Letter to the Editor: June 1995

Clandestine Reader... Why Am I Not Pleased?... Good For a Chuckle... We Protestants Are Not "Anti-Intellectual"... When We Protestants Need You Catholics... U.S. Jobs to Mexico: Morally Good...

Sin Is Good For the Economy

THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

William A. Marra

Immoral behavior is guaranteed to “create more jobs”; and every bit of the subsequent economic “growth” is strictly malignant.

The Ministry of the Laity

WHAT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT

Mary F. Rousseau

Our baptismal grace calls us to evangelize, and our distinctively lay task is to restore to people their lost human dignity and hope by bringing Christ to them.

The Problem Is Not Too Many People

ON POVERTY & POLLUTION

Thomas Storck

The best measure of the likelihood of human environmental destruction is not the number of people but how people consume and pollute.

Covetousness

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

To "succumb" to others, to wish for things because others have them, to want things because others want them, is to lose one's independence, one's own authority.

Returning Catholics: What Are They Made Of?

GUEST COLUMN

Richard M. Harnett

Alienation happens. You don't need to justify it. Some of us stayed in the Church despite it all. When we sinned, we went to confession, which brought us peace.

“Do This In Memory of Me”

Elaine Hallett

Composure (being "really present -- with body, mind, and soul, with attention, reverence and love") must be willed and practiced. It is "attitude necessary" at Mass.

Briefly: June 1995

Reviews of A Nation Under Lawyers... The Philosopher and the Provocateur. The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky Lead, Kindly Light: My Journey to Rome... The Oxford Companion to the Bible... The Catholics of Harvard Square... How to Read the Apocalypse... Reckoning with Apocalypse: Terminal Politics and Christian Hope... Catholic Schools and the Common Good... Devoutly I Adore Thee: The Prayers and Hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas... Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible... Theology and Sanity...