Letter to the Editor: November 1997

Good Tree, Good Fruits... O'Malley Converted?... Strong Stance... Puzzled...

Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, & the Media

CAN WE STILL DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SAINTHOOD AND CELEBRITY?

Wesley D. Avram

In a way, Diana may be our cousin, but for us who worship a risen Lord, Teresa, born Agnes Bojaxhiu, is our sister — and our mother.

The Triumph of the 1960s In Quebec (of All Places!)

CATHOLICISM REPUDIATED

Preston Jones

Quebec's public life is a mess because Quebec's private life is a mess. Nationalist slogans don't fix human hearts. God does.

On the Headship of Husbands

A POST-FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

Stella Morabito

I finally came to terms with Paul's call to submission in marriage when I began to reflect on Christian marriage as a two-partner dance.

Can Teenagers Survive Marilyn Manson?

TRYING TO BE ANYTHING BUT A NERD OR A NOBODY

James K. Fitzpatrick

Shock rock lends a certain cachet — in teens' eyes, at any rate — to outsider status. They're trying to be outlaws rather than nerds, rebels instead of nobodies.

Is Beauty Just Decoration In an Otherwise Grim World?

AESTHETICS OF DEATH VS. AESTHETICS OF LIFE

Edmund B. Miller

Aesthetics can take us one of two ways: Our response to beauty will be self-centered, the self-serving of a consumer; or it will be other-centered, leading us to its Source.

A Baptist at Notre Dame

WHAT DID I LEARN?

Scott H. Moore

A Christian university must remain a place that insists on reminding both its members and the larger society what it is that this place is all about.

Vive la Différence!

Dale Vree

Men and women are different. Masculine and feminine are unique God-given qualities that cannot be genderblended into oblivion.

Briefly: November 1997

Reviews of Flawed Expectations: The Reception of the Catechism of the Catholic Church... Christian Faith and the Theological Life... An Introduction to New Testament Christology...