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Sept. 8, 2008AmericaTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY $2.75 THE TRUE COST OF CARE UWE E. REINHARDT Language and Liturgy Victor Galeone The Business of the Church Thomas J. Healey N A SUMMER DAY in 1933, Father Clarke did not talk much about his William Norris Clarke, an 18- own innermost life. The confessional style year-old from Manhattan, was was not his. He preferred to talk about America hurrying along a pier in the ideas that struck him as really useful Published by Jesuits of the United States OCherbourg toward a trans-Atlantic liner for understanding human existence. about to leave for New York. All the same, he would surely have Norris, as he was known to his family said, using the austere and matter-of-fact Editor in Chief and friends, had a few months earlier fin- phrases of St. Ignatius Loyola, that the Drew Christiansen, S.J. ished sophomore year at Georgetown purpose of life is to love and serve God University in Washington, D.C., and was by the kindly service of others. His major EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT planning to enter the novitiate of the service was, one might say, “doing philos- Managing Editor Maryland-New York province of the ophy.” That meant more than talking Robert C. Collins, S.J. Society of Jesus on Aug. 14. about philosophy in the classroom. It Editorial Director In Paris, Norris had bought a dozen meant really philosophizing when he was new books and stuffed them into a knap- teaching and when he was engaged in Karen Sue Smith sack. As he ran, one of the satchel’s straps captivating conversations with the people Online Editor broke and the books skittered across the of all sorts who sought him out. Maurice Timothy Reidy wharf. Years later Norris’s eyes twinkled Now and then in these conversations Associate Editors with secret glee when he recalled the nuggets of personal history would pop up Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J. choice that had confronted him: abandon for a moment. A few samples suggest George M. Anderson, S.J. the books or miss the boat. While he was their flavor. Dennis M. Linehan, S.J. rounding up the books, the ship sailed Father Clarke’s forebears were among James Martin, S.J. without him. the Catholic colonists of 17th-century Matt Malone, S.J. That was the way he told the story, Maryland. When it was suggested that James T. Keane, S.J. for he would never have blunted a good this made him eligible for membership in Peter Schineller, S.J. anecdote by the Sons of adding anticli- the American Literary Editor mactic details. Revolution, Patricia A. Kossmann But, of course, Of Many Things he would Poetry Editor he did secure note with a James S. Torrens, S.J. another passage, conspiratori- and he did enter the novitiate at St. al smile that in the 1770s the descendants Assistant Editor Andrew-on-Hudson in Poughkeepsie, of these Catholics were Tories. Francis W. Turnbull, S.J. N.Y., as scheduled. When he died on As a small boy growing up in Design and Production June 10 of this year, he was 93 years old Manhattan, Norris attended the same Stephanie Ratcliffe and had been a Jesuit for nearly three- children’s dancing class as David quarters of a century. He was ordained a Rockefeller. Several decades later, he BUSINESS DEPARTMENT priest on June 17, 1945, and joined studied philosophy from 1935 to 1939 at Publisher Fordham University’s philosophy depart- a seminary set up on the island of Jersey Jan Attridge ment 10 years later. After he was named by the French Jesuits after they were professor emeritus in 1985, he continued banned from France by the secularizing Chief Financial Officer to teach part-time at Fordham and as a laws of the 1880s. When it came time to Lisa Pope visiting professor elsewhere. return to the United States, war was on Marketing Never in all that time did his mind the horizon, and it was hard to book pas- Eryk Krysztofiak idle in neutral. He wrote eight books, sage from England. Norris and two other including, most recently, The One and the scholastics (young Jesuits not yet Advertising Many: A Contemporary Thomistic ordained) made their leisurely way to the Julia Sosa Metaphysics (2000), and some 70 learned Mediterranean coast and crossed over to articles. He was also a founding editor of Algiers. Here they not only found a ship 106 West 56th Street the International Philosophical to New York but also became acquainted New York, NY 10019-3803 Quarterly. As recently as the spring 2008 with an obliging Algerian who gave them Ph: 212-581-4640; Fax: 212-399-3596. semester, he conducted a seminar on a guided tour of the Casbah, a quarter off- E-mail: [email protected]; “Twentieth-Century Personalism” for limits to non-Arabs. [email protected]. some young Jesuits studying philosophy Nearly 70 years later, Norris Clarke Web site: www.americamagazine.org. at Fordham. made that last journey from which nei- Customer Service: 1-800-627-9533. That was an appropriate topic for a ther philosophers nor anyone else returns © 2008 America Press, Inc. farewell tour, because Norris believed, as to report. Yet there could well be applied he once said, that Thomistic metaphysics to him the words Cardinal Newman needs to be enriched by the descriptions chose for his own gravestone: Ex umbris of the actual lives of real persons that et imaginibus in Veritatem— “From shad- phenomenologists provide. ows and images into the Truth.” Cover art Shutterstock/R. Gino Santa Like most men of his generation, John W. Donohue, S.J. Maria www.americamagazine.org Vol. 199 No. 6, Whole No. 4825 September 8, 2008 Articles 19 The True Cost of Care 10 Uwe E. Reinhardt Expressing Holy Things 15 Victor Galeone ‘A Transplant of the Heart’ 19 George M. Anderson A Bold New Direction 22 James T. Keane and Jim McDermott A Church Transparent 26 Thomas J. Healey Current Comment 4 30 Editorial Secession Ethics 5 Signs of the Times 6 Life in the 00s 8 National Civics Lesson Terry Golway Faith in Focus 28 Blessed Interruptions Kyle T. Kramer Poem For Winslow William Bagley 30 Film Vicky Cristina Barcelona Richard A. Blake 31 31 Book Reviews 34 Jesus; Catholic Moral Theology in the United States; All That Road Going Letters 37 The Word 39 The Holy Cross Daniel J. Harrington This week @ Uwe E. Reinhardt discusses health care reform on our podcast. Plus, from the archives, an interview with Miguel d’Escoto from 1985, and Richard H. America Connects Tierney, S.J., on religious oppression in Mexico. All at americamagazine.org. Current Comment Ironically—for those looking for more examples of The Wind Bloweth how to live a holy married life—the two had initially The Statue of Liberty’s torch alight through wind power? thought of living together as “brother and sister,” hoping Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City raised to imitate the relationship of Mary and Joseph. Happily, a that and other possibilities at a recent conference on confessor later persuaded them to lead a more conven- alternative energy in Nevada. Around the country, many tional married life. Louis (1823-94) and Zélie (1831-77) wind turbines are already in place. Boston has them at would eventually have nine children, five of whom joined Logan International Airport. Southern California Edison religious orders. Some wondered if the two were being recently signed a 20-year contract for the construction of honored for their own holiness (which is evident) or a wind farm with 300 turbines. After Colorado voters because they were the parents of the Little Flower— approved an initiative requiring the state’s largest utilities though the miracle puts an end to such speculation. Zélie to generate 10 percent of their electricity from renewable died at a relatively young age, and in later years Louis sources, wind capacity quadrupled, a situation that has seems to have suffered some form of mental illness, a put oil and gas companies on the defensive, partly out of source of deep pain to his daughters, especially Thérèse, fear of jeopardizing their tax breaks. Texas now leads in who wrote about her father extensively in her journals. overall wind power capacity. And the Texas oil billionaire The upcoming beatification of her parents is a reminder T. Boone Pickens, who is vigorously promoting develop- that sanctity comes in many styles, and holiness always ment of wind power, sees the Great Plains states as capa- makes its home in humanity. ble of satisfying 20 percent of U.S. electricity needs through wind. According to the Earth Policy Institute, one of every In Record Time three countries in the world, driven by worries over cli- Just how fast is fast? Viewers of the 2008 Olympic Games mate change and energy security (oil and gas are not inex- in Beijing have a whole new set of answers to that ques- haustible; wind is) now generates at least some of its elec- tion. In swimming and track and field in particular, world tricity from wind. Germany is in the forefront of total records tumbled with surprising frequency. The principal wind-power capacity. The United Kingdom’s offshore culprits were the American swimmer Michael Phelps and capacity, the institute predicts, is expected to double by the the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, both of whom delivered end of next year, and by 2020 offshore wind capacity will performances that bordered on the superhuman. Yet while be enough to meet the electricity requirements of all Phelps won eight gold medals with a body uniquely suited homes in Britain.