Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Cover Image

June 17, 2000

Vol. 182 / No. 21

Subscribers and donors have access to the digital edition.
Please log in to continue.

Log in
Books
Kathy OConnellJune 17, 2000

quot To know Joan of Arc quot wrote Mark Twain in his fanciful yet earnest quot translation quot of her life in 1896 quot was to know one who was wholly noble pure truthful brave compassionate generous pious unselfish modest blameless as the very flowers in the fields nature fine an

Books

The arguments for women rsquo s ordination to the diaconate have been circulating for a number of years indeed centuries What then is Zagano rsquo s original contribution to this important ecclesial discussion and debate In my opinion it is simply this She writes in a synthetic way for a new ge

Books
Jane E. FisherJune 17, 2000

Robert J Begiebing a professor of English at New Hampshire College has written both critical and fictional works including the well-received historical mystery The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin 1991 His most recent novel also historical in its setting follows the convoluted adventures of

Film
Richard A. BlakeJune 17, 2000

In his eminently forgettable "Stardust Memories" (1980), Woody Allen in the persona of a world-famous director in the Fellini mold, a kind of pizza made with Velveeta, catsup and Wonder bread, visits a college to participate in a leaden symposium on the art of the film. Rather than receivi

Faith The Word
John R. DonahueJune 17, 2000

The Jesus who emerges from these stories is one who is compassionate in the face of human suffering and who makes the needs of these sufferers the norm for his action, to the disregard of social taboos and conventions.

Faith The Word
John R. DonahueJune 17, 2000

Two themes echo throughout the readings: covenant and sacrifice.

Columns
Thomas J. McCarthyJune 17, 2000

Dust coated my throat and stung my eyes. Carbon monoxide fumes mixed with the reek of deep-fried buffalo wings and cheese-soaked sausages made me nauseous. The noise was deafening—a nonstop cacophony of roaring engines, heavy metal music and over-amplified voices distorted through a second-rat