1984 September

Journalism, Theology, & History
Newspapers, confined to messages in black and white, often think in black and white and do not perceive true, profound traditionalism.
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Letters to the Editor: September 1984
Losing Your Life to Find It... Unfair to Schillebeeckx... Misconstrued... Infant Doe & God’s Judgment... Am I Odd?
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Fleeing from the Whore of Babylon
Flesh-and-blood Catholics I met proved to be generous and kind people who had no desire to gobble up little Protestant boys.
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On Sin
Today we act as if the only kind of remorse we really know is unconscious, a response of the imagination.
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The Seamless Garment
How can good-hearted people, whose hearts bleed for peace and for poor people, not feel the excruciating pain of the child who is destroyed in the womb?
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Price Markups & Moral Decline
The circulation of goods and services is a good. What is bad is the disorder that is introduced into this circulation by acts of injustice.
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“Americanist” Permissivism
In principle, swatting down missiles before they explode and hurt somebody is morally permissible, even obligatory, if it can be done without violating moral norms.
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Autobiography of a Creature from Deep Heaven
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The Shaping of Anglican Spiritual Expression
Moorman covers development of the Book of Common Prayer, the place of the English Bible in the Church, hymnody and its influence on worship, and more.
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Selling Neoconservatism
Kristol argues that American democracy was born as a capitalist democracy and that the destiny of democracy is closely intertwined with that of capitalism.
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The Chain
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Talking God by Metaphor
Derrick says Catholics “see God at the receiving end of all the world’s grief and misery, not at the originating and responsible end.”
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The Pope’s Troubles with America
Are we only drive-bound or are we at the constant call of drives yet able to be their sovereign: moral and spiritual masters of our particular lives?
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Parting
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Briefly Reviewed: September 1984
Common Sense Christian Living... Christian Classics Revisited... The Bishops and the Bomb: Waging Peace in a Nuclear Age
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On the Trinity
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The Hidden Years
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