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Aquinas on truth-seeking Cardinal Roger Mahony's letter [Correspondence, May 22] supports "an opportune path for theological scholarship and dialogue" based on a commitment to 'q~eing a...
...Father Michael O'Carroll's 1980 biography of Pius XII briefly discussed the trial...
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...Food production (supplanting hunting and gathering) was the first specialization, and it made possible all the others, including complex technology, bureaucracy, and armies...
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...Cardinal Tisserant later said that his comments were directed against certain Vatican officials, and not Pius XII...
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...The massacre took place in complete secrecy (and a scant twenty-four hours after the terrorist bombing of SS troops that prompted the revengeful killings...
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...Even if payroll taxes are not raised or benefits cut significantly, there is no way that Social Security will go bankrupt in 2029 (or rather 2032, as the latest estimate puts it...
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...From the editors: As of June 2, it appears that Proposition 226 wasn't all that popular...
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...The editorial used the term bankruptcy in the sense that, absent changes in the system, Social Security will at some point not be taking in enough money to meet its financial obligations to beneficiaries...
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...Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier conveniently overlook this risky change in political strategy that has brought about the widespread popularity of 226...
...A team of four Jesuit scholars produced eleven massive volumes of Actes et documents du Saint-Si~ge relatifs ?l la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, which can be found at the New York Public Library and in Catholic university and college libraries...
...Jewish Hostages in Rome: Vatican Protests'--Jewish Chronicle (London), October 29, 1943...
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...Amo, amas, amat Delendus igitur post tot annos fidelis lector~ [Correspondence, May 22...
...Bailey also mentions Cardinal Tisserant's letter rebuking the Holy See's silence...
...Sworn testimony was given by the Vatican historian Robert Graham, S.J., Lt...
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...Powers's priests still around If I read him correctly, J. V. Long's essay, "Clerical Characters" [May 8] on J. F. Powers's stories and novels purports to say, with Jesse Jackson, that 1993 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of everything--"everything" for Long being the clerical life, the lifestyle of today's priests, which he sees as being totally, comprehensively different from those collared laborers in the pre-Vatican II vineyard...
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...Such a holierthan-thou slam, slyly rejoicing in the magazine's troubles...
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...In 1974, the pope's relatives brought calumny charges in the Italian courts against the writer, producer, and director of the film, Rappresaglia, which made these allegations...
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...Powers could still write engagingly of the ones I know, telling it as it is for this small band of brothers, these happy few...
...The defendants were all found guilty and these allegations against Pius XII were discredited...
...Needless to say, the more people we can inform, the better...
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...Bailey to examine the files of many wartime Jewish newspapers at the New York Public Library...
...Jeffrey Toobin, an intelligent relief in the media/court melee...
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...Herbert Kappler, who carried out the massacre, and Eugen Dollman, the former SS commander in Rome...
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...They frequently gave Pius XII very favorable coverage, and lauded him for saving many Jews...
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...Aquinas on truth-seeking Cardinal Roger Mahony's letter [Correspondence, May 22] supports "an opportune path for theological scholarship and dialogue" based on a commitment to 'q~eing a church that is one and open, a genuine community of faith, sharing the truth given to it...
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...From the editors: Arma virumque cano...
...As for the "secret" Vatican archives, they were opened by Pope Paul VI in 1964...
...Unfortunately, I do not know the exact source of the quotation...
...Still safe & social Re: your editorial, "Keeping Security Social" [June 5...
...John Updike, still turning out great book reviews...
...Likewise, when you suggest that Social Security be means-tested in some way, you fail to note that the system is already means-tested since lower-income beneficiaries receive more proportionally than do upper-income beneficiaries...
...the A. Alvarez review of Ted Hughes/ Sylvia Plath...
...Social Security will go on past this time and will be able to pay out 75 percent of current benefits just from its FICA tax income...
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...His piece on PBS's "From Jesus to Christ" [May 22] said exactly what needed to be said...
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...Although for the most part you state the facts about Social Security accurately, you are way off base when you predict that barring changes in the system it "will go bankrupt" by 2029...
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...Joseph G. Bailey [Correspondence, May 8] faults Pope Pius XII for his silence during the massacre of 335 Italians in Rome's Ardentine Caves...
...Historian Paul Johnson assigned the wrong date to the letter...
...CORRESPONDENCI (Continued from page 4) Poland'--Jewish Advocate (Boston), January 26, 1940...
...As it turned out, there was no way the pope could have known...
...What does Celia Wren mean in her review of Saint Nicholas when she writes, "not surprisingly, the monologue merges incommensurates with oneiric nonchalance...
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...Whether further means testing would threaten the support of wealthier Americans for Social Security is a fair question, but we tend to think greater progressivity in the tax system is warranted...
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...I see the hustling priests, the venal priests, the selfcentered priests, the priests whose only higher thoughts are triggered by the stock market and the sports pages...
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...This is hardly bankruptcy...
...DIMITRI CAVALLI Bronx, N.Y...
...To do more in the way of means testing would put the support of higher-income persons for the program at risk...
...The position would involve at least half-time teaching during the academic year with full-time administrative responsibilities during the summer...
...New Yorker' still tops After reading the impassioned plea for the survival and celebration of journals of opinion [editorial, May 8], and the invitation to consume them as whole wheat bread, I was really annoyed and disappointed by William Pfaff's report in the same issue on the financial problems of the New Yorker ["A Lapse in Taste...
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...Diamond is a professor of physiology at UCLA, and the book's cumulative force and clarity of design show the hand of a brilliant lecturer...
...Illiberal labor leaders Your article on California's Proposition 226 ["Union Destruction Act," May 8] left me disturbed that so many facts favorable to this initiative were ignored...
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...The book's most humbling lesson is that the white European crushed the original inhabitants of the Americas and Australia not with wit or force of arms, but with the germs that he first inhaled from the cattle and pigs he lived (even slept) with for ten millennia and then exhaled into the faces of natives who had never developed immunities...
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...I can only add to his thoughtful letter a quotation from Thomas Aquinas that I saw last November on a banner in the chapel at Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara, California...
...I look around and note the same types of characters that Powers captured so well...
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...Second, the editorial explicitly noted that Social Security already has a "redistributive mechanism...
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