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Volume 2 Issue
1
June 2004
LINK TO TEXT ONLY VERSION
Robert Blair Kaiser: A Letter
from the Editor
BOOKS
Reviewed by Don Foran: A Dying Breed of
Brave Men: The Self-Written Stories of Nine Married Priests Edited by Robert J.
Brousseau
Reviewed by Doug McFerran: Papal Reich
by Arun Pereira
Reviewed by Leonard Swidler: Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the
Twenty-First Century by Ronald Modras
CHURCH REFORM
Thomas P. Doyle: The John Jay Report and The National Review Board
Report
Bruce Russett: Conclusion of Governance, Accountability and
the Future of the Catholic Church — Monarchy, Democracy, or "Decent
Consultation Hierarchy"?
Leonard Swidler: Desperately Needed: Catholic ‘Americanist’ Heroes
— The Model of Bishop John England of
Charleston
FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS
Morgan Zo Callahan: Two Zen Dialogues:
Change Your Mind Day —
June 7, 2003 — Ciudad de Los Angeles
Distant &
Close
Geraldine Glodek: One Day on the Way to the Time
Room
Paul Kelly: The Kelly Kollection
JESUITS THEN & NOW
Robert Brophy, Don Cordero, Doug
McFerran, Robert R. Rahl, Jim Torrens, SJ, and Dave Van Etten : Convocation 2003
Peter Henriot, SJ: Letter from
Zambia
Joseph E. Mulligan, SJ: A Faith and Justice Pilgrimage in Rome ... and
Related Reflections at Home
LITERARY
CRITICISM
Frances
A. Della Cava and
Madeline
H. Engel: Catholics under the Magnifying Glass: Views in
American Mystery Fiction
Ramón Rami Porta:
El teólogo
itinerante: Un comentario sobre Monseñor Quijote de Graham Greene
Ramón Rami Porta:
The Itinerant
Theologian: A Commentary on Monsignor Quixote by Graham
Greene
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Looking at the Man
George Keithley
1
Looking at the man who hangs on the tree
stripped bare, black
hair swirled with sweat
as if he had been running away
from his youth to climb
the spine of this hill
at noon while the heavens howl
then shut with a hush
to seal the sun in the tomb
of a winter night,
nine birds like leaves
that loop the hilltop
witness such weather.
2
Looking at the man and at his mother
hunching herself the way women wait
in a downpour, watching
clouds cleave apart for the moment
no one doubts he's going to die
now that every song but pain is gone
from his eyes, his limbs
slack like a hawk nailed
by one brown wing to the barn door
finally falling limp, crying out
when the lust in his eyes grows dim
we are moved to believe
the blue skull
of the sky hears him.
George Keithley's award-winning epic poem The Donner Party was
a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and has been adapted as a play and an opera.
Joyce Carol Oates has praised Keithley as possessing "Whitman's visionary
imagination." He and his wife live in Chico, California.
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Volume 2
Issue 1
June 2004
MOVIES
Vittorio
Messori: A Passion of Violence and Love
POETRY
Robert
Bagg: Chimera
George
Keithley: Looking at the
Man
Tom
Sheehan: We Share A
Universe
POLITICS
Edward M.
Fashing: WTO Meeting In Cancun, Mexico, October
2003
Robert
Blair Kaiser: Holy Words Holy War
Senator
Edward M. Kennedy: "Leading
This Country to a Perilous Place"
Joseph E.
Mulligan, SJ: The Fight for Bread and Justice Goes On in Central
America
ROME DIARY
Robert
Blair Kaiser:
Latest Chapter
Rome Diary
Index
THEOLOGY
José María
Vigil, CMF: La opción por los pobres es opción
por la justicia, y no es preferencial: Para un reencuadramiento
teologico-sistemático de la OP
José María
Vigil, CMF: The Option for the Poor is an Option for Justice,
and Not Preferential: A New Theological-Systematic Framework for the Option for
the Poor
Leobard
D’Souza: There Are Many Mother Teresas
TRAVEL
Michael
Saso: The Advanced Asian Research and Language
Institute, Beijing, Announces New, Inter-Disciplinary BA, MA, & PhD
Programs, 10-14 Day Tibetan Pilgrimages, and Opportunities To Help in Building
and Sponsoring Schools in Greater Tibet
VITAL SPEECHES
Anthony
Padovano: The American Catholic Church: Assessing the Past,
Discerning the Future
Webpage Editors:
Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph.D.
ecumene.org
Robert R. Rahl
westcoastcompanions.org
Posted 22 May 2004
Revised 5 June 2004
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