Communism: From Modernity's Vanguard to History's Rearguard

EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: December 1989

Grasping Beauty... Benefits... Defending Michael Harrington's Lack of Faith... Michael Harrington's Theological Blunder

Sobornost: Piercing the Walls of Mind & Heart

"ME" — NOT FIRST, BUT THIRD

Raymond T. Gawronski

One has to make a lonely journey of purification, encounter God in the desert, and only then can one experience true community.

On the "Greenness" of Catholicism & Its further "Greening"

HONORING NATURE, THE BODY, SEXUALITY & THE EARTH

Stratford Caldecott

We can make peace with nature only by restoring harmony within ourselves. It is holiness that manifests our true nature in the plan of God.

Dramatizing the Need to Rescue the Homeless

HOMELESSESS: A LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION

John Dear

Being human means caring for others, standing up for the rights of victims of injustice, and working to make the world more just and peaceful.

The Words of God

GUEST COLUMN

Michael Nelson

American hymnals and Bible translations must retain the authority that only memory, accuracy, and tradition bring, yet also be modern enough.

The Underclass, Part V: Children & Violence

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

We see kids on the street with guns and stacks of $100 bills. There’s no rule of law, no belief in anyone’s laws -- not man’s, not God’s.

The Piper Must be Paid — and Other Bad News

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

You can’t go on forever piling up budget deficits, corporate indebtedness, trade deficits, Third World debt. We are living in a fool’s paradise.

The Practice of Mercy

Stuart Gudowitz

Catholic Worker spirituality is situated in the biblical conviction of the poor being a profound revelation of God’s presence and grace.

The Incoherence of Fundamentalism

Bryant Burroughs

Fundamentalism is unable to withstand intellectual challenges from within or without. It has no real theology, no coherent authority, and no unity.

Briefly: December 1989

Review of Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev... What Is to Be Done?... The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination... Liberalism Ancient and Modern... Religion and Politics... Stigmata: An Investigation into the Mysterious Appearance of Christ's Wounds in Hundreds of People from Medieval Italy to Modern America... The Book of Masks