1986 March
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Letters to the Editor: March 1986
Ed. Note: New Book Review Editor... Raymond Brown Revisited... Good News, Bad News... Word-of-Mouth... Nuclear Weapons & Abortion: Not Comparable... Infuriated, but Addicted... Unique... Disappointed & Disturbed... Abortion Trauma... Keep Government Out of Abortion
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The Thought of Christopher Dawson
Dawson wrote that individualism has had its day, and the future will tend toward some form of stress on collectivism and solidarity.
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The Sanctity of Life & the Right to Adequate Health Care
Infant mortality, life expectancy, and disability rates confirm that the poor and uninsured permanently suffer the consequences of our broken healthcare system.
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Don’t Worry, Dad
To be a father is to love the children enough to give them boosts, examples, and assistance but also to stumble with them, before them, on their account.
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Bad Things & Good People Revisited
Vertical religion and horizontal religion are parts of an integral whole. You go up by going sideways, and you go best sideways by focusing upward.
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Thaws
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Out of Africa
It was from her 17-year experience in Africa that Karen Blixen, under the pen name of Isak Dinesen, wrote her highly acclaimed stories of Africa.
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Mother Teresa: Guided by Those She Guides
Mother Teresa started as her own version of a street person, so to speak, and the vision she had was as simple as Christ’s vision has always been.
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Who Taught You?
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Insatiable Love
Gandhi, after an early distaste for Christianity because of its relationship to imperialism and aggressive “soul-savers,” came to a deep identification with the message of Jesus.
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Briefly Reviewed: March 1986
The House of Wisdom... Basic Communities: A Practical Guide to Renewing Neighborhood Churches... Freedom with Justice: Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions... De Lubac: A Theologian Speaks... J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion
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