A Burden For Souls?

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Real people are hurting, people we may know personally, and their souls are likely in jeopardy. How much do we Catholics care? And what are we doing about it?

Letter to the Editor: July-August 1995

A Generation of Deprived & Savage Children...After Considering the Alternatives... Who Will Hold Back the Tide of Apostasy?... Hell... Are the "Fighting Irish" Afraid of the Pope?... Loveable Limbaugh... Ticked Off... Dulles Wasn't "Gloating"...

How Can I Recommend the Catholic Faith When My Fellow Catholics Censor Scripture?

APOLOGETICS OR APOLOGIES?

Mark P. Shea

We must have the courage of our own radical teachings and the moxie to explain what they mean (love) and why (for Christ!) rather than simply following fashions.

Where Tolerance Had Limits

A REMEMBRANCE OF ANOTHER WORLD

Julie Crane

A police car glides slowly, quietly onto our street. Conversations cease, and my neighbors watch, poised, as if knowing that lives will be changed tonight, prices paid.

The Phenomenon of Robert Hugh Benson

ESCHEWING TRENDY SPECULATION

Janet Grayson

While he lived, from first novel to last, he enjoyed an immense audience, an international audience drawn from all classes, including the royal family.

The Decline of the Family in 20th Century America

FROM A PRODUCTION UNION TO A CONSUMER UNIT

Howard Curtis

The home, the sacred and productive realm of women, was made obsolete. For children the sacred space of home for growing, learning, and loving rapidly disappeared.

Sloth

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Sloth is acceding to the apparent in a religious tradition, the conventional, the readily accessible, and thereby letting the matter (that of one's soul's obligations) rest there.

Why Evil? Why Anything At All?

Brendan Sweetman

If we have strong reasons to believe that a good God exists, then we can conclude that God must have a good reason for allowing evil.

Briefly: July-August 1995

Reviews of Catholicism and Liberalism... Julian of Norwich's Showings: From Vision to Book... In the Likeness of Sinful Flesh: An Essay on the Humanity of Christ... Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville... Warning: Nonsense is Destroying America. The Role of Popular Culture in America's Social Problems... Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées... Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life... Raising up a Faithful Priest...