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That polysyllabilistic panjandrum of the American right, William F. Buckley Jr., is even more devoted to his Roman Catholic faith than to his conservative political principles. Yet writing about that faith has not been easy for him. In 1992 he started but soon abandoned a book with the working title Why I Am a Catholic. Now Buckley has tried again--and his discomfort in writing about something so personal as religious belief is still apparent...
Nearer, My God (Doubleday; 313 pages; $24.95) is less a formal "autobiography of faith," as the subtitle has it, than a pastiche: part memoir, part commentary on religious issues past and present. No theologian by his own admission, Buckley has relied on others to do that heavy hitting. He submitted questions about the ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange...
...upside, four of the Big Green's top scorers are back for more. David Whitworth (38 points), Jon Strugis (30 points), Ryan Chaytors (28 points) and Jeremiah Buckley (21 points) will constitute the bulk of the offense. That will at least give Gaudet something to work with...
...interactions with the repair center. I certainly hope that my case is an isolated incident. I fear, however, that I am not the only one who has had such problems, and I would like to see action taken to prevent similar problems in the future. Ragan E. Buckley...
Even as the President last week was sweet-talking big Democratic Party donors into pledging $250,000 each, the Clinton Administration was readying a new feint on the campaign-finance front: trying to reverse the Supreme Court's landmark 1976 ruling, Buckley v. Valeo, which held that limits on candidates' spending infringe on their free speech. Last fall Clinton boosted his efforts to pass the McCain-Feingold bill that would curb soft money and give candidates cheap TV time, but now it's pretty much dead. Two weeks ago, he asked the Federal Election Commission to ban soft money...