Agreed Statement on the Separation of the NEW OXFORD REVIEW from the American Church Union

EDITORIAL

Letters to the Editor: September 1983

Usury & Morality... Feminism... A Father’s Wisdom... Affirmative Action: Tragedy Compounded

Confessions of a Lapsed Evolutionist

INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTIES

S.L. Varnado

The Christian view of man’s origins rests upon sources totally indepen­dent of the changeable and conflicting theories of the scientist.

The Gravity of Our Situation

A POEM

Laurie Hibbet

Abortion: The Hard Cases

WHAT IS THE COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE?

Jacqueline R. Kasun

It is as proper for Christians to work for laws to protect the unborn as to support and work for laws against water pollu­tion and kidnapping.

To Angela, Who Is Afraid of Clowns

A POEM

Evelyn Bence

Edith Stein’s Cross

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The proud and talented scholar threw herself gladly, ecstatically at His feet, He of the Cross, He whose Cross had become her cross.

The Mansour & Kosnik Cases

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

The Chic and the Dead

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

And Such a Pope!

Stuart Gudowitz

The papacy brought John Paul II to worldwide attention, but the qualities of the man and his thought have impressed many even outside the faith.

Against 20th-Century Prejudices

David J. Schlafer

The natural law tradition, viable for Thomas, does not strike most contemporary ethi­cal theorists as an acceptable framework for under­standing moral judgments.

Faith

A POEM

Sam Cuthbert

Briefly Reviewed: September 1983

The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God... Abortion: The Silent Holocaust... Women & Church Leadership... The Homosexual Network: Private Lives and Public Policy... Monsignor Quixote... Christianity and the Age of the Earth... Studies and Commentaries... The Call to Conversion