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...He exhibited on all occasions that very Catholic conviction that reason and faith need not contradict one another...
...Few theologians were as proficient at demonstrating the validity of the Catholic moral tradition as Richard McCormick, and fewer still, perhaps, as good at applying the "You want to run a principled campaign?- "medicine of mercy" to the intellectual challenges we face...
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...Yes, fluential "Notes on Moral Theology" for the scholarly journal this is personality- (or "character-") driven politics, but Mc- Theological Studies, and in doing so was always careful to preCain's message touches on something more than Clinton- sent the best arguments of those with whom he disagreed...
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...He believed, above all, that church teaching had to be that, even George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Bill Bradley ought defended in rational argument, not merely by appeals to to be grateful...
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...Commonweal readers have been campaign-finance system," McCain has said, "this crusade familiar with his byline since 1964, when he first appeared is about much more than changing how we pay for our cam- here writing on the question of "marital morality...
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...and where politicians tious manner, McCormick was a beloved mentor to dozens are held in almost universally low esteem-this renewed in- of younger colleagues...
...Voters turned out in record numbers in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Michigan...
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...who decide presidential elections-many of them Catholics-will reject candiCommonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Peri- dates associated with the harsh rhetoric of the culture wars...
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...Nowadays, however, the Spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity...
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...Never eager to pick a fight with the Cain's candidacy, he has already done a great deal to re- magisterium or the conservative Catholic activists who made mind us of why democracy matters, and why politics is him an object of their scrutiny, neither did he shy away from worthy of something more than our apathy or cynicism...
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...She considers that she meets the needs of the present day by demonstrating the validity of her teaching rather than by condemnations...
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...piece for the magazine (August 14,1998) laid out, in his cusExactly how McCain would change our democracy as tomarily direct and succinct style, his principled opposition president is something voters must learn a good deal more to "punishing dissent" in the church...
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...Campaign-finance reform is a popular issue in the McCormick was an outspoken defender of "conscientious abstract, but as previous reforms have shown, it is a very dissent" from church teachings on contraception, certain ascomplicated business fraught with unforeseen consequences...
...After years as a Jesuit seminary instructor, he taught at the To his credit, McCain has spoken to voters' idealism, ex- Kennedy Center for Bioethics at Georgetown, finishing his plicitly calling for a politics that transcends self-interest, that academic career as the John A. O'Brien Professor of Christian embraces duties as much as rights...
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...In his 1998 Commonweal article, he quoted John XXIII on how the church should best deal with the possibility of theological error...
...p. 6, Baloo, Roth- the next few weeks, Bush may find himself relaxing in his beloved Texas come fall...
...Famous seems to be characterized by obscene spectacles like "Who for his resonant smoker's voice, ready laugh, and unpretenWants to Marry a Multimillionaire...
...He was a nationally ample, he has been forthright in saying that the United States recognized authority on bioethics, an articulate defender of has moral obligations to act in the defense of human rights, the church's opposition to abortion and euthanasia, and a even outside the spheres of our immediate national interest...
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...spending, the environment, unions, taxes, or abortion, he lines up well to the right...
...But whatever Republicans voted to the priesthood, he was commited to honest debate or American voters at large finally decide about Senator Mc- on disputed questions...
...In an era whose culture Commonweal 5 March 10, 2000 Correction In the February 11 issue listing the RICHARD McCORMICK, R.I.P...
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