1984 April
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Speaking Heart To Heart
We aspire to no exclusivist, triumphalist, inquisitorial, or truculent “Catholicism.” We will continue to be ecumenical in spirit and aspiration, a meeting ground for Christians.
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Letters to the Editor: April 1984
Ignoring the U.S.S.R... Are Roman Catholic Leaders Crazy?... Full Employment Is Hellish... Lowest Common Denominator... Bum Rap... Not Abused, Unfulfilled, Bored, or Exploited... more
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Socrates on “Pot”
Here he is — the wonderful troublemaker, the gadfly of Athens who makes difficulties everywhere, especially where life is too easy for thought or thought too easy for honesty.
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The Bell Ringer
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Flannery O’Connor & the “Literary Temple”
Relentlessly exposing human pride, avarice, and weakness, O'Connor agreed with C.S. Lewis that all things that are not eternal are eternally out of date.
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And Are We Still to Know?
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Impressions of Nicaragua — Part I
Recently I went with two of my sons to Nicaragua, where we spent time visiting schools, hospitals, clinics, a number of Managua’s barrio homes, and those of other cities.
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A Turning Point in History
Back in the 1920s Pope Pius XI said, “The great scandal of the nineteenth century was that the Church lost the working class.”
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Overkill
Biblical scholars may follow the first two steps of scientific procedure (formulation of hypothesis and accumulation of evidence) but cannot proceed to the third (verification).
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Something More
At times Christian writers have entered that exclusive realm where profound insight into the wisdom of Christianity joins artistic merit to produce fiction of a higher order.
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Milton on the Monday After Easter Break
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The Return of Socrates
One’s heart can be too hardened to participate in dialogue; today’s Herodian slaughter of the innocents involves something more than intellectual blindness.
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