January 1999
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January Letters 152
Virgin Power I wish to express my profound joy at having read Sarah E. Hinlicky’s article “Subversive…
So You Want to Go to College
Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America’s Top 100 Schools Compiled by the Staff of…
Making the Case for Moral Hypocrisy
The Public Square Our reviewer had some very positive things to say about Cynthia Gorney’s Articles of…
Gregory VII and the Politics of the Spirit
Midnight of December 31, 1999 is the symbolic ending of one Christian millennium and the beginning of…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
Jews and Catholics: Beyond Apologies
Something very significant has happened to Jewish-Christian relations, especially Jewish-Catholic relations. Last March, the Vatican issued the…
Punishment Yes, Impeachment No
It is now (I write shortly before Thanksgiving Day) virtually certain that Bill Clinton will not be…
Christians in the Land Called Holy
Over the centuries, political Islam has not been too kind to the native Christian communities living under…
Becoming Catholic: Making It Hard
In its section on music, the Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes St. Augustine: “How I wept,…
Losing Our Moral Theology
Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision by David F. Wells Eerdmans, 228…
Briefly Noted 152
What Went Wrong with Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis Explained. by Ralph M. McInerny Sophia Institute Press,…
The Liberal Neoplatonist?
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch Allen Lane/Penguin, 546 pages, $37.95 It…
The Man Behind the Curtain
Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend Edited by Frederick Crews Viking, 301 pages, $24.95 In his book…
Being, My Way
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rüdiger Safranski Translated by Ewald Osers Harvard University Press, 474…
Original Sin Redeemed
The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes by James Alison Crossroad, 323 pages, $24.95…
Evangelical and Catholic
Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenismby Carl E. BraatenFortress, 164 pages, $16 Carl Braaten, long a respected voice…
The Winter Orchard
Say, my love, this world is whole: a windfall here beneath the bole. Or hold, my love,…
Instant Replay
Staying home was easy after the pulling guard faked me wide twice before half, and the tailback…
Satan in the Desert
Satan on the hills at a high place looking to restore some kind of order to perspective:…
