Letter to the Editor: July-August 1996

Orthodoxy or Bankruptcy... Shut Up & Sit Down?... Talk Is Not Enough... Religion & Mental Health... A Slave Set Free... Miserable Failures... Coming: Another Dependable Catholic Encyclopedia... Schall's Wimpy Americanist Tendencies... Endo: Great Entertainer, Very Poor Theologian

Should Catholics Canonize Ebenezer Scrooge?

"I WAS HUNGRY & YOU SENT ME TO A HAIRSTYLIST"

Francis J. Manion

Throughout the period of the Irish Famine, grain and livestock raised by the starving peasantry were being shipped to British ports to feed the rest of the Empire.

Time to Communicate What Catholicism Is & Is Not

EXCOMMUNICATION IS A NECESSARY FORM OF COMMUNICATION

Juli Loesch Wiley

Do you renounce Amerigod? Do you renounce the Spirit of Feelgood, the Motherfather, the Genderblender gods, and all their empty promises?

Uniforms

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

All clothes are symbolic; we send signals thereby as to who we are, what we hold dear, with whom we wish to connect and affiliate ourselves.

The Ineffectual Jesus of the Jesus Seminar

GUEST COLUMN

Adam Brooke Davis

What's missing from the Jesus Seminar is the same thing that's missing from the clamor for the ordination of women and for birth control: the spirit of obedience.

Darwin & Political Correctness

Gary Mar

Reviews of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life... Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education... The Battle of Beginnings: Why Neither Side Is Winning the Creation-Evolution Debate

Briefly: July-August 1996

Reviews of The Rosary of Our Lady... Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance... The Pummeled Heart: Finding Peace Through Pain... Thomas Aquinas: The Gifts of the Spirit