Letter to the Editor: October 1989

America: An Aid to Salvation... Soul-Searching About The Military... Gratitude... American Priest-Heroes: Where?... Quarrels With Cort

All Along the Watchtower

WHY ARE WE ON EARTH?

Will Hoyt

Why are we on earth? Because we are summoned. This seems to beg the question, yet Jews and Christians answer just that.

America's Children Are in Jeopardy

CHILDHOOD BETRAYED — A PERSONALIST ANALYSIS

James G. Hanink

Suggesting that the very young, born or pre­born, are not persons is exclusivist. It makes the betrayal of children almost morally palatable.

The Passion of Dorothy Day

A REVOLUTIONARY INFINITELY BEYOND MARX

William D. Miller

Day was a revolutionary infinitely beyond Marx, for her objective was to find the completion of meaning in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Underclass, Part IV: Schools & Mentors

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

One youth says, “I look at those teachers and their books, and I say: man, you’re out in space, and I’m where I am, and there’s nothing between us.”

The Death of a "Catholic Atheist"

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Michael Harrington was an eloquent, attractive leader and lucid thinker. Even those who disagreed with him found it almost impossible not to love him.

God Is Dead but Woody Allen Lives?

Ronald Austin

The dialogue between American Jews and Christians in our time is actually a triangular conversation. The third partner is the voice of “the world.”

Briefly: October 1989

Review of Possum and Other Receits for the Recovery of "South­ern" Being... All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca... Letters of C.S. Lewis and Don Giovanni Calabria: A Study in Friendship... This Tremendous Lover.... Southerners and Europeans: Essays in a Time of Disorder