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O'Connor, John Joseph Cardinal was born on January 15, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas Joseph and Dorothy Magdalene (Gomple) O'Connor.
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"The moral implications of the conflict in Vietnam and the United States' involvement there have not, to my knowledge, been presented clearly to the American people - until now. Nor are they likely to be presented at any future time in such penetrating depth as within these pages" -Senator Everett M. Dirksen, from the foreword.
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A highly influential figure in the Church of England, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he left his position as vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, to join the Roman Catholic church. Perhaps no one took greater offense than Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley, whose scathing attacks against Newman's faith and honor inspired this brilliant response. Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Newman's spiritual autobiography, explores the depths and nature of Christianity with flowing prose and a conversational style that has ensured its status as a classic. "False ideas may be refuted by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. I will vanquish," Newman promised, "not my accuser, but my judges." His honest and passionate defense consists of a personal history of his religious convictions, from earliest memory through the Oxford movement and his ultimate conversion. His concluding point-by-point refutation of Kingsley's charges features thought-provoking contentions that strike at the very roots of the principles underlying Protestantism. Newman won respect and admiration with his Apologia, a work that has helped clarify perceptions of Roman Catholicism among readers of every faith.
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Barney Fife, America's most beloved and respected law enforcement officer, finally has put pencil to paper to give us his insights on all aspects of life.
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The 1960s saw the dawn of manned space fl ights, and America quickly recognized its destiny to seek out things beyond earth. Despite the nation's external wars and internal confl icts, the sky and the future possessed our imaginations. People had so much hope, so much looking forward. We were living “American Pie” years before the song with that title would come out. Today my soul longs for the innocence of that childhood view. In those days of long ago, friends and I preferred to be outside, throwing a ball, searching for new fi nds, walking through fi elds and forests, looking up. We never kept in touch. Where are they now? Do they feel as alone as I do? My chest aches like an old hollow log, its emptiness fi lled with pangs of joyful memories of things once whole: a family, a neighborhood, a nation. A lost time it is, a lost spirit am I, and inside me lives a heart that weeps for a dying country. The mortal situation is so clear. Together let us travel a 50-year American river road of love's sharp curves, death's hazardous potholes, and murder's sudden downhill drops. We will dive into the polluted river of the decayed American soul, descend to its very bottom, and crawl in the muck. We will then swim up and out of the river, onto its opposite shore, to begin our walk through swamps and forests that lead to a steep uphill climb to an incredible place of panoramic view. The driver-John Worker-asks that the reader not become overly shaken as he steers you through a dark valley of personal refl ection, that you courageously survive it, get through it, because, well, you will fi nd out when you get to the top of the other side: The Threshold of Eternal Life
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This book is a collection of eight essays on politics and defense written over the past quarter of a century. What particularly unifies them is the distinction between the military and police (or punitive) uses of force and implication of each for preservation of moderate political practices and skill in the use of armed force. The various essays illustrate these conceptual points by examination of the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, U. S. nuclear strategy and current ' R. M. A. and counter-insurgency doctrines, among others. The essays collectively advance the view that even in the age of nuclear weapons and 'war amongst the people' the punitive threat and use of armed force is incapable of maintaining control over a relatively equal force. It can only be effective where there is massive superiority of the means of armed force concentrated in one political authority. Also included is an article on Clausewitz by a senior army officer (the author's father) that supports the conceptual and practical distinction between the military and police uses of armed force.
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O'Connor, John Joseph Cardinal was born on January 15, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas Joseph and Dorothy Magdalene (Gomple) O'Connor.
Master of Arts, St. Charles College, 1949. Master of Arts, Catholic University America, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 1970.
DRE, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, 1976.
Elevated to monsignor Roman Catholic Church, 1966, consecrated bishop, 1979. Served in Chaplain Corps United States Navy, 1952, advanced through grades to rear admiral, assigned to Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Senior chaplain United States Naval Academy.
Chief of chaplains United States Navy, Washington. Auxiliary bishop, vicar general Military Vicariate, 1979—1983. Appointed bishop of Scranton Pennsylvania, 1983—1984.
Archbishop Archdiocese of New York, from 1984. Executive board National United Service Organizations, Georgetown Center Strategic and International Studies.
("The moral implications of the conflict in Vietnam and th...)
( Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defence Of His Life) by Cardin...)
(Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We h...)
(Barney Fife, America's most beloved and respected law enf...)
( A highly influential figure in the Church of England, J...)
(Guided Chaos is an advanced, esoteric and adaptive self-d...)
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(An exchange between Mayor Ed Koch and Cardinal O'Connor)
Author: Principles and Problems of Naval Leadership, 1958, A Chaplain Looks at Vietnam, 1969, In Defense of Life, 1981. Author: (with Edward I. Koch) His Eminence and Hizzoner: A Candid Exchange, 1989. Author: (with Elie Wiesel) A Journey of Faith, 1990.
Executive board Marine Corps Foundation. Member of American Political Science Association.