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1988 June

Letter to the Editor: June 1988

What Do the Dissenters Really Want?... A Temporal Dualism

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New South, Old Religion

SUN-BELT PARADOXES & EXCESSES

James J. Thompson Jr.

Is the South still the Bible Belt? Well, yes — but then, no, too: at least not in precisely the same way it used to be.

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A Time to Fold the Wings of Intellect & Bow Before the Mysterious

BOTH TRADITIONAL & CHARISMATIC

Giles Dimock OP

My charismatic experience, rather than making me less traditional, made me far more traditional, helping me to rediscover Catholicism in a deeper and richer way.

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Bodies for Sale: The Inhuman Face of Industrialism

GUEST COLUMN

Juli Loesch

Industry everywhere, East or West, wheth­er controlled by the state or market forces, has no veneration for the Presence of the Godhead in the soul of the worker.

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Sinner Swaggart & Our Smugness

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In our parlors, with our educated tongues, we deplore not only the Swaggarts of this world but all who attend them, and all who aren't quite "up" to us.

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The Rich & the Miserable

CHRIST AND NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

At a showing of 'Les Miserables' I discovered that this magnificent production was al­most literally a glorification of Christian socialism.

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Heaven, Hell, and Socialism

Dale Vree

Love of neighbor may impel us to act like socialists, but we must not fall into the illusion that others' salvation is necessarily advanced from the charity shown them.

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Briefly: June 1988

The New Encounter Between Christians and Jews... Making Sense Out of Suffering... The Guillotine and the Cross... and more

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