Letter to the Editor: March 1995

Of Courage & Questions... Distributism Is Not Statism... Slightly Stunned... Pure Sophistry I Guess I'm Going to Hell... Whodunit?... more

The Lure of Catholicism

MERTON'S GENERATION & OUR OWN

Avery Dulles

People turn to the Catholic Church not so much because they are drawn by its beauty (though they sometimes are) as because they cherish truth.

On Being Pulled Back to America

AN EXILE COMES HOME

Raymond T. Gawronski

Gradually, during six years in Europe, I came to understand why so many from all lands have done all they could to come to America.

On Sex Education for the Young

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

One wonders why abstinence is controversial, or, too, an emphasis on the importance of the family as a major and proper moral influence on young people.

"But You Are Not My Friend"

GUEST COLUMN

Bob Fauteux

"We only take on our full identities in the context of our families," I said. "We're like characters in a play -- hard to describe without reference to the other players."

Christianity's Unique Intellectual Opportunity

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

The 20th century was weighed down by the ideas of those Paul Ricoeur termed the "three modern masters of suspicion": Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud.

A “Pro-Choicer’s” Explicit No to Life

Laura Garcia

Duden's thesis is that women have been harmed by and are threatened by the advances in our understanding of the humanity of the fetus.

Briefly: March 1995

Reviews of Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View?... In the Shade of the Terebinth: Tales of a Night Journey... The Homeless... Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism... Dead Right... City on a Hill: Teaching the American Dream at City College... A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints... The Kiss from the Cross: Saints for Every Kind of Suffering... Catechism of the Catholic Church...