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1992 April

Politically Safe Sex?

EDITORIAL

So many of the opinion leaders of this country care so little about what a commitment is, what a promise is, and what personal integrity is.

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Letter to the Editor: April 1992

Fierce Mothers, Human Rights and Santa Maria... The "Game" of Democracy... Not My Feminism... Olsen, Yes; Zahn, No... Do Something?... Bumper Stickers in the Night... Abortion, Academe and "the Jesuit Tradition"... Bell's Wisdom, Women's Wisdom... The Third Part of the Secret of Fatima

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On Brian Griffiths, Mrs. Thatcher's Christian Economic Advisor

ANALYZING THE MORAL DEFENSE OF FREE MARKET CAPITALISM — PART II

Charles K. Wilber & Laura M. Grimes

God requires us to use our financial goods for charity and not just selfish enjoyment, as stewards of what we have been given.

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A Pragmatic Look at the New Secularism

RORTY, FISH & SAID

James Seaton

The 20th century saw a number of revolutionary attempts to construct a new human being by, among other things, extirpat­ing and eradicating religious intuitions.

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Evil, Ordinary & Extraordinary

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

William J. O'Malley

The question of moral evil is not "Why would a good God…" but why would human beings degrade one another and themselves.

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A Good Friday Convert

GUEST COLUMN

Rawley Myers

Clare Boothe Luce wrote that most converts, like herself, "enter God's kingdom through the gates of pain."

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A Last Conversation with Anna Freud

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

She reminded herself that psychoanalysts can explore what is there but also miss what's there or, alas, dismiss what others notice and regard with great interest.

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Surcease in Ceaseless Service

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Nathaniel and Sophia Haw­thorne's youngest child Rose was vested with the full Dominican habit and became Mother Mary Alphonsa.

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Catholic Anti-Catholicism

Celia Wolf-Devine

Charity requires that the scholar attempt to see the good as well as the bad in a differ­ing position, to understand an­other writer's intentions, and to seek common ground.

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Briefly: April 1992

The French Side of Henry James... Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industriali­zation to the First World War... Following Christ in a Con­sumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance

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