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...His material These values are obviously vital for main- at the Colosseum in Rome to honor (but on such sad places as Sudan is much taining liberal democratic institutions, and not by name) such witnesses to the faith...
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...Re- "civic" and intended more to maximize cases like the Amish or Catholic and ligious communities are not the greatest the autonomy of private individuals...
...By assuming a efforts to Roman Catholic martyrs, his overly hagiographic...
...in the twentieth century...
...He of- dialogue within American Catholic theology, ECUMENICAL fers a thick template for reading in the Marquette offers a diverse faculty nationally light of Christian faith in general and the recognized in theological research...
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...First, sense of the term) to the Word of God the Assumption Day pilgrimage in while the idea of following a fictional so that he "becomes aware of an inner which an ancient icon of Christ, housed pilgrim is a felicitous one, the pilgrim, light enlightening, guiding, assuring me, in the Sancta Sanctorum, was paraded alas, plays only a minor role in the de- not that I see the light but I see things in from the cathedral church of Saint John velopment of the story...
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...More than While I recognize that this is a work ues of public institutions and those of civil eight thousand names of proposed of history, I am sorry that Royal did not society, Macedo misses one of the para- Catholic martyrs have been forwarded elucidate better the concept of martyrdoxes of democracy: ostensibly "illiber- to Rome...
...In an earlier Wilton D. Gregory 704 pp...
...Chaplain will supervise and coordinate church where the church speaks through across the nation, including Catholic chaplaincy...
...In this regard, he cites more Lateran to the church of Saint Mary been appreciated if the authors had given than once Malebranche's dictum that "atMajor, with stops at various other "sta- us more description of where pilgrims tention is the natural prayer of the soul...
...Box 1881 • Biblical Theology Nlwoukee, W153201.1881 for the intellectually timid, Reading the (414) 288-7170 Gospel is is a work of profundity...
...Enjoy the pleasant climate & geographical • Although I understand why Royal richness of the San Francisco Bay area ,& limited himself to Roman Catholics, there Northern California could be a very interesting theological discussion about those who died for Renewing the minister for the renewal of ministry Christ who were not Catholic...
...The authors do provide a tion...
...more sketchy, but that story is, alas, still are little encouraged by contemporary Robert Royal, inspired by the words of unfolding...
...evangelical homeschoolers notwiththreat to the sort of civic community Mace- Many self-identified liberals will also standing, the nation's more conspicudo rightly longs for...
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...Teaching/Research Assistantships MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY Alexander Schmemann belonged to that group of Russian Orthodox theologians who fled to Paris after the Russian Revolution, finding a spiritual home at OUR SUNDAY VISITOR'S Saint Sergius Seminary...
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...4 great achievement...
...Gross disparities be- wonder if Macedo's "civic liberalism" ous problem is a secularism that denies tween suburban and urban public school and "liberal public reason" are really lib- any public standing for religion whatsystems, for example, have a much greater eral at all...
...In short, there are better ways to ad- n his apostolic letter Tertio for a whole nation's history of persecuvance "liberal public reason" and core lib- millenio adveniente (1994), tion...
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...As a consequence, this is hardly teenth century is most helpful because it the dates or the dimensions (information a book to be read in long stretches...
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...PENITENTIARY, ATWATER, silence...
...They outline I have two minor criticisms...
...Dunne folCommonweal 2 8 September 22, 2000 lows that line up with another from Proust who said of reading that it is "that fertile miracle of communication effected THEOLOGY in solitude...
...Schmemann came to the without apology...
...In my estimation, Father Schme- Conference lamented how American Orthodox (es- mann's journal is powerful in the way pecially converts) became obsessed with Thomas Merton's journals are power- THE WORK OF ANDRE DUBUS...
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...Moreover, as advocates of mandatory civil service and civic education suggest, there are more direct means of forging civic ideals than striving for the kind of "liberal" control over public school curricula Macedo advocates...
...Yet, by Perhaps the greatest irony of this work is In some chapters, Royal's strategy is canonizing as martyrs Edith Stein and that Macedo's "civic ideals" seem less to tell one person's story as a microcosm Maximilian Kolbe (to name just two), the Commonweal 26 September 22,2000 pope has extended the definition of the martyr...
...A year before his death, in a fit frustrations in getting Russian emigres of fatigue, Schmemann wrote that RATES: $1.10 per word...
...When Dunne speaks of "everything else I have read," he is alluding to a broad and eclectic menu: Pascal, Hermann Brach, Heidegger, Augustine, John of the Cross, Eckhart, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Tolkien, Tolstoy, as well as texts from the Sufi "You'd be paranoid, too, if you were a martyr...
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...his experiences in France and wide reading in French QerswldayMSbr literature...
...No baptism...
...He also insists that was totally demolished in the early six- reading John as a whole helps us detect teenth century to be replaced by the pre- Reading the Gospel within the Gospel something like those sent structure...
...The say that he has published nearly twenty pendix to this volume...
...necessary convergence between the val- was still a monumental task...
...Marginal ical philosophy at the University of Chicago among different groups, the case of wealthy parents pulling their children out of public institutions is at least as problematic as the obstinacy of religious fundamentalists...
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...in Crestwood, New York, he played a 0.87973.692-5, pap r, 176 pp., $14.95 central role in American Orthodox life...
...Their work presenting apologetics undergirded much of the Second Vatican Council...
...made for a miscarriage if it is less Part-time position, State...
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...While he restricted his the sources he relies on are, at times, moting such civic virtues...
...Joseph Cardinal Bernardin was a peerless Volume 1: Homilies and Teaching Documents This year's millennial celebrations in 0.8146.2583.5 Hardcover with dust jacket, teacher of the Carhol(c faith- .. - These Rome remind us that the tradition of documents shed light on both his spiritual 688 pp., 6 x 9,534.95 Holy Year pilgrimages began in 1300 wisdom as well as his prudent insight into Volume Z: Church and Society the &fe of the Church...
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...For these descriptions alone, identity...
...This book's thin conceptual framework should be mildly lamented, though L-•XI)ICite the faith and vision not so much as to underestimate its real of one of the U104 4rC j)ccfcd achievement...
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...Dunne himself has crossed over the play Shadowlands notes: "We read to the book is a bargain...
...SELECTED WORKS OF Rome 1300 JOSEPH CARDINAL On the Path of the Pilgrim BERNARDIN Herbert L. Kessler and Alphonse P Spilly, C.PP.S., Editor...
...militant atheistic states under commuthe civic equation...
...Schmemann mann looked back on his journal and Manuscripts Wanted asks: How can we explain the genius of said that perhaps he should write about BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR...
...remarks on Sartre, for instance, strike Shortly before writing that, Schmeme as powerfully on target...
...it is a reminds us that a good deal of Rome's usually found in art history books) for book that demands patience (and attenarchitecture has radically changed over the art works...
...tions" along the way...
...but about faith, which League City, Tex...
...Lawrence S. Cunningham teaches theology Catholic Chaplains Schmemann loved the liturgy, and ea- at the University of Notre Dame...
...Dunne's One common critique of Dunne's writClemente and Santa Prassede (churches fundamental insight is that we can "cross ing is that he focuses too heavily on the which I know and love well) are partic- over" or "pass over" to an experience personal relationship with God...
...His sin...
...about the ray uscripts...
...a plan to create a martyr- death of Miguel Pro, S.J., as well as the Without denying for a moment the lam- ology of all those Catholic, Orthodox, death of so many other priests, sisters, entable prejudice and narrow-minded- Anglican, and Protestant-who suffered and lay Catholic activists...
...of course, the Roman dicasteries...
...There is, I think, a has provided a tradition of excellence in gradcertain sense in which much of Dunne's uate theology for lay men and women, clergy JESUIT work is highly personal and, in the good and religious...
...By rough count my colleague John kind of musical unity in John which The best part of this book is the careful Dunne has published just under twen- Dunne (himself a musician and composdescription of each building that made ty books...
...Qualified applicants include priests, men cle Schmemann's travels to lecture or to Catholics in industrialized coun- and women religious, deacons or lay perattend meetings (just reading about his tries ignore the church's teaching on sons with appropriate background and itineraries exhausted me...
...In other places ness of many Americans, it is important to (the Ukraine, for example), the sheer step back and consider whether the tol- The Catholic Martyrs scope of the persecution demanded a erance, openness, and critical reflection of the Twentieth Century wider lens...
...Let's stop the hypocrisy...
...It might be more accurate to er) attempts to set out lyrically in an apup part of the pilgrimage "station...
...ment" (causa non poena) made the martyr...
...and his life in America...
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...I email: admissions r@jstb.edu www.jsth.erlu think it worthwhile to reflect more fully on the papal assertion, in more than one place, that martyrdom is the most profound form of ecumenism...
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...Or, send payment plus $5.95 shippingJhandling fee her work of extraordinary power...
...In the current volume he attempts a sapiential reading of the Gospel of John, "passing over in reading the Gospel and coming back to everything else I have read, seeing everything in the light of the Gospel...
...both Saint John Lateran and ariously places hallowed by centuries of In his final analysis, Dunne thinks that Saint Mary Major had extensive addi- Catholic piety...
...By being judiciously selective dom and the challenges provided by al" institutions like the family, church, as well as writing well, Royal has pro- contemporary martyrs...
...For example, his chapter on Mexico eral values than by further inhibiting the I Pope John Paul II announced chronicles, in some detail, the life and actions of parents and religious groups...
...Yet the Vatican skills...
...in Religious Studies Department of Theology to speak no more...
...His love of and participation in company, including the Knights of sition, State...
...In the forties and fifties many of these exiles participated, In this confident, unified, and unflinchalong with their Roman Catholic theo- ing +~W ing assessment of the key elements of the logical and intellectual counterparts (s 3F FA I T44, Catholic Faith, Father Avery Dulles, S.J., (Louis Bouyer, Jean Danielou, Henri De illuminates the darkness of skepticism and Lubac, et al...
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...cious chapter on the recent martyrs of respect for law and legitimate authority...
...However, he does provide a juditeach virtues like patriotism, loyalty, and for the faith in the twentieth century...
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...He says, in his and parochial schools may offer just the vided us with a useful panoramic view introduction, that he will leave such isvalues that liberal democratic institutions of the many people who died for Christ sues to the "church," by which he means, themselves are incapable of providing...
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...This is the distinction of a canonist, not a theologian...
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...Religion is the organ in us cent, 6 times...
...If we truly want to will complain that the author's prescrip- Richard Boyd is a graduate student in politfoster habits of tolerance and mutuality tions do not go far enough...
...His basic desire is to pay attention (in Simone Weil's the sacred sites of the city...
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...ty, 2,304-bed facility opening in September passage, "that is why I love an empty When does life begin...
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...was fully dedicated to Orthodoxy in of light which I almost always felt and America even though he frequently saw...
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...Solitude is a word that occurs frequently in Dunne's work, al- GRADUATE STUDY though he has written that we need to learn how to pass into solitude in order to For more than 40 years, Marquette University CATHOLIC return to community...
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...15 percent, 12 times...
...Catholic or parochial the 1994 letter, decided to write a book providing a readable survey even though schools may in fact do a better job of pro- on such martyrs...
...I would also be remiss if when we read in the fashion he suggests tions made to their older basilica form...
...3. which, it seems to me, is that chink No burial...
...reading of the Gospel in particular...
...Tied to geographical districts whatsoever in inculcating something as which religion historically has been, (and locality to social lass and race), pub- potentially oppressive as "civic ideals," and still is, a friend and wellspring of lic schools are often provincial and segre- even the modest version outlined here...
...A fair number of these pages chroni- than twenty weeks or 500 grams...
...It is, rather, a kind of the Walls...
...The authors give us some John Dunne "songlines" that Bruce Chatwin wrote wonderful pages on the old Petrine University of Notre Dame Press, $11, 187 pp.about after his experiences with the abobasilica and on some interesting arti- riginal Australians...
...As Royal notes, the preponMacedo emphasizes are sufficient...
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...might have stayed, how they found pro- Readers not familiar with Dunne's The final two chapters pay particu- visions, and otherwise made their way in meditative style should not assume that lar attention to the Roman basilicas of the city...
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...It is definitely not spirituality constructed following a nineteenth-cen- gave me much pleasure as I toured vic- "lite...
...One ularly well done, as is the text describing that nourishes us and still come back to finds little reference to community bethe beautiful mosaic treasures of Saint our own tradition and sense of personal yond what the C.S...
...He devoted his en- (Continued from page 4) cerated in this institution, 11 are on death row ergies to writing, lecturing, and in- That's what every woman should CALIFORNIA CITY CORRECTIONAL CENTERstructing ordinary people and seminar- have the right to do, without inter- Full-time position, Federal, New low-securiians...
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...The special merit of this vol- ends up being a kind of art history traditional lectio divina but one done in ume is the range of both black-and- book-livelier...
...truth was made real in the eschatological hope of the liturgy...
...More of this "human" informa- this book is anything like a commentary Saint Peter and of Saint Paul Outside tion would have made this text-which on John's Gospel...
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...In advancing his robust version impact on the development of tolerance, multiculturalists will readily concede that of "civic liberalism," Macedo fails to mutual respect, or a sense of a common the public school ought to have any role account adequately for the ways in civic life...
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