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Being Catholic: Commonweal from the Seventies to the Nineties. Three Perspectives - I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Margaret Mary Reher
Margaret Mary Reher*
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Cabrini College
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Horizons , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , Spring 1994 , pp. 142 - 146
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 1994

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References

1 Van Allen, Rodger, The Commonweal and American Catholicism: The Magazine, the Movement, the Meaning (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974);Google Scholar henceforth Commonweal and American Catholicism.

2 Ibid., 5.

3 Ibid., 9. In my geographic area, institutional subscriptions to Commonweal run just slightly behind those to the New Republic, 134 to 146 (unpublished study, “Commonweal Survey of Our Subscribers,” courtesy of Edward S. Skillin).

4 This is a designation Van Allen has used earlier in his expanded and updated edition of Cogley's, JohnCatholic America (Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1986), xxiv–xxviii.Google Scholar

5 McGowan, Mary Jo, “Marriage Versus Just Living Together: Acknowledging Life in the Context of Community,” Commonweal, March 13, 1981, 142–44;Google Scholar and McBrien, Richard P., “Homosexuality and the Priesthood: Questions We Can't Keep in the Closet,” Commonweal, 06 19, 1987, 370–73.Google Scholar McBrien's was not the first article the journal had published on the issue.

6 The two debaters were Burtchaell, James C.S.C., and Maguire, Daniel (Being Catholic, 18–19).Google Scholar

7 Commonweal, 10 22, 1993, 11–18.Google Scholar

8 Ibid., 16.

9 Cahill, Lisa Sowle, Women and Sexuality (New York: Paulist, 1992).Google Scholar

10 As it was originally used, the epithet “Commonweal Catholic” carried a pejorative connotation—one whose theology was shaky and loyalty dubious (Van Allen, , Being Catholic, 51Google Scholar). I mean it in the positive sense of a committed Catholic who takes her/his lay vocation seriously.

11 “Commonweal Survey of Our Subscribers,” 3.

12 Horizons 2 (Spring 1975): 162.Google Scholar

13 Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien, “The Unholy Alliance between the Right and the Left in the Catholic Church,” America, May 2, 1992, 376–82.Google Scholar