Uncompromising But Not-Quite-Predictable

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letters to the Editor: December 1984

Opposing the Bishops... Trust Economic Liberty... Relief... 50 Percent... Berrigan’s Error... Fetal Pain

Weaknesses of Feminist Theology

IS “GOD THE MOTHER” JUST AS GOOD?

Juli Loesch

An intelligent group like feminist theologians could manufacture six or seven attractive religious ideas in any given morning, and then invent a sacrament or two over lunch.

Envy of the Empty Air

A POEM

Susan Heyboer-O’Keefe

Ethical Reflections on the Economy

AGAINST SOCIAL DARWINISM

Canadian Bishops’ Commission

This statement was attacked by business leaders and the prime minister, and was the subject of a full-scale debate in the Canadian Parliament.

Idealism

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

How can experts sort solidly idealistic activists from those who would end up a source of trouble to themselves or to those meant to be helped?

Toward a More Christian Economy

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

America is ripe to accept the Christian-Catholic view of work and economics, once it fully learns to understand and appreciate it.

Jean-Luc Godard: Low-Altitude Narcissism

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

What evil an artist can legitimately and accu­rately depict depends on the altitude from which the artist sees that evil.

Anti-Abortion Atheist Doctor

Francis Canavan

Ex-abortionist Dr. Nathanson refers to “permissive abortion” as a “crime” and “an unmitigated evil."

Oxford Philosophy & the “Seamless Garment”

James G. Hanink

The basic goods of human flourishing include life, knowledge, friendship, the experience of beauty, procreation, and play.

A Rare Novel of Worth

James J. Thompson Jr.

Although Murdoch’s characters have banished God, they have yet to rid themselves of sin, guilt, and evil; God is dead but Satan thrives.

Age of Aquarius

A POEM

R. Dey

Briefly Reviewed: December 1984

The Life of Prayer by St. Teresa of Avila... The Love of God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux... Butler’s Lives of the Saints (Complete Edition, Revised)... On Christian Truth

The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water

A POEM

Jon Glenn