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CORRESPONDENCE Louder, please Camarillo, Calif. To the Editors: As the National Right to Life Committee speaks out to condemn the murders of doctors at abortion clinics, it uses so puny a voice...
...Anyone who believes in apostolic succession is a fundamentalist...
...In panentheism God is independent of the created but the created remain dependent on the Creator...
...Eleanor C. Palatucci, NY Anita M. Pampusch, MN Alan A. Pardee, NY John and Loretta Pavlik, IL Carl A. Peltersch, MI Donald A. Perreault, CA Raymond J. Perry, MA Romero G. Petroni, CT Veronica E. Pheney, FL G. Edward Philips, NM Judge Horace O. Pierotti, TN John Pliska, MI Marie Ponsot, NY Anne E. Porter, NY Rose M. Power, NJ Antonio Prado, FL John and Mary Prucha, NY Fernande Pruden, DC Dennis and Leslie Purcell, NY William P. Pyne, NJ Rev...
...Daniel A. Degnan, S.J., NJ Walter and Dorothy Dempsey, TX Wilfrid and Elizabeth Desan, DC Dr...
...To the Editors: Leafing through recent issues, I found an article that simply knocked me flat: Sidney Callahan's "Paradigms in Peril" [October 7,1994...
...Callahan is correct that the difference between the average, orthodox lay Catholic like me and liberal intellectuals like her is fundamental...
...Sheen didn't shine Lupton, Mich...
...Charles Heideman, IL Joseph Heininger, MI Mary Christine Hellin, NY Kurt Wm...
...Lawrence J. Murtagh, SD Rev...
...Thomas I. Healy, IL Francis H. Heller, KS Richard Hofstad, MN W.J...
...Robert G. Navarre, CA William J. Nellen, CT John F. Nelligan, Ontario Mary K. Nenno, DC Frank Nigra, NY Kathryn and Jon Nilson, IL Patricia J. Nussey, NY Robert C. O'Brien, NY Robert M. O'Brien, VA Charles J. O'Connell, NY Ray and Mary O'Connell, NY Mary Ellen O'Connor, NY Sean O'Connor, CT Margaret O'Gara and Joseph Vertin, Ontario Dr...
...John Fahey, CA Doris and Thomas Falin, PA Anne Farber, NY Florence Farley, PA Thomas L. Farrelly, NY Paulette Farris, CT Patrick V.Felker,WI Andrew Felker, WI Edward J. Fencl, OK In Memory of Barbara E. Ferkiss, MD W.H...
...Charles Van Duren, IL Mr...
...Frank Jennings, NY James R. Jennings, VA Chester A. Johnson, ME Bernard J. Johnston, NY Sandra Poysa and Jim Jordan, CA Thomas F. Jordan, CA Patricia M. Joyce, NY Joyce Kales, PA Daniel and Mary Kane, OH Paul Kane, NY Rev...
...Fowle, MO Robert and Linda Frank, NJ Dr...
...Robert J. Duane, NY Rev...
...George W. Zeller, ID Rev...
...Burton, S.J., CO Rev...
...Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., IN Rev...
...Thomas P. O'Connor, IN Annette O'Flaherty, NJ James O'Gara, NY Rev...
...David Toolan, S.J., NY Rev...
...Philip J. Kenney, NH Peter James Kountz, PA Rev...
...Sommer, Jr., MD J. Sowinski, IL Jeffrey Spencer, CA Msgr...
...With apologies to Groucho Marx, I ask you, "Whom are you going to believe...
...Thanks, Frank Nashville, Tenn...
...Joseph Alves, MA Rev...
...Edward J. Larkin, NJ Elaine S. Larkin, CA In Memory of J. J. Larson, MN Edward and Martha Laurance, CA Richard S. Lavery, CT Rev...
...William Reilly, Jr., NY Timothy and Kathleen Reuland, IL Sheila T. Reynolds, IL Mrs...
...Timothy Eden, S.M., CA Msgr...
...Daniel J. McCarty, WI Peter R. McClure, MA Neil G. McCluskey, FL Patrick J. and Frances R. McCormick, PA Rev...
...Wallace Erwin, MA Rev...
...Francis P. Jackman, MD Dr...
...Arthur A. Campbell, NY Joseph Agresta, CT John and Lois Ahlhauser, IN Michael Alavanja, MD John and Julia Albrecht, MD John A. Alexander, MA Mr...
...Paul J. Savage, PA Mary H. Scheuer, MI A. F. Schmelzle, MN Frank R. Schmid, IL James and Ruth Shannon, MN Timothy F. Sheehan, MA Warren Shufeldt, IL Mr...
...and Carol Bernstein Ferry, NY Msgr...
...I'm sure there are variations on this theme, but in any case no one is going to say we must worship cockroaches...
...Frank R. Gardner, PA Frances S. Gaukel, IA John M. Gavin, IL Laura S. Gellott, WI Dr...
...But Dagobert Runes's Dictionary of Philosophy is more specific...
...Joseph Zemites, AZ John J. and Nell Zingsheim, MNll, DC Mr...
...Francis X. Canfield, MI Connie Carey, NJ Mr...
...Hence the well-known and venerable maxim: 'Legem credendi lex statuat supplicandi'-let the rule for prayer determine the rule of belief...
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...Benefactors Anonymous, IL Mig Boyle, NY Cyril and June Buersmeyer, MI Francis Neill Corbett, NY Thomas J. Donnelly, PA Mrs...
...R. James Balint, TX Martha Baltzell, PA John H. Bannon, CA James D. Barger, M.D., NV Russell and Bernice Barta, IL Katherine S. Batts, CO Harry Jr., and Carol Baumann, OH Donald and Shirley Bedard, MI Rev...
...Thank God the church has been given the self-correcting guidance of the Holy Spirit leading us to be an "ever reforming" institution, capable of change and constant renewal...
...Joseph Burns, IL Bishop Charles A. Buswell, CO Amity P. Buxton, Ph.D., CA In Memory of John Peter Byrne, IL Marie T. Byrne, NY Clare M. Byrnes, PA Rosemary Cahill, IL Owen and Mary Jane Cahill, NY Jack B. Caldwell, CA Bill and Laura Caldwell, OH John F. Callaghan, MI Edward T. Callan, MI John P. and Margaret G. Callanan, CA L. A. Cambey, NY Margaret M. Campbell, LA Msgr...
...Kegel, WA Dorothy N. Kelly, FL William J. Kelly, IL Kevin P. Kelly, VA Sighle Kennedy, IN Msgr...
...David M. McDonald, CT Tony and Joellen McDonald, MO Joseph W. McDonnell, NY Marie T. McDonough, NY Eugene F. McDonough, Jr., M.D., MA Rev...
...I would appreciate any further information you may have-or the name of a person who may be contacted to obtain such information-that may be helpful in initiating a similar community effort in my parish, located in the Archdiocese of Washington...
...Timothy C. and Diane L. Horrigan, IA Virginia Horrigan, CT John B.A...
...Helen Brinich, OH William R. Broderick, NJ Michael R. Brooks, NY Daniel A. Brown, CA Glenn J. Brown, MI Alden and Maureen Brown, NY Rev...
...So why should we not humbly acknowledge and accept the creation's living webs of time and context...
...John R. Rebold, NM Ceil Reh, MO Bernard F. Reilly, PA Dorothy and Jeremy Reilly, VA Michael J. Reilly, MD, VA Dr...
...Robert L. Berner, Jr., IL Rev...
...Alleva on 'Vampire' Alliance, Ohio To the Editors: While it's true that a work of art should stand on its own merits, it's also true that when the same artistic statement is made in different media, the resulting works remain inextricably intertwined, like twins conjoined at the heart...
...Who's on First" [January 13] was a real touch of spice...
...James F. O'Hayer, CT Rev...
...Robert Imbelli, NY David Impastato, VA Rev...
...Joseph Bruetsch, IN Rev...
...DEBORAH MATTINGLY CONNER Reversible rule Aurora, Ohio To the Editors: Your December 2,1994 "Et cetera" commenting on Gabe Huck' s much appreciated report on the lectionary reversals ["Rome Speaks: Inclusive Language Verboten," November 18, 1994] brought to mind Geoffrey Wainwright's work on usage of the "tag," lex orandi, lex creden-di in his 1980 book Doxology...
...John D. Alexander, S.J., NY Frank D. Almade, PA Msgr...
...Louis J. Trivison, OH Arthur and Sheila Tybor, CA Rev...
...John P. Duffell, NY Rev...
...John F. Murphy, KY Vincent R. Murphy, ND Rev...
...George E. Wuellner, IL Jane Wyatt (Ward), CA Sustaining Anonymous, CA Anonymous, FL Anonymous, IL Anonymous, MA Anonymous, MA Anonymous, MN Anonymous, NY Anonymous, PA Anonymous, PA Msgr...
...Wilbur (Priscilla) Wright, CO Michael Zeik, NY Mrs...
...James Finucan, WI Dennis FitzSimons, NJ Katherine Fitzgerald, MA Arthur W. Fleming, M.D., PA Mary Ann Fleming, KS E. Virginia Flynn, MA Eileen P. Flynn, NJ Joseph M. Foley, M.D., OH Eugene Fontinell, NY Mario J. Forte, NJ G.E...
...Anthony J. Daniele, MA Dr...
...Albert C. Giaquinto, S.S., DC Richard D. Gibbs, DC Rev...
...Thanks again for a delightful few minutes of remembering and reflection...
...William Munshower, IN Robert Murncy, MO Rev...
...William G. Kenneally, IL Dr...
...Box 250-299, New York, N.Y...
...William J. Leonard, S.J., MA Norma T. Lewis, FL Francis R. Lewis, NJ Rose Mary Lewis, NY Mrs...
...Hugh Fullmer, IL E. D. Gallagher, NJ Frank and Jeanette Gallagher, PA Raymond A. Gallagher, CT Mrs...
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...Robert (Carol) Devitt, NY Stanley E. Dewey, OH Charles DiSalvo, WV T. DiSilvio, VT Ellen Dickinson, MA Donald and Christine Diehl, MI Rev...
...Philip Kaufman, O.S.B., MN Thomas J. Kaveney, IL John Kearns, NY Mrs...
...William L. Butler, MA John and Dorothy Callahan, MN Helen M. Cannon, IL Msgr...
...Donald (Kate H.) Keefe, CT Dorothy Keenan, WI Rev...
...Even Saint Thomas, whom Callahan surprisingly calls on as a witness for the defense of process theology, is a victim of the dreaded syndrome...
...S. J. Eye, IL Rev...
...Robert and Helen Barnet, NV Stanley A. Bartus, M.D., CT Paul N. Bauer, OH Vincent H. Beckman, OH Joseph H. Beecher, MA Dr...
...Margaret Desiderio, NJ Mrs...
...Frank S. Dinger, NY Paul E. Dinter, NY William B. Dixon, Esq., PA James and Kathleen Doig, GA Daria L. Donnelly, MA Pierre Dowd, DC Thomas and Rosemary Dowling, NY In Memory of Dorothy Drish, IL Phyllis M. Doyle, IL Maribeth Dwyer, MT Neal M. and Martha Einson, NY Ellen and Robert Elie, NY Robert P. Ellis, IL Colonel Robert J. Ennis, CO Rev...
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...Bartholomew J. Merella, MD Fred Lough and Mary Ellen Mullin, PA John Murphy, MA Joseph E. Murray, M.D., MA Bruce Nangles, MO Rev...
...To the Editors: Frank McConnell belongs to that sad group of people whose egos outstrip their accomplishments...
...Edward Wetterer, NY Kevin S. Whitley, CA Margaret G. Wilkinson, CA Mary Beth Williams, IL Constance Wilson, KY Margaret H. Wimsatt, CT Ruth and Joe Wimsatt, KY Margaret B. Winegarden, NY In Memory of Adrian P. Winkel, MN Pauline Wohlford, MI James Wolcott, NY Marguerite Wordell, KY James R. Worsley, Jr., MD Mrs...
...Laboring under the illusion that I am an ordinary Catholic believer, I discovered that I am really a fundamentalist-one who believes, says Ms...
...Jerome Travers, NJ Sargent and Eunice Shriver, MD Peggy and Peter Steinfels, NY In Memory of Theresa Greene Straulman, MO Jim and Kitty Tierney, MO Joan Dunn Walsh, NY Ray Warman, NY Robert J. Weiler, NM Charter Anonymous, NJ Anonymous, PA Anonymous, VT Mary Anne Byrne (Mrs...
...Davenport, CA In Memory of Dorothy Day, NY Hallie DeChant & Thomas Bowne, MD Msgr...
...Hogan, PA Clement J. Holgate, NJ Msgr...
...Unstylish, yes, unsophisticated, it is the language of the heart...
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...The historical record is there for all to see: Popes and church authorities and lay persons and saints and theologians, acting with good will, have made mistakes because of their limited perspective...
...It appears from Father Imbelli's article that I may have found the answer...
...Raymond H. Schmandt, PA Ann Marie Schneeman, NY Robert and Frances Schueler, MD Paul Schweitzer, NY Vivian Segall, CT Msgr...
...John E. Watterson, RI Charles A. Watts, IN Mary Ellen Webber, IN Robert H. Weber, CO Regina Weissert, IN Elizabeth A. Weixel, PA Rev...
...I would try to enlighten him, but he already said he wouldn't listen...
...Daniel M. Cantwell, IL Maureen O. Carleton, WA Margaret D. Carroll, MD Ruth Carroll, PA Edward J. Carville, CA Kevin J. Christiano, IN Anthony Ciccariello, NY Joseph J. Cieply, IL Martin and Mary Codd, NC George D. Cody, NJ Rev...
...Richard P. Bendel, MN Mr...
...John H. Bryson, NH Stanley A. Bukowski, NY Covelle N. Burbank, NY Joan Burke, CA Mary N. Burke, NM Monica Burnham, AZ Ed and Eileen Burns, CT Ellen Burns, NY Francis P. and Dolores Burns, CT Rev...
...Fifty years from now not even the Boston Pops will be playing this stuff...
...Charles Wasilewski, Jr., PA Archbishop Rembert Weakland, O.S.B., WI Bruce Weber, OR M.J...
...God can use the dynamic processes of the universe and our human nature to communicate with us at the present moment...
...Persevering labor is always required...
...James T. Callahan, CA Sidney and Daniel Callahan, NY Rev...
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...Alfred F. Horrigan, KY...
...Robert F. Drinan, S.J., DC Lee F. Driscoll, Jr., PA Rev...
...So it takes a "mediating position" between the "extreme immanence" of pantheism and "extreme transcendence...
...Russell J. Collins, MA Mr...
...Edward Sullivan, PA Russell and Katherine Sullivan, PA Thomas E. Sullivan, NC Winnifred and Barry Sullivan, VA Valerie Sutter, VA Joan M. Sutton, PA Ann M. Swanson, MA Marion Terrell, DC Mr...
...Kathleen M. Vertin, MN Lillian Doris Viacava, NY A.E.P...
...Thomas P. Leonard, NY Frank J. and Mary Macchiarola, NY Ronald E. MacDonald, CA Robert Mack, MI Patricia MacManus, NY Denis G. Mahoney, NY Rev...
...To justify their "I'm afraid that vow of silence you took includes the radio, Brother Francis...
...Edward Wetterer, NY Kevin S. Whitley, CA Margaret G. Wilkinson, CA Mary Beth Williams, IL Constance Wilson, KY Margaret H. Wimsatt, CT Ruth and Joe Wimsatt, KY Margaret B. Winegarden, NY In Memory of Adrian P. Winkel, MN Pauline Wohlford, MI James Wolcott, NY Marguerite Wordell, KY James R. Worsley, Jr., MD Mrs...
...Schumacher, WI Rev...
...Albert W. Kramer, NJ Mary Ellen Krauss, MI Thomas J. Kucera, IL Thomas and Barbara Kummerer, IL Patricia A. Kurfman, CO Rev...
...To the Editors: In his brief review [December 2] of David Halberstam's The Fifties, Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland expresses surprise that the book doesn't mention Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...
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...Bigelow, CT Michael W. Blastic, DC Rev...
...Hostage, NH Dr...
...Francis X. Murphy, C.SS.R., MD Msgr...
...Wainwright comments that one of the questions the encyclical raises is the relationship between the authority of the worship of the church as such and the authority of the teaching office in the church...
...To one and all, the staffs heartfelt thanks...
...Gerald E. Siefken, LA Bishop Richard Sklba, WI Gerard C. Smith, MD Hillen J. Smith, MD Mary A. Stanton, MA Greg and Mary Stephen, IL Edward J. Tedesco, MA Suzanne McSorley and Thomas Baker, NJ Charles A. Tobin, MD Rev...
...becomes "Why is the Garden of Love also the Savage Garden...
...Frederick W. Rice, NY John Rieke, NJ Joseph J. Roach, NY Jason Robards, CT Richard Robedeau, OR Harry M. Roberts, TX John M. Roberts, CA Marie Roberts, CA William Roberts, MA Peter S. Robinson, CT Katharine M. Rock, OH Paul Roese, MI Shirley A. Rogers, TX Bishop Peter A. Rosazza, CT J. Richard Rossie, TN Rev...
...W. F. (Mary W.) Lavin, DE Roch Le Page, CT Bishop Raymond A. Lucker, MN Stephen Manning, KY Frank J. McCabe, FL William H. McCaslin, NY Robert and Mildred McCoy, OH John P. McDonough, VT John G. McKevitt, PA Edward and Jane McMillan, CT Rev...
...Richard A. McCormick, S.J., IN Jim McCrea, CA Myles T. McDonald, PA Rev...
...Anne Rice's novel records the psychological journey of a mother subconsciously trying to accept her small daughter's death from the "living vampire," leukemia...
...He really needn't fret...
...James Challancin, MI Bridget Lee Charitable Trust, PA Blanche Childs, IL Saint Mark's Church, VA Margretta A. Collins, NY Rev...
...Thomas (Kathleen) Knight, Jr., CT James E. Koller, NY Stanley P. Kopacz, PA Donald H. and Marie Kotz, WI Mr...
...The relationships in this story represent spirits in isolated loneliness and their attempts to connect beyond the body...
...and Sally Fullman, NJ Rev...
...Joseph A. Heaney, NY Mrs...
...To the Editors: As the National Right to Life Committee speaks out to condemn the murders of doctors at abortion clinics, it uses so puny a voice that it amounts to praise by faint damnation...
...Edward Cantwell, NY David R., Jr., and Maureen Carlin, RI Nora Cashion, PA Rev...
...Edward J. Ruetz, IN Marie Ruff, IL Donald and Elizabeth Runkle, KS Marion M. Ryan, NY Maggie Rybold, WI David L. Salvaterra, IA G.M...
...Richard Aylward, Japan Dr...
...Ronald T. Trojcak, Ontario Eugene J. Vader Jr., MN John H. Van Gorder, MO Monica Serpe Yolles, IL Patrons Anonymous, MA Mrs...
...Horrigan, WA James Jereb, NY John Leo, NY Barbara A. McCafferty, M.D., PA Samuel Mullin, MA Kevin T. O'Brien, NJ Daniel P. O'Connell, CT Thomas J. Posatko, DE Redemptorists of Western Canada Gertrude A. Schlachter, NY Joan and Richard Sexton, NY Margaret M. Sullivan, DC Rev...
...Along with myself, it seems that every pope and saint since Saint Peter is a fundamentalist, although I always thought that fundamentalists believed in biblical inerrancy rather than apostolic succession...
...Frederick Franck, NY Peter B. Fritz, LA Msgr...
...Edwin H. Hustedde, IL Joseph Hynes, OR Rev...
...Donald L. Kinzer, OR Mary Ann Kirkham, AZ J. T. Kivlin, WI John H. Kniest, Jr., VA Mrs...
...Sande, MN John Sankovitz, MN Robert W. Sauter, OH Michael and Ann Savageau, MI Cornelius J. Scanlon, CT Stephen A. Scherr, NE Neil H. Schilmoeller, TX Dr...
...I don't believe there are any sexual "norms" for the dead...
...Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., NY Mr...
...John M. Behen, C.PP.S., OH Rev...
...As theologian Nicholas Lash has said, Christians must be engaged "in the endlessness of making sense" of the gospel, and not turn away from "the labor of interpretation...
...Otto C. Stegmaier, IA Elizabeth H. Steltenpohl, NY Annette Stoddard-Freeman, WI Anne and Will Storz, CT James Strauss, MN Louise Stutzman, VA James T. Sugrue, NY Msgr...
...Wilbur (Priscilla) Wright, CO Michael Zeik, NY Mrs...
...I too am an ordinary Catholic believer who affirms that Christians have been commissioned by God to pass on divinely revealed truths...
...Harold D. Carroll, ME Paul and Helena Cavanagh, RI Catherine M. Connolly, CA Dr...
...JAMES L. HEITSCH Callahan's victim God Danvers, Mass...
...Daniel J. O'Connor, GA John Philip O'Connor, NJ Rev...
...the personal involvement of the reader with this author results from her power to bring about that sharing...
...James) Barry, IL Rev...
...John J. Egan, IL Philip Erard, NY Gail Lambers and Peter Fagan, MD Paul and Clare Faherty, IL Paul and Theodora Cogley Farrell, MA Vincent Fausone, Jr., CA Thomas C. Finnerty, NY Rev...
...Circulation at last is slowly rising...
...Joseph B. Judge, NY Rev...
...Anthony J. Vader, IL Jo Goeke Vallo, IL Rev...
...More to the point, why should our living apostolic faith in the infinite living God who "makes all things new," not evolve as a dynamic, ever enlarging understanding of and appreciative commitment to God's truth...
...Jude P. McGeough, RI Rita T. McGinty, TX Rev...
...William J. Bausch, NJ Helen L. Boyle, PA Mrs...
...John D. LaBelle, CT Mary Gilbert Ladd, TX Julia A. Lane, IL Mary Irene Lanigan, MA Louis and Mary Lanzerotti, NJ Msgr...
...James H. Freel, AZ Franciscan Friars, MD C.E...
...I certainly did not mean to question the existence or importance of the (Continued on page 22)CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) apostolic succession, but only those church authorities who might condemn unbelievers as stupid or rebellious...
...Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., MN Jean and Tom Digan, MA Enoch and Jean Dillon, MD Tom and Kristi Dinell, HI Mrs...
...Yet this very God, according to the Gospels, so loves the world that the Word becomes flesh, and enters into all the dynamics of history, context, and systemic forces-even to becoming the saving victim of the cross...
...John W. Brennan, NJ Mrs...
...To the Editors: Thanks to you and to Frank McConnell for brightening up this rather dull Monday evening-and for reminding me how much I do miss hearing Pete Townshend's masterful writings...
...James Spengler, NY Donna M. Cooper Stangle, VA Laurence Stanton, IL Dr...
...George W. Zeller, ID Rev...
...John J. Bumstead, CT Rev...
...When you print claptrap you demean Commonweal's tradition of excellence...
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...Thomas J. Kennedy, Jr., MD Anne and Wendell Kestle, AL Alice Kilcoin, NY In Memory of Lawrence T. King, CA Almeda King, MA Mr...
...John M. Thompson, SC Robert E. Tobin, NY Michael and Barbara Toohig, VA Rev...
...Siegler, ME Joseph Simone, NY Courtney Smith, IL Joseph M. Smith, PA A.A...
...Joseph P. Houlihan, MI Charles and Agnes Huether, NJ Jane Wolford Hughes, MI Rev...
...Michael J. Hunt, C.S.P., MA Margaret M. Hurley, CT Benedict J. Hussmann, IL Rev...
...Edgar Kurt, IA James P. Kurtz, MI Mr...
...James N. Loughran, S.J., NY Sheila Lyne, IL Kathleen V. Lyons, KY William H. Lyons, M.D., WI Thomas M. MacDonald, NY Robert E. MacMaster, MA Mary C. Mackin, IA Lawrence Maddock, IL John J. Magee, FL Paul Magnano, WA John Robert Maher, CA John J. Mahoney, CA John F. Mahony, NY In Memory of Ann Harrigan Maklezoff, Ontario Stephen and Winifred Mallard, NJ James and Marguerite Mallen, CA Bishop James W. Malone, OH John D. Maloney, CA Kathleen Manion, MA Rev...
...Eugene De Benko, MI Rev...
...Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., CA Vincent O'Reilly, CA Quentin and Paula Ogren, CA Gregory Olberding, OH Thomas and Ellen J. Palumbo, NJ Christian B. Peper, MO Joseph D. and Kathleen Policano, NY Donald E. and Eleanor Price, NJ Lawrence Ragan, IL Helen M. Ranney, M.D., CA In Memory of Kathleen Carroll Reasoner, NC David K. Reeves, NJ Rev...
...George G. Higgins, DC Thomas J. Higgins, MD Christine Hildner, FL Harry H. Hinkle, NY Thomas A. Hopkins, PA William and Mary Alice Houghton, WI Walter Hranilovich, OH Carol A. Hubert, GA Daniel J. Hurley, MA Julian J. Irias, CA Msgr...
...Though remembering those pulpy issues as dearer, the editors must have been a shade snooty then, too...
...Robert Hilkert, OH Stephen J. Hill, Ontario Denis Hines, CO John W. Hinkley, MA Marie D. Hoff, Ph.D, ID Gerald T. Hofmann, NJ Rev...
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...James P. O'Hagan, MI Rev...
...William D. Mannion, IL Paul Marentette, NY Mrs...
...Kevin D. Harty, FL Rev...
...John Whitney Evans, MN Rev...
...Alfons Beil, Germany William F. Bell, MA Rev...
...William L. Cooke, CA Leonard and Rosemary Deen, NY Sean and Regina Dowling, CT Mr...
...The "purple prose" Alleva dreads is, perhaps, their best configuration...
...Ronald J. Boccieri, M.M., NY John Bodner, Jr., DC Rev...
...But then again, since God is a God of surprises, maybe he will...
...The focus of his review is his perception of homosexuality in the film...
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...James E. Hennessy, NY Brian and Mary Hennigan, MA James Herndon, OH James G. Herrmann, IL Jane Heslin, NY Jane Hewett, SD Thomas and Mary Heyman, NJ George and Sally Hezel, NY Andrew J. and Margaret Hickey, NJ Micaela F. Hickey, NY Joseph C. Hilbert, PA Rev...
...Laurence Kelly, IL John S. Kelly, Ph.D., CA Rev...
...Wall, FL Moira Walsh, NJ Patricia D. Walsh, MA Kathleen M. Waters, CA Rev...
...William E. Delaney, WY Margaret Denison, CA David L. Denis, CA Mrs...
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...We celebrated our 70th anniversary and a renewed sense of the magazine's unique role and contribution...
...Paul F. McDonald, TX Robert McGarty, MA David K. McGuire, MD Thomas P. McTighe, MD Norman C. Melun, VA Samuel V. Merrick, NJ E.L...
...John E. Watterson, RI Charles A. Watts, IN Mary Ellen Webber, IN Robert H. Weber, CO Regina Weissert, IN Elizabeth A. Weixel, PA Rev...
...Albert J. Connors, CMF, CA Helen M. Coogan, CA Edward M. Corbett, TX Catherine Corbin, NY Edgar Corkrey, PA Larry Cox, AR Joseph B. Crimmins, CT John and Constance Cullinane, MA Dorothy Bird Daly, MD Rev...
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...William J. Murphy, MI Marie F. Murray, FL Rev...
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...Edward P. Hogan, NY John P. Hogan, DC Lawrence D. Hogan, NJ Patience (Mrs...
...Ralph H. Dwan, Jr., DC In Memory of James G. Good, NY In Memory of Judge & Mrs...
...Kathleen M. Vertin, MN Lillian Doris Viacava, NY A.E.P...
...Paragraph 48 of the encyclical reads: "During the discussion of a doubtful or controversial truth, the church and the Holy Fathers have not failed to look at the age-old and age-honored sacred rites for enlightenment...
...Francis X. Meehan, PA Rev...
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...Wainwright points out that Pius XII quoted the original axiom, coined by Prosper of Aquitaine in the fifth century, in the encyclical Mediator Dei (1947...
...Alas, he probably isn't going to include abuses of papal authority in his confessional list...
...Brotherhood begins in shared pain...
...Daniel Brady, NY Stephen J. Breen, CT Michael and Rita Brennan, M.D., MI John J. Bresnan, NY William A. Brown, TX Dennis E. Buetow, IL Msgr...
...Joseph A Moody, GA Dennis O'Brien, VT Thad and Kit Radzilowski, MN Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, DE Rev...
...Raymar Middendorf, O.F.M., IN George F. Mihelic, IL Maxwell Miller, Ontario Robert T. Milton, PA Ed Mirek, CT Paul and Barbara R. Misner, WI Francis and Mary Molson, MI John P. Monaghan, NJ John Montesi, NH Arthur Moore, NY Mary Moore, NY Thomas and Nina Polcyn Moore, IL...
...Joseph McGlinn, PA James F. McGovern, PA Thomas J. McGovern, WI John A. McGrath, OH Robert and Ann McGrath, NJ Paul J. McGuire, WI John P. McHugh, IL Mary Jane (Mrs...
...James A. Coriden, MD Emily Ann Cramer, MO In Memory of Mary A. Crimmins, CA Bishop Joseph R. Crowley, IN Victor Cuniglio, PA John and Marguerite D'Amico, NJ Peter Dalton, NY Msgr...
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...Owen R. Jackson, O.S.A., PA John and Jane Jacobsen, IL Dorothy A. Jankowski, OH Mrs...
...Natalie T. Darcy, NY S.E...
...Donald J. Ophals, NY Elizabeth F. Ormsby, IL Thomas R. Overkleeft, MI Rosemary B. Pabst, IL Mrs...
...RICK CHAMPION McConnell: Claptrap Evanston, I11...
...James M. Allaire, CA James M. Allen, MO Salvatore Anastasio, NY James R. Anderson, CA Howard W. and Mary T. Andrews, NJ Frances Appich, PA Rev...
...After all, why be spared from Protestant fundamentalist beliefs in biblical inerrancy only to fall into an equally literalist papal fundamentalism...
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...Think of the Crusades, slavery, the Inquisition, the divine right of kings, Galileo, resisting the railroads or smallpox vaccinations, and so on...
...Ronald Kalas, IL John and Elaine Kamerick, FL Nancy Q. Keefe, NY Frank and Joan Keenan, DC In Memory of Dr...
...John O. McCaslin, NE Dorothy M. McCauley, FL Alfred and Patricia McCauley, MD Paul W. and Marie McCloskey, MD Peter and Louise McCloskey, VA John and Mary Ann McCudden, IL John A. McCue, NY Frank W. McCulloch, VA Leroy K. and Rosemary Z. McCune, DE Rev...
...SIDNEY CALLAHAN Roaches & God West Glacier, Mont...
...John Manahan, S.M., TX Edward F. Mannino, PA Edward Marciniak, IL Dr...
...David Toolan, S.J., NY Rev...
...Frank or your own ears...
...Francis L. Eschweiler WI Shirley Esenther, IL Rev...
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...For years I have been searching for a way to ground the activities of our parish ministries in a way faithful to the concepts of Vatican II...
...The distinguished membership list below, recording the Associates' gifts received from January 17,1994 through January 19,1995, includes a number of new memberships...
...Fred L. Moriarty, S.J., MA Theodore C. Moss, NC H. C. Mulholland, NC John P. Mullooly, M.D., WI David Munroe, OH Rev...
...Irving F. (Eulah) Laucks, CA Paul A. Lockrey, NJ Gale and Angela Metzger, NJ In Memory of Msgr...
...Edmond E. Lincoln, DE Rachelle Linner, MA R. Laverne Lissy, IL Charles Logue, MA Mary J. Loranger, MI Rev...
...This is also done sometimes by the living...
...Charles Owen Rice, PA John R. Page, VA David and Marlene Pratto, NC Margaret Quigley, CA Msgr...
...That question seems to be at the basis of the lectionary reversal, marie burke picard The 70th Anniversary Year For Commonweal, 1994 was a banner year...
...DAVID M.TYE The author replies: Good grief, here I thought I was displaying my "confidence in a critical moral realism," while striking a blow against moral relativism on behalf of reason and universal human nature...
...My God, and I daresay Saint Thomas' s God, is the creator of any and all contexts and systemic forces, not their victim...
...Niles J. Gillen, O.Carm., KY Claire M. Gillespie, NY Robert Gilliam, NY Mary A. Giordmaine, NJ Ann Glancey, NJ Charles Glatz, IA Maureen Gleason, IN In Memory of Margaret Golatz, PA Elizabeth Gonnella, CA Mary and William Good, NY Robert J. Gormley, NY Mrs...
...Matthew R.D...
...Richard Trutter, O.P., IL Joseph W. Twombly, Jr., MO Rev...
...He might be just as surprised to find that Bishop Sheen was hardly ever mentioned in the Commonweal of the fifties, and then only in condescending ways...
...James B. Finn, MO Donald Gancer, IL Peter J. and Dorothea Gilligan, MN Michael and Joan Glazier, FL Ella Mae Gogel, IA Mrs...
...Thomas J. Fitzgerald, IL Hugh and Mary Fitzgerald, NM Dr...
...The question, "Why, if God loves us, does he take our children from us...
...and Mrs...
...John K. Daly, FL James J. Daly, NY Pierre Danserau, Montreal William B. Davidson, MI Dr...
...Robert J. Kruse, C.S.C., MA Dr...
...Owen J. McHugh, CO Thomas McHugh, NY Vivien Leonard McNaughton, NY Paul J. McNeil, Jr., RI James F. McNulty Jr., AZ Gerald McPhillips, VA William R. McTaggart, IN Wilson C. McWilliams, NJ Mary A. Mead, MI Rev...
...Alex (Geraldine) Baldwin, NY Rev...
...I couldn't agree more or say it better, though I would add that Quadrophenia ranks right alongside Tommy as a true work of genius...
...Mario D. Mazzarella, VA Daniel and Cornelia Mazzuchi, MI Gilbert and Jacquelyn McArdle, PA Margaret McCamy, MA Michael L. McCarthy, Ph.D., CA Rev...
...Walter Debold, NJ James L. Deegan, DC Rev...
...And the continued, at times increased, support of the Associates enabled us to meet our rising expenses once again...
...and Mrs...
...Huelskamp, WI Virginia Hughes, NY John F. Hunt, NY Mr...
...Joseph F. Vaughan, MD Bernard J. Verkamp, IN Mrs...
...Christians are on an ardent pilgrimage and collectively engaging in an eternal conversation, not taking dictation and faxing the texts from one generation to the next...
...They find sex obsolete...
...JACK HOLTERMAN More on Sant'Egidio Bowie, Md...
...JIM HOOD, M.D...
...John Jay Hughes, MO Rev...
...and Mrs...
...Margaret S. Goheen, NJ Walter T. Grady, OH Joseph G. Grassi, CT John A. Hampsey, M.D., PA Rev...
...Thomas H. Metzger, IN Bob and Catherine Meyer, IL Alice T. Meyer, MN Theodore Michaels, OH Rev...
...To the Editors: I was first drawn to Robert Imbelli's article on the Community of Sant'Egidio [November 18] because of the name-it was my uncle's...
...The author then comments: "Fundamentalism comes in many guises but we know it when we see it...
...John J. Seli, PA Dorothy Sempolinski, NY Joseph M. Sendry, DC Diane Senese, IL Robert A. Senser, VA Thomas A. Shannon, MA James P. Shea, NY James A. Shea, NY James Joseph Sheridan, SC R.J...
...Joseph P. Herron, NJ Msgr...
...Edward J. Law, Ontario Raymond Leaver, CA Norman and Josephine Lee, NJ Rev...
...and Mrs...
...Richard Trutter, O.P., IL Joseph W. Twombly, Jr., MO Rev...
...These are the questions religion attempts to answer, or, more honestly, gives us the courage to explore...
...Robert E. Lauder, NY Mrs...
...Margaret Culkin, CA Claire Cunningham and Philip Ward, VA Lawrence S. Cunningham, IN Miriam and Tom Curnin, NY John and Mary Deedy, MA Edmund T. Delaney, CT Eugene J. and Mary Dionne, DC Bernard J. Dobbins, CA Rev...
...Thomas Ventura, IL Janet P. Vickrey, NY Marietta C. Von Bernuth, NY Catherine F. Voss, NY Leo J.Walsh, PA Don and Ellen Warwick, MA Dr...
...Her God is overwhelmed by the web of historical contexts, dynamic changing systemic forces, and emotional patterns she posits to the point that he is unable to get his truth through to us...
...The encyclical then further states, in the same paragraph: "But if one desires to differentiate and describe the relationship between faith and the sacred liturgy in absolute and general terms, it is perfectly correct to say: 'Lex credendi legem statuat supplicandi'-Let the rule of belief determine the rule of prayer...
...And assuredly the apostolic succession of bishops and popes is important in this process, but so are all the other dedicated Christians who have been members of the body throughout the ages...
...Charles Van Duren, IL Mr...
...Frederick Breydert, France James F. Bridges, IL Mrs...
...John F. Donnelly, MI Susan Donnelly, MI Frank Donovan, NY William C. and Linda Dowling, NJ Kim M. Doyle, AL Rev...
...opinion of themselves, they discover some "truth" that is hidden from us mere mortals...
...Richard F.C...
...Richard Alleva clearly enjoyed reviewing Interview with the Vampire, pulling out all the stops in his erudite bag o' tricks [December 2,1994...
...Philip J. Murnion, NY Rev...
...To the Editors: I guess we can excuse the puzzlement over panentheism expressed by Sidney Callahan in her column titled "Cockroaches Aren't God" [January 13.] Even The Harper Dictionary of Modern Thought seems equally at sea...
...William W.Ernst, IN Mrs...
...Joseph Zemites, AZ John J. and Nell Zingsheim, MN...
...For some it is astrology, for others pyramid power, for Frank it's rock' n'roll...
...But then I found the content of the article fascinating because of the community's focus on a spirituality based in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council...
...HENRY J. ELDER The editors: Back in the fifties, Commonweal editors couldn't afford TV sets...
...Daniel J. Collins, Japan Rev...
...At this very moment, the present pope, in an inspired move, plans a great penance service at the year 2000 in reparation for the church's failings in the past...
...Laurence Connelly, TX Bruce A. Connolly, MA Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...Wodynski, IL Thomas L. Wright, M.D., OH Rev...
...A new endowment program was planned...
...Ralph (Mary) Dwan, DC Bruce and Mary Jane Hall, CO Robert G. Hoyt, NY Lyn and Harry Isbell, CA Majorie Kovler Foundation, IL Edward and Marguerite Kowaleski, MI Mrs...
...Darden, IN William T. Darden, NY Margaret Darken, PA Rosemary (Mrs...
...Edward Gerety, NM Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, NJ Paul F. Gerosky, PA Rev...
...Bierberg, IN Mrs...
...Bernard J. O'Loughlin, CA James C. and Alice O'Shea, NY Donald O'Toole, IL James M. O'Toole, MA Elizabeth Oakes, CA Helen M. Oechsli, NY Frank V. Olivero, MI Rev...
...Dorothy R. Dillon, DC Timothy V. Dillon, DC Mrs...
...M. F. Kuluz, MS Julia Ladner, IL Rev...
...Thomas Govett, CT Michael Grady, WA Josephine Grandillo, NY Mary Kathryn Grant, IN Thomas V. Graves, MD Gerald W. Grawey, IL Peter B. Green, NY Raymond F. Gregory, NY Robert J. Griffin, WI In Memory of Ann Grill, IL Francis W. Grimes, NY William B. Grogan, NY Toni and Frank Gross, MI Christine Guarino, CT Sandor V. Halasz, OH Robert Halbeisen, MI Mary A. Hapenney, MA Robert S. Hathaway, PA Shelia Hawkes, NJ Rev...
...James McDougall, MI Jerome E. McElroy, NJ John McGaley, NY Rev...
...Joseph F. Vaughan, MD Bernard J. Verkamp, IN Mrs...
...Martin J. Osborne, NY Msgr...
...The two "operas" together convey a rock 'n' roll vision so far unequaled...
...John F.X...
...It may shed some light on the reverse "tag," cited by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, lex credendi, lex orandi...
...William Argy, NY John J. Arnott, PA Doris R. Asmundsson, NY Jack Bacon, HI Edwina M. Baehr, LA Bruce and Rose C. Bagin, PA Msgr...
...David B. Burrell, C.S.C., IN Rev...
...Hemr, NY Mr...
...Ronald L. Heidelberger, MI Jane Herrick, MA Msgr...
...Regan, CA James L. Rivers, VT Daniel T. Roach, NY John Robinson, NY Edward F. Rogers, NJ Brother John B. Ross, HI Margaret and Benjamin Russell, CA Martha B. Russell, OR Anthony D. Russo, NH Rev...
...David M. Gallivan, NY Joseph E. Geoghan, CT Robert C. Grace, CA Doris Grumbach, ME Cmdr...
...Joseph G. Bailey, NY William R. Bailey, VA Mrs...
...It defines panentheism as "the view that God interpenetrates everything without canceling the relative independent existence of the world of entities...
...Aldo J. Tos, NY In Memory of James Tracy, NJ Edward F. Vastola, M.D., NY Waldemar H. Wenner, CA Supporters Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D., CA Richard J. Barber, MD Rev...
...Constance R. Marquardt, FL Josephine Marshall, CA Michael Martucci, CT Charles G. Matthews, Ph.D., WI Dave and Jeanne Mayes, IA Dr...
...John M. Thompson, SC Robert E. Tobin, NY Michael and Barbara Toohig, VA Rev...
...J. Craig Kuhn, PA Marie Labatte, Ontario James W. LaFave, M.D., MN John Lafferty, MD Clifford Laube, CT Neal Laurance, MI Rev...
...Edward) McHugh, IL Rev...
...I suppose I'm piqued by the reviewer's pride in the fact that he hadn' t read the novel...
...Martin Marty, IL Angela M. Mathews, NY Alice E. Mayhew, NY Dr...
...Timothy J. Collins, NY Mary Grace Connell, FL John M. Corcoran, MA Rev...
...Harvey F. Egan, MN William B. and Iris Fenton, MD Dr...
...and Mrs...
...and Mary Mongan, DE Kathleen and John Murnion, NY Daniel R. Murray, IL Daniel M. Murtaugh, FL Thomas J. Noone, GA Rev...
...William B. Neenan, S.J., MA Doris C. O'Neil, CT Rev...
...BARTHOLOMEW J. MERELLA From the editors: Inquiries may be directed to Andrea Bartoli, Community of Sant'Egidio, P.O...
...Joseph and Barbara Moran, NC Rev...
...Thomas J. Jonas, MN Alice M. Kearney, NY Paul M. Kolosso, WI Rev...
...William Granger Ryan, NY Rev...
...Robert J. Kanka, NY Rev...
...Robert Janson, CT Mr...
...Ted Olson, CA A. Lenore Opalach, CA Rev...
...Mary Segers & Dr...
...and Mrs...
...Gregory Carnevale, MI Mary J. Carr, NY Brian Carroll, MI Harold J.Carroll, MA Joseph Carroll, S.J., CA William A. Carroll, NC Edward F. Casassa, PA David Cawley, NH Anne and David Chastain, MA Mrs...
...Callahan, that "[e]ither the recalcitrant ones cannot reason properly or they refuse in their pride to submit to the authority of those commissioned by God to pass on divinely revealed truths...
...John A. Coleman, S.J., CA Rev...
...John Hayes, IL Michael Healy, CA Mr...
...John P. Boyle, IA Michael J. and Ethel R. Boyle, MN Thomas Boyle, NJ Teresa Bredar, NE Thomas Brennan, NJ Mr...
...Wall, FL Moira Walsh, NJ Patricia D. Walsh, MA Kathleen M. Waters, CA Rev...
...Three Commonweal forums on Religion and the Media-in Chicago, Washington, and New York-brought awareness of the magazine to the wider American public...
...Msgr...
...Frederick R. McManus, DC Helen Reynolds, VA John F. Rieger, VA Marie Wolf Riley, PA Aileen Ryan, MI Kurt A. and Lois Schilling, V.M.D., CA Raphael P. Schlingerman, MN Dr...
...John A. Boehning, NY Andrew Bongiorno, OH Marvin Bordelon, MD Bishop Anthony G. Bosco, PA Jeffrey J. Bowe, MA Vincent and Magda Boylan, VA Rev...
...and Mrs...
...Victor (Sophie B.) Angelescu, MI Elizabeth Bartelme, NY Robert Bentley, MA Joseph P. Bevak, NY Vivienne Blanquie, CA M. Joseph Bowler, M.D., MI William D. Broderick, VA Thompson B. Burk, LA Dennis Burke, CA Gerald P. & Marie Caffrey, WI Rev...
...Finally, Saint Thomas' s God, and David M. Tye's God, and my God is the ineffable Holy Trinity, infinite in power, majesty, and transcendent mystery...
...Thomas E. Kramer, ND Marion Kriebell, CT Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...Charles Chatfield, MA Francis L. Chisholm, MA Norman Chonacky, WA Colette Cook and Christopher Roller, NY Byzantine Poor Clares, OH Lawrence M. Clemens, MN Cathleen A. Clinton, DC Donald K. Cody, CT Joseph I. Collins, MA J. Rawson Collins, OH Vincent P. and Joan Comiskey, NJ Bishop William G. Connare, PA Rosemary Connell, IL Mary Connolly, MA Arthur F. Connor, MA Rev...
...Leonard E. Racki, CA John T. Radelet, PA Elizabeth Rainey, TX Kathleen Ray, NY Rev...
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