Letter to the Editor: March 1994

Something Else Going On In the Rue De Bac... Look East... Lippman, Not Mencken... Barbara Ward, the Dreamer... Badmouthing Public Schools... Libeling Public Schools... Who's Teaching the Teachers?... Needing Constantine Again?...

The Catholic Worker: Is It Still Catholic?

DOROTHY DAY'S CRUMBLING LEGACY

Ann O'Connor

Day and Maurin welcomed people of other faiths to work as Catholic Workers, but there was never any doubt that the movement was clearly Catholic.

A Picnic on a Tombstone & Other Reflections

ON LIFE IN THE SPIRIT

Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is nearly impossible to deepen our communion with God when those with whom we live and work reject or even ridicule the idea that there is a loving God.

G.K. Chesterton, a Curmudgeon for Our Times

UNDENOMINATIONAL RELIGION & OTHER FOLLIES

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Chesterton opines that if we give up on original sin, we give up on human equality, for original sin has it that all human beings can be tempted; none is exempt.

There Goes Hell & the Second Coming

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

The Anglican Bishop of Durham declared that "there can be no hell for eternity -- our God could not be so cruel." But how can he justify his ethical sensibilities?

From Reproductive Rights to Testosteronic Rights

GUEST COLUMN

Vincent E. Butler

What about a gentleman's right to duel? I would not for the life of me force a duel on anyone, but I defend to the death someone's right to choose.

Briefly: March 1994

Reviews of Man and Woman: Love and the Meaning of Intimacy... Islam and the West... Sephardim: The Jews from Spain... The Jews of Spain... Spain and the Jews... 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castille... The Strength Not to Fight... Caring for Creation in Your Own Backyard... The Anatomy of Antiliberalism... A Historical Commentary on the Major Catholic Works of Cardinal Newman