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1991 January-February

Letter to the Editor: January-February 1991

Do as Jesus Said or as He Did?... The Tale of an Alienated Catholic... The Nature of Community...

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Just War Criteria & the Crisis in the Persian Gulf

LETTER TO SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES BAKER

Roger Mahony

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Would Offensive U.S. Military Action in the Persian Gulf Be Morally Justifiable?

LETTER TO PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH

Daniel E. Pilarczyk

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The Spirit of Modern Science

NOTES ON GNOSTICISM: PART III

Christopher Lasch

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That Incomprehensible Mystery at the Heart of All Things

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, # 7

Michael E. Smith

Like Oedipus, we humans are prone to suppose that we can understand all things on earth — perhaps in heaven also — and can thereby control them.

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The Spirituality of the Mentally Disabled

OPENING ONCE CLOSED ROOMS IN GOD'S HOUSE

Brett Webb-Mitchell

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The Second Amendment

GUNS, FREEDOM & THE COMING CAESAR

Sheldon Vanauken

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A Response from Gordon C. Zahn

Gordon C. Zahn

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A Response from Dale Vree

Dale Vree

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Simone Wail

Celia Wolf-Devine

Review of Simone Weil by Gabriella Fiori

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Briefly: January-February 1991

Reviews of King's Pawn...John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, De­votions, and Prayers... The Politics of Rich and Poor. Wealth and the American Elec­torate in the Reagan After­math... Daniel Berrigan: Poetry, Dra­ma, Prose... Lent: The Slow Fast... Inside the Soviet Writers' Union... Sweden: Social Democracy in Practice... Proud Donkey of Schaerbeek: Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker Artist...

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