Marchers in an ashen parade
Loxterkamp, David
IN GOVERNMENT WE TRUST W. Shepherdson Abell The recent presidential campaign may have left some doubt as to where George W. Bush and Al Gore really stood on "big government." There is no...
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...A tousle-headed child—also with cerebral palsy—is strapped in a specially adapted mobility device that allows her to scoot freely about the aisles...
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...This argument may provoke the thoughtful reader to consider how large a part the qualities of perseverance and industry, so prized by our society, may really be traits at least partly inherited, or affected by a hard childhood...
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...There is no doubt where Benjamin Page and James Simmons stand...
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...How much more terrible and rich is this Ash Wednesday for them...
...Of course, both will be decried by those who believe Catholics should all walk in lock step with any current papal teaching, especially in matters of sexual ethics...
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...Page and Simmons are especially good at unearthing the theoretical and practical roots of policy disputes...
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...Page and Simmons are in favor of sharply progressive tax rates, easy monetary policy, affirmative action, abortion rights, putting far fewer people in prison, national health care, lower spending on the military, and greatly increased spending on virtually every social program under the sun...
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...Yet it contains illuminating discussions of how progressive the overall tax system is (not very), the impact of the availability of public assistance on young women having children (not great), and which military spending helps the poor and which tends to benefit the wealthy (you'll have to read that part yourself...
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...Pray, dear monk, that the cross of ashes smudged on my forehead today will not rinse as readily from the heart...
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...The Catholic tradition has given greater weight to personal responsibility...
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...The Catholic social tradition, as far as I know, has focused much more on getting everyone up to a decent standard of living, and hardly at all on the issue of equality as a goal in itself...
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...Still, the argument seems strained and somewhat reductionist...
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...I was left with nagging doubts about the book's enthusiastic reading of government's ability to do all things well...
...They support their own positions with copious references to studies on the real-world effects of the various government programs they advocate...
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...My pity pours out unsolicited to her parents for their admirable yet doleful duty, that of raising a child with little hope for marriage or career or future independence...
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...The authors put no price tag on it, but consider that a wealthy nation ought to be able to afford it all...
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...So I am grateful for this seat on the sidelines as the choir sings and the march unfolds...
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...This is a very tall order indeed...
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...It is also wildly unrealistic in this political climate...
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...By the final chapter, I wondered whether it was just coincidental that all the methodologically sound research referred to by the authors happened to support George McGovern's campaign in 1972...
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...Behind her, a nurse whose house—along with her every earthly possession—burned to the ground last week...
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...David Loxterkamp is a physician who lives and practices medicine in Belfast, Maine...
...Her ovum—the tests confirm—is blighted...
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...Back in the choir, I wish my son were asleep instead of waving a dollar bill above his head and whispering in an outside voice, "Is it time to go home now...
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...The whole cast returns for an encore on the First Sunday in Lent...
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...This book contains substantial factual background on an array of policy issues, and there are nuggets of new (to me) and striking information throughout...
...David Toolan, S.J., NY Thomas A. Tracy, VA Alfonse F. Trezza, FL Dr...
...For as Jonah was in the belly of the sea monster for three days and three nights, so will the son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights" [Matt...
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...He has spelled out our common goal: Who can free himself from achievement And from fame, descend and be lost Amid the masses of men...
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...We have come to reinflate the faith that rises on this outrageous claim: Only through death can we know new life...
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...Two arguments are especially interesting for Catholics grounded in the church's social tradition...
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...He is gripping two thick wooden poles that punt him forward as his twisted legs trail behind...
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...To be sure, Luke Timothy Johnson will not be joining Avery Dulles at the next consistory...
...Today's Gospel records Jesus' impatience with the scribes and Pharisees, who press him for proof that he is the Messiah...
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...Is anybody listening to them...
...But inequality matters greatly to Page and Simmons...
...K. W. Cronin, FL Margaret M. Cross, MD John & Constance Cullinane, MA Joseph R. Curtis, WA Edward Dailey, MA Rev...
...C. H. (Margaret) Foster, NY Geraldine Fowle, MO Franciscan Friars, MD Joan B. Fredericks, NY Dr...
...Watching the procession for ashes lift and fall, I spot a friend whose thirty-year-old son died in a fire two months ago...
...Irving F. (Eulah) Laucks, WA Rev...
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...Four core approaches to poverty and equality are advanced: enhanced education...
...Donald J. Fenske, IL John J. Fenton, CT In memory of Barbara E. Ferkiss, MD J. A. Ferrante, NJ Eilen Finnegan, PA Katherine Fitzgerald, MA Kathleen Fitzgerald, CA John Fitzpatrick, NY Peter A. Fitzpatrick, C.F.X., IL Henry D. Flasch, MN Mary Ann Fleming, KS William Flounders, PA Rev...
...How long can we afford to lose this critically important segment of the Catholic church in favor of a moral theology of sexuality that appears so rigid and static...
...John E. Watterson, RI Charles & Carolyn Watts, IN Col...
...Praise God for those ringing bells, and for the happily unhindered girl who not only could be my daughter, but in some sense is...
...The first is implied in the book's subtitle: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality...
...James M. Allaire, IA Dorothy Allen, MI Mr...
...On this Ash Wednesday we have all come for a sign...
...John F. (Katherine) Donnelly, MI Megan Donnelly, NH Frank Donovan, NY William Duane, NJ Rev...
...I can account for them all, these marchers in the ashen parade: retirees and widows, the terminally ill and disabled, the lonely, discouraged, and helplessly trapped, and all the rest of us who will not meet our earnings forecast or the fullness of our human potential...
...Thomas E. Kramer, ND Robert V. Kristan, NY Rev...
...Richard Butler, MA Ann Buttrick, NY Rev...
...If we could ensure that everyone in this country had a decent standard of living and the opportunity (and ability) to hold a good job, would it be a bad thing that CEOs, baseball players, and dot-com secretaries had millions of dollars...
...Joseph Gossman, NC Thomas V. Graves, MD Toni & Frank Gross, MI Michael & Katherine Gruber, MI Doris Grumbach, ME Jerome Halloran, MN Mary M. Hanson, MT Robert S. Hathaway, PA Rev...
...Nicholad King, FL Ann Klocke, IL Rev...
...William B. Neenan, S.J., MA Lavonne & David Neff, IL Agnes E. Nixon, NY Kevin T. O'Brien, NJ Timothy O'Meara, IN Rev...
...A handsome young man catches my eye...
...William P. Regan, NY Allen J.Reilly,VA Bernard F. Reilly, PA James Reilly, CT Dr...
...Edward J. Enright, O.S.A., PA Mr...
...Robert L. Hazel, MN Mr...
...Thomas Ventura, IL Margaret O'Gara & Michael Vertin, ON Catherine F. Voss, NY Joan Dunn Walsh, NY Leo J. Walsh, PA Claire Cunningham & Philip Ward, VA Ellen Warwick, MA Larry & Sue Washburn, VT Bruce Weber, OR Robert J. Weiler, NM Rev...
...Ronald M. Ketteler, KY Thomas & Jean Kilbridge, CA Alice Kilcoin, NY Mr...
...12:39-^0...
...Marcella L. Lain, IL Rev...
...a full supply of jobs at decent wages...
...Give me that oldtime religion...
...Julia M. Phillips-Quagliata, NY Brian Pilz, MD Rev...
...Richard G. Smith, N.Y...
...and universal, governmentfunded rights to health, food, and housing...
...R. E. Frane, MO Peter J. & Dorothea Gilligan, MN Charles & Bonnie Glatz, IA Aaron W. Godfrey, NY Mrs...
...Frank R. Gardner, PA Laura S. Gellott, WI Most Rev...
...George G. Higgins, DC Thomas J. Higgins, CA Richard V. Holmes, PA Timothy C. & Diane L. Horrigan, IA Carol A. Hubert, MS Kenneth L. Hull, MI Daniel B. Hurley, DE Dr...
...J. A. Komonchak, MD John & Mary Korey, CA Mrs...
...Mrs...
...Jerome Ulrich, MN Mr...
...Mrs...
...Eugene M. Kilbride, CT Marie Labatte, ON Michael J. & Kathleen Lacey, VA Neal & Anne Laurance, MI John V. Lawler, VA Rachelle Linner, MA Paul A. Lockrey, NJ Betty L. Lovett, KS Most Rev...
...Lent, leave us with a sign of Jonah, which is the imperfection that binds us together and leads us beyond loss and lacking to a God who alone can fulfill us...
...Rene A. Valero, NY Rev...
...G. G.) Hogan, PA Frank Hohenadel, IL Clement J. Holgate, NJ Rosemarie Horvath, NY John B. A. Hostage, NH William & Mary Alice Houghton, WI Joseph J. Houska Jr., CA Rev...
...McCarty,WI George B. McCeney, MD Dorothee M. McClain, OH Paul W. & Marie McCloskey, MD Neil G. McCluskey, FL James J. McCormick, IL Patrick J. & Frances R. McCormick, PA John & Mary Ann McCudden, IL Andrew J. McDonagh, IL Tony & Joellen McDonald, MO Joseph W. McDonnell, NY Eugene F. McDonough Jr., M.D., MA Marie T. McDonough, NY James & Catherine McFadden, CA Robert McGarty, MA Rita T. McGinty, TX James F. McGovern, PA Rev...
...John J. Sullivan, OH Ann M. Swanson, MA Charles A. Tobin, MD Robert E. Tobin, NY James Turner, IN Rev...
...Msgr...
...There is still too much cargo in my hold, too much selfish pride in the work, sacrifice, and prayer I offer to a quizzical God...
...I notice the troubled parents of the troubled boy who quit his courses—again...
...The resonance of his breathing—like a soft lowing—attests to the lateness of the hour and the gravity of our fatigue...
...GEORGE R. FITZGERALD, C.S.P...
...Eugene F. McGovern, NY Thomas J. McGovern, WI David K. McGuire, PA Rev...
...Robert F. Drinan, S.J., DC Barbara A. Durbin, AZ Jean B. Elshtain, TN Thomas Ewens, RI Gail Lambers & Peter J. Fagan, MD Thomas L. Farrelly, NY Rev...
...Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., IN Kathleen Manion, MA Edward Marciniak, IL Philip T., M.D., & Margaret Mulvaney Cortese, NY Angela M. Mathews, NY Gilbert & Jacquelyn McArdle, PA Frank J. McCabe, FL William H. McCaslin, NY Robert & Mildred McCoy, OH Peter McDonough, AZ Owen & Pat McGowan, MA Rev...
...For what is Ash Wednesday, in the Christian season of Lent, on the eve of the pilgrim's month, if not a reminder of the meaninglessness of a life not lived in the face of death...
...Albert J. Connors, C.M.F, CA Christopher Conroy, NJ Robert M. Cooper, OR Charles J. & Anne Costello, VA Donald & Christine Costello, IN John Coulson, DE Frank M. Covey Jr., IL A. Paul Cravedi, MA Maria Creel, TX Alicia Jorge Cremaschi, NC Joseph B. Crimmins, CT Mrs...
...To be fair, the authors acknowledge that despite all the genetic and environmental forces, people have some control over what they do or do not achieve—but not, you surmise, very much...
...Paul F. McDonald, TX Myles T. McDonald, PA Rev...
...Perhaps here is the sign for the present generation of misfits and malcontents we call the church, a people known by their miraculous return each week to praise, in their nothingness, the One who is All...
...CA Rev...
...Just as during the consecration, they ring an epiphany that we are all one, each called for Christ's kingdom...
...Mrs...
...William J. Flaherty, IL Dan Flannery, PA John J. Fontana, IL Eugene Fontinell, NY Mario J. & Dorothy M. Forte, NJ John L. Frank, VA Robert K. Freeland, NY Mary Jo Frere, MD J. Ormond Frost, M.D., NY Mrs...
...John Jay Hughes, MO Archbishop Francis T. Hurley, AK Ursula & Robert Jaeger, PA Elizabeth Johns, MA Rev...
...For the most part, although their own convictions are clear and passionately held, they attempt to be fair in setting out opposing views...
...Joseph Alves, MA Francis Neill Corbett, NY Neil Coughlan, CT Rev...
...Rudolf Goetz, MI Joan Marlow Golan, NY Elizabeth & Edward Gonnella, CA Evelyn M. Gorman, NY Robert J. & Beatrice Gormley, NY Most Rev...
...William E. Delaney, WY David L. Derus, CA Mrs...
...James P. O'Hagan, MI Rev...
...Thomas P. Leonard, NY Francis R. Lewis, NJ Rose Mary Lewis, NY David A. Lightner, NV Rev...
...Thomas P. O'Connor, IN James O'Gara, MD Joseph E. O'Gara, FL Rev...
...Raymond F. Sullivan, NY Robert J. Sullivan, NY Russell & Katherine Sullivan, PA Thomas E. Sullivan, NC Robert A. Super, MN Raymond J. Supino, NY Joan M. Sutton, PA Judith Szot, MO Mr...
...Thomas Jonas, MN Sandra Poysa & Jim Jordan, CA Patricia M. Joyce, NY John & Elaine Kamerick, FL Dorothy Keenan, WI Kevin P. Kelly, VA Rev...
...As the priest begins his homily, the curly-haired girl in the space rover heads for the altar servers, then somehow snags the altar bells in her metal frame, pushing them down the side aisle, clanging gleefully all the way...
...Page and Simmons swallow the prochoice line completely, arguing that we can reduce poverty by preventing children from being "cast into hopeless situations as infants...
...Paul J. Savage, PA Raphael P. Schlingerman, MN Robert A. Senser, VA Timothy F. Sheehan, MA Mary A. Stanton, MA Greg & Mary Stephen, IL In memory of Francis & Theresa Greene Straulman, MO Winnifred & Barry Sullivan, VA Jim & Kitty Tierney, MO Dr...
...Paul E. Miller, PA Roderic J. Moers, CA Francis & Mary Molson, MI Edwin & Mary Mongan, DE Philip & Marion Moore, IL Charles R. Morris, NY Margaret Mullin, MA Kathleen & John Murnion, NY Rev...
...This ought to lead, in their view, to government programs that insure children against the misfortunes of bad genes, inadequate nutrition, or the lack of loving parents— and insure adults against the effects of those childhood misfortunes...
...He will flow like the Tao, unseen...
...Exchange smiles with a woman who is pitting this last round of chemotherapy against the rising tide of tumor inside her...
...Raymond A. Lucker, MN Frank J. & Mary Macchiarola, NY Rev...
...an extensive program of social insurance...
...Matthew F. Kuluz, MS James W. LaFave, M.D., MN Edward P. Lafferty, MA George A. Lane, S.J., IL James E. Lawrence, VA Roch Le Page, CT Norman & Josephine Lee, NJ Dr...
...Gerald Ryan, NY Jerry Ryan, MA In memory of Christopher E. Fullman, NJ & Msgr...
...Walter Debold, NJ James L. Deegan, DC Samuel E. Demerit, MA Ellen DeNatale, MA Bernard J. Dobbins, CA Clarence C. Donovan, CA William C. & Linda Dowling, NJ Rev...
...The only sign that will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonah...
...Mrs...
...Msgr...
...Margaret Culkin, CA Dr...
...William T. Haley Jr., MA Henry J. & Jane Halko, MA William & Eileen Hallissey, NJ Rev...
...John P. Smith, IA Rev...
...That is why they advocate a 70-percent incometax levy on the richest Americans, and the taxation of things like the "imputed" rental value of the homes we own— not because the government needs the money to fund other programs, but because the leveling effect is good in itself...
...James E. Hennessy, NY James G. Herrmann, IL Norma B. Herz, NY George & Sally Hezel, NY Andrew J. & Margaret Hickey, NJ John J. Hickey, MA Christine Hildner, FL Rev...
...John T. Collins, CT Vincent P. & Joan Comiskey, NJ Helen Connell, NY James W. Connell, NY Quinn R. Conners, O. Carm., DC Estelle Connolly, WA James & Nancy Connolly, MD Mary Connolly, MA Rev...
...James N. Loughran, S.J., NJ George J. Lutz, CT Dr...
...No red hat Luke Timothy Johnson's incisive critique of John Paul II's pronouncements on love, sex, and pleasure should be studied and openly discussed in every Catholi college and Newman Club in the nation—together with Paul Baumann's humorous reflections on George Weigel's biography of our pope ("Crossing the Threshold," December 3, 1999...
...Thomas Boyle, IN Thomas Boyle, NJ Rev...
...John (Anne) Morris, NC Rev...
...Jason Robards, CT E. F. Roberts, NY John Robinson, NY G. M. Roemers, CA Shirley A. Rogers, TX Robert D. & Patricia B. Ronsheim, OH Mary & Richard Rosengarten, IN Richard Rupp, NC Nina Rusko-Berger, CT Margaret & Benjamin Russell, CA Martha B. Russell, OR Rev...
...Ted Olson, CA James C. & Alice O'Shea, NY John W. & Patricia O'Tierney, PA James M. O'Toole, MA Rosemary & Charles Palms, NY Margaret Pautler, MO John & Loretta Pavlik, IL David & Mary Jo Pedersen, NE Achille R. Pelizzari, NY Donald A. Perreault, CA Dr...
...Regan, CA Michael J. Reilly, M.D., VA Helen Reynolds, VA John M. & Marie Roberts, CA Robert J. Rosiello, CT Bruce & Cynthia Russett, CT Rev...
...Aren't we a fine line of losers...
...John Philip O'Connor, NJ Sean O'Connor, CT Rev...
...Wallace Erwin, MA Michael A. Evans, CA Rita D. Evans, NY Elizabeth Fagan, IL Rev...
...Francis P. Jackman, MD Mr...
...I ponder his laughable position: hermit, without heirs or portfolio and only solitude to call his own...
...Msgr...
...Gregory Carnevale, MI MaryJ...
...These academics are very much for it, and, in a reasoned and carefully documented book, they explain exactly why...
...Mrs...
...Andrew W. Cryans, NH Miriam & Tom Cumin, NY Most Rev...
...Anthony J. Vader, IL Violet Vahlkamp, MO Jo Goeke Vallo, IL John P. Verel, CT Lillian Doris Viacava, NY Patrick J.Waide Jr., NY Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Wald, NY Dr...
...Frederick Breydert, Paris Mrs...
...Michael D. Place, S.T.D., IL Joseph A. Placek, MI Suzanne Polen, PA Marie Ponsot, NY Carole Pool, OR W. Philip Portz, M.D., DE Barbara W. S. Poteat, SC Rev...
...George E. Wuellner, IL Charter Anonymous, CT Anonymous, VT Anonymous, VT A. R. Adamich, IL Joseph & Aurelie Agresta, CT Russ & Pat Alberding, IL John Altmiller, VA Richard Armstrong, NJ Desmond Arthurs, CA Pierre & Jill Auger, MA Marie Barry, DC Margaret Barss, OR Rev...
...We want to thank all those who contributed to the Associates, and especially the 1,107 people listed below who gave $50 or more from January 19, 2000 through January 19, 2001...
...All poised to be capsized...
...Donald (Kate H.) Keefe, CT Rev...
...Hugh Fullmer, IL Gloria C. Gannon, MI Dr...
...I see the forty-year-old expectant mother who must be counseled tomorrow in the doctor's office...
...John A. McGrath, OH Mary Jean McGrath, WI Robert & Ann McGrath, NJ PaulJ.McGuire,WI John P. McHugh, IL Rev...
...Howard B. Basler, NY John P. Beal, DC Vincent J. Beckman, OH Dr...
...Mrs...
...Jude McGeough, RI Rev...
...Alan P. Maynard, RI Rev...
...Msgr...
...Michael J. Lanning, OH Louis & Yvonne Lanzerotti, NJ Clifford Laube, CT Nancy Lewis & David Laurance, NJ Therese Law, FL Dolores R. Leckey, VA James G. Leddy, CA Tom Lenert, CA Raymond & Cherla Leonardini, CA Amy Lepak, MA Norma T. Lewis, FL Tom Linder, WI Rev...
...ANDREW GALLIGAN Tracy, Calif...
...John Fahey, CA Ruth Fallon, MA Virginia Faulkner, CA Rev...
...Mrs...
...Richard Sklba, WI Bill & Joan Sommers, MA Rev...
...H. A. Eckstein, OH M. S. Edmonds, WI Rev...
...Madge Misner, WI In memory of Thomas Eugene Moore Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...Efrain Garcia, TX Jean Gartlan, MD Joseph R. George Jr., RI Dr...
...Msgr...
...Leonard E. Racki, CO In memory of Lawrence Ragan, IL Adam & Kay Raley, WA Charles & Jeanne Ralston, WA Rev...
...M. J. Hillenbrand, GA Jim Hinchen, IL JohnW.Hinkley,MA Franziska Hinzmann, NY Jack & Marilu Hitchcock, CA Beth Hofstetter, NY Rev...
...Oh well...
...Mrs...
...B. A. Waxstein Jr...
...There are fathers cradling babies, old women wobbling on weary joints, young children dodging the outstretched arm of the priest who offers them nothing of interest but a blackened thumb...
...Thomas J. Fitzgerald, IL Dennis FitzSimons, NJ Rev...
...J. F. Hanley, SC John C. Hanley, FL Mary A. Hapenney, MA J. J. Harrington, KY Rev...
...Bernard J. O'Loughlin, CA Rev...
...Richard Jambor, VA Dorothy A. Jankowski, OH Frank J. Jankowski, WA Mary L. Jarvis, MA Frank Jennings, NY James R. Jennings, CA Mary E. Jennings, IL Neil Jensen, MD Mr...
...James B. Finn, MO Thomas & Rita Marie Finnerty, NY Donald Gancer, IL Rev...
...Come to be healed...
...Helen Brinich, OH Rev...
...Page and Simmons believe that inequality is a problem that ranks with poverty...
...The only response," Merton counsels, "is to go from yourself with all that one is, which is nothing, and pour out that nothingness in gratitude that God is who he is...
...Mario D. Mazzarella, VA Dr...
...A second point of interest has to do with "social insurance...
...Dennis K. Murphy, NY Rev...
...Paul J. Hritz, OH Robert E. Hunt, MD Robert Huntington, WI Margaret D. Hutaff, MA Mr...
...Daniel J. Collins, Tokyo John M. Corcoran, MA In memory of Thomas F. Coughlin & Family Rev...
...Mrs...
...Louis E. Grandpre, MI George W. Grayson, VA Rev...
...Stephen J. Sweeny, NY Supporters Martha Baltzell, PA Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D., CA Rev...
...Joseph F. Vaughan, MD Mrs...
...Msgr...
...Joseph Bragotti, OH John E. & Rochelle Brandl, MN Stephen J. Breen, CT Thomas Brennan, NJ Mrs...
...Still, the Page and Simmons case that government should be doing more for the less fortunate is persuasive...
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