Letters to the Editor: June 1984

Ignorance & Pettifoggery on Economics... Economics Is Morally Neutral... “Out of Proportion”... Handicapped Infants... Not Murder... Be More Civil, More Holy... Waugh’s Failed Faith... more

Remembering Sister Grant

A LONELY EVANGELIST

Harold Riedl Jr.

She was a great Bible-quoter, a practice that seemed at once to console her and to show off her spiritual achievement.

Socrates on “Rock”

THE POWER OF MUSIC

Peter Kreeft

Socrates would say that good music is music that makes the soul better, that is, more harmonious, and bad music is music that makes the soul unharmonious.

Beatitude in Blue

A POEM

Oliver Barres

The Black Christ

ICONOGRAPHY

Robert Lentz

With the collapse of “Christendom” and the rise of the Third World, the Church in our day is beginning to see the Gos­pel apart from a European matrix.

Psychology as Faith

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

I am tired of watching ministers or priests mouth psychiatric pieties, when “hard praying” is what the particular human being may want, and yes, urgently require.

The Complete Samaritan

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Justice is an essential ingredient of love; love is not complete unless — to switch the metaphor — it is built on a foundation for social justice.

Contemplating the Foolishness of Our Age

James J. Thompson Jr.

Polit­ical activists of every stripe distrust Percy, for none of them knows exactly where to peg him.

Turning

A POEM

Annis Cox

Abortion as “Growth Experience”

Dave Andrusko

Almost all abortion ideologues refuse to address the core question: Is the unborn child a fellow member of the human family, one to whom we owe love, life, and justice?

Briefly Reviewed: June 1984

Clear and Present Danger: Church and State in a Post-Christian America... Pope John Paul II and the Family... The Christian Trinity in History: Studies in Historical Theology, Vol. I... Blaze of Recognition: Through the Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations

In Memoriam 1685-1750

A POEM

Mark A. Noll