God will wipe away our tears
Garvey, John
If abortion is the defining moral concern for the bishop, was Dole really that much better than Clinton? Can the U.S. bishops truly be described as "passive, withdrawn, or indirect in their...
...We have several leads on possible new homes, but so far everything seems either too expensive or too, too expensive...
...February 14...
...She shares a floor with patients who suffer from extreme dementia, and their screams, their constantly repeated sentences and pleas, are torture for her...
...What he meant was that much of what you do as a priest will involve you at a very personal level with death and the last stages of life, and with the grief of those who have loved (or have failed to love) the dying person...
...he lost track of sentences just begun...
...bishops truly be described as "passive, withdrawn, or indirect in their leadership...
...Her niece was with me...
...In part they involve compassion of a sort...
...He died a few days later...
...Leege offered his sympathies and this advice to the bishops: "This has got to be maddening to the bishops...
...The best of them are grim, unsettling places...
...One day he told us, "I'm going to take a train ride soon...
...to inform our faithful readers that little progress has been made in finding Commonweal new office space ["Evicted...
...Bring down the government...
...Commonweal 7 February 28, 1997...
...I oppose it, but I understand the feelings behind euthanasia, as misguided as they are...
...We thank those who have come to our aid with advice, references, and moral support...
...He wanted to die, in part because of his loneliness for his living family, but also because he missed his dead relatives and believed he would be with them again after death...
...And who does not know where they stand on euthanasia, racism, care for the sick and dying, for the poor and elderly, for the immigrant and the homeless...
...I have thought of this often during the recent discussions of physician-assisted suicide...
...Once I went to see an old woman...
...We continue to need all three...
...The end of the regime...
...hen I was in the seminary, one of our instructors said that if we hadn't come to terms with our own mortality and the meaning of death, we should consider some other line of work...
...THE NEARLY HOMELESS ~ We regret (really regret...
...Is it an "unyielding" message on abortion Bishop McHugh wants from his confrbres...
...Part of the sadness we feel in such "I think I'm going through a mid-death crisis...
...but they must continue to do what they do: offer thoughtful statements about religion and democracy and about the full-range of moral issues in the campaign, while avoiding even the appearance of partisanship...
...Don't hesitate to call...
...CORRECTION ~ "Research News" in our January 31 "Et Cetera": Of 1.5 million Danish women in the study, 280,965 women had 370,715 abortions...
...The saddest thing I have to do as a pastor is visit nursing homes...
...Another thought for the bishops: Because the gender gap loomed so large in the '96 campaign, shouldn't the bishops try to find a way to talk to Catholic soccer moms...
...The worst are circles in Dante's hell...
...A few months later his mind had faded quite a bit...
...They have made "clear and morally compelling" arguments...
...Is there anyone who does not know where the bishops stand on abortion...
...We asked what train that was, and he said, "The one my father rode...
...Although she is in her nineties and is physically infirm, her mind is good...
...When we walked into her room, the old woman burst into tears...
...But much more deeply, they involve fear...
...Excommunicate Catholics who vote for candidates like Clinton...
...What would that sound like...
...Another parishioner, at another home, wept because he no longer lived with his family...
...In his comprehensive article in these pages on the Catholic vote (September 27, 1996), David Leege showed how complex, in generational and gender terms, the Catholic vote has become...
Vol. 124 • February 1997 • No. 4
