Correspondence
Fig leaf, please Your December 5, 2003 cover ("El Greco's Modern Vision") was a joke, right? If not, kindly send future copies of Commonweal in a plain brown wrapper. EDWARD F. HAYES Orlando,...
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...More instructive historical models for Kill Bill can be found in the Senecan tragedies popular during the reigns of Elizabeth (Continued on page 30) Commonweal 6 January 16, 2004 to come, children will be taught about ghettos and yellow stars and terror at school, and it will make their hair stand on end...
...I'm not so sure...
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...However, patients in a persistent vegetative state are not easily categorized as either dying or being capable of benefiting from treatment...
...The actions of the Florida legislature and Governor Bush, who have tried to overrule the courts and the wishes of Schiavo's husband, are especially troubling...
...10 percent, 6 times...
...the 1992 statement of the U.S...
...This judgment could equally apply to President George W. Bush's promise last year to contribute to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for the reduction of poverty around the world (beginning with a $1.3 billion pledge in 2004, and reaching $5 billion annually by 2006...
...SHAWNDA HINES EIBL Washington, D.C...
...We want to ensure that these programs are designed, funded, and implemented to help people in the poorest parts of the world...
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...In the Schiavo case, Florida bishops have wisely refrained from passing judgment on either Schiavo's husband, who as her legal surrogate wants to remove her feeding tube, or her parents, who insist that she be kept alive by any means...
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...Catholic bishops—he would have found that the "presumption should be in favor of providing medically assisted nutrition and hydration to all patients who need them...
...RICHARD OSTERMANN Tempe, Ariz...
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...Boyle is right that the bishops caution strongly against withholding hydration and nutrition from those who are not facing imminent death...
...how those principles are applied in any particular circumstance is not something that bishops or governors have the authority to decide...
...Contrary to what your consult implies in his response, I am not a vitalist, a reductionist, or a physicalist...
...Less than two months later she records new restrictions: Jews may no longer shop at greengrocers, they must hand in their bicycles, and are forbid-den to be on the streets after 8 p.m...
...Nor do we think, as Boyle appears to, that "theologian" is a derogatory term...
...Her condition is irreversible...
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...The popes and the bishops represent Catholic tradition...
...Those are the principles the church teaches...
...One more coincidence is striking...
...Commonweal 30 January 16, 2004...
...Alas, we don't have the budget for it...
...In 1943 she was sent to Auschwitz with most of her family...
...It is also a vivid account of one of those profound spiritual seekers who lived (in Hillesum's words) in a world that made Dante's Inferno seem like a comic opera, but whose integrity and humanity were never swallowed up...
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...By the end of 1942, she was traveling back and forth from Amsterdam to the transit camp at Westerbork...
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...Finally, it rings with religious authenticity in the most profound meaning of the word...
...The MCA initiative and the president's pledge to significantly increase funding for AIDS worldwide offer great promise, so much so that Bread for the World is making their enactment the focus of its 2004 campaign...
...A Washington Post article on the poll results suggested that the alarm felt by "intellectuals" is not shared by the average voter...
...It is, of course, impossible to read about her daily routines in Amsterdam without thinking of Anne Frank and her family hiding out in the same city...
...PATRICK J. BOYLE, SJ Mundelein, Ill...
...We share Boyle's and the bishops' concern that there be no rush to disconnect a feeding tube from any-one, but Schiavo has been in this condition for thirteen years...
...Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness...
...Every reader knows what the endgame will be, as she pours out her love for poetry, her gratitude for some decent food, her prayers, and her still youthful longings for love and intimacy (she was in her late twenties when she wrote...
...15 percent, 12 times...
...In his essay "War & War by Other Means" (December 5, 2003), Alan Wolfe reviews three new books on the Bush presidency that provide a scathing indictment of the Bush ad-ministration and its frightening fiscal, domestic, and foreign policies...
...All died in the gas chambers...
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...Still, I won-der how many people are listening...
...The jargon and the reasoning tell me that it is the work of a theologian...
...If your theological consult had bothered to research the church's sources on nutrition and hydration—such as the pope's October 2, 1998 Ad Limina address to the bishops of California, Nevada, and Hawaii...
...He identifies the meaning of Catholic tradition with mainstream Catholic theology...
...As recently as last month, after Governor Jeb Bush's intervention, a court-appointed independent guardian found that there is "no reasonable medical hope" that Schiavo will recover...
...Like him or not, Tarantino is horrifyingly in tune with our criminal times...
...EDWARD F. HAYES Orlando, Fla...
...They approved $1 billion for the year ($300 million less than the president's budget request...
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...I did not misrepresent the Catholic Church's teaching on nutrition and hydration in the Schiavo case...
...bishops' prolife committee, Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Considerations...
...The Terri Schiavo case is a difficult one, and Boyle's sloganeering—"I do value [life] in whatever form it is found as sacred and inviolable"—does not help to clarify the moral dilemma...
...ROBERT N. SCHWARTZ Silver Spring, Md...
...Providing bread In your November 21, 2003, editorial "Democracy at Home & Abroad," you write that "eloquent words not followed by action create only doubt about the integrity of the speaker...
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...Discounts 5 percent, 3 times...
...She also saw there the members of the Lob family, including three brothers who were Trappist monks and three sisters who were Trappistines...
...Your theological consult has his own agenda...
...The consult replies: Patrick J. Boyle, SJ, appears to think that Commonweal is guilty of some sort of ventriloquism...
...or the 2001 Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services by the U.S...
...From Reservoir Dogs forward, revenge is the conscious, explicit motive for violence in Tarantino's films, just as it is in these tragedies...
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...I welcome Wolfe's intense criticism of the Bush administration...
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...Nationwide polling indicates that independent voters have remained remarkably consistent in their views of the Bush administration since the 2000 election...
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...The same is true for most Catholic voters, who mirror the general population with a 50/50 split in party loyalties...
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...The writer is a media associate with Bread for the World...
...This firsthand testimony adds to the literature on the Shoah...
...As noted in the editorial ("Allowing to Die," November 7, 2003) and in the response to Boyle's first letter (December 5, 2003), the Catholic Church teaches both that life is sacred and inviolable and that we are not morally obligated to provide futile and burdensome treatment to the dying person...
...Surely our society is no less brutal and bloody than that of Elizabethan and Jacobean England...
...The editor and translator also deserve recognition: the latter for the readability of the text...
...In an entry writ-ten at Westerbork in September 1942, she records seeing two cultivated nuns "from Breslau" at the transit camp...
...Wolfe argues that the "Bush administration is about to get the evaluation it always deserved but somehow escaped...
...Etty went to the gas chamber there on November 30...
...Lending support to Bush's actions only makes the church's prolife message appear extreme and unreasonable...
...These funds, pending passage of the omnibus bill, represent the largest increase in poverty-focused development assistance in nearly twenty years...
...I agree that Richard McCormick, SJ, and John F. Kavanaugh, SJ, represent mainstream Catholic theology, but they are not Catholic tradition...
...Is keeping someone who is in a persistent vegetative state artificially alive a benefit to that person or does it only needlessly and inhumanely prolong her dying...
...It is part of the $1.9 billion in new money Congress earmarked to help the world's poorest countries this year...
...Schiavo redux Obviously, Commonweal's response to my letter on the Terri Schiavo case ("Correspondence," December 5, 2003) is not the work of your editor...
...I do not value life as an absolute, but I do value it in whatever form it is found as sacredand inviolable...
...Reading this full account gave me the same sense of foreboding I had when I read the abridged versions nearly two decades ago: an ominous awareness of the dates of her entries...
...This is wrong...
...Bloody England Richard Alleva's attempt to under-stand Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill—Volume 1 ("About a Boy," December 5, 2003) ran aground early when he limited his scan to video art and schlock Hong Kong flicks...
...Those nuns were, in fact, Edith Stein and her sister Rosa, who were waiting for the transport to Auschwitz, where they both died before the year was out...
...As it turned out, it was only because people of faith and other advocates for the poor held Congress's and the administration's feet to the fire that the government eventually se-cured the funding for MCA...
...Pay attention...
...CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 6) I and James I. The deliberate, repeated, compulsive slaughter in Kill Bill appears less gratuitous and self-indulgent when compared to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedie or John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi...
...Incidentally, so does the Catholic Church...
...the former for useful end-notes that give pertinent informationabout persons mentioned in the text, and explanations of materials alluded to by Hillesum that might be unfamiliar to the reader...
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