Letters to the Editor: December 1985

“The Pope Strikes Out”?... Disappointing & Puzzling... Moles & Spiritual Illiterates... Failing To See the Revolution in Social Teaching... Prove Me Wrong... Saving Lives, the Nuclear Way... Judge Not?

The Screwtape Letters, 1985

HOW TO UNDERMINE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

John Mallon

Wormwood’s younger cousin, Lackluster, has received an unprecedented appointment for so young a demon.

Jacques Maritain’s Friendship with Dorothy Day

MARITAIN’S INFLUENCE ON THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT

Bemard Doering

Maritain and Day were of one mind on the use of private property toward the common good, and their desire to “exist with the people.”

Bruce Springsteen: American Working-Class Hero

GUEST COLUMN

Greg Erlandson

Springsteen describes a difficult, often lonely America, yet he is an idealist speaking of plain virtues — strength of will, hard work, generosity.

The Spiritual Life of Children — Part II

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The spiritual life of children is well worth comprehending on its own merits, with its own dignity and significance, rather than as an expression of something else.

On Homosexuality

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

If churches change their stand on homosexuality, then they should also change their stand on premarital sex and extramarital sex, also known as adultery.

Sanctity as Insanity?

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

The classic battle between science/secularism and faith/religion seems like a preliminary for a main event that never happens.

Briefly Reviewed: December 1985

The Christian State of Life... Yes or No?: Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Christianity... Pastoral Letters: 1792-1983 [in four volumes]