Editorial
Ho, ho, ho »B^^H^H is the season to be thankful, if not always jolly. We will avoid ^^^^^H the temptation to be otherwise. No mention here of the Gingrich ^^^^^^ (R-Ga.) who threatens to steal...
...Catholic, and We All Have a Share: A Catholic Vision of Prosperity through Productivity ($14.95, 186 pp), forthcoming in January from Chicago's ACTA Publications...
...Yet the social and economic inequalities of Amencan society have not disappeared with the collapse of communism and the near-universal rejection of state socialism Indeed, if the moral stinginess evident in current public discourse is a harbinger of things to come, John Paul II may have been right to suggest that "Now that communism has gone, the church has to be on the side of the poor, otherwise they will go undefended...
...Such a faith, we trust, will continue to have real democratic implications...
...Without a vision of the good, the sacrifices a common life requires become merely higher taxes...
...Former Commonweal editor David Toolan, S.J., has an essay in that volume as well...
...Seems that in the pursuit of justice and a conviction, Ms...
...That would not be a goal solely, or even primarily, for the national government, but the national government would have a part...
...That is the ghost of Christmas Future Our holiday cheer is so great, in fact, that we will not even stoop to chastising the reckless Helms-man (R-N.C) for his incontinent rantings about the physical safety of the president...
...Orbis has just published his essay "A Loaves and Fishes View of Productivity" in Embracing Earth: Catholic Approaches to Ecology (Albert J. LaChance and John E. Carroll, editors, $19.95, 280 pp...
...Good for the archbishop, but he's ten years late...
...Whatever was left of the New Deal coalition, which forged a politics of shared interests between the poor and the middle class, suffered a resounding rejection last month by the voters The tenor of current Amencan politics suggests that in the absence of a unifying external threat the nation is wrestling with questions of economic and social equality that go to the heart of the democratic expenence Perhaps we are only now realizing how much the effort to contain the Soviet Union gave a morally compelling, if sometimes misguided, sense of purpose to our national life Indeed, much of the political energy behind the nation's effort to wage "war" on poverty and redress a shameful history of racial discrimination was linked to the cold war effort to demonstrate the moral superiority of American life...
...The end of the cold war vindicated liberal democracy, but that victory seems to have brought only discontent and turmoil to American domestic politics...
...Whatever one's judgment about November's stunning political reversals, a reinvigorated debate about the moral meaning of liberal democracy should be the result...
...The father superior of ten men is more important than the mother superior of 10,000 women There's no point in publishing the names of women superiors because who needs to know them 4...
...As Chesterton said, pragmatism is not a very pragmatic way to get people to cooperate with one another...
...In my opinion there is a worthy objective....that would inspire and energize the American people," Stein writes "That goal would be to improve the quality of life 3 of the least advantaged among us and to reduce the hostility and fear among the races...
...PRODUCTIVE RENAISSANCE MAN Commonweals fedora-wearing business manager Richard Haas is a man of many hats...
...No gloomy musings on the nation's possibly Dole-ful (R-Kans...
...John O'Brien...
...If American democracy is searching for a new purpose— for a revitalized language to help extend the Amencan promise of equality—religious traditions that remind us of our obligations to defend the dignity of all persons will have much to contribute...
...Society's obligations to the poor must remain high on the agenda of Western democracies...
...Something more than a call to material progress is needed if the "poverty in our public life" is not to diminish us all...
...Suddenly I saw a normal person not hiding behind the archaicness of the law but talking real...
...When it comes to productivity, Richard not only talks the talk but he walks the walk...
...YOU COULD LOOK IT UP (NOT) Speaking in support of requests by women's religious orders for an end to discrimination by the church against women, Archbishop Maunce Couture of Quebec pointed to the 1993 Vatican Yearbook (Annuario pontificio...
...Mere pragmatism or self-interest will not get us very far...
...Clark had changed her hairdo, wardrobe, voice, facial expressions, and style...
...Richard has done all of this while keeping track of Commonweal's bottom line and the logistics of Commonweal'1 s "Religion and the Media" forums...
...Or, for that matter, by their shell-shocked Democratic adversaries...
...For we believe that God himself once moved among us as just such a one as these...
...What caught our eye was this quote on the makeover from Martin Q. Peterson, a trial consultant from Lincoln, Nebraska: "It seemed like the difference between being in a Roman Catholic church when they spoke Latin, and suddenly walking into the Mass in the vernacular...
...it lists the names of the superiors general of all institutes of men, but none of the names of the superiors general of women {Origins, November 3...
...who threatens to steal Christmas along with food stamps, aid to dependent children, and whatever else is lying around unspoken for in Washington...
...At Christmas especially, we are reminded that the lives of the poor, the indigent, and the abandoned have an imperishable meaning...
...Some of the messages conveyed (Father Lorenzoni, a kind man, says they are "admittedly unintentional but nonetheless inescapable") Women are of little consequence in the church...
...He also looked for the the name of the superior general of the Salesian Sisters, the second largest congregation of women m the church, nearly 18,000 members No name...
...Writing in the Religious Life Review for November-December 1985, our correspondent Larry N. Lorenzoni, S.D.B [Correspondence, November 18] recalled turning to the Annuario to find the name of the superior general of the Fathers of Mercy, an order founded in 1808 which has seven members worldwide...
...Such a vision is not being enunciated by Washington's new Republican leaders...
...Richard is also the author of "The Living Wage Makes Good Business Sense" in the December U.S...
...Yet a further democratization of both politics and wealth is needed, and may have been what the electorate was demanding by overturning the status quo in Washington...
...Who would have thought that the Dixie-singing senior senator from North Carolina would harbor subversive sentiments once derided as radical chic7 May you live in interesting times, goes the Chinese imprecation, and so we do...
...Before the election, Herbert Stein, former chairman of the Richard Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, deplored the sourness and triviality of recent politics "The reason is that we have no grand national purpose," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal (October 25) Capitalism's triumph, noted this conservative Republican, is finally "a banality...
...prospects...
...ET CETERA LAWYERLY LITURGY, RENEWAL OF We had solemnly resolved to be the only publication in the country other than the Chicken Farmers' Gazette to pnnt absolutely nothing about the trial of O J. Simpson, but then we saw a piece in the New York Times discussing the efforts of Marcia Clark, lead prosecutor, to become more media-friendly, this because she's up against chief defense lawyer Robert L. Shapiro, known in the trade as the "Clausewitz" of media manipulation...
...The name was there: the Very Rev...
...Deprived of a foreign adversary, we seem eager to rest on our laurels...
Vol. 121 • December 1994 • No. 22
