Surviving in an Unfriendly Culture

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: November 1994

Horrifyingly Accurate... Oxford Slipping?... Christocentric or Anthropocentric?... Not At Any Price... Our Boys Fought for Gordon Zahn... Parades or Prayers?... What Would Be Worse?...

When Marriage Becomes a Market Transaction

'DEFINING DOWN' MARRIAGE

Kalynne Hackney Pudner

What we need is a concept of marriage that puts the focus on giving, as opposed to the "get­ting" inherent in the contractual mindset.

P.C. Squared

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN THE CATHOLIC PEACE MOVEMENT

Gordon C. Zahn

To dis­qualify writers because they do not fit into our more enlightened views of human relationships would be to separate our­selves from some valuable advocates.

Nameless & Faceless: Opportunities for Evil

ABBREVIATING HUMAN LIFE

Patrick Gahan

Abstraction is the most reliable vehicle of evil; it allows us to lie with a straight face, to mask our cor­ruption with benumbing slogans empty of substance.

Neo-Paganism

BOTH OMINOUS & MERELY IMITATIVE

Edward O'Brien, Jr.

More and more Catholic women are taking the journey from theological liberalism, dissent, and feminism into Goddess spirituality and then initiation into witchcraft.

A Twitch Upon the Thread

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #16

Charles Hallett

Evelyn Waugh is indeed a Catholic novelist, per­mitting us to experience the transforma­tion worked in Charles through his contact with the Marchmain family.

Remembering Erik H. Erikson

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

He became, ulti­mately, a psychologically subtle and astute moral es­sayist who breathed life into a profession seriously in jeopardy of getting lost.

Otto von Habsburg & the Christian Renaissance in Europe

LETTERS FROM EUROPE

John Warwick Montgomery

Without a vision, the people perish, and the only proper and lasting vision for individual or corporate life is that of the Christ of Scripture.

Nero Fiddled & We Watch Television

James G. Hanink

"Getting to the bottom of things" is what philosophy is all about. So argues Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, in an essay collection written between 1955 and 1975.

The Holy Spirit Reduced to the Postmodern Spirit

David Hartman

The Holy Spirit may be calling the Church not to "come to terms with...contemporary culture" but to use all her moral strength to withstand it.

Briefly: November 1994

Reviews of The Celestine Prophecy... The Soul of the American University... Destinations Past