1984 December
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Uncompromising But Not-Quite-Predictable
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Letters to the Editor: December 1984
Opposing the Bishops... Trust Economic Liberty... Relief... 50 Percent... Berrigan’s Error... Fetal Pain
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Weaknesses of Feminist Theology
An intelligent group like feminist theologians could manufacture six or seven attractive religious ideas in any given morning, and then invent a sacrament or two over lunch.
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Envy of the Empty Air
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Ethical Reflections on the Economy
This statement was attacked by business leaders and the prime minister, and was the subject of a full-scale debate in the Canadian Parliament.
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Idealism
How can experts sort solidly idealistic activists from those who would end up a source of trouble to themselves or to those meant to be helped?
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Toward a More Christian Economy
America is ripe to accept the Christian-Catholic view of work and economics, once it fully learns to understand and appreciate it.
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Jean-Luc Godard: Low-Altitude Narcissism
What evil an artist can legitimately and accurately depict depends on the altitude from which the artist sees that evil.
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Anti-Abortion Atheist Doctor
Ex-abortionist Dr. Nathanson refers to “permissive abortion” as a “crime” and “an unmitigated evil."
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Oxford Philosophy & the “Seamless Garment”
The basic goods of human flourishing include life, knowledge, friendship, the experience of beauty, procreation, and play.
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A Rare Novel of Worth
Although Murdoch’s characters have banished God, they have yet to rid themselves of sin, guilt, and evil; God is dead but Satan thrives.
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Age of Aquarius
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Briefly Reviewed: December 1984
The Life of Prayer by St. Teresa of Avila... The Love of God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux... Butler’s Lives of the Saints (Complete Edition, Revised)... On Christian Truth
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