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Murphy and Steinfels

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By authors|Posted Thursday, Feb. 18, 1999, at 4:16 PM ET

I am impressed with your positive attitude. It makes me realize that I have reached the age where not doing may be better than doing. So here's my plan:

For Lent, I am giving up one of my three daily newspapers and I am giving up my second glass of wine at dinner. And of course, it being the end of the week, I am giving up our Breakfast Table chat. I am not a morning person and

I can see that conversation by Internet indirection could probably save a lot of marriages. I think you will find the Murdoch interesting--and Rahner will always be with us.

Well, as we sing at the Easter Vigil: Felix Culpa!

See you at the resurrection.

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Cullen Murphy is the managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and the author of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His bookThe Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Ownwas published last fall. Margaret O'Brien Steinfels is the editor of Commonweal, an independent biweekly journal of political, religious, and literary opinion.