Neither East nor West: On the Pope's Radical New Encyclical

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

John Paul II's 'Sollicitudo Rei Socialis' equates Western capitalism with Eastern Communism, and condemns both even-handedly.

Letter to the Editor: April 1988

St. Peter Maurin... Seeking Correspondants...

Out of the Briar Patches of Divorce, Remarriage, and Annulment

HOME AT LAST

James J. Thompson Jr.

In divorcing my first wife I had, I thought, acted dishonorably. To be granted an annulment — to repudiate the existence of our marriage — would compound it.

Is George Will Actually a (20th-century American) Liberal in Disguise?

THE STATE, TRADITION, COMMUNITY, AND CHARACTER-BUILDING

Charles L. Garrettson III

Will's conservatism is one that works at "dust­ing off old ideas, not generating new ones." It does this out of the conviction that "after all, most new knowledge is false."

Children and Media Violence

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Many parents have no control over their own lives, never mind their children's — and yet yearn for certain moral improvements while fearing they'll never take place.

The Parental Rights in Education: Who Cares?

GUEST COLUMN

Russell Shaw

Saying parents have the primary right to educate their children -- as says Catholic social teaching -- flies in the face of prevailing assumptions to the contrary.

Heading Home to Love, Suffering, and Mercy

Raymond T. Gawronski, S.J.

Bozell's conserv­atism was no laissez-faire capital­ism, nor the tawdry conservatism of yuppiedom. Rather, his thought was rooted in reflection on the nature of being.

Briefly: April 1988

Gods and the One God... The Future of Religion: Seculari­zation, Revival, and Cult Forma­tion... Totalitarian Democracy and Af­ter... and more