Et Cetera: A pathological condition
philosophical sophistication, political significance, literary in- E T C EYE R A fluence, and multifaceted manifestations. In short, Catholi- cism's catholicity is both a...
...The inculcation of those innocent love of icebergs...
...The week studies would look at the core and at its contexts...
...It is a voice the ing Lady Macbeth, in New York's Senate race was a torworld-and the church-needs to hear...
...outstanding contributions from Catholics in the arts, the But it did to both Noonan and Gigot...
...New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's marriage-and his That gets Catholic freedom as well as the balance between candidacy for the U.S...
...Now a mayor famous for his public defense of traditional moral values reveals his marriage to be pasteboard and his morality situational...
...There was no finger wagging, scholarship alone...
...It would Nathan, the superiority of Giuliani's character and morality also be good if the IACS broadened its mandate to include to that of the Clintons does not immediately leap to mind...
...culture and educated in church-run schools in the 1950s and This is a bit like praising the captain of the Titanic for his '60s is approaching retirement age...
...Every believer believes there is a have described the contempt and animosity felt by those [Catholic] core," Noonan said, "but it would take a book to who are obsessed with the "crimes" of Bill and Hillary Clindemonstrate it and an institution of advanced studies to ex- ton...
...An institute for advanced Catholic Wall Street journal columnist Paul Gigot...
...to secure the handing on of that heritage in fluid and often Gigot, who, like Noonan, never tires of denigrating the novel circumstances...
...Although eager for the support public and very messy triangle of the mayor, his estranged and counsel of the hierarchy, the institute would be inde- wife, Donna Hanover, and his "very good friend" Judith pendent of any direct clerical supervision...
...Clinton-haters have tried just about everything short of kidnapping to rid themselves of this seemingly indestructible couple...
...As clerical control of education passes to marriage at a news conference without first informing her is the laity, a variety of new institutions must be developed doubtful...
...Noo- band-and-wife press conferences, Noonan and Gigot exnan went on to argue that "Catholicism cannot be studied as plained it all on the Journal's editorial page (May 12...
...The promise of greater political reward has alFORMATION ways been a higher priority for the first lady than resolving any personal trauma...
...On-line discussion group "I'm sorry, sir, but that's one of the things that men were not meant to know...
...Whether Ms...
...Clinton ever did throughout her many marital crises...
...The Institute for Advanced Catholic so-called liberal politics of compassion, also shed a tear over Studies is one such innovation, one that promises to bring a Giuliani's "all-too-human failing...
...Please...
...Good...
...Senate disintegrated in dueling huscreed and the development of doctrine just about right...
...In short, Catholicism's catholicity is both a challenge and an inexhaustible A pathological condition That is how some resource for the scholar...
...Hanover thought values and that intellectual tradition in a younger generation her husband more "human" for announcing the end of their is much in doubt...
...Clearly the prospect of distinctively Catholic perspective and an authoritative voice Giuliani being unable to smite Hillary Clinton, that schemto bear on the intellectual issues of the day...
...no calling this lady a stalker and that one a liar, no perjury, The Catholic church in America is at a crucial juncture...
...Intellectual culture, mayor's personal foibles "weren't coolly planned and caleven expressly Catholic intellectual culture, cannot live by culated," opined Noonan...
...For many, simple human decency long ago suggested that the Clinton family also be left in peace...
...The political doesn't always trump the personal" in the Giuliani family, the columnist asserted...
...But how the mayor's hypocrisy and troubled private life can be used to condemn the Clintons is something only a psychiatrist could explain...
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...Simple human decency suggests that Giuliani, his distraught wife, and their two children be left alone...
...Take former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan and amine and delimit it...
...Supposedly ruthless Rudy has revealed himself as a more vulnerable i soul than Mrs...
...The unveiling of the media, the professions, and elsewhere...
...no sending out a wife and appointees and aides to divide A generation of scholars and intellectuals steeped in Catholic and conquer...
...ment...
...One can easily understand the frustration of Noonan and Gigot...
...Of the a fossil," and that the institute would be the work of be- many things that could be said about the suddenly very lievers for the most part...
...It was all more ragged and human than that...
Vol. 127 • June 2000 • No. 11
