1984 October

Letters to the Editor: October 1984
The Controversy over Capitalism... Defending Evelyn Waugh... Ornery & Nasty Like Me... A False “Either/Or”... Teenage Pregnancy
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The Richness of the Mongoloid Experience
My brother reacted with crazy love toward new people. He thought people’s differences made them wonderful.
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Daniel Berrigan, Pro-lifer
Berrigan, in casting his lot with the condemned unborn, stands again accused of high treason for defying legalistic wisdom and the current Zeitgeist.
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On Grace
What ever our motives, problems, conflicts, our secret and not so secret passions, the real moral test of our worth has to be what we do with ourselves in the course of our everyday lives.
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Drop the Creed?
I believe that there is room for the faithful doubters in the Catholic Church, but only so long as they can transcend their doubts and accept the Creed.
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G.K. Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis was that rarest of revolutionaries: one impelled by love rather than by hatred veneered with the catchwords of brotherhood.
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Recovering the Vocabulary of Faith
Good fiction uses the events and tensions of everyday life on one level to draw us deeper and deeper into the writer’s perception of truth or reality on another.
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Pain of Late Conversion
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“Radical” Bishops
The Church Fathers argue that the only justification for holding private property, beyond meeting one’s personal necessities, is to give it away!
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Inter-testamental Judaism
Scores of extra-canonical Jewish and Jewish-Christian writings were composed during the period between 300 B.C. and A.D. 200.
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Short of the Mark
Enlightenment philosophers undermined religion but failed to provide a workable substitute, and the void they created continues.
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Briefly Reviewed: October 1984
Together Toward Hope... Renewal and the Powers of Darkness... No Easy Answers: Christians Debate Nuclear Arms
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