1989 July-August
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Born in the U.S.A.
EDITORIAL
Let us not love America inordinately or unrealistically. It is enough to be Americans without also being vainglorious Americanists.
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Letter to the Editor: July-August 1989
A Vietnam Veteran Responds To Fr. Fessio... Thompson... Don't Paint Curran & Novak with the Same Brush... Marx: A Poor Guide with Some Useful Insights
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A Day in the Life of a Volunteer at Mother Teresa's Missions
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Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, John Berger, Nadine Gordimer & the Realist Novel of Commitment
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The Underclass, Part II: Widespread Teenage Pregnancy
Girls in the ghetto are hungry for love, and desperately afraid of not going along with the social, cultural, and sexual pressures of the street.
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Leonardo Boff, Harvey Cox & Liberation Theology
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Can a Catholic Be a True American?
A Protestant need not fret about a clash between religion and culture; for him, the two have generally been inseparable.
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Briefly: July-August 1989
Review of Justice, Peace, & Human Rights: American Catholic Ethics in a Pluralistic Context... The Reshaping of Catholicism... Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987... A Rocking-Horse Catholic... Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric... In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership... and Starting Out in the Thirties
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