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1989 July-August

Born in the U.S.A.

EDITORIAL

Let us not love America inordinately or unrealistically. It is enough to be Americans without also being vainglorious Americanists.

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Letter to the Editor: July-August 1989

A Vietnam Veteran Responds To Fr. Fessio... Thompson... Don't Paint Curran & Novak with the Same Brush... Marx: A Poor Guide with Some Useful Insights

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A Day in the Life of a Volunteer at Mother Teresa's Missions

EXPLORING SOME OF THE DEEPER MYSTERIES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

Louise L. Reiver

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Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, John Berger, Nadine Gordimer & the Realist Novel of Commitment

BEYOND NOVELS AS A FORM OF DIVERSION

Ed Block Jr.

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The Underclass, Part II: Widespread Teenage Pregnancy

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Girls in the ghetto are hungry for love, and desperately afraid of not going along with the social, cultural, and sexual pressures of the street.

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Leonardo Boff, Harvey Cox & Liberation Theology

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C.Cort

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Can a Catholic Be a True American?

James J. Thompson Jr.

A Protestant need not fret about a clash between religion and culture; for him, the two have generally been inseparable.

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Briefly: July-August 1989

Review of Justice, Peace, & Human Rights: American Catholic Ethics in a Pluralistic Context... The Reshaping of Catholicism... Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987... A Rocking-Horse Catholic... Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric... In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership... and Starting Out in the Thirties

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