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Letters

January Letters 132

Various

An Illegitimate Regime? While I do not retract a word of my criticism of the judiciary’s usurpation…

Essays

Under the Shadow

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Under the Shadow For my sins, part of my misspent youth was misspent in…

The End of Democracy? A Discussion Continued

Various

Participants: William J. Bennett, Midge Decter, James C. Dobson, Mary Ann Glendon, John Leo William J. Bennett…

To Reclaim Our Democratic Heritage

The Editors

The symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics has generated an intense debate about many things, as…

That They May All Be One: The Imperatives and Prospects of Christian Unity

Edward Idris Cassidy

Relations between Catholics and Evangelical Christians have traditionally been rather cool at their very best. While Catholics…

Science and the Story that We Need

Neil Postman

The principal spiritual problem confronting those of us who live in a technological age was spoken of…

Opinion

The Coming Age of Cathedrals

John J. Reilly

I rarely have occasion to walk through Times Square in Manhattan, so I found myself somewhat taken…

In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity

James Nuechterlein

Elsewhere in this issue ( “The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy,” Public Square ) my colleague Richard…

Consecrating the President

David M. Smolin

This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 132

Various

Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth: Sacred Doctrine and the Natural Knowledge of God By Eugene Rogers, Jr…

Can Muslims be Democrats?

Joshua Muravchik

Islam and Democracy By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. Oxford University Press. 232 pages. $45.…

Sorting Out the Culture Wars

Saul Rosenberg

Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World By…

Exorcising Demons

John P. Sisk

Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry By Frank Walsh. Yale University Press,…

Pope 007?

George Weigel

His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time By Carl Bernstein and Marco…

A Writer in Flight?

John Wilson

The StatementBy Brian Moore.Dutton, 250 pages, $22.95 Brian Moore writes about the life of faith from the…

Poetry

The Dying Infirmarian

T. Kretz

He felt isolated but knew the ritual, Had witnessed more than four score And been a mortician…

Jupiter

Brian Doyle

Michael LeBeau has wet his pants. He is Jupiter, the fifth planet, with a mass 318 times…

Dogwoods Not This Spring

T. Kretz

The dogwoods will not bloom this year, We feel it in trunks and limbs, No pink crosses…

Dogwoods Not This Spring

T. Kretz

The dogwoods will not bloom this year, We feel it in trunks and limbs, No pink crosses…