Letters to the Editor: November 1983

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The Roman Catholic Church in Central Europe

THE POWER & THE GLORY?

Erazim Kohák

The heavy-handed Russian attempt at easternization made central Europeans far more conscious of their Western heritage.

Prayer after Communion

A POEM

Tom Noe

Pietà

A POEM

Sister Claude of Jesus, SNJM

My Pilgrimage

COMING HOME TO THE CHURCH

Juli Loesch

When the Mass was trans­lated into English, I noticed right away how often it says “Peace”: it’s repeated over and over again, like a heartbeat, clear through.

Compassion

A POEM

Anne Keith

Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

Bones of Contention

A POEM

Br. James M. Deschene

Bishops as Signs of Compassion, Fidelity & Contradiction

THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN & OTHER MATTERS

Pope John Paul II

The bishop must announce to the rich and poor, to the powerful and weak the fullness of truth, which sometimes irritates and of­fends, even if it always liberates.

Parting Word

A POEM

Gwendolyn C. Carr

The Jesus Therapy

HEALING MENTAL ILLNESS

Barbara Nauer

The single impediment to making Jesus Christ’s methods effective is the same one that sometimes neutralized them in his own day — lack of faith.

On School Prayer

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

When it comes to children praying in school, we hear of the potential jeopardy to…whom?

The Appointment Process

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

Befuddled

A POEM

Ralph Wright, O.S.B.

Old Age

A POEM

Anne Keith

When Angels Danced

A POEM

D.S. Preston

Fragments on the Death of a Muskrat

A POEM

David N. Beauregard, O.M.V.

Briefly Reviewed: November 1983

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien... America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s

A Radical Recalibration of the Moral Economy

WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF LABOR?

Kenneth Colston

A more receptive attitude toward creation, with less getting and spending and having, and more being and waiting and watching, is a way of cooperating with grace.