NEWS & VIEWS Emergeney Powers Before staffers of the Special Senate Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency got very deep into preparations for hearings on emergency power...
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CORRESPONDENCE Cardinal V i r t u e s Kitchener, Ontario To the Editors: Re your editorial on "New Cardinals" [March 23]: --Just look at the graduation exercises in any American university;...
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CORRESPONDENCE Cardinal V i r t u e s Kitchener, Ontario To the Editors: Re your editorial on "New Cardinals" [March 23]: --Just look at the graduation exercises in any American university;...
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to make even the most circumspect ex-President think twice about writing any memoirs. As the Washington Post remarked, the proposed measure would create a law "designed for a land governed by...
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I G OOD FRIDAY had turned into Holy TRUE Saturday; the all-night vigil at St. Gregory the Great parish in Man- AND FALSE hattan was at its halfway point; and RECONCILIATION Sister Elizabeth...
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THOMAS MERTON AND THE DIVIDED POWER BENIAMIN SALTMAN The problems of an American religious poet 1] I once had a wagon o] lights to ride in The axle is broken The horses are shot. (Merton,...
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When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken? ("A Messenger from the Horizon") In one of his last poems, "Notes for a New Liturgy" (1968) there is evident bitterness about the church...
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result the tension necessary to keep the comedy going escapes. It always happens at this point. Vicki and Steve now find their fight as funny as we did; but as soon as they begin laughing at it,...
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it is not realistic. This is false. But the Truth does require that we give it sincere voice, that we honor it without qualification at least with our word. The power of the Word is then...
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must somehow, anyhow, be met. With each phrase, the will to refute ponderous solemnities seeps away: one wants no more to argue with this tendentious reading of Malamud's Fidelman stories and...
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