Letter to the Editor: January-February 1995

The Link Between War & Sexual License... What About the Children?... Don't Call Me a Victim... Ultramontane Calumnies... more

New World Aborning

A SHORT STORY

Sheldon Vanauken

Settling into my seat on the train, I glanced at the kindly-looking elderly gentleman facing me. He watched me as I took out three books I'd brought along.

From Ideology to Magic

IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

Desmond O'Grady

Perhaps there was KGB manipulation of some indigenous cults such as the White Brotherhood, but the cult phenomenon in the former Soviet Union was wider.

Whispering Glades Revisited: No Catholics Allowed

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #17

Edwin Fussell

If 'The Loved One' is savage, it is because 'The Loved One' is a satire and satire always builds itself on something to be hated and destroyed, in this case Godlessness.

On Birth Control

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Many families there were quite poor, with virtually no prospect of ever rising to a more privileged situation in a country where the vast majority were impoverished.

Jesus & the Bell Curve

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

The test of moral living and acceptance before God has never been intelligence or social standing. Quite the contrary.

Beauty for Worship's Sake

GUEST COLUMN

Christopher W. Decker

Beauty is the proper condition of the liturgy, for God Himself is beautiful. If the liturgy is where we come to God and God comes to us, then it should be beautiful.

Opposing the Sexual Holocaust

Luis R. Gámez

Analyses by Smith, Finnis, Cormac Burke, and John F. Crosby elucidate the thought of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and his theology of the body.

Briefly: January-February 1995

Reviews of The New Republic Reader... Dictatorship of Virtue... Catholic Universities in Church and Society... The Challenge and Promise of a Catholic University... Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring... To Hunt, to Shoot, to Entertain: Clericalism and the Catholic Laity... ...