Letter to the Editor: June 1990

Norman Lear? Cancel!... Lear's Ignorance... Lear's Classic... That Dynastic Itch... Defending Thomas Paine

The Evolution of Liberation Theology

MOVING AWAY FROM MARXIST ANALYSIS

Arthur F. McGovern

Liberation theology merits assessments that take into account its evolution, and present liberation theologians (and their critics) in as fair and objective a light as possible.

Adventures of a Middle-Class Catholic Bag-Lady

THE HUMOR OF SIMPLICITY

Ronda Chervin

St. Francis of Assisi played a large role in my conversion from an atheistic, though Jewish, background. The ideal of poverty was firmly fixed in my imagination.

The Spanish Civil War: Beyond the Legends

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #4

Jose M. Sanchez

The Christian vitality of the people shows through, as does the heroism of the selfless unsung clerics, and in the end one realizes this is a profoundly Christian work.

Discovery

FINDING THAT LONG-LOST SOMEONE

Sheldon Vanauken

Davy had only the poignant memory of the little lost Marion, yet she would have been diminished if abortion had deprived her of that memory...

A Visit with Vanauken

GUEST COLUMN

Richard Rotondi

His love for his wife, chronicled in 'A Severe Mercy,' has spawn­ed spiritual children, a hundred times more children than mortal flesh can bear.

The Gospel & Co-operatives

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Co-operatives provide an ideal alternative to both Communism and capitalism in the poverty-stricken regions of the Third World.

The Church & the Arts

Gregory Wolfe

The danger of dis­traction is real, but the opposite danger is an art that does not awaken in the beholder the paradoxes of the Christian message.

Religion as Escape?

C.H. Ross

A Becket slain at the altar, a Joan Andrews in prison — these are not success stories but images of Christianity's original and greatest challenge — the scandal of the Cross.

Sayers & Dante

James E. Person Jr.

She said no one had told her the one great, glaring fact about Dante Alighieri — "that he was simply the most incom­parable story-teller who ever set pen to paper."

Briefly: June 1990

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