Letters to the Editor: May 1985

Unfair to Gutierrez... Take Heart, Jim... “Discoin” It!... Connections... Credibility Lacking... Chesterton Revival

Six-Day Fast for Life at an Abortion Clinic

“YOUR KIND NEVER CARES ABOUT WAR”

Juli Loesch

To women and men alike, just passing by or going into the clinic, I’d repeat my 22-second message with no nuance. You come quickly to the point. You have to.

Boardwalk Fortune Teller

A POEM

F.P. Grady

To Phoebe*

A POEM

Mary Armitage

Adam’s Second Day (waiting for Eve)

A POEM

Thomas Noe

Beyond Fundamentalism & Cultural Captivity

REORIENTING EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTISM

Richard V. Pierard

The blossoming of Christian Rightist organiza­tions in the mid- and late 1960s made me increas­ingly nervous about the injurious effect of politi­cal conservatism on evangelicalism.

Principle vs. Prudence

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

Christopher Derrick

“Priests and bishops and popes are usually good men, often very good men. But they’re still only men, not always capable of really heroic courage," said the theologian.

Christian Rebirth in Secularized Italy

LETTER FROM ROME

Lucio Brunelli

At a time when Italian society has become gradually secularized, Christianity has again become a disturbing presence with the advent of Communion and Liberation.

Silone’s Religious Humanism

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The world is wolfish, devouring, full of evil, Silone knew — yet, good will and love are also constantly in evidence: God’s gift to us.

Nicaragua & Neighborliness

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

The U.S. could have weaned Nicaragua away from the Soviets by the exercise of a little good neighborliness and the avoidance of a large amount of international immorality.

The Prison of “Freedom”

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

Rohmer’s films are uniquely cinematic, bearing the mark of his simple visual style and nuanced out­look on and delicate treatment of human relation­ships.

Lines Written in the Dominican College Library

A POEM

Marianne Bluger

Moral Theology Really Renewed

Edward J. Bayer

By Vatican II, many theologians were calling for an end to the artificial separation of moral teaching from elements fundamental to dogmatic and ascet­ical theology.

Briefly Reviewed: May 1985

Christian Ethics in a Secular Arena... Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood... The Recovery of Political Theory: Limits and Possibilities... Architects of Fear... Gospel Radicalism: The Hard Sayings of Jesus