Commonweal Associates: A long and distinguished list
Become a 1999 Commonweal Associate until everything is out of balance. "There are too many of us," Stegner bluntly says. "We will either starve or strangle in our own wastes." And then still...
...Donald T. Brophy, PA Bridget Brown, IL Mr...
...J. Gerald Gallagher, NJ Raymond A. Gallagher, CT Paul J. Galvin, DC Mrs...
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...But the longing is realfor a landscape of renewal, a landscape where we can contact whatever is beyond us...
...Thomas (Kathleen) Knight, Jr., CT James E. Roller, NY Donald H. & Marie Kotz, WI Mr...
...John A. McGrath, OH Mary Jean McGrath, WI Eileen P. McGrath, MA Robert & Ann McGrath, NJ Paul J. McGuire, WI Mary Jane (Mrs...
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...John W. Brennan, NJ Thomas Brennan, NJ Elizabeth T. Brevett, NY Mrs...
...Wilbur (Priscilla) Wright, CO Patricia K. Zapp, MT Franklin Zawacki, CA Michael Zeik, NY Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin, CA John Ward Zelinski, AZ Mrs...
...Daniel F. Moran, MA William L. Moreland, LA Rev...
...Martha B. Mooney, NY Thomas S. Moore, M.D., AL Barbara & Joseph Moran, NC Rev...
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...Harold D. (Henrietta) Carroll, ME Rev...
...Chris Anderson is professor of English at Oregon State University and author of several books, including Edge Effects: Notes from an Oregon Forest (Iowa, 1993...
...Robert P. Imbelli, MA Mr...
...R. James Balint, TX Mary Ann Barry, IL Rev...
...Deborah Meier, NY Paul & Pat Messbarger, IL Bob & Catherine Meyer, IL Theodore Michaels, OH Rev...
...Stepehen T. DeMott, M.M., NY William Dempsey, VA David L. Dems, CA Mrs...
...J. J. Linehan, OR Paul A. Lockrey, NJ Mira Lee Loran, IL Ken Lovasik, PA Betty L. Lovett, KS Tim Lozier, FL Rita Ludlum, NJ John A. Lynch, MA Beatrice A. Mackenzie, CT John P. Mackey, AZ Mary C. Mackin, IA John J. Magee, FL Paul Magnano, WA John Robert Maher, CA Cornelia E. Mahon, NY Jeanne M. Mahoney, VA Michael A. Malec, MA Most Rev...
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...William Munshower, IN Robert Murney, MO Rev...
...Frederick Breydert, Paris Tom Brieske, GA Mrs...
...John Fahey, CA Ruth Fallon, MA Virginia Faulkner, CA Margaret M. Feist, MT John J. Fenton, CT Rev...
...James Mullin, NJ David Munroe, OH Rev...
...Robert J. Kruse, C.S.C., MA Dr...
...Thomas Kaveney, IL Alice M. Kearney, NY Dorothy N. Kelly, FL Eileen Kennedy, Ph.D., NJ Rev...
...James H. Provost, DC John & Mary Prucha, NY Tom Quinlan, PA Rev...
...Katharine Byrne, IL John & Dorothy Callahan, MN Joseph Carroll, S.J., CA Edward F. Casassa, PA Raymond J. Casey, IL Rev...
...Edgar Kurt, IA James W. LaFave, M.D., MN Edward P. Lafferty, MA Suzanne E. LaLonde, NY George A. Lane, S.J., IL Elaine S. Larkin, CA Edward & Martha Laurance, CA John V. Lawler, VA James E. Lawrence, VA Roch Le Page, CT Norman & Josephine Lee, NJ Dr...
...Underneath the slickness, Egan is just as rhapsodic as Wordsworth and Thoreau, although he has no more illusions than Stegner about the effect that writers might have on public consciousness...
...Mike Minehan, NY EdMirek,CT Dr...
...Raymond Middendorf, O.F.M, IN Peter P. Midura, NY Richard Mihan, M.D., CA Maxwell Miller, ON Robert T. Milton, PA Rev...
...Julia M. Phillips-Quagliata, NY Rev...
...James P. O'Hagan, MI Rev...
...Paul Misner, WI Rene Miville, MA Walter F. Modry, S.J., NY Patrick J. Molloy, NY Francis & Mary Molson, MI John Montesi, NH Mrs...
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...A number of our readers added gifts in addition to the renewals of their subscriptions...
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...Gerald Siefken, LA Most Rev...
...Mary Mongan, DE Nina Polcyn Moore, IL Kathleen & John Murnion, NY Rev...
...Eugene M. Kilbride, CT Joseph T. Kivlin, WI Colette Cook & Christopher Koller, RI Rev...
...Joseph F. Vaughan, MD Mrs...
...Schumacher, WI John Stawasz, HI Peter & Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, NY Beth Svendsen, IL Eugene J. Vader, Jr., MN Waldemar H. Wenner, M.D., CA Matilda B. Wilbur, CA Jane (Ward) Wyatt, CA Supporters Rev...
...Robert E. Lauder, NY John G. McKevitt, PA Edward & Jane McMillan, CT Rev...
...James E. Hennessy, NY James G. Herrmann, IL Jane Heslin, NY Thomas & Mary Heyman, NJ Micaela F. Hickey, NY Andrew J. & Margaret Hickey, NJ Christine Hildner, FL Rev...
...William Argy, NY Doris R. Asmundsson, NY Dr...
...We yuppies are bumper-tobumper on the freeways, Jeep Grand Cherokees as far as the eye can see, Garth Brooks sounding on every private stereo...
...F. Joseph Gossman, NC Walter T. Grady, OH George W. Grayson, VA Rev...
...The tendency is to fall back on unconsidered stereotypes about Christianity and sentimental oversimplifications of Native American religion...
...Ronald M. Ketteler, KY Edward J. Kiernan, NY Robert & Donna Kiersz, NY Alice Kilcoin, NY Veronica C. King, CA Donald J. King, ME Mr...
...Owen J. McHugh, CO Mary Jane McKenna, NJ John M. McLarnon, Jr., PA Joseph G. McLean, PA Rev...
...Thomas V. Graves, MD Dr...
...Robert Caul, RI Joan Challinor, DC Donald E. Chambers, KS Kevin J. Christiano, IN Our Lady of Sorrows Church, NJ Anthony Ciccariello, NY Margaret G. Clements, AZ George D. Cody, NJ Donald K. Cody, CT Daniel Coenen, OH Lou Colaianni, NJ Rev...
...Philip Kaufman, O.S.B., MN John Kearns, NY Rev...
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...Edwin H. Hustedde, IL Margaret D. Hutaff, MA Stanley J. Idzerda, MN Joseph Imbriaco, NJ Matthew & Beth Jachman, MI Frank J. Jankowski, WA Dorothy A. Jankowski, OH Frank Jennings, NY Mary E. Jennings, IL James R. Jennings, CA J. Myron Johnson, CT Bernard J. Johnston, NY Gerry Jones, WA Thomas F. Jordan, CA Mary Kane, OH Paul Kane, NY Rev...
...Anthony J. Vader, IL Most Rev...
...James F. Spengler, NY Mari Stamper, WA Elizabeth H. Steltenpohl, NY Annette Stoddard-Freeman, WI James Strauss, MN Russell & Katherine Sullivan, PA Winnifred & Barry Sullivan, VA John J. & Alys Sullivan, AZ Betty J. Sullivan, Ph.D., MN S. Surendran, PA Ann M. Swanson, MA Edward J. Tedesco, MA Rev...
...James Challancin, IN Catherine M. Connolly, CA Mrs...
...Howard B. Basler, NY Loring W. Batten III, NY Vincent J. Beckman, OH Dr...
...Although Egan's tone of this is more like Tom Wolfe than Wallace Stegner, Stegner is the grandfatherly presence behind these very postmodern essays, the figure that Egan alludes to more often than any other...
...John J. Egan, IL Rev...
...Edward T. Oakes, S.J., CO Helen M. Oechsli, NY Frank V. Olivero, MI Rev...
...William J. Bausch, NJ Mr...
...Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., CA Quentin & Paula Ogren, CA Gregory Olberding, OH Rev...
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...John T. Collins, NY Vincent & Mary Collison, CO Charles L. Conlon, M.D., TX Mary Grace Connell, FL James C. G. & Dorothy Conniff, NJ Christopher Connolly, NJ Rev...
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...Thomas P. Leonard, NY Raymond & Cherla Leonardini, CA Francis R. Lewis, NJ Rose Mary Lewis, NY Rev...
...Jude McGeough, RI Thomas J. McGovern, WI Owen & Pat McGowan, MA David K. McGuire, MD Sr...
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...David M. Gallivan, NY Donald Gancer, IL Most Rev...
...Wallace Erwin, MA Shirley Esenther, IL Michael A. Evans, CA Andre Eydt, NY Rev...
...John P. Smith, IA Edmond C. Smith, VA Helen Lapat Smith, IL A.A...
...Samuel V. Merrick, NJ Alice T. Meyer, MN Jack Miles, CA John P. Monaghan, NY E.L...
...Frank R. Gardner, PA Jean Gartlan, MD Laura S. Gellott, WI Joseph R. George, Jr., RI Dr...
...Joseph P. Hourihan, MI Joseph J. Houska, Jr., CA Rev...
...Robert Hilkert, OH Stephen J. Hill, ON Denis Hines, CO John W. Hinkley, MA Jack & Marilu Hitchcock, CA Marie D. Hoff, Ph.D., ID Rev...
...Robert Fenzl, Victor Ferkiss, NM J. A., Ferrante, NJ Veronica A. Fessel-Rotheim, NY Cyril J. Fey, OH Patrick J. Finnegan, NY Alston & Anne Fitts III, AL Rev...
...And ultimately, too, for Egan as for Stegner, the struggle is even more spiritual than economic...
...Edward McMahon, MA Rev...
...And then still more bluntly: "conservation means survival...
...Gerald Peters, NJ Romero G. Petroni, CT William Pflaum, OH William Phelps, CA Veronica E. Pheney, FL G. Edward Philips, NM Bette Phillips, WI Dr...
...Francis Principe, NY Rev...
...And outside, all around us, the world continues to bleed...
...John K. Daly, FL James J. Daly, NY Pierre Dansereau, QC S.E...
...James M. Allen, MO Thomas Allen, MO Dorothy Allen, MI Lee Alperin, NY John Altmiller, VA Margaret B. Ancker, CA Howard W. & Mary T. Andrews, NJ Anonymous, CA Anonymous, FL Anonymous, IL Anonymous, MA Anonymous, MA Anonymous, MN Anonymous, OR Anonymous, PA Frances Appich, PA Rev...
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...Arthur Lennon, NY Rev...
...James O'Hayer, CT Rev...
...Thomas E. Kramer, ND Patricia A. Kurfman, CO Rev...
...Robert Mack, MI Rev...
...Thomas Ventura, IL Margaret O'Gara & Michael Vertin, ON Patrick J. Waide,Jr., CT Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Wald, NY Larry & Sue Washburn, NY Dr...
...John Whitney Evans, MN Gail Lambers & Peter A. Fagan, MD Thomas L. Farrelly, NY William B. & Iris Fenton, MD Dr...
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...John F. Murphy, KY Daniel R. Murray, IL Mary K. Nenno, DC Jon Nilson, IL Agnes Nixon, NY Kevin T. O'Brien, NJ Ray & Mary O'Connell, NY Rev...
...William B. Neenan, S.J., MA Jonathan & Shirley O'Herron, CT Rev...
...John P. Duffell, NY Mary Lee & Marshall Ellet, OK Charles Fahey, NY Doris & Thomas Falin, PA Anne Farber, NY Theodora Cogley Farrell, MA Vincent Fausone, Jr., CA Patrick V. Felker, WI Mr...
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...Vallee Willman, MO Lucille Wilson, MN Richard C. Wilson, OH Ruth & Joe Wimsatt, KY Pauline Wohlford, MI Marguerite & MaryBeth Wordell, KY James G. Worl, FL James R. Worsley, Jr., MD Mrs...
...Margaret Desiderio, NJ James & Evelyn Dette, NJ Arthur Devers, NY Stanley E. Dewey, OH Janet Dickey, IA Rev...
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...Eugene DeBenko, MI Rev...
...Frank S. DeLucia, CA Rev...
...John J. O'Hare, CA Dr...
...Sommer, Jr., MD James Somogyi, PA John Sowinski, IL Jeffrey Spencer, CA Robert St...
...Joseph A. Heaney, NY Rev...
...James N. Loughran, S.J., NJ William H. Lyons, M.D., WI Frank J. & Mary Macchiarola, NY Dr...
...M. F. Kuluz, MS Marie Labatte, ON Frank & Julia Ladner, IL Neal & Anne Laurance, MI Most Rev...
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...John E. Watterson, RI Charles & Carolyn Watts, IN Rev...
...Gerald Ryan, NY Suzanne Ryer, NY Saints Faith, Hope & Charity Parish, IL Gerald M. Sande, MN John Sankovitz, MN Robert W. Sauter, OH Michael & Ann Savageau, MI Charles Saydah, NJ Cornelius J. Scanlon, CT Vince & Betty Scheetz, CO Stephen A. Scherr, NE Daniel L. Schlafly, Jr., MD Dr...
...Edward Law, ON Rev...
...Charles A. Buswell, CO Amity Pierce Buxton, Ph.D., CA Marie T. Byrne, NY Mrs...
...James H. Freel, AZ Mary Clare Freeman, WI Tom Fricke, MI Elizabeth & Eugene Froehle, MN J. Ormond Frost, M.D., NY Mary E. Furlong, NY W. A. Gabig, TX Rev...
...Bernard J. O'Loughlin, CA James M. O'Toole, MA Rev...
...Edward) McHugh, IL Rev...
...Irving F. (Eulah) Laucks, CA John Leo, NY Patricia MacManus, NY Gale & Angela Metzger, NJ Judith Ann & John Neff, TN Dennis O'Brien, VT Mr...
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...Robert D. Jay, NY Jesuit Community at Roberts House, MA Rev...
...What's threatened finally for Stegner isn't merely our economic survival although for him this is a fact so obvious that he can only despair about the thickheadedness of the many people who choose to ignore it...
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...Eugene J. Audette, MN Ray Baalman, WA Edwina M. Baehr, LA Bruce & Rose C. Bagin, PA Rev...
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...Thomas I. Healy, IL Rev...
...Joseph R. Crowley, IN Lawrence S. Cunningham, IN Peter Dalton, NY Rev...
...Anthony DiRusso, NH Susan Donnelly, MI Lee F. Driscoll, Jr., PA James Duffy, NY Mr...
...James M. Allaire, IA Mr...
...Richard Sklba, WI Bill & Joan Sommers, MA Joseph P. Spampinato, PA Patricia G. Spampinato, PA Rev...
...Harvey F. Egan, MN Neal M. & Martha Einson, NY Robert P. Ellis, IL David Emmons, MT Colonel Robert J. & Judy Ennis, CO Rev...
...Edward Wetterer, NY James White, NJ H.Wiebler,NC Winnie & Ed Wilkens, MA Margaret G. Wilkinson, CA Dr...
...Lawrence J. Murtagh, SD William J. Nagle, VA Ron & Mary Nahser, IL SalvatoreJ...
...Donald L. Kinzer, OR Mary Ann Kirkham, WA Donald C. Klawiter, VA Joseph G. Kneuer, NJ 29 Mrs...
...Charles J. McManus, NY Vivien Leonard McNaughton, NY James F. McNulty, Jr., AZ Helen McTaggart, IN Wilson C. McWilliams, NJ Mary A. Mead, MI Joseph W. Meagher, NY Virginia Meagher, CA Michael R. Meek, CT Lucyanne F. Megan, MD Dr...
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...Meanwhile, the Commonweal Endowment continues to grow...
...Raymond A. Lucker, MN Thomas F. Mader, John J. Mahoney, CA Rev...
...J. O'Brien, IL Roderick B. O'Connor, NC Margaret Rafferty & Timothy G. O'Connor, NY Mary Ellen O'Connor, NY Rev...
...John Manahan, S.M., TX Rev...
...Egan's prose in Lasso is occasionally as glitzy as some of the places he describes, especially when read against the measured cadences of Stegner, but the point he makes is depressingly the same...
...Daniel J. McCarty, WI William H. McCaslin, NY Robert & Mildred McCoy, OH Bill McCready, IL John P. McDonough, VT Rev...
...John C. Kersten, MS Anne & Wendell Kestle, AL Rev...
...Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., NY Mr...
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...Gillen, O.Carm., KY Ann Glancey, NJ James F. Glynn, NY A. W. Godfrey, NY Joan Marlow Golan, NY Evelyn M. Gorman, NY Robert J. & Beatrice Gormley, NY Toni & Frank Gross, MI Doris Grumbach, ME Cmdr...
...Joseph Alves, MA Sophie B. Angelescu, MI Martha Baltzell, PA Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D., CA Rev...
...Nadia Lahutsky, TX Julia A. Lane, IL Louis & Yvonne Lanzerotti, NJ Rev...
...Edward P. Hogan, NY Patience (Mrs...
...Joseph P. Herron, NJ Thomas J. Higgins, CA Rev...
...Leonard E. Racki, CO John T. Radelet, PA Elizabeth Rainey, TX CeilReh,MO Bernard F. Reilly, PA Allen J. Reilly, VA Maureen Reilly Morgan, NY Dr...
...Edward Sullivan, PA Valerie Sutter, VA Joan M. Sutton, PA Re...
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...John Harrington, MA J. J. Harrington, KY Andrew Hartery, MA Mary K. Hartz, MI Helen Harvey, NY Robert S. Hathaway, PA Sheila Hawkes, NJ Rev...
...What's threatened, too, is our spiritual survival, as he first put it in 1960 in his eloquent "Wilderness Letter," reprinted in Marking the Sparrow's Fall and reason enough to celebrate this sometimes uneven miscellany of pieces...
...Richard P. LaRocque, CT Clifford Laube, CT Rev...
...The landscape shaped our character, and as that landscape disappears our inner lives become increasingly barren and narrow...
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...Traveling, as he says, with a fly rod and running shoes, he encounters everything from the "Wacko West" of the UFO hunters and the survivalists to the literary West of the celebrities and the nature writers to the "bloated urban monster" of Las Vegas, our representative melanoma...
...Albert W. Kramer, NJ Mary Ellen Krauss, MI Thomas J. Kucera, IL Mrs...
...Francis X. Meehan, PA Mr...
...Frederick R. McManus, DC Most Rev...
...John (Anne) Morris, NC Margaret Mullin, MA Rev...
...Gregory Carnevale, MI Mary J. Carr, NY William A. Carroll, NC Brian Carroll, MI Ruth Carroll, PA Claire Carten, MA Ellen M. Casey, PA David Cawley, NH Rev...
...Michael C. Crimmins, NY Most Rev...
...Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., MN Jean & Tom Digan, MA Mary Anne Dimasi, PA Tom & Kristi Dinell, HI Mrs...
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...Francis P. Jackman, MD Ursula & Robert Jaeger, DC Ambassador & Mrs...
...Richard P. Bendel, MN Charles A. Bentel, NY Michael W. Blastic, NY Ralph G. Bliquez, OR Rev...
...William Reilly, Jr., NY Peter J. Remch, NY Laurens Reyburn, CA Sheila T. Reynolds, IL Mr...
...Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed...
...J. Craig Kuhn, PA Thomas & Barbara Kummerer, IL James P. Kurtz, ON Henry M. Rusher, IL Mr...
...R. E. Frane, MO Mary Jo Frere, MD Franciscan Friars, MD Sally Fullman, NJ Frank & Jeanette Gallagher, PA Msgr...
...Daniel Brady, NY Rev...
...Mary Benet McKinney, O.S.B., IL Rev...
...Margaret S. Goheen, NJ Cindy Carter & Paul Goldenberg, MA William D. & Mary Good, NY Most Rev...
...Leroy Borries, IL M.C.Boxer, RI Albina A. Bozym, IL Rev...
...Jerome Travers, NJ John & Mary Lyn Villaume, MD Catherine F. Voss, NY Joan Dunn Walsh, NY Leo J. Walsh, PA Claire Cunningham & Philip Ward, VA RayWarman, NY Don & Ellen Warwick, MA Edmund & Mary Wehrle, CT Robert J. Weiler, NM MaryJ...
...Dorothy R. Dillon, DC William B. Dixon, Esq., PA Mrs...
...Martin J. Osborne, NY Christian B. Peper, MO Thomas J. Posatko, DE Kurt & Lois Schilling, V.M.D., CA Gertrude A. Schlachter, NY Rev...
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...James B. Flynn, CA Patrick M. Folan, VA John J. Fontana, IL Steven Forstein, CT Mario J. & Dorthy M. Forte, NJ Dr...
...Thomas J. Fitzgerald, IL Katherine Fitzgerald, MA Kathleen Fitzgerald, CA John Fitzpatrick, NY Dan Flannery, PA Henry D. Flasch, MN Mary Ann Fleming, KS Rev...
...Kathleen M. Vertin, MN Lillian Doris Viacava, NY Teresa Vilardi, NY Richard M. Voripaieff, TX Kurt Vorndran, DC Karen & Bill Waffner, NY A.E.P...
...One important factor for the year was the frequency with which some Associates increased the scale of their membership contributions compared with their gifts for 1997...
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...Robert L. Berner, Jr., IL Cyril & June Buersmeyer, MI Gerald P. & Marie Caffrey, WI Sidney & Daniel Callahan, NY Mrs...
...His forced comparison between the Palace of Popes in Avignon, France, and this "city in the sky," this "Place That Always Was," betrays the superficial theology of many contemporary writers...
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...Darden, IN Margaret Darken, PA Dr...
...Hogan, PA Frank Hohenadel, IL Clement J. Holgate, NJ John T. Horan, VA Virginia Horrigan, CT Rosemarie Horvath, NY William & Mary Alice Houghton, WI Dr...
...Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., IN Stephen Manning, KY Edward F. Mannino, PA Edward Marciniak, IL Angela M. Mathews, NY Alice E. Mayhew, NY Dr...
...Charles Wasilewski, Jr., PA Rev...
...Paul J. Savage, PA Mary H. Scheuer, MI A. F. Schmelzle, MN Frank R. & Theresa Schmid, IL N. Joseph Schrandt, DE Paul Schweitzer, NY Diane Senese, IL James & Ruth Shannon, MN Warren Shufeldt, IL Mr...
...William D. Mannion, IL Paul L. & Rosemary F. Mathews, MO Frank J. McCabe, FL George B. McCeney, MD Patrick J. & Frances R. McCormick, PA Jim McCrea, CA John & Mary Ann McCudden, IL Myles T. McDonald, PA Rev...
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...Robert L. Hazel, MN Marion Heaney, MN Mr...
...William L. Butler, MA Ann Buttrick, NY Rev...
...John DeCaprio, NY Dr...
...Thomas Jonas, MN Sandra Poysa & Jim Jordan, CA Patricia M. Joyce, NY John & Elaine Kamerick, FL Frank & Joan Keenan, DC Dorothy Keenan, WI Rev...
...James A. Coriden, DC William E. Cormier, IL Patricia C. Crean, NY Rev...
...William J. Leonard, S.J., MA AmyLepak, MA Norma T. Lewis, FL George Lindbeck, CT Rev...
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...James W. Malone, OH John D. Maloney, CA Joseph Manson, PA Eileen Eyre Manuel, OH Paul Marentette, NY Francis J. Marshall, IN Josephine Marshall, CA Peter A. Martin, WI Jeremy Martin, RI Frank Martin, CA Lawrence & Frances May, PA Dr...
...Wall, FL Patricia D. Walsh, MA Rev...
...Charles W. Parry, FL Fernande Pruden, MI Helen M. Ranney, M.D., CA Rev...
...Bartholomew J. Merella, MD Rev...
...Dennis P. Murphy, WA Rev...
...George E. Wuellner, IL 27 Charter W. Shepherdson Abell, MD A. R. Adamich, IL Anonymous, MA Anonymous, NH Anonymous, PA Anonymous, PA Anonymous, VT Richard Armstrong, NJ Desmond Arthurs, CA Pierre & Jill Auger, MA William R. Bailey, VA Geraldine Baldwin, NY Rev...
...Philip J. Kenney, NH John H. Kniest, Jr., VA Paul M. Kolosso, WI Francis W. Krastel, MD Rev...
...Rene A. Valero, NY Jo Goeke Vallo, IL Rev...
...Thomas F. Maher, IL Denis G. Mahoney, NY John F. Mahony, NY Stephen & Winifred Mallard, NJ Rev...
...John Rieke, NJ David Riesman, MA Richard Robedeau, OR John Robinson, NY Shirley A. Rogers, TX Robert D. & Patricia B. Ronsheim, OH Mary & Richard Rosengarten, IN Richard Rupp, NC John P. Rush, NY Nina Rusko-Berger, CT Martha B. Russell, OR Margaret & Benjamin Russell, CA Jerry Ryan, MA Rev...
...Thomas P. O'Connor, IN Sean O'Connor, CT Rev...
...William G. Kenneally, IL Rev...
...Peter L. Gerety, NJ Barry Gill, CA Rev...
...Francis C. O'Hare, MA Rev...
...Edward Gerety, NM Paul F. Gerosky, PA Rev...
...John J. Seli, FL Jan Robert Selman, IL Joseph M. Sendry, DC Mario A. Serraglio, OH Thomas A. Shannon, MA John Shaughnessy, FL James A. Shea, NY William L. Shilley, CA Timothy Shriver, MD Joan C. Silva, NY Aidan Sinnott, NC Mary Ann Skadberg, MN Rev...
...Raymond H. Schmandt, PA Robert & Frances Schueller, MD Edmund See, CT Rev...
...Patty Earline DiSalvo, FL Charles DiSalvo, WV Thomas V. & Patricia DiSilvio, VT Philip DiTommaso, NY James & Kathleen Doig, GA Jay & Pat Dolan, IN Robert J. Donovan, PA William J. Dowell, MI Patrick Dowling, M.D., CA Arthur T. Downey, MD George F. Drabic, NY John M. Drain, OH Thomas M. Duffy, DC Stephen J. Duffy, LA Benedict & Alice Duffy, Jr., MA Edmond J. Dunn, IA Maribeth Dwyer, MT James A. Dwyer, Sr., PA Jane Eberwein, MI Mr...
...John F. (Katherine) Donnelly, MI Daria L. Donnelly, MA Doris K. Donnelly, OH Clarence C. Donovan, CA Frank Donovan, NY Rev...
...Edmond Bliven, OR Mr...
...Edward J. Fencl, OK Dennis FitzSimons, NJ Rev...
...David Toolan, S.J., NY Alfonse F. Trezza, FL James Turner, IN Joseph W. Twombly, Jr., MO Chris Valley, GA Mr...
...Thomas A. Thompson, S.M., OH Charles A. Tobin, MD Rev...
...Charles J. Keenan, NE J. Patrick Keleher, NY Patrick F. Kelly, NY John S. Kelly, Ph.D., CA Dr...
...Albert J. Connors, C.M.F, CA Walter Constantine, NY Catherine Corbin, NY Charles J. & Anne Costello, VA John Coulson, DE A. Paul Cravedi, MA Carolyn A. Creel, TX Joseph B. Crimmins, CT James J. Cronin, MD Vincent M. Crowley, MD John & Constance Cullinane, MA Peter F. Cunningham, CA Rev...
...Glenn J. Brown, MI William A. Bultas, MO Frank Burger, KS Joan Burke, CA Ronald Burke, NE Mary N. Burke, NM Ellen Burns, NY Rev...
...John Hayes, IL John W. Healy, NY LeeHebert, OH Anne G. Heck, OH Rev...
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...Ted Olson, CA Elizabeth F. Ormsby, IL James R. Panella, CA Alan A. Pardee, NY Richard D. Parry, GA Dorothy Paulson, MN Margaret Pautler, MO John & Loretta Pavlik, IL Julie J. Pearce, CA David & Mary Jo Pedersen, NE Achille R. Pelizzari, NY Anne Perkins, NY Donald A. Perreault, CA Dr...
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...Donald J. Ophals, NY Anita M. Pampusch, MN Lawrence J. Pirtle, TX Donald E. & Eleanor Price, NC Dennis & Leslie Purcell, NY Brian Abel Ragen, MO Maurice Rdesinski, PA Stuart Reasoner, NC Rev...
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...Walter Debold, NJ John & Mary Deedy, MA James L. Deegan, DC Dr...
...Ronald L. Heidelberger, MI Harry H. Hinkle, NY Thomas A. Hopkins, PA W. James Huelskamp, WI Virginia Hughes, NY James E. Hunt, MI Mrs...
...Gerald W. Grawey, IL Mary E. Green, AZ Robert J. Griffin, WI Susan Keane & Richard B. Griffin, MA Joseph E. Grimm, MO William B. Grogan, NY Robert D. Grosch, MT Michael & Katherine Gruber, MI Henry J. & Jane Halko, MA Jerome Halloran, MN Rev J. F. Hanley, SC Mary M. Hanson, MT Mary A. Hapenney, MA Millie & Jim Harford, NJ Rev...
...Natoli,DC Louise Nesladek, NY Stephen & Elizabeth Nevin, NY Michael J. Nichols, DC Frank Nigra, NY Thomas J. Noone, GA Robert M. O'Brien, VA Patrick...
...As such, the basic struggle is between the West of possibility and the West of possession...
...Edward J. Enright, O.S.A., PA The Equitable Foundation, NY Mrs...
...Benefactors Anonymous, IL Anonymous, TX Francis Neill Corbett, NY Neil Coughlan, CT Rev...
...Mary E. Williams, PA Constance & David Wilson, KY James Wolcott, NY Rebecca A. Wright, TN Thomas L. Wright, M.D., OH John Zolkowski, GA 28 Sustaining R. G. Abernethy, DC F. Ahern, CA Russ & Pat Alberding, IL Rev...
...Joseph Burns, IL Francis P. & Dolores Burns, PA Rev...
...Harry J. Byrne, NY Ann C. Byrne, RI Catherine Cahill, NY Owen & Mary Jane Cahill, NY Bill & Laura Caldwell, OH John Calhoun, NY John F. Callaghan, MI Michael J. Callaghan, CM., NY Thomas Callahan, CA Edward T. Callan, MI John P. & Margaret G. Callanan, CA L. A. Cambey, NY Helen M. Cannon, IL Daniel F. Capron, IL Mr...
...Daniel P. O'Connell, CT Valerie C. Scanlon, NY Rev...
...William J. Watters, S.J., MD Col...
...The crazies are holed up in their mountain shacks, watching old John Wayne movies on their gas-powered VCRs...
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...Louis E. Grandpre, MI Mr...
...Fred L. Moriarty, S.J., MA Anthony J. Morley, MN David G. Morman, ND Jerome Morrissy, NY Theodore C. Moss, NC Elizabeth J. Mudd, MO Joseph & Dorothy Mulholland, NY Mr...
...Regan, CA The Hon...
...George G. Higgins, DC Richard V. Holmes, PA Carol A. Hubert, MS Kenneth L. Hull, MI Benedict J. Hussmann, IL Joseph Hynes, OR Rev...
...John F. Breen, NY Mr...
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...John A. Boehning, NY Lawrence & Joyce Bohan, MD Bernice Ann Born, PA Mrs...
...James B. Finn, MO Thomas & Rita Marie Finnerty, NY Timothy Fulham, MA Charles & Bonnie Glatz, IA Ella Mae Gogel, IA Mrs...
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...Robert F. Drinan, S.J., DC Barbara A. Durbin, AZ Rev...
...George W. Zeller, ID Kathleen Black Ziegler, IL Silvia B. Zimmermann, DC John J. & Nell Zingsheim, MN Mary I. Zotti, IL 30...
...Albert C. Giaquinto, S.S., DC Madeline Giguere, ME Claire M. Gillespie, NY Robert Gilliam, NY Owen Gillick, CA Mary A. & Joseph Giordmaine, NJ Rev...
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...26 With Our Gratitude In 1998 the following Commonweal Associates successfully bridged the gap between business income and steadilyincreasing publishing expenses...
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...Egan's spiritual longing is perhaps clearest in his evocative essay on Acomoa, an ancient Anazsazi city of masoned stone high on a plateau in New Mexico...
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...If land and religion are what people most often kill each other over," Egan says, "then the West is different only in that the land is the religion...
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...Paul F. McDonald, TX Peter McDonough, AZ Rev...
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...B. A. Waxstein, Jr., CA Robert H. Weber, CO Regina Weissert, IN Timothy P. Welch, PA Thomas Werge, IN Ann & William Wernz, MN Rev...
...Ralph H. Dwan, Jr., DC William & Mary Anne Ford, NJ Thomas Gallagher, NY Bruce & Mary Jane Hall, CO Robert G. Hoyt, NY Lyn & Harry IsbelL CA James Jereb, NY Edward & Marguerite Kowaleski, MI Mrs...
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...John J. Sullivan, OH Robert J. Sullivan, NY Nancy & Larry Sullivan, FL Thomas E. Sullivan, NC Rev...
...Charles Heideman, IL Joseph Heininger, MI James & Lynn Heitsch, IL Marie Christine Hellin, NY Mr...
...Richard E. Senghas, ME Joan & Richard Sexton, NY Sargent & Eunice Shriver, MD Janet P. Vickrey, NY Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, WI Monica Serpe Yolles, IL Patrons Anonymous, NY Anonymous, NY Anonymous, NY Anonymous, VT Suzanne McSorley & Thomas Baker, NJ Richard J. Barber, M.D., MD Vivian Segall & Paul Baumann, CT Joseph P. Bevak, NY Vivienne Blanquie, CA Anthony & Irmgard Brenninkmeyer, NY Edward J. Carville, CA Blanche Childs, IL Joseph Cieply, IL Rev...
...Mario D. Mazzarella, VA John B. McCarthy, VA Abigail McCarthy, DC Michael L. McCarthy, Ph.D., CA Beatrice McCarthy-Fink, NY Neil J. McCarty, WI Dorothee M. McClain, OH Paul W. & Marie McCloskey, MD Neil G. McCluskey, FL James J. McCormick, IL Kathleen McCoy, MD Thomas M. McDonald, NY Tony & Joellen McDonald, MO Marie T. McDonough, NY Eugene F. McDonough, Jr., M.D., MA James & Catherine McFadden, CA Robert McGarty, MA James F. McGovern, PA Rev...
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...Reginald A. Redlon, O.F.M., NY David K. Reeves, NJ Michael J. Reilly, M.D., VA Herbert S. Riband, Jr., PA John F. Rieger, VA Joseph J. Roach, NY Daniel T. Roach, NY John M. & Marie Roberts, CA Edward F. Rogers, NJ Robert J. Rokusek, DC Patrick Rooney, NY Marie Ruff, IL Anne Ryan, NY Rev...
...John D. LaBelle, CT Michael J. Lacey, VA John P. Lague, MI Dr...
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...David B. Burrell, C.S.C, IN Most Rev...
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