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John Paul's decades of patient work for reconciliation be- tween Catholics and Jews has advanced the church on a course that was institutionally and doctrinally unimaginable Marquee...
...Those changes, as the minds, one of the magazine's great strengths as well as one pope's every gesture indicates, go to the core of what it means of the most perceptive reviewers to be found anywhere...
...A long-time resident of Rockville Centre, later...
...When it comes to "defending the faith," Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville, the Catholic League usually shoots first and asks questions Maryland...
...two grandchildren...
...If representatives of the church have erred in the past, somehow continue to do so even without Richard's formiits current pastors can hardly be immune from error...
...the church's certainties about the unchanging nature of moral We wish Richard Alleva every good thing for his "sabtruth...
...John Paul's decades of patient work for reconciliation between Catholics and Jews has advanced the church on a course that was institutionally and doctrinally unimaginable Marquee Changes Despite our strenuous protests, even forty years ago...
...It is a temptation to take delight in seeing the tables turned on the self-appointed guardians of orthodoxy, but we will not succumb to such anti-Catholic urgings...
...In fact, as the pope's actions eloquently attest, ter, over another Catholic priest, the Reverend Timothy O'Brien...
...In this sense, the Vatican wants to have it both ways, batical," which apparently includes a visit to England, among getting credit for admitting obvious error while not conced- other cinematic adventures...
...els, have sinned grievously even when acting in the church's Commonweal has reviewed movies since 1935, and will name...
...House of Represenit possesses...
...dethe gospel does not depend on the sinlessness or inerrancy of cision to choose Charles Parker Wright, a Presbyterian ministhe church...
...Hoping dable pen at our disposal...
...the gracious withdrawal of Reverend Wright, is an obvious effort by the Republicans to stanch the political bleeding...
...Commonweal 6 April 7, 2000...
...The Reverend Daniel Coughlin uation of the way the church makes its claims about the truth has been appointed chaplain of the U.S...
...anti-Catholicism, especially after George Bush's visit to Bob Actions, as Jesus showed again and again, speak louder than Jones University raised the specter of anti-Catholicism as an words, and the pope's actions speak volumes for those with issue in the presidential race...
...Other voices will also be called upon to fill in as the condemns Catholics who sinned in the past nor threatens occasion merits it...
...May she rest in peace...
...As Commonweal's movie critnity at large that profound changes have taken place in the ic for the past ten years, Richard has been, at least to our church's teachings about Judaism...
...Coughlin's appointment, after ears to hear...
...We to be Catholic...
...She is survived by her hus- Catholics who suddenly found out what it is like being on the band, her two daughters, Margaret and Monica, and receiving end of Donohue's inflammatory allegations...
...Such a prospect should not alarm Catholics...
...Readers who share our chagrin at the breakup As for Catholics, something equally earthshaking may re- of what we imagined to be an indissoluble union should disult from the pope's public admission that the sons and rect their letters of woe to Richard, for he seems utterly imdaughters of the church, including church leaders at all lev- mune to our repeated pleas that he reconsider his decision...
...The truth of versy following House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's (R-Ill...
...But the act of apologizing itself, something we all look forward to...
...This time Catholic conservatives who have celebrated New York, Joan was a native of Chicago...
...The tatives, the first Catholic priest to serve in that position...
...the heart of the gospel compels us to admit sin, seek the for- That initial decision made Hastert vulnerable to charges of giveness of God, and reconcile with those we have injured...
...Born Joan Donohue's tactics when employed against liberal targets took Smith on November 10, 1920, she worked as execu- umbrage at his broadsides against Hastert...
...Father holiness of the church is a mystery, not a seal of state to be Coughlin's appointment comes after months of bitter controstamped on every pronouncement from Rome...
...Rand Richards Cooper, a novelist to deflect that logical inference, the Vatican's International and essayist who has contributed to these pages for many Theological Commission issued a turgid and equivocating years, will pick up the screen column for the immediate fuexplanation of why the papal apology neither specifically ture...
...During the O'Garas' many years in coalition being built between religiously conservative Catholics Rockville Centre, Joan was active with the Girl Scouts, and evangelical Christians...
...A fairvarious antipoverty agencies, and the RCIA program minded assessment of the facts is needed, cried conservative at Saint Agnes Cathedral...
...will miss him...
...A master of the symbolic gesture, the Richard Alleva has decided to retire from the business of pope's willingness to display a contrite heart and a palpa- movie reviewing-at least for the foreseeable future (see ble love of God may now help convince the Jewish commu- "End of the Affair," page 19...
...like John Paul's presence at Yad Vashem, may transcend such theological lawyering and inspire a profound re-eval- Anti-Catholicism...
...There is no evidence that anti-Catholicism played a role in Hastert's rejection of Father O'Brien, but that did not stop DeJoan O'Gara In February, Joan O'Gara, the wife mocrats from exploiting the issue or William Donohue of the of James O'Gara, who was Commonweal's managing Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights from jumping editor (1952-67) and then editor (1967-84), died at the into the fray feet first...
...Evidently, the tive secretary for Chicago Interstudent Catholic Ac- House chaplain fiasco threatened to undermine the political tion in 1937-47...
...Distinctions must be made...
...His return to these pages is ing any institutional flaws...
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