Correspondence: Hillenbrand, Prop. 22, & more

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...are and, with hope, look forward to having been away from Chicago for Eric Stoltz's "Signs of the Times" the day when they will be freed from sixty years, but I have never heard in the same issue gave me much to the burden they must carry...
...There is little possibility of seriously reducing the number of abortions or of enhancing ROBFRTWILLIAM FOGFL The fourth Great respect for fetal life in our laws if proMum id the 1991 Hahel Free in Imon n life advocates are unwilling to considAwdkeoinq and the er compromise...
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...Recently, while looking for something To round out Commonweal's treat- Against gay marriage else in a back issue of America [March ment of the Hillenbrand era, it might be Civil marriage as a descendant of sa- 28, 19981, I reread the article "Notes useful to note that Hillenbrand's ecclesi- cred, holy, ritualistic marriage has from a Community Catholic and Gay" ology (like that of almost all of his con- been subjected to extensive corrup- by Eric Stoltz...
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...through a nzir of the ABC cameras conveyed the plight of one Southern tribe, the Dinka, with leisure, reflection...
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...not the health) of child has been conceived, regardless still sees so much violence your state- the mother may be acceptable, albeit a of who fathered it, does it not deserve ment is certainly true...
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...It is never too late, and even though more people have already died in Sudan than in Rwanda, we can still raise our voices to effect some change...
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...Nagele has worked with the Dinka for many years, ABC's cameras were showing footage of the Taposa and Nyangatom, two other Southern pastoral tribes, among whom Nagele now lives and works...
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...But in a nation where abortion on demand has been legal for nearly thirty years, more than the nose of the camel is already under the tent...
...I have always underdeed in visiting Monsignor Reynold grateful for Garvey's sensitive insights stood that both of these issues could be Hillenbrand [see Commonweal, March which address my own difficulties easily taken care of through the use of 10] for the sole purpose of trying to lift with believing and offer, as well, sug- wills, trusts, and partnerships, and his spirits at a time when Reynie was gestions about how I can best respond have nothing to do with sex...
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...blurring of the promise and the re- His article "Signs of the Times" in I would hate to think that offering sponsibilities accepted by oath, be- Commonweal [April 7] is a sad reflection this observation might be interpreted fore witnesses, by a man and a of the effect on that community of by some as being disrespectful to the woman...
...In the anyone suggest either directly or indi- ponder, and was a challenge to exam- mean time, I ask them not to further rectly that Egan's purpose in visiting ine knee-jerk reactions to same-sex corrupt our rituals...
...validation for Egan's point of view...
...Recently I have rights and privileges of civil marriage dence, April 7] lends a certain cre- been involved in a discussion group that Stoltz seems to covet are the rights dence to the old saying that no good studying world religions...
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...when a mother's life is in danger, is a The very fact that the mother wishes (Continued from page 4) morally defensible position...
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...Should the blurring of mean- Proposition 22-the "protect marriage" memory of a truly great priest-sure- ing be increased to the point where initiative supported by Cardinal Roger ly one of the greatest priests of his the obligations become meaningless Mahony and the bishops of California...
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...In that context, a prudential decision to support allowing for legal access to abortion in cases of future of Egalitarianism rape and incest is morally defensible...
...Sudan in 1994, so near to Rwanda, which the church should make every If it had not been for the new altar tawhere five hundred thousand people effort to fulfill...
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...Canada's Talisman Energy Firm, in spite of vehement protests by many religious and social organiCommonweal 28 May 5, 2000 zations, continues to extract Sudanese "simple-minded imitation" of the European churches oil, funneling millions to the Khar- past...
...zens of California (61 percent) said that the community should define what Thanks for the ammo civil marriage is and that the blurring Egan & Hillenbrand John Garvey's "The Hidden God" of distinctions should stop...
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...I was impressed then temporaries) was papalist, for lack of a tion over time, as the article by Eric and am now by his picture of the gay better term, and fell somewhat short of Stoltz ["Signs of the Times," April 7] community in the Archdiocese of Los Vatican II's emphasis on a more colle- points out...
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...Timothy O'Brien a disservice when Utilizing all the resources of you say that there was no antiCatholicism involved in the House economics and history, he addresses Chaplain selection process...
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...But when concerns Having just spent three weeks in toum government, which has stated like hers are dismissed out of hand, as France and Switzerland, and having publicly it will use the money to con- if preferences for votive candles or visited many churches, I was struck by tinue funding the war...
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...Gregorian chant somehow inevitably how little impact Vatican II seems to Having lived and worked in Sudan signal a dangerous theological drift, have had on the outward signs of in recent years, it remains a mystery we shouldn't be surprised if thought- change in the Catholic churches of to me how a human tragedy of this di- ful people despair...

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