Letters to the Editor: November 1984

Opus Dei Response Unsatisfactory... The Lot of Mankind... Original Compositions... Derrick to the Rescue... No Rescue Needed... Not a Neutral Device

Church & Society in Communist Hungary

AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT

Thomas Molnar

In the post-war years, the peasantry and the proletariat have been the winners, while the old bourgeoisie has been the great loser.

Economics & the Theology of Work

WORK AS A CALLING

Robert N. Bellah

When the worker is engaged in work that is to him intrinsically meaningless, then he is deprived of work in the deeper sense, even when he makes a living wage.

The Right to Unionize & Defense of the Poor

INDISPUTABLE PRINCIPLES

John J. O’Connor

The tradition of Catholic social teaching has roots in Abra­ham, Moses, the prophets, and in the very life and message of Jesus himself.

Second Coming

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The opening struggle for a New Jerusalem is naturally beyond anyone’s ken. A novelist, perhaps alone among us, has the capacity to make compelling guesses.

Beyond the Reefs of Roast Beef

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Among the industrial nations of the West, only the U.S. has had no democratic socialist par­ty of national significance, nor a party to speak for the labor move­ment.

The Development of Social Doctrine

Dale Vree

A Chris­tian’s concern for the material well-being of his neighbors springs, properly, not from a flat secular­ist social-welfare mentality but from an authentic interior spirituality.

Briefly Reviewed: November 1984

The Motherhood of the Church... Summons to Faith and Renewal: Christian Renewal in a Post-Christian World... People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil