1989 April
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Letter to the Editor: April 1989
Unworthy of Intelligent Discussion... Reading Andrew Greeley's Statistics... Uneasy With Avery Dulles
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The Obsolescence of Left & Right
The “crisis of modernity” remains unresolved by a “sham conservatism” that merely sanctions the unbridled pursuit of worldly success.
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Capital Punishment in Historical Perspective (Not Being yet Another Argument Pro or Con)
The criminal-justice system awkwardly carried into the 20th century vestiges of the remote, far less complex society in and for which it was conceived.
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Teaching Fourth Grade
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An Odd Couple: Galbraith & Waugh
Although Waugh's opinions on almost every subject, including religion, appalled him, Galbraith could not stop himself from loving Waugh's style.
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Pros & Cons of Pentecostalism & Charismatic Catholicism
Having banished one strange tongue — Latin — the Catholic Church witnessed an odd phenomenon in the 1960s: an outbreak of “unknown tongues” or glossolalia.
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The Pope Confounds the Neoconservatives
Review of Aspiring to Freedom: Commentaries on John Paul II's Encyclical "The Social Concerns of the Church"
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