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1989 May

Letter to the Editor: May 1989

Community Without Boundaries?... Of Saints & Social Structures... The Other Side Of War

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J.F. Powers's Comic Art

ECCLESIASTICAL COMEDY AS DEEPENED COMEDY

Richard Stokes

Powers once remarked that he views the human condition as essentially comic, and that writing about priests complicates or deepens the comedy.

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The Waning Credibility of the Mainline Protestant Churches' Social Pronouncements

THE PROBLEMS OF PARTICIPATION, COMPETENCE & THEOLOGICAL RIGOR

R. Bruce Douglass

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The Danger of Riches

ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TRUSTING IN RICHES & HAVING THEM

John Henry Newman

That our Lord meant to speak of riches as being in some sense a calamity to the Christian is plain from His praises and recommendation of poverty.

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The Image of God

GUEST COLUMN

Steffen Richards

As we try, in our troubles, to picture to ourselves who we are, we have recourse to the knowledge that God calls us to imitate Him and love as He loves.

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The Day After Inauguration

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

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Two Kinds of Christian Radicalism in Nicaragua

CHRIST AND NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

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Distributism's Significance for Our Present Social Predicaments

James J. Thompson Jr.

Although Chesterton cultivated a streak of romanticism and delighted in excursions into fantasyland, the source and inspiration for distributism lay elsewhere.

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Briefly: May 1989

Review of Spiritual Letters of Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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