Letter to the Editor: January-February 1992

Yes, the Early Church Really Was Pacifist... Coles, Suffering and the Pope... Overly Sensitive

The Passion of the 'Mothers of the Disappeared' in Argentina

FIERCE MOTHERS AS DEFICIENT FEMINISTS

Jean Bethke Elshtain

By confronting a repressive state and forcing this issue into the streets, the Mothers altered the iconography of motherhood: from weeping woman to defiant witness.

A Case Study: Laying Off American Workers, Gouging Mexican Workers

PLANT RELOCATION VS. CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

James W. Donovan

Pope John Paul II said that the rights of workers take priority over the maximization of profits. Pope John XXIII declared that people have a right to employment.

Art: Contemplation or Commodity?

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #11

Ronald Austin

Though scholars may dispute some of his interpretations of St. Thomas, Maritain remains our most accessible neo-Thomist guide to contemporary culture.

Moral Anarchy, Moral Necessity

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

My interlocutor said, "God give us the strength to obey His commandments, that's what we need more than anything: the strength to obey God, and be good people."

Contra the Fonz

C.H. Ross

I go with Burke: "I like a clamor when there is an abuse. The fire-bell in the night may disturb our sleep, but it keeps us from being burnt in our beds."

Order, Chaos and the ‘God Hypothesis’

Gary Mar

Once scientists hotly debated issues in the philosophy of science; today scientists have instead expressed their philosophical interests in the form of social activism.

The Power of the Virgin

David Hartman

The author takes a phenomenological approach to these latter-day apparitions, examining six that have had the longest term impact on piety and devotion.

Role Models for the Faithful

Aaron W. Godfrey

The saints made a practice of striving for the good and, like us, were human. But they were transformed by the fire of God's love.

Briefly: January-February 1992

Reviews of Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr... Marco Against the Church: Economic Development and Political Repression in the Philippines... The Monastic Way... Transformation in Christ...