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1983 November

Letters to the Editor: November 1983

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The Roman Catholic Church in Central Europe

THE POWER & THE GLORY?

Erazim Kohák

The heavy-handed Russian attempt at easternization made central Europeans far more conscious of their Western heritage.

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Prayer after Communion

A POEM

Tom Noe

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Pietà

A POEM

Sister Claude of Jesus, SNJM

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My Pilgrimage

COMING HOME TO THE CHURCH

Juli Loesch

When the Mass was trans­lated into English, I noticed right away how often it says “Peace”: it’s repeated over and over again, like a heartbeat, clear through.

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Compassion

A POEM

Anne Keith

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Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

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Bones of Contention

A POEM

Br. James M. Deschene

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Bishops as Signs of Compassion, Fidelity & Contradiction

THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN & OTHER MATTERS

Pope John Paul II

The bishop must announce to the rich and poor, to the powerful and weak the fullness of truth, which sometimes irritates and of­fends, even if it always liberates.

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Parting Word

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

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The Jesus Therapy

HEALING MENTAL ILLNESS

Barbara Nauer

The single impediment to making Jesus Christ’s methods effective is the same one that sometimes neutralized them in his own day — lack of faith.

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On School Prayer

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

When it comes to children praying in school, we hear of the potential jeopardy to…whom?

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The Appointment Process

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

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Befuddled

A POEM

Ralph Wright, O.S.B.

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Old Age

A POEM

Anne Keith

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When Angels Danced

A POEM

D.S. Preston

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Fragments on the Death of a Muskrat

A POEM

David N. Beauregard, O.M.V.

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Briefly Reviewed: November 1983

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien... America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s

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A Radical Recalibration of the Moral Economy

WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF LABOR?

Kenneth Colston

A more receptive attitude toward creation, with less getting and spending and having, and more being and waiting and watching, is a way of cooperating with grace.

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