20 Fe 26 Bebop takes a hard shot...
...3:15 Fe 12 Jurassic Park...
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...16:29 S 24 Urban life, 3:4 Fe 12...
...Or maybe it's the other way around...
...I cannot be accused of hypocrisy...
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...Those Nazarenes can still surprise us...
...Enter Mr...
...Two, any institution in which ecclesiastical action is taken against a theologian will lose credibility in the eyes of the academic community...
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...Contrary to the sentiments of John Francis Burke ["Multiculturalism Is Here," November 5], we must have a national language primarily for its un~lt~ving aspects...
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...who are sinners...
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...12:10 Je 18 domestic issues, l:4 Ja 15...
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...Brandon Centerwall's noted articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Public Dzterest) correlating children's exposure to television violence with rising rates of violent behavior...
...19:20 N 5 In the Summer House...
...17:17 O 8 Stolen Children...
...cover art, D'arcy Sarnelle...
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...Surcharge for air mail delivery to Europe, North Africa, Central or South America, $35 per year...
...Everyone knows that millions of children in this country have no effective supervision whatever of their television watching...
...However, he defers to the power of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP], a professional organization which censures schools that deviate from its increasingly secularist concept of academic freedom...
...Its tone seemed absolutist, and yet, for her, timid and somewhat obscure...
...p. 15, Schwadron, Rothco...
...The American experience has always taken the best offered by its diverse ethnic groups...
...VICTOR J. KLIMOSKI Talk English...
...it is wrong to deny others that same choice" [November 5...
...Philadelphia, Pa...
...TV, kids & crime Minneapolis, Minn...
...Houston, Tex...
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...12:23 Je 18 Passion Fish...
...We all are responsible for the way those children are socialized by the networks...
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...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., $39...
...Ashrawi responded: "[My husband] was originally from Nazareth...
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...To the Editors: The reason that English must be our official language has nothing to do with questions of national loyalty or ethnic prejudice...
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...4:19 Fe 26 Dave...
...14:18 Ag 13 The Last Action Hero...
...7:21 Ap 9 Farewell My Concubine...
...Centerwall estimates that television conditioning is implicated in roughly 10,000 homicides and 70,000 rapes in the United States each year...
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...19:20 N 5 Orpheus in Love...
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...p. 30, Jean Chariot...
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...Janet Smith offers an intellectual map to allow the thoughtful (and fearless) Catholic to begin to consider the possible link between artificial contraception and abortion...
...19:3 N5 politics, 1:4 Ja 15...
...15:5 S 10 Zionism, 20:11 N 19 Screen, by Richard Alleva The Age of Innocence...
...7:5 Ap 9; 7:42 Ap 9; 9:3 My 7; 19:4 N 5; 21:31 D 3 Walsh, Michael, 11:2 Je 4 Weakland, Rembert G., 2:3 Ja 29...
...11:19 Je 4 Wonderful Tennessee...
...Thus when personal desire, or license, substitutes for freedom, it really means, in Smith's words, "not to discover what is good and true, but to be free to define what is good and true...
...To the Editors: Surely the last word of the final paragraph of John Garvey's excellent column, "Love your enemy" [November 19] should read "charity" and not "clarity...
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...11:18 Je 4 True Romance...
...Similarly, he argues that the state rightly sets the standard for academic freedom for these colleges: "Catholic educators seriously fear the loss of state and federal funding if they do not have full academic freedom....The fear of losing such funding, with its threat to their very existence, strongly influenced Catholic colleges to accept academic freedom in the late 1960s...
...3:16 Fe 12 Media, by Frank McConnell A nation of standups...
...Microfilm from Vol...
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...The author himself, thinking we might jump to the same wrong conclusion, phoned to make sure we didn't change the 'T' to "h...
...how I have been sinned against, etc...
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...Canada, $71...
...The ugly truth about our culture is that we corrupt our young for the sake of titillating ourselves with salacious and violent entertainment...
...19:4 N 5; 20:5 N 19;21:31D3 Vietnam, 11:2 Je 4; 21:9 D 3 Violence, 4:16 Fe 26...
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...19:6 N 5 Technology, 21:6 D 3 Ty Mam Duw community, 1:30 Ja 15 United Auto Workers, 1:7 Ja 15...
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...Ever since he began speaking and writing as bishop of Rome, John Paul II has given me the impression that he is a Lutheran in his theology...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...Thank God this inadvertent attempt at divisiveness failed...
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...But there seems now in church and culture a distracting clamor only for the latter: for defining what is a sin...
...dollars by International Money Order or by check on a U.S...
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...What cannot be reconciled with or survive our melting pot's cultural demands eventually withers away...
...The sexual revolution simply was not possible until reliable contraceptives were available...
...3:16 Fe 12 The Crying Game...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, M148106 and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio 44691...
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...Veritatis splendor seems to support that reading...
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...Mad Dog and Glory...
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...To the Editors: Mary Pat Kelly's report of her interview with Hanan Ashrawi [October 81 was a humanizing addition to the reports on the complicated strategies of the Palestinian and Israeli peace talks...
...What Denny did Brooklyn, N.Y...
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...And Commonweal's media analyst stands by uncritically cheerleading and homilizing over"moral choices...
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...JOHN J. CONLEY, S.J...
...22:15 D 17 Chaplin...
...DAVID DeCOSSE Commonweal 17 December 1993:29...
...1:20 Ja 15 The Madness of George III...
...To the Editors: Your symposium on the proposed ordinances concerning Catholic colleges [November 19] reveals the contradiction at the heart of contemporary Catholic education...
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...9:19 My 7 Stories from the Nerve Bible...
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...13:21 Jl 16 Faith Healer...
...5:12 Mr 12 The Secret Garden...
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...3:17 Fe 12 Follow that moose...
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...8:18 Ap 23 The Remains of the Day...
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...7:24 Ap 9 Fragments...
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...16:19 S 24 Mad Forest...
...After that, the other problems of assimilation quickly fall by the wayside...
...Asked for the sources of support for her nontraditional ways as a Palestinian woman, Dr...
...Or, angrily, that he was a fool...
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...17:30 8; 19:2 N 5 foreign policy, 2:4 Ja 29...
...The problem is not a lack of freedom...
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...5:15 Mr 12 The Song of Jacob Zulu...
...Am I right...
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...20:27 N 19 Groundhog Day...
...Long before Veritatis splendor, Smith 28:17 December 1993 Commonwealhas emphasized the use and misuse of the word freedom...
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...He then intones the familiar libertarian formula, "The moral choice to watch or not watch...is yours...
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...16:20 S 24 Sincerity Forever...
...2:14 Ja 29 Art, by Lee Siegel Temporal but timeless...
...People simply get along better when able to communicate verbally with one another...
...Earlier in our history some efforts were made to give the language of my German ancestors a certain official status equal to English...
...To the Editors: Heartfelt thanks for your helpful issue [October 22] on the pope's new encyclical...
...21:15 D 3 Gettysburg...
...19:3 N5 U.S...
...However, they appear to reverence the growing interference of the state, accrediting agencies, and professional organizations in the policies of the colleges...
...This from a woman who has dared articulate the most thoughtful and daring moral explication of Humanae vitae since it was issued twenty-five years ago...
...It was disappointing, then, to find in a Catholic journal like Commonweal no mention of this remarkable deed--a deed that in many ways is definitive of the Christian life...
...8:20 Ap 23 Too high the cornices...
...Consider the following from a recent article she published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review [April 1993] on the connection between contraception and abortion: The connection between contraception and abortion is primarily this: contraception facilitates the kind of relationships and even the kind of attitudes and moral characters that are likely to lead to abortion...
...In the name of freedom, your authors criticize episcopal intervention in the internal governance of the colleges...
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...culture, ll:10Je4...
...21:17 D 3 Halcyon Days...
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...21:17 D 3 Wings...
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...The lament of Charles Curran is typical...
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...3:17 Fe 12 A Perfect Ganesh...
...19:2 N 5; 19:6 N 5; 21:6 D 3 economy, 1:7 Ja 15...
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...11:20 Je 4 Smart, hip & real...
...It reminds us of the tenacity of God's grace to move people to do the seemingly impossible...
...The past two years have brought forth study after study (led by Dr...
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...To the Editors: I was disappointed in Janet Smith's response [October 22] to John Paul II's Veritatis splendor...
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...Or, contemptuously, that he was a grandstander for embracing in court the mothers of his tormentors...
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...As one engaged in adult catechetics, I am extremely grateful, es(Continued on page 28) 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...
...1:20 Ja 15 In Persons...
...p. 9, Bas, Rothco...
...To the Editors: Responding to readers who condemned his sycophantic review of "NYPD Blue" [October 8], Frank McConnell condescendingly answers: "Guys, it's a show...
...He warns of the dangers if the colleges dare to cross the AAUP: "First, the ordinances will at least cast a long and dark shadow over the enterprise of Catholic higher education...
...What to say...
...p. 21, Ross, Rothco...
...7:45 Ap 9; 8:14 Ap 23...
...The sexual revolution has no fondness--no room--for the connection between sexual intercourse and babies...
...11:10 J e 4 ; l l : l l Je 4;14:2 Ag13 World Youth Day, 15:4 S 10...
...But take heart...
...That, patronizingly, Denny was a nice guy for forgiving...
...Our confusion concerning the presence of the episcopate within the Catholic university is hardly surprising...
...Women, 7:10 Ap 9; 11:6 Je 4; 15:6 S 10 Working-Class War, 11:2 Je 4 World War II, 1:11 Ja 15...
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...He condemns the ordinances as a violation of academic freedom: "Ecclesiastical authorities outside the academic institution make decisions which determine who is hired and who is dismissed from a college faculty...
...it thinks of babies as an "accident" of intercourse, as an unwelcome intrusion into a sexual relationship, as a burden...
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...10:14 My 21 Springs of Water in a Dry Land, 10:30 My 21 Stone, Robert, 19:9 N 5 Sudan, 9:4 My 7; 11 : 11 Je 4 Supreme Court, 15:6 S 10...
...13:19 Jl 16 Fool Moon...
...DAVID THOMSON Is that clear, luv...
...foreign, $77...
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...These efforts often seem to founder in the dead end of irreconcilable grievance or in the detached and seething iciness of definitive judgment...
...Denny, beaten nearly to death but bearing the unheardof news, pointing toward the way out...
...11 : 19 Je 4 The Who's Tommy...
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...18:22 O 22 Stage, by Gerald Weales Angels in America...
...We can only hope that today's well-meaning multilingual advocates meet the same fate...
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...19:18 N 5 It' s not hell, just Limbaugh...
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...9:19 My 7 Someone Who'll Watch over Me...
...The historical evidence shows that new immigrants readily accept our liberal democratic political values...
...It is interesting that of your commentators the most pro-encyclical is a Protestant theologian with a seemingly Barthian bent...
...and at additional offices...
...4:31 Fe 26 United Nations, 2:4 Ja 29...
...Serials Data program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...He's not insecure at all...
...13:20 J1 16 El Mariachi...
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...2:17 December 1993 CommonwealSex, Art, and American Culture, 14:30 Ag 13 Shilts, Randy, 10:6 My 21 Shining Path, 6:13 Mr 26 Somalia, 19:3 N 5; 20:7 N 19 Spark, Muriel, 10:13 My 21...
...From my own position within the Episcopal church, there is no such map...
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...7:11 Ap 9; 10:2 My 21 ; 10:29 My 21...
...Now Steven Bochco has cynically ratcheted up the level of eroticism, violence, and incivility shaping the minds of children...
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...Forgiveness does not replace the demand for justice...
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...Add to this vast increases in teenage sexual activity, pandemic abortion, Spur Posse depredations, and deadbeat fatherhood, and reflect on the fact that some 85 percent of the sex scenes featured on network programming involved unmarried people...
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...Falling Down...
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...Why the state and the AAUP enjoy such singular power over Catholic colleges--while the Catholic bishops apparently should enjoy none--is never explained by Father Curran...
...The contraceptive mentality treats sexual intercourse as though it had little natural connection with babies...
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...I thought one quote in the interview delightful for its secondary meaning...
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...19:14 N 5 Carlito's Way...
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...8:19 Ap 23 Malcolm X...
...She stresses that the true freedom we all desire is to be able to pursue what is good and true, not a freedom that closely resembles license--the freedom to do whatever one wants, regardless of what is good and true...
...John Paul II & Barth Queens, N.Y...
...M.R.BECKER From the editors: No...
...7:24 Ap 9 The Yellow Wallpaper...
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