Letters to the Editor

A Voice of Morality... No Pap... Old & New... Table Talk... Berrigan & Liberation Theology

A New Life among the Handicapped

FAREWELL TO HARVARD

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Village life is a small world of community celebration, sharing of human vulnerabilities, and an always new invitation to let Jesus be the center of everything.

Short-Term Thinking & the Decline in Values

THE REWARDS OF PATIENT CAPITAL

Norman Lear

We are controlled by numerical systems run amok — creating lists and statistics, SAT scores and Nielsen ratings, Gallup and Harris polls, and the fearsome “bottom line.”

On “Liberation Theology”

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

A poor woman once told me that the Church “belongs” to her kind of people, not to them, the rich, the quite comfortable — appearances notwithstanding.

The Weak Shame the Strong

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

The events of the Philippine Revolution of 1986 show that nonviolence, powered by prayer, can work and should be given every opportunity to work.

Memories of Great Comedies from the Past

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

Is moviemaking such a risky business that even an extraordinarily gifted performer cannot be sure in advance how a proposed project will turn out?

Four

A POEM

L.M. Williams

Modern Martyrs

James G. Hanink

The drama of martyrdom, for both Edith Stein — philosopher, convert, Carmelite — and Jerzy Popieluszko — priest and patriot — commands our attention.

Sonnet for C.B.

A POEM

Thomas Fleming

Kant Was Wrong

Thomas W. Case

According to Kant, we do not look upon the world as it is, but upon an appearance of the world projected by the structures of the human mind.

Briefly Reviewed: September 1986

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