Letter to the Editor: July-August 1990

Quality Day-Care... Polishing Hannah Arendt's Reputation... Looking Beyond the Silence of Pope Pius XII... The Story on Pope Pius XII... Missing Robert Coles... Missing Robert Coles... Mario Cuomo: Dwarfed by Thomas More... The Dulles Clan... Not "in Dutch"... Supporting John Cort... New Jargon, Old Errors

Why Evangelize?

SACRED SOULS OR CASH COWS?

David Hartman

American Christianity is being consumerized, such that every religious viewpoint can find a sect to match, even if the flock communes online.

On the Menace of Individualism in the American Experience of Religious Life

LEARNING FROM TOCQUEVILLE & BELLAH

Jonathan Foster

The problems encountered in religious life today are not simply, or even primarily, due to the effects of Vatican II, but to the effects of the American experience.

Knowing & Loving Jesus

NO ABSTRACTION, HE

Elaine Hallett

Living constantly awake to the presence of Jesus is essential to making the leap from belief, however firm, to a fervent love for our Lord.

Exploring Catholicism

Guest Column

James Prothero

Catholic witness is not only words but action. Let Christ shine through us: That's a better form of witnessing than florid and honey-tongued rhetoric.

A Tale of Two Cities (Lk. 7:36ff.)

Guest Column

Raymond T. Gawronski

How impor­tant it is in America to be a "team player." One who is a team player may even be grant­ed the highest of accolades: "He's a nice guy."

Liberation Theology: Can It Shake Its Affinity for Marxism?

John C. Cort

What saints and Doctors of the Church have written is far more useful than anything written by Karl Marx in per­suading Christians to adopt a critical attitude toward capital­ism.

Briefly: July-August 1990

Reviews of First Things magazine. Numbers 1, 2, & 3... The Day Christ Was Born... Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and Politics... Autobiographical Reflections