1983 December
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Letters to the Editor: December 1983
Misleading... In Prison & Lonely... Surprising Omission... Why Transform?... The Essential Truths
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Samaritan Woman
The tall officer looked at his partner and raised an eyebrow, “You know him ma’am? He a friend of yours?” His partner caught the emphasis on the word “friend” and winced.
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The Night the Sauerkraut Exploded
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Social Justice & Hell-Fire
The Works of Mercy originated in a hell-fire sermon that Jesus preached as a final summary of his teaching, a sermon reported in the 25th chapter of Matthew.
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Roman Catholics & Central America
The Church in North America is enriched by the example of the Church in Central America as it struggles for justice and human dignity.
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Michael Novak’s Neoliberal Catholicism
His split-mindedness is present at every point, recognized in his clear distinction between “the faith of Catholics” and “my faith.”
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On Pornography
How are we to protect our children from an entire culture become in so many instances obsessively, coyly, or blatantly pornographic?
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The Religious Life
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Jacques Ellul’s 'Prayer and Modern Man'
One prays for strength to combat the urge to declare that all is nothingness; for stamina and the will to fight evil; for the grace to live in and for Christ.
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Paradoxical in the Extreme
Evidently a man of coarse, even slovenly, personal habits, Auden was as meticulous as T.S. Eliot in the precision of his verse.
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Neo-Barthian Blast
Happily there is no real antithesis between belief and faith because the power of believing does not reside primarily in the believer himself, but in God.
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The Passing of the Old-Timers
With their old anti-Stalinism gone because of Stalin’s death, the anger of many New York intellectuals was turned against American society.
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Sonnet III
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Briefly Reviewed: December 1983
The Pill, John Rock, and the Church: The Biography of a Revolution... The Fate of the Earth... The Priority of Labor: A Commentary on Laborem Exercens, Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II... The Story of Taize, Life We Never Dared Hope For, Living Today for God
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