Letter to the Editor: April 1995

Missing the Point... Putting Children First... Blown Away By Coles... Slippery Slope... Let Me Try Again... Vanauken: Comic-Book Writer... St. Vladimir: Catholic... Desiring to Be Deceived...

Neither the Wilderness Nor the Shopping Mall

WHAT IS TRULY BEAUTIFUL?

John Lukacs

Nature has a mystery and even a kind of spiritual essence, but only human beings have conscious souls that are active through their free will.

The Love Boat

A PARABLE ABOUT CATHOLICS IN AMERICA

David R. Carlin

For most of its history in the U.S., the Catholic Church was a church of immigrants and their children and grandchildren...

Welcome to Waukesha County Jail

LIVING AMONG THOSE IN DESPAIR OF GRACE

Edmund B. Miller

In the midst of the starkness, the ribald laughter, and the dormant figures wrapped in their headphones, I thought, "But for the grace of God, this is the world."

A Just Society: It Cannot Be Drawn on a Balance Sheet

THE ENDURING WISDOM OF POPE PIUS IX

James K. Fitzpatrick

No matter what the Dow-Jones average is doing, “opportunities for work” must be “provided for those who are willing and able to work,” as Pius said.

Pride

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

I thank the Almighty Lord for my mom's provoking, at times unnerving, insistence upon "pride" as the great moral and psychological measuring rod.

The Urgency of Timeless Questions

James G. Hanink

If we deny or forget our personhood, then moral absolutes no longer make sense -- nor does a commitment to inalienable rights.

Black Elk: Native American & Catholic

Christopher T. Dodson

Black Elk repeatedly spoke of how the Lakota ways were "connected" to Catholicism, and how the spiritual experiences of the Lakota prepared them for Christ.

Briefly: April 1995

Reviews of Assurance of Things Hoped For: A Theology of Christian Faith... The Way of the Lord Jesus, Volume Two: Living a Christian Life... The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind... The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority... John Henry Newman: Selected Sermons... Catherine of Siena: Passion for the Truth, Compassion for Humanity -- Selected Spiritual Writings... This Good Food: Contemporary French Vegetarian Recipes from a Monastery Kitchen... Rose Hawthorne Lathrop: Selected Writings... Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays...