Letter to the Editor: October 1990

Graham Greene?... Freedom for Cuba?... What About God?

The Internal Threat to Feminism

SEXUAL STRIP-MINING

Juergen W. Liias

A new social order which honors the natural and seeks harmony with it must include the truth that women are by nature people who have wombs and who become pregnant.

Reflections on the Past & Future of Democratic Socialism

IN LIGHT OF THE CRUMBLING OF COMMUNISM

Irving Howe

The democratization of economic and social life is at the heart of the socialist idea today. The idea is simple, the techniques necessarily complex and difficult.

The Spirit of the Erotic

EVE, THE GNOSTIC

Will Hoyt

The real significance of Adam's and Eve's disobedience is found in the onset of idleness, in the drift away from the invigorating, incarnating power of the Father's word.

The Degradation of Work, Yesterday & Today

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #5

Christopher Lasch

'Growing Up Absurd' goes to the heart of America's social malaise: the lack of honorable callings that allow people to make the best use of their talents.

Lying & Other Deceptions in Communications Are Always Wrong

EVEN "WHITE" LIES

Germain Grisez

Even when there is no question of grave matter, truthfulness is more important than people usually realize.

An Apostle of Black Fatherhood

Christ and Neighbor

John C. Cort

Shakur Ali became a father to nine teenage gang members who, in his words, were "terrorizing the community."

Maintaining the Independence of the Church

R.F. Sheehan

A segment of the Nicaraguan clergy -- disavowing the Cardinal and endorsing everything the Sandinistas did -- became identified as the "Popular Church."

Neobrutalitarian

Philip E. Devine

The pos­sibility that corporate largesse may corrupt the academy — or at least create serious problems of integrity — does not exist so far as Kimball is concerned.

Briefly: October 1990

Reviews of The Prayers of St. Teresa of Avila... Hope in the Gospels... Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse?... John Crowe Ransom's Secular Faith... Poor in Spirit: Modern Para­bles of the Reign of God... Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture