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...U Within its undergraduate residence halls, the University strives to create communities of faith and learning that serve as Julia Vitullo-Martin edited Breaking catalysts for the integration of students' intellectual, spiritual and Away: The Future of Cities (Twentieth Censocial development...

...Ferrara's second objection is that I THEOLOGICAL fail to appreciate the evidence of "finished" design in nature...

...He suffered the anguish of being torn between two families: his mother, sister, brother, MedwicN's and his children and their mother...

...CORRESPONDENCE Together with a graduate student Assistant Rector and undergraduate Seniors serving as Resident Assistants, the Rector (Continued from page 4) educates, counsels, and accompanies students in the life of faith, ry and science, but the bread of everyand calls students to accountability in accordance with Univer- day life and the sine qua non of consity behavioral expectations...

...C O R R E S P O N O E M C E (nihleen breaking his sacred vow...

...Then let's look at the entry print edition either as contributor or ad- This slightly bizarre, even mean-spirited for Judaism, a religion from whose sec- visor...

...The divine act of Creation me that there was a double stan- is not a "contracting" or "absenting," which should bring the robust dard-one for Latin America, the but a word of absolute affirmation spirituality and vibrant personality of this extraordinary wo- other for Eastern Europe-closer to that makes things be, bestowing upon man the wider recognition she the mark...

...as harbingers of a future still arriving...

...edge that the work is a major May we all be remembered for the achievement, of which any author good we do in this life, and may he TIRES could be justly proud...

...Staring salary for the 2000-2001 year ful reductio: "At a certain moment in is pending final budget approval...

...role of the church by advocating its align- rights movement...

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...DENNIS FERRARA to, Washington, D.C...

...He Part of what one seeks from an encyon-line version that will permit a search goes on to discuss its many influences- clopedia are reliability and good judgof the entire text...

...Approximately 6,550 of the 7,600 Britannica required multiple editions beundergraduates live in 27 single-sex residence halls on campus...

...And it is, I think, the other University Departments responsible for student welfare and reality of contemplation and beautythe physical condition of the residence hall...

...vey Cox, who is listed nowhere in the American who converted to Judaism...

...In Karl Stern's wonderwas $27,338, plus benefits...

...Even the the Congregation of Holy Cross...

...Or was the cardinal misses the meaning of the act of crebiography (appointed by John Paul II) who told ation itself...

...First of all, the Weigel [Correspondence, February 11, God of "humble self-sacrificing love" "A marvel of 2000] calls my characterization "a and "kenotic compassion," the God, myth" because the pope sent the Sal- in other words, of grace, is not the sihoIahip n I wit" vadoran bishops' conference a God of "faith's primordial experi-LIESL SCHILLINGER, telegram, published in Osservatore Ro- ence...

...Such a perspective, admittedly more Credit or audit options...

...This position is held by priests, male and female religious, and committed lay people...

...such that it became favorable for the For further information or to request an application, aggregation of carbon atoms and oxyplease contact: gen with the nitrogen-hydrogen combination, and that from random Sister Mary Louise Gude, C.S.C...

...Mozart, and making drawings like those of Leonardo...

...ready so magnificently "finished," the Confession by definition is the ac- "beauteous order of the universe" 3rd printing Knopf knowledgment of one's own sins, not (Saint Thomas) that proclaims the the sins of others...

...The questions raised in pertinent to the question at hand: grai"A ee tn my previous comment remain...

...occurrences of large clusters moleAssistant Vice President for Student Affairs cules occurred which were most fa316 Main Building vorably structured for the coming University of Notre Dame about of life, and from that point it Notre Dame, IN 46556 went on through vast stretches of (219) 631-5550 time, until through processes of natural selection, a being finally occurred which is capable of choosing love over Commonweal 2 8 February 25, 2000 hate, of writing poetry like that of Dante, composing music like that of Ready for renewal...

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...the peace of the starry sky, the sweetThe University currently has positions open for Rectors in ness of the rose-that most tellingly men's and women's residence halls...

...Time to try the Encarta Africana, the ment with the oppressed in society...

...tion theology is a "theological and reli- century, African-Americans and Jews But there is no entry on Judaism or gious movement that revolutionized the worked together to help create the civil American Jews...

...E-MAIL: admissions@wtu.edu thetic appreciation of nature to be VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.wtu.edu transfigured less by nostalgia than by WASHINGTON THEOLOGICAL UNION • 6896 Laurel Street, NW • Washington, DC 20012 hope...

...The Encarta does not state that it will correct errors or omissions in the printUniversity of Notre Dame ed edition, but such is the promise of technology...

...CATHERINE HENIHAN the pope's "very muted reaction" to Brooklyn, N.Y...

...fore scholars pronounced it brilliant...

...richness of the San Francisco Bay area & Dennis Ferrara's letter convinces me Northern California all the more of the need for such theological revision...

...As Integrating the experiences of mind and heart: such, the glories of nature can be read Prayer - Quiet Time - Faith Sharing - Recreation...

...Saint Thomas argued, creatures image author of A History of God the Creator, and thereby, to the deStill a rose gree of their being, the divine agency I concur with Margaret O'Brien Stein- and freedom...

...5213 biblical than Greek, allows our aes- Housing available...

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...IIIWe recommend a JSTB sabbatical...

...But at least it is an entry...

...My critique of so-called "intelligent Renewing the minister for the renewal of ministry design theory," however, is directed 1735 LeRoy Avenue less at Saint Thomas than at contem- Berkeley, CA 94709 porary anti-Darwinians who arbitrari- 510.549.5000 ly abbreviate the honorable results of toll-free 800.824.0122 Jesuit School contemporary science in order to save fax 510.841.8536 the idea of a Creator whose main work email: admissions@lstb.edu of Theology is to establish and sustain "order...

...Harry Browne was not without fault...

...that is reserved for the Creator New York Times Book Review mano, expressing his "deepest repro- of the universe, the God of nature, bation" of Romero's "sacrilegious who is, so to speak, the God directly assassination...

...JOHN JAY HUGHES them that being in virtue of which, as deserves...

...inevitably imperfect beauty as promise, WEEK THREE: JULY 3-6 as nature's openness to the coming of Guided Retreat a God who makes all things new...

...est, with the truth of the argument Starting salary for this nine-month position in 1999-2000 from design...

...It is to what remains unfinished in crecomplicated spiritual life is unfortunate that the Feminist Press ation, Haught loses sight of what is alarticulated...

...Fair enough...

...The Encarta yields sur- and its equivalent controversies...

...Harry" "frozen design") that restrict our view is the clarity with which a Browne was my mother's brother...

...I think contemporary cosmolo- SUMMER PROGRAMS 2000 gy, Darwinian biology, and sound WEEK ONE: JUNE 19-23 WEEK TWO: JUNE 27-30 theology all forbid our answering affirmatively...

...reveals how finally incommensurate The position of Rector is a full-time, live-in position, although is the law of evolution, which does some Rectors hold part-time teaching positions or part-time not transcend survival and self-interadministrative assignments...

...Harry was torn be- glory of the divine artisan, an order www.randomhouse.com/knopf/ borzoi/1 999fallv2lmedwick tween the "married" life and his that is not only the wellspring of poetpriestly duties, living with the guilt of (Continued on page 28) Commonweal 4 February 25, 2000 and the false solace of religious faith...

...The CDROMs can be revised immediately and The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic university founded by repeatedly...

...Laura Furman, author of Ordinary Paradise published this egotistical memoir...

...By passing the papal response have remained at over this presupposition, Haught not this level had an archbishop been shot only derails the argument from design Intel ioent, lively at the altar in Poland or elsewhere in with excessively existential talk, he Eastern Europe...

...His is a tempered discussion, rem- entry, has only one sentence on the soularized ranks came some of the most iniscent of what one would expect in the cial relations between blacks and Jews: important activists in the American civil Britannica...

...But in an un- UNION finished universe, where all things are A Roman Catholic graduate school for 'nistry in some way interconnected, can any- freedom faith i n t e g r i t y thing ever seriously claim to be finished...

...Is www.istb.edu it surprising that a certain political at Berkeley agenda often accompanies this editing process...

...Would tia praesupponit naturam...

...Associating God only with "frozen design" muffles the novelty in evolution, the ongoing entertainment of new possibilities that makes ours an WASHINGTON inevitably unfinished universe...

...5213 Registration deadline: May 31, 2000...

...Weigel, Romero & the pope But through his life as educator, histotile of Even critics of George Weigel's biog- rian, and political activist he did acraphy of Pope John Paul II acknowl- complish some good in this world...

...The miracle ol fels's review of the book Under the Second, by presenting the argument Rose [January 14, 2000], and her accu- from design only in caricatured terms rate description and recollection of the (a "theology fixated on design," Teresao Qwh man, Henry J. Browne...

...Easily accessible by Metrorail...

...My reference to rest in peace...

...He begins by saying libera- "During the first half of the twentieth rights movement...

...of an undergraduate residence hall...

...Surely the thousands of Jewish prises...

...It has an entry on liberation the- And there is indeed an entry on Ju- activists who protested and litigated for ology, written by Harvard professor Har- daism, by writer Julius Lester, an African- decades deserve more than this lone sentence...

...A master's degree is preferred...

...perspective allows us to envisage such Themes in Luke -Acts, more...

...The Rector is the principal person in charge tury Fund Press...

...REV...

...The expensive, bulky book Residence Hall Rector will not be revised for years...

...the assassination of Archbishop Romero [Correspondence, November False contractions 01 ATILA 19, 1999] was a comment on one of the In his downplaying of the argument "blind spots" mentioned by your re- from design ["Theology after Darviewer, Eamon Duffy: "Weigel's vir- win," January 28, 2000], John Haught is tual silence about the pope's coolness misrepresents creation both as divine toward figures like Oscar Romero act and as created gift...

...Furnished living quarters time, the temperature of the Earth was within the residence hall and a meal plan are provided...

...JOHN F. HAUGHT Commonweal 29 February 25, 2000...

...The Rector also acts as liaison to templation...

...KAREN ARMSTRONG, Saint Louis, Mo...

...Augustinian,Redemptorist, Paulist, more...