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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, has re- or suicide outside of that context. viewed A Brief, Liberal, Catholic...
...the death camps...
...and the situation...
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...its young people to achieve and learn...
...A couple of days is thought about the world"-as if con- I retired four years ago after more later that student received her diploma sciousness and the world could be clean- than thirty years of teaching at South- from SWTSU and went into the world ly separated and studied apart from one west Texas State University...
...Here several questions 600 Forbes Ave...
...Re: Holocaust ethics in 1959...
...This is viewed as customers, and the faculty with us-that "the enemy is within...
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...Thus "throwing out the rule book, especial- exchanges going back over the past, Commonweal is open to the views of ly the rules restricting the taking of a the Inquisition, etc...
...What does vival" is to misrepresent both the man bears the communal responsibility of Catholic mean to you...
...But I did not throw to go to confession afterward to Monchurch...
...He writes, for example, that (Continued from page 4) exam I once asked a class in computer "thought is clearly not the same as real- after, Monsignor Cullinan hung up his literacy to write a paragraph or two ity...
...As it turns out, the pope quite Cider," March 241 and then runs the gate, and two decades of ballooning agrees with that judgment...
...He said that the pope a Catholic magazine...
...But to charac- the Balkans...
...One senior student's enon the one hand, is the world with all its Wilton, Conn...
...Maureen O'Brien McGinn presents this genetically engineered consciousness as only "a theo- For more information, contact: retical possibility," and qualifies it with Pastoral Ministry Program ethical qualms...
...On a final language...
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...That disagreement, however, away the rule book...
...Needless to say, running an the death camps that they would changes, which indicated that all the aradvertisement does not imply an en- never have done otherwise and that- guments had not been settled...
...vertising mirrors, to some extent, how I was living in the parish next door it decides what articles to publish...
...When it came to those who disagree with its editorial human life, is about as perverse a re- the end of instructions, Dad said he positions and even to those who dis- sponse to the Holocaust as [Devine] wanted to be baptized, and arranged agree with the teachings of the can imagine...
...We 3 graduate credits • Dr...
...If so, should they not effectively in their best interests...
...In this model the students were San Marcos, Tex...
...tire answer was: "They could check objects and properties, existing inde- the computer [sic] work and see how pendently of us...
...but whether McGinn's view reveals extraordinary, and we pulsing, throb- ture of the nation, all the administrathe limits of human intelligence as it has bing beings-ashes from ashes-not a tion's attention went to faking the latevolved or the limitations of his own bad piece of work ourselves...
...as Rabbi Novick wisely counsels-do Dad came out, red-faced, and, shortly As it happens, Commonweal's editor, not count as a precedent for abortion (Continued on page 29) Commonweal 4 May 19, 2000 us to acknowledge that the problem is us that we are "quite ordinary...
...a simple observant Jews who believed deeply and we listened to fifteen minutes of declaration in favor of abortion rights in the sanctity of life to do things in fairly loud whispers and sharp exdoes not...
...Eventually, describing how the advent of computsaying much...
...tity is its commitment to reasoned de- Problems Unique to the Holocaust: Dad and Cullinan had some heated bate on disputed questions...
...another...
...but the im- gained control of college administra- high schools, and now in our colleges portant question in philosophy is what is tions, and the watchword became to and universities...
...none went to thinking about the qualireader wonder whether he had some- ty of the product coming out of the how blocked out the past hundred years CORRESPONDENCE dumbed-down system that resulted...
...but it is not clear what Duquesne University he has in mind...
...TONY WIGGINS in business...
...done with such claims-what further operate every university "like a busi- ALFRED E. BORM claims they are used to support...
...Why not con- became the dime-a-dozen clerks Philosophy, in this light, is about com- clude, instead, that matter (whatever whose main function was to keep the ing to terms with our finitude...
...Holocaust in the extreme conditions of A defense of abortion...
...If Commonweal is in- hope for a lot more from a Clinton the killing of Jews as a Nazi officer in dexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical presidency than we got...
...that your magazine has a set of adver- that the federal government could act Valparaiso, Ind...
...One essential dence, April 211 writes of my review the Catholic faith, we steered him to aspect of Commonweal's Catholic iden- [March 10] of Harry James Cargas's the classes conducted by Cullinan...
...In the 1990s the na- correcting the teaching of contempt for There is something disjointed about tion needed someone to defang a po- Jews that led Waldheim and other a magazine that runs an editorial at- tentially vicious Republican counter- Catholics to do the awful things they tacking a film about abortion ["Hard revolution, and after Vietnam, Water- did...
...That is true enough, but it is not stole for the day, and left...
...There is situation required a leader of both firm That guy with the hankie nothing Catholic about abortion...
...David Kelly could, that is, become conscious of the Theology of Ministry (online through the World Wide Web) material genesis of consciousness...
...ness...
...The point of My wife and I accompanied Dad to to make a philosophical case for legal the passage that I cited was that the the church one Saturday and sat in the abortion from within the Catholic tra- Nazis' systematic contempt for life led back...
...ness," with statistics about the climbHe gives the latter possibility very little Bernard G. Prusak is a graduate student in ing rate of retention and graduation...
...It seems to me Clinton evidenced ment of Reconciliation" [April 7] cerAlexandria, Va...
...viewed A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense For Cargas, consistency on this matof Abortion for the Internet site be- ter came from context...
...those qualities when needed better tainly brought back memories of that than anyone on the political horizon sacrament, as well as her parish, Saint The editors reply: then or since...
...This, too, seems to make In the 1970s a wave of conservatism That is what we have done, first in the perfect sense at first blush...
...Cullinan...
...might be asked...
...It also becomes question- they became fast friends, until Dad ers had changed the job of managers able when used to pretend that "there, died a year later...
...0 est glowing balance sheet of the "busiphilosophical biases is an open question...
...of debates over epistemology, logic, and How bad does it get...
...itself difficult to believe...
...There I a college graduate...
...She found to refuse to condemn the victims of the the book's argument unpersuasive...
...First, what does McGinn Pittsburgh, PA 15282 mean by introspective power...
...The Nazis did so signor Cullinan (not wimping out and must be presented in an intellectually when they made it a capital offense selecting Father Kennedy, as Patricia responsible and respectful manner...
...Cargas didn't say, moreLiterature, under the Catholic Periodical terize Clinton as "guided less by con- over, that the pope should not meet Index, does that mean you claim to be victions than by an instinct for sur- with Waldheim...
...ad referenced above...
...And sometimes he made this philosophy at Boston University...
...What Phone (412) 396-6531 • Fax (412) 396-4904 would his super-introspect be intro- E-mail: ministry@duq.edu D1 specting...
...It is one thing To the Editors liefnet (www.beliefnet.com...
...here, on the other hand, Dumbed down correct it dones [sic...
...One would hope deficits, to restore the people's belief EDWARD MCGLYNN GAFFNEY, JR...
...An advertisement for a book that tries a ghetto or a death camp...
...Dad went into the confessional, dition meets that standard...
...matter finally "is," composed as it is of customers happy, as indicated on their This is a noble conception of philoso- particles, waves, and force fields) is quite evaluations...
...self-awareness...
...conviction and a strong instinct for sur- Patricia Hampl's article "The SacraMARY REED vival...
...That reflect your Catholic identity...
...Finally, dorsement of a book's view...
...JOSEPH L. WALSH Luke's, and her pastor, Monsignor Commonweal's policy concerning ad- Margate, N.J...
...Similarly questionable is was a witness to the inception of the It is hard to be very optimistic McGinn's claim that "I form my concepts system described in Paul Trout's arti- about the future of a nation that of consciousness through examining my cle ["Teacher Evaluations," April 211, chooses to squander the potential of own inner states, that is, through acts of and its disastrous consequences...
...It is quite another for As a loyal reader of your magazine, I A vast conspiracy a layman to raise a respectful voice of was extremely disappointed to see an I strongly agree with Wilson Carey protest over Pope John Paul II's meetadvertisement for A Brief, Liberal, McWilliams ["The Great Triangula- ing with Kurt Waldheim after the disCatholic Defense of Abortion in your tor," April 211 that we had a right to closure of Waldheim's complicity in March 24 issue...
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...for a women to be found pregnant in did...
...tising guidelines...
...When my father indicated Commonweal is a journal of opinion Professor Philip Devine [Correspon- that he wanted to take instructions in edited by lay Catholics...
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