1985 June
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Letters to the Editor: June 1985
Disbelief in Absolutes Not Absolute... Peter Kreeft & Prolife Consistency... Unfair to Raymond Brown... Books for Poland... Reassurance... Hanging in There... Only a Half Inch... Regarding Paul’s Horse... and more
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Prayer & the Jealous God
When given the opportunity to spend a whole month in prayer, I was restless and nervous and started to look for all sorts of excuses to do other things than pray.
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Processional (upon seeing Dürer’s woodcut of Roswitha)
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A Wink of Heaven
Before answering the question, “Why Rome?” I must respond to another: “Why not Takoma Park?” (Takoma Park, Maryland, is the world headquarters of Seventh-Day Adventism.)
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The Hill Country
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Further Thoughts on Abortion
A poor woman I knew regarded herself, when pregnant, as the recipient of a gift from God. For me, the matter was at once abstract and circumstantial.
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The Panoramic & the Personal
With Forster’s A Passage to India Lean reached for something a bit deeper: to film the specifically spiritual against the background of the clash between English and Indian cultures.
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A Japanese Graham Greene
Endo seeks to foster and exemplify such religious concepts as sin, redemption, and resurrection in his characterization and plot.
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The Most Basic Things
One of Pope John Paul II's most poetic acts was to bestow the red hat on the aged Henri de Lubac, whose only diocese was a stack of books.
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The Motherhood of the Church
A good mother teaches her children but knows that her teaching will not be well received if she does not also love her children with a vigorous and generous love.
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Briefly Reviewed: June 1985
Faith and Rationality... Mary Our Hope... The Last Things: Meditations on Eternal Life... Holy Disobedience: When Christians Must Resist the State
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