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Joan & Reynold
ment on the recent spate of articles Twain, the rugged Yankee skeptic, and letters on evolution "by...
...I then it can start all over...
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...ment on the recent spate of articles Twain, the rugged Yankee skeptic, and letters on evolution "by chance" Joan was the sole exception in human)0 or "by intelligent design," let me point ity that challenged his pessimistic, deTo the Editors out two things...
...This communion of loves can not ers, grassroots activists, those involved in propriate background...
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...The transcripts of science from the way in which a theol- traries (though not contradictories, her trial and of her rehabilitation a ogy of nature relates to science...
...However, it is a steely glare and said, "Give it to me...
...mum...
...Indeed, she should...
...Afterward, as I was getting ready to Lonergan for the 21St Century The writer is the superior general of the leave, he called me over to him in the Frank Braio David Burrell Josephites...
...com- twenty-fifth wedding anniversary...
...My family moved away the folsee unemployed men going through lowing year, but, in the decades since, garbage cans to search for food...
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...In the case of evolution, for exam- thinks-them as existing...
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...Central Calspiritual heritage...
...But with God it is the other way learned to love books...
...was only twelve...
...JOHN F. HAUGHT drew Tadie, Twain loved his Personal He agreed and I spent two hours Washington, D.C...
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...nity to know better countless persons poverty so that the countries of DONALD LUND touched by this great and saintly man...
...stead, it speculates on what the latter around: God does not know things be- Rumor has it that Ken Burns is might mean in the context of new sci- cause they exist...
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...Fred Lawrence Carney 405 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 croninki@bc.edu (H) 617.782.7319 (0) 617.552.8095 Commonweal 29 April 7,2000 der and simply said, "I was unkind to Flaming liberals the skewed income patterns of Latin you before Mass and I apologize for Having been a Commonweal sub- America as the worst in the world, that...
...Twain loved Joan...
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...dog and went on to serve the Mass...
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...Nothing cen- person of either sex who has ever held admired both men and wanted to tral to one's faith is lost in the attempt...
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...I choose the at countries, it might be useful to comA great and saintly man word "flaming" for the "causes" and ment as to how this income gap came Thank you to John Hill and to Barry the ready solutions that spring up about and how it might be relieved...
...That I've occasionally stumbled upon a referimage disturbed and challenged him ence to him and his legacy in a book or Pope John to relate his research on the Mystical article just enough to make me won- XXIII Body to suffering humanity...
...He was encouraging enough to one of the Masses, the celebrant ar- guide me into lectoring at crowded rived twenty minutes late...
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...As Louis Kos- brand men," Monsignor John Egan ology of nature fails to do this well, suth observed, "Joan of Arc is the only and Father Bill Clark (my pastor...
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...Hillenbrand [Marchl0] for their finely like flaming balls from a Roman Why not look at the differences in the wrought remembrances of the late Candle...
...Recollections of Joan of Arc more than with him...
...To base one's telligent design, for that matter...
...He had his alb on, hands cupped in the small of found out that the Mass in question his back, waiting for me to hand him Twenty-seventh Annual was late because of the celebrant, not the cincture, I hesitated...
...Twain dedicated the book to his wife he was writing his doctoral dissertaOlivia (the only book he ever dedicat- tion on the concept of the Mystical Why things exist ed to her) on the occasion of their Body in Saint Thomas Aquinas and As a final (whom am I kidding...
...scriber for only one year, I have been with the result that average income It was a lesson in honesty and humil- impressed by the quality of the writ- is too high for debt relief and leaves ity that has stayed with me nearly thir- ing, both in the essays and in the the poor bearing the results of the ty-five years...
...At a time Joan of Arc, as Mary Gordon's "Des- [March 10] brought back two clear when many evolutionary biologists perately Seeking Joan" [March 10] memories of my experiences with the consider religion and science com- points out, has and will continue to as- man...
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...cause God knows--correction: actively Joan of Arc...
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...The key der if this was the same person I knew National question was: How does the gospel when I was a kid...
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...al theology (arguing from features of humans are constrained to choose one It is worth noting two other facts nature to God's existence) depends on or the other of opposites, in God con- concerning Joan...
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...We would call it that theology should not make itself terms describing our human ways of grace, not part of Twain's vocabulary, dependent upon any particular set of knowing and thinking as if they could but nonetheless he saw it lived in her...
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...I guess I took a little too long beWorkshop gy, lay formation, social justice, and cause he suddenly turned around with the role of the priest...
...And two, much of the time we use its truest sense...
...For (Continued on page 29) Commonweal 4 April 7, 2000 CORRESPONDENCE Serving Hillenbrand In 1966,1 was an altar boy at Sacred Is Cod calling you (Continued from page 4) Heart Church in Winnetka, Illinois living in a backroom of Holy Name where Reynold Hillenbrand was the to priesthood...
...I was stunned...
...Discounts 5 percent, 3 times...
...embodied her spirit of nobility, truth, John Garvey ["God and the Big witness probability theory, statistics, and goodness...
...Lozada cites Stoughton, Wisc...
...They confirmed for for men in In 1968, I was invited to give a mis- me that this was a man I was lucky to the age sion talk at Sacred Heart Church, Hil- have known-even as a grade-schooler...
...One of his remarks still The writer is professor of theology at any of his other books...
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...However, it is helpful be predicated of God univocally, in- Thus, whether he liked it or not he to distinguish between the way natur- stead of only analogously...
...Such understanding might Illinois, I was blessed with the opportu- to raise the bar of definition of bring real solutions...
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...I hope he has read Twain...
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...Mass schedule was such that I should and it was clear he put a lot of time into not speak longer than ten minutes...
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...So, Also, the late Cardinal John Wright, religious faith upon particular scien- while we may have difficulty reconcil- who had a lifelong scholarly interest tific ideas is never prudent...
...I have also debt burden...
...tion of India...
...Egan as anything near the full heir of Hil- In Quest of the Celtic Soul lenbrand...
...by searching for a possible consonance Hillenbrand between Darwinian evolution and Twains meet The articles on Reynold Hillenbrand Christian images of God...
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...thousand-book library on Joan to the as, a theology of evolution, does not The bottom line is we created intel- Boston Public Library, where, as a similarly place at risk the fundamental lects come to know things because they young boy, he worked as a page and teaching of a religious tradition...
...reason, I couldn't remember whether Lonergan I appreciate Hillenbrand's vision the tassels should be on the left or the and contributions in theology, litur- right...
...Cathedral...
...scientific ideas...
...On the ing these seemingly exclusive ideas, in in Joan, bequeathed his over fiveother hand, a theology of nature, such reality they could coexist...
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...She lived freedom in Bang," March 10] rightly contends etc...
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...been struck by some of the flaming Rather than throw debt relief funds liberalism of the content...
...15 percent, 12 times...
...flash...
...Part of my work at the HillenBRIDGET MARY MEEHAN RETURNS Catholic Chaplains Needed brand Institute was to try to bring these to the land of her birth to give us an extwo groups together...
...I retreated like a wounded puppy (REV...
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...At them...
...Discounts and month- Seminar Retreat dation for Egan's point of view...
...He told me the I recall that he wrote out his sermons, 30 to 60...
...While we wasn't an absolute pessimist...
...which are something else again) can quarter of a century later (ordered by Natural theology has always been a coexist...
...Reading the accounts Seminary relate to the social order...
...Hillenbrand who, unlike Egan, openly rhythm of an ashram with meditation, Quality subsidy publisher accepting manbacked Hillenbrand's defense of Hu- presentations, yoga, sharing, and music...
...One, so called "blind terministic view of history (only his chance" has its own laws and regular- fictional characters of Huck and Jim Theology of nature ities (and therefore predictabilities...
...In the mid- and late-1960s, I was pletely incompatible it seems irrespon- tound and inspire those not yet banal- a graduate student in Chicago and sible not to attempt to show how they ized and drugged by our reductive cul- had daily contact with two "Hillencan be fit together coherently...
...10 per- ryoung@nauticom.net brand prior to his death and gaining cent, 6 times...
...since the rise of science...
...NATIONAL SEMINARY But when I came off the altar, Hillen- One not-so-hazy memory, however, brand gave me a tongue lashing for stands out from the rest...
...ll'cston, MA 02493.2699 going on so long...
...This was of his life by John Hill and Barry Hillen- offers ten years before Pope Pius XII issued brand in your March 10 issue was like priestly his encyclical on the Mystical Body discovering a couple of missing puzzle formation (1943...
...Moreover, stands out clearly: In the early 1930s, Georgetown University...
...Advance from Hillenbrand some degree of valipayment required...
...Participants include Wayne There is another school of thought, Manuscripts Wanted Teasdale, Bo Lozoff, Judy Walters, Asha however, among those few friends of and Russill Paul...
...JUNE 19-23,2000 his spirit of humility that remains and snatched it out of my hands in a BOSTON COLLEGE with me...
...supreme command of the military meet the famous "Hillenbrand" who But not to try at all is to commit the forces of a nation at the age of seventeen...
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