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 Vol. 122 Issue 015 (September 8 1995)
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Vol. 122 Issue 016 (September 22 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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MURRAY, MARGARET H.; WINEGARDEN, MARGARET BEAHON; GALLIGAN, ANDREW; RIGA, PETER J.; HOVEY, MICHAEL W.; Broderick, James A.
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors War is hell, period After studying your August 18 issue, I feel I must separate myself from you, at least for a while. Your editorial on the ending of the war with...
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Editorial A not-so-popular culture
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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A not-so-popular culture It might be said, taking a cue from a famous definition of pornography, that popular culture is hard to define but we usually know it when we see it. More and more, people...
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Et cetera Glendon to Beijing Western civ saved again Doyle also does good Bring back Mapplethorpe Give us that old-time vulgarity
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ET CETERA GLEHDON TO BEIJING - We were delighted on hearing that Mary Ann Glendon would head the Vatican delegation to the UN Conference on Women in Beijing. Glendon has published in these...
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Pulling the rug out
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy pulling the rug out Let's end child labor We have become a dispirited people because we do not celebrate our victories-or even recognize them. This is the thesis...
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A liberal Catholic taxonomy
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Jr, David R Carlin
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OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. A LIBERAL CATHOLIC TAXONOMY Or was that a Catholic liberal taxonomy? In the November 18, 1994, issue of Commonweal the editorial was titled "Liberals &...
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GOING WHICH WAY? What is possibly Christian, properly pagan, and plausibly dangerous in popular culture?
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O'Brien, Dennis
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GOING WHICH WAY? Catholicism & pop culture Dennis O'Brien Andrew Greeley claims that Catholicism has a peculiar allegiance to so-called "pop culture." He explains, "The other three great...
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VOX POPULI Sausages, bloody marys, and praying for the Bears
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Garvey, Michael O
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VOX populi Michael O. Garvey Early on a frigid morning, hours before a Chicago Bears game, a man leans against the hurricane fence separating Soldier Field's parking lot from Lake Shore Drive. He...
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VOX POPULI The upside of fatalism: Why Santayana went home
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Worth, Robert
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Robert Worth In 1911 George Santayana quit his professorship in the Harvard Philosophy Department and left the United States for Europe, where he lived for the remaining forty-two years of his...
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VOX POPULI Beware the counsel of the pious
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Keen, Suzanne
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Suzanne Keen The relation of two amorphous entities- Catholicism and popular culture-cannot be reasonably understood in units larger than the individual person. For if we can sometimes agree about...
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VOX POPULI An inseparable couple: Catholics and America
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Fisher, James
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James Fisher Urban-dwelling immigrants and their children, Catholics and Jews, created a new mass culture in the early decades of this century, but only the former express guilt over it, as though...
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IT'S TIME TO TAKE SIDES Has Commonweal surrendered to the spirit of nihilism in the arts? Yes
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Jr, John D Hagen
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IT'S TINE TO TAKE SIDES Catholicism, yes; popular culture, no John D. Hagen, Jr. On his celebrated essay, "Defining Deviancy Down" (American Scholar, Winter, 1993), Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
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IT'S TIME TO TAKE SIDES Has Commonweal surrendered to the spirit of nihilism in the arts? No
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva I asked the editors to print the excerpts from my reviews side by side with relevant quotes from Mr. Hagen's article [see page 22] for two reasons. First I wanted to set the record...
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IT'S TIME TO TAKE SIDES Has Commonweal surrendered to the spirit of nihilism in the arts? Definitely not
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McConnell, Frank
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Frank McConnell Since my colleague Richard Alleva takes most of the heat from Counselor Hagen, and since he's a better writer than I am anyway, I'll be short. Can art conflict with morality?...
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Virtually Normal Andrew Sullivan
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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BOOKS A conservative proposes Virtually Normal An Argument about Homosexuality Andrew Sullivan Alfred A. Knopf, $22,209 pp. Margaret O'Brien Steinfels The key word is argument, actually make...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Asceticism (Greek: askesis) meant, in the ancient world, the self-denial demanded of those who were in athletic training. It took on the added sense of a...
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This gig's for you
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Baldwin, Tryon
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THE LAST WORD THIS GIG'S FOR YOU Tryon Baldwin One morning last spring, as I left my building for work, I discovered a young woman dancing-well, actually, gyrating is more like it-on my front...
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