Journalism, Theology, & History

EDITORIAL

George William Rutler

Newspapers, confined to messages in black and white, often think in black and white and do not perceive true, profound traditionalism.

Letters to the Editor: September 1984

Losing Your Life to Find It... Unfair to Schillebeeckx... Misconstrued... Infant Doe & God’s Judgment... Am I Odd?

Fleeing from the Whore of Babylon

GROWING UP “ANTI-CATHOLIC”

James J. Thompson Jr.

Flesh-and-blood Cath­olics I met proved to be generous and kind people who had no desire to gobble up little Prot­estant boys.

On Sin

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Today we act as if the only kind of re­morse we really know is unconscious, a re­sponse of the imagination.

The Seamless Garment

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

How can good-hearted people, whose hearts bleed for peace and for poor people, not feel the excruciating pain of the child who is de­stroyed in the womb?

Price Markups & Moral Decline

John F. Maguire

The circulation of goods and ser­vices is a good. What is bad is the disorder that is introduced into this circulation by acts of injustice.

“Americanist” Permissivism

Juli Loesch

In principle, swatting down missiles before they explode and hurt somebody is morally permissible, even obligatory, if it can be done without violating moral norms.

Autobiography of a Creature from Deep Heaven

A POEM

E. O’Brien Jr.

The Shaping of Anglican Spiritual Expression

Isabel Anders

Moor­man covers development of the Book of Common Prayer, the place of the English Bible in the Church, hymnody and its influence on worship, and more.

Selling Neoconservatism

Arthur F. McGovern

Kristol argues that American democracy was born as a capitalist democracy and that the destiny of democra­cy is closely intertwined with that of capitalism.

The Chain

A POEM

James Jacob Hege

Talking God by Metaphor

S.L. Varnado

Derrick says Catholics “see God at the receiving end of all the world’s grief and misery, not at the originating and responsible end.”

The Pope’s Troubles with America

Robert Coles

Are we only drive-bound or are we at the constant call of drives yet able to be their sovereign: moral and spiritual masters of our particular lives?

Parting

A POEM

Charles R. Fink

Briefly Reviewed: September 1984

Common Sense Christian Living... Christian Classics Revisited... The Bishops and the Bomb: Waging Peace in a Nuclear Age

On the Trinity

A POEM

Sallie Odum

The Hidden Years

A POEM

Pat Marchulones

Possessed

A POEM

Charles R. Fink