Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors A photo wrongly read I salute Christopher Young's October 22 cover. I've seen hundreds of pictures of Pope John Paul II, but this photo seems so intensely...
...This was generous and a real contribution to film as art...
...Their complexity addressed the complexity of the church and world around them, and did great (Continued on page 4) Commonweal 2 December 3,1999 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) things for persons seeking God and art and justice, like Claude McKay...
...rev...
...Vatican City Back to the roots Thanks for publishing David Goldweber's fine article ["Home at Last: The Pilgrimage of Claude McKay," September 10...
...In fact I am not the postulator, but the relator of the cause of Pius XII...
...He writes that "Peter Gumpel, S.J., is the postulator for the beatification of Pius XII" and that "Gumpel's task...
...EDWARD F. HAYES Orlando, Via...
...No curmudgeon to my parents, who referred to him as "Dear Maurice," nor to us children, Maurice Lavanoux got me my first teen-age summer job, adding those new zip codes to Sheed and Ward's mailing list...
...The writer is president of the board of Friendship House...
...And they talked, over their weekly spaghetti dinners, for hours...
...Obviously, however, his unintentional but objectively serious mistake needs to be corrected...
...The two statements are not true, and the conclusion drawn from them is not only false but objectively offensive...
...John F. Morley makes a statement about myself which I feel obliged to correct...
...Chicago, HI...
...that is, by papal appointment the autonomous and independent judge of investigation, whose task is to examine in a completely impartial manner everything concerning this cause...
...These two—more properly "radical" Catholic women— drew around themselves very complex and varied networks of friendship and association...
...There was a network, if not quite a community, joining the liturgical movement, Commonweal, Friendship House, Corpus Christi Church, the Catholic Worker, America, and Liturgical Arts...
...molly phinney Beverly, Mass...
...Bruce Willis, by taking the more subtle approach in playing his role, demonstrated his willingness to "present" the superb acting of Haley Joel Osment...
...for Anita Mathias ["I Was a Teen-age Atheist," October 8...
...Score two for CMWL In your issue of September 10, Lyn Burr Brignoli's "Broken Body to Broken Body" is extraordinary—the finest short piece about faith I have read in a long time...
...is to do all in his power to promote the cause," and that, in consequence, he is "biased...
...they sang a public Vespers (I think) once a year...
...Boston, Mass...
...No built-in bias In his review [November 5] of John Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope, the Rev...
...Duffy acknowledges that "Wojtyla is by any standards a titanic human being...
...Goldweber for his enlightening contribution...
...ALBERT SCHORSCH, III Chicago, III...
...Duffy's main criticism is that "Weigel's lack of distance from his hero undermines his credibility as an apologist...
...ANN BYRNE Providence, R.I...
...I am confident that if Father Morley had been aware of the essential difference between the offices of postulator and relator, he would have refrained from stating that I am "biased...
...Second, I read Annie Dillard's difficult and brilliant For the Time Being, and have had an awful time explaining to friends why I think it is a work of genius and not really a book at all, in a sense...
...Becket Gibbs bullied them into a credible rendition of the chant...
...From the editors: Sorry to disappoint you, but he said at the time that it was only for the staff...
...The world has not heard a turn of phrase like hers since C. S. Lewis's apologetics (as in "Paul, a bullet of hatred, galloping to Damascus to kill and destroy, he is struck off his horse and glimpses divinity...
...Weigel's methodology in this book can be a first step for us to discern this whole series of interlinked meanings...
...Peggy Rosenthal's review ["A God's-Eye View"] is perfect...
...I thought no one remembered that New York had a lively Catholic lay intelligentsia in the thirties and early forties...
...On a par with C. S. Lewis Thank you, thank you...
...I remember those men in their overcoats and Homburgs...
...rose pacatte, f.s.p...
...It is difficult in a few short pages to reveal the complexity of the environment of the Catholic interracial Friendship House of the 1930s and '40s...
...peter gumpel, s.j...
...And the Quilisma...
...rev...
...Goldweber focused for a bit on Bishop Bernard Sheil, who would still be considered a social liberal today, and who played a key role in bringing Catherine de Hueck and her Friendship House to Chicago...
...Thanks, but no thanks Eamon Duffy's review [October 22] of George Weigel's biography of John Paul II is something of a left-handed blessing, like your cover of the pope for the same issue...
...I thank Mr...
...Quilisma," September 10) shot me back into my childhood...
...Harry Binsse (an editor of Commonweal), Harold Rambusch of church decoration, Joseph Shanley, Ambrose Leonard, William O'Meara (the Duns Scotus scholar), and Barry Byrne, architect of contemporary churches, and my father, were among the Quilismites...
...Bless her for showing the world (or at least our enclave of Christian intellectuals) that even deeply faithful Christians can shred language with their wit...
...to supervise the drafting of the "Position on Life and Heroic Virtues," which in due time will be presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and to make sure also that possible objections have been presented and treated in an objective and fair manner...
...BRIAN DOYLE Portland, Oreg...
...Catherine de Hueck Doherty, absent in the review, defies description...
...Thanks for the time-travel moment...
...Here Wojtyla, the phenomenologist, is stating the key principle not only for understanding his true self and the substance of his humanistic philosophy, but also Vatican II's projection of Christ as God's solution to what it means to be a human being in the modern world...
...Such personalities are simply too good to be true, and any good journalist will try to cut them down to size...
...Maurice & his friends A. W. Godfrey's piece on Maurice Lavanoux ["Mr...
...To this I may add that I refuse to be put in the same category with John Cornwell, a rank amateur in the fields of history, law, and theology, and whose untruthful statements regarding his consultation of the archives of the Secretary of State have been publicly refuted by an official Vatican statement (see, L'Osservatore Romano, daily edition and weekly English edition, both dated October 13,1999...
...With its ghost-like connections to everlasting love, the child as redeeming figure who suffers and loves, its deft use of the color red to move and deepen it, The Sixth Sense is memorable...
...The writer is director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Boston...
...john f. kobler, c.p...
...Score one for Alleva Richard Alleva's take on The Sixth Sense [September 24] is on the mark...
...Though, as they admitted, there was not one good singer in the group, Dr...
...Current efforts to define liberal or neoconservative Catholicism tend to limit us to politicized "How we're better-than-Catholic" discussions...
...Probing the complex movements of radical Catholicism can humble us into continuing our search for becoming Catholic...
...The movements of radical Catholic "founders" of the 1930s, Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck, are today considered "liberal" more by adoption than actual practice...
...The review wonderfully chronicled McKay's career and his journey to Catholicism...
...Commonweal 4 December 3,1999...
...Can we hear more from her...
...All this means is that Duffy has not understood a key element of Weigel's biographical methodology: that is, John Paul II's insistence that he be "understood from the inside...
...I've seen hundreds of pictures of Pope John Paul II, but this photo seems so intensely personal—as if the Holy Father is turning with a blessing for all us Commonweal readers...
Vol. 126 • December 1999 • No. 21
