Blessed Franklin and Eleanor Constance M. McGovern’s review of Hazel Rowley’s book Franklin and Eleanor, An Extraordinary Marriage (5/16) reminds me that at the beginning of his presidency Franklin Roosevelt told one of the women in his professional life, Frances Perkins, a fellow Episc

Count on Canon 212 Re the editorial “Paths of Conscience” (5/2): The scriptural arguments of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concerning the ordination of women have been expressed in two documents, Inter Signiores (1976) and a commentary that treats the arguments in an ecu

‘Small’ Sacrifices Count Too I thank America for its reflection on the homely (as the Irish mean it) spirituality of fatherhood depicted in Of Many Things (5/2), in which Kevin Clarke writes about his choice between a nice car and a larger family. These reflections on the father’s

Short on Moral Courage? In the editorial “Paths of Conscience” (5/2), the editors seem almost to be of two minds regarding the refusal by Roy Bourgeois, M.M., to recant his beliefs. They acknowledge that in calling for him to recant what he believes, the church authorities are asking him

Might Is Not Right “How much death is too much death?”—a question you ask in your editorial “The Lessons of Libya” (3/28)—is not just a “vexing” question. It is the wrong question. The right question is, when will people realize that killing is killing

Both Call It Home Rabbi Daniel E. Polish’s “A Spiritual Home” (4/11) puts in perspective the historical/spiritual roots of Judaism. As the author points out, there is much more than politics at work in Israel; but it appears to me that his argument could equally be made about the P