The Civilization of Love: the Pope's Call to the West

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: October 1994

Mod-Catholics Driving Me to Fundamentalism... No Excuses for Irreverence... A Baptist Against Private Interpretation... Hear Kreeft 'Do' Lewis, Aquinas & Luther... Ecumenically Unclear...

The Resurrection & the Priesthood: Only the Real Thing, Please

RECEIVING THE FAITH OR INVENTING THE FAITH?

Mark P. Shea

Most arguments in favor of revamping Holy Orders have been articulated using the language of power rather than the language of love and grace.

The Technological Society: Where What's Artificial Seems Natural

THE AMISH VS. THE DEPOPULATION BOMB

Eric Brende

However numerous and enraptured the devotees of all-absorbing technology may be, it still feels natural and normal among the Amish to be, well, natural and normal.

The Aesthetics of God

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #15

Edwin Fusell

Among Dostoevsky's Rus­sian Orthodox God's divine names none is more powerful than Beauty, all the more so because Beauty is also an alternative name for Art.

Ralph Ellison's Angle of Vision

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The novel's central figure tells not only of black history and culture, black psy­chology and politics, but gives a full account of a nation's mid-century life, rural and urban.

The Famous in France: Why They Believe

LETTERS FROM EUROPE

John Warwick Montgomery

Today, as throughout history, a remarkable number of those who impact civili­zation for good are motivated by the love of Christ.

Pretending to Be a Monk?

GUEST COLUMN

Aaron W. Godfrey

Per­haps the fascination with monasticism is connected with the exotic quality of monks' lives, the tranquility, the strange sounding liturgical language...

'Whether You're Human Depends On How I Feel About You'

GUEST COLUMN

Paul C. Fox

The Supreme Court of California seems, in effect, to be proposing the bisec­tion of infants as a rational judicial procedure.

The Death of the Last Human Being Ever Born

Fred Beckley

Humanity in 'The Children of Men' ends not with a bang but a whimper. In the year now known as Omega, women simply stopped having babies.

Newman’s Advice to Anglo-Catholics

Dale Vree

'Anglican Difficulties' is ad­dressed specifically to Anglo­-Catholics to show them that if they would remain true to their principles, they would have to go over to Rome.