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...p. 23, Punch, Rothco...
...My advice to all those who would opFor information, contact: pose so-called gay lifestyles would be to Rosemary Broughton, STL, Ph.D Institute in Pastoral Ministries admit homosexuals quam primum into Saint Mary's College #1497 their churches and clubs, armies, navies, fa and labor unions...
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...p. 40, Smith, Rothco...
...I do believe, however, pp...
...I suspect that he of the ancient letter to Diognetus, who assemble his People's Temple...
...forshort reminiscence to be published in Jews, and other minorities-were com- eign, $77...
...Maybe we're going to just let Carlin's passion in this cause...
...That such beliefs are religiously based Ohio 44691...
...My • scripture • sacraments conscience tells me otherwise: that we • ecclesiology • foundations in theology should not be discriminated against with • moral issues • pastoral practice respect to employment or housing or spousal rights, that we should be allowed A student-selected master's project implemented to adopt children if we prove to be carafter the second summer...
...they are put to death, but it is of recognizing the demonic and thus help- what once were called the corporal and life they receive...
...Rather our waiting must be resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is the rifices from us...
...On the University, New Orleans...
...mula on how we could remain distinc- Carlin says that "they fear giving the On the other hand, I relish the differtively Catholic-presuming for the okay to homosexuality will open the ence, the "specialness," that being gay moment that we should-he runs out of door wider to lying, stealing, cheating, has hitherto meant, the association, howeither space or ideas...
...7, 13, 20, 26, 30, Jean Charlot...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions the 75th anniversary issue of the mitted by people whose beliefs were re- must be paid in U.S...
...This is precisely the bigotry Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Commonweal does for the American re- that has led to an epidemic of gay-bash- Digest and Book Review Index...
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...And it is Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, that would do for higher education what dangerous...
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...MARK J. HURLEY The writer, formerly an associate ed- To the Editors: As a gay male I am proThe writer is the retired bishop of the itor of Commonweal, teaches in the de- foundly ambivalent about the whole issue diocese of Santa Rosa...
...In my heart of hearts I do not relish the prospect of seeA non-traditional format with intensive summer ing my charism "routinized," regarded as sessions and course completion in the months lightly as left-handedness or double-jointfollowing...
...ing and loving parents (and thanked for not exercising the "right" to breed in this The residential summer session takes place increasingly overpopulated world...
...partment of communications, Loyala of the acceptance of gay lifestyles...
...And I have just written a very human rights in history-toward blacks, subscriptions, U.S., $39...
...Carlin is outraged that any- terests and values...
...Arguing that the dead of a time of activity that seeks to present to truth and thus cannot but help us meet Jonestown died bravely, but as martyrs to the world the excitement of God's peace...
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...Such such is the case, because I believe that what volves at least agreement that no one a waiting does not mean we withdraw from Christians believe about what God has ought to take religion too seriously, es- the struggle by wallowing in self-induldone for us through the life, death, and pecially if it is going to ask any real sac- gent despair...
...new era and remain vital at the same that gays and lesbians suffer greatly as a p. 32, Ross, Rothco...
...homosexuals of history...
...You just can't get much less against such powers as those which spiritual works of mercy, acts too often less utopian than that...
...10, 34, Baloo, Rothco...
...San Francisco, Calif...
...gians and (yes, in my case) editors of theintegration is as good a brief review Lewis doesn't need me to defend him, ologians...
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...anecdotal" and "nonscientific," if not half-dozen articles on the same topic, I To the Editors: David R. Carlin, Jr., writes self-serving, but would it help if I bared plunged into David R. Carlin, Jr.'s column on behalf of those "whose opposition to my soul and those of my friends, trotted on the identity crisis of Catholic colleges homosexual conduct is religiously based" out my merit badges to certify my "nor[February 121 with enthusiasm and high ["They Call Themselves Liberals," malcy," the sheer ordinariness of my inexpectations-the way I plunge into each February 26...
...Writing of those believers, we not bleed...
...We are here, we are new semester...
...About an appropriate posture toward ty, Hauerwas could...
...edness...
...To the Editors: The age of miracles has things "burn down," and maybe there'll THOMAS HIGGINS not ended...
...Remember the Commonweal and result of widespread bigotry...
...Rereading both, I'm struck by the preva- I am a liberal, but I am not one who holds Ilustrations: cover design, Emil Antonucci...
...Commonweal accuses the New be someone left who wants to start York Times of anti-Catholicism ["Some fresh...
...Since that would be recommending such activity reobserved that Christians "reside in their society no longer believes that "issues of gardless of the clock-reading on the cover respective countries, but only as pil- truth and falsity pertain in matters reli- of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
...Yet I think the assumption that "being modern in- security through apocalyptic threats...
...Moreover, 2: 9 April 1993 Commonweal not believe that such an emphasis more as pathological mass hysteria is a "dan- wait patiently by refusing to let the danlikely will help us meet `the needs of the gerous trivialization" which emerges from ger of nuclear weapons tempt us to buy future,"' Hauerwas admits...
...one, especially New York Times colum- everywhere," as the saying goes: sinners Carlin's description of the transition nist Anthony Lewis, should regard such and saints, plumbers and priests, theolofrom the era of the ghetto to the era of opposition as bigotry...
...lent images of death and fire...
...And June 27 - July 10, 1993...
...name is legion) and even nefarious (their that there is no role left for creative lead- Well, now, that certainly sounds like (Continued on page 42) ership within the American Catholic com- bigotry to me...
...But when we came to the but Carlin is hardly persuasive in his in- that old chestnut, "When you prick us, do part where I expected him to offer a for- dictment...
...Still, I realize that this is my snobbism talking, my wish to be numbered Coursework during three summers includes: among the "elect," the chosen few...
...New York, N.Y...
...grims...
...ligiously based...
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...one hand, the argument or assumption that gays cannot be as devoted as the next guy Carlin quit too soon to family, friends, church, and state strikes Bigotry is no myth New Orleans, La...
...dismissed as the products of a complacent, These essays-on matters as diverse as The one quibble I have with this writ- even decadent piety...
...Nevertheless, I can't help thinking what a poorer world it will be...
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...we've missed our chance to adapt to the held in disdain...
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...It is preposterous, irraCommonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to munity to forge at least a few institutions tional, and spiteful nonsense...
...In writing about nuclear armament, for instance, he says Jonestown, for example, he argues that to that "Christians, exactly because their dismiss the suicides of Jones's followers hope is grounded in God, must learn to CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) A graduate program developed and designed for name is Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover) working adults engaged in parish ministries...
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...consolidation, for a few really excellent that injustice...
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...They are unknown, yet are con- gious," it is a society which is incapable I'll bet such activity would look a lot like demned...
...Granted the evidence is To the Editors: As one who has written a Baltimore, Md...
...Order or by check on a U.S...
...If anyone could give suicides-are united by a gracious alien- the stuff I wrote when he was trying to a compelling account of the "excitement ation which enables their author to flush teach me) is its occasional absence of de- of God's peace" inherent in such activiout and rough up many of the dogmas of tail...
...We would welcome Mr...
...reigned in Jonestown...
...CORRESPONDENCE America articles in the sixties calling for there is a Christian imperative to redress Wondrous to behold...
...The a false god, Hauerwas adds that they were I can't help but wonder what such activworld view Hauerwas espouses seems failed by the contemporary American so- ity would look like, and Hauerwas doesn't identical to that described by the writer ciety in which Jim Jones was allowed to say much more about it...
...By answering his violence, etc., not to mention other forms ever unmerited, with all the great (their question with another question, he implies of sexual misconduct...
...of course we should be admitted into the military if that's our heart's desire...
...schools...
...and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, spectable...
...And maybe Carlin should try Gain & loss for gays News Doesn't Fit," March 12...
...Last year, partly for the exercise, I makes no difference, nor is it surprising...
...Just read Nation theological method, nuclear disarmament, ing (and I insist upon at least one quib- columnist Christopher Hitchens on Mother pacifism, the Holocaust, and the Jonestown ble ...God knows Hauerwas chewed up Teresa some time...
...0 sectarian secularism...
...Maybe that "religious traditionalists are to be cover art, pp...
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