June/July 1997
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Rancho Santa Fe and the Culture of Death, etc.
The Public Square Rancho Santa Fe and the Culture of Death No doubt many preachers on Easter…
Begetting and Cloning
(The following remarks were presented to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on March 13, 1997.) I have…
In the Case of Bruno Bettelheim
The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim. By Richard Pollak.Simon & Schuster. 478 pages,…
Rapture and Renewal in Latin America
At a recent crusade in Argentina, Alberto Mottesi, the Billy Graham of Latin America, thundered to the…
Debriefing the Philosophers
There are many schools of thought to which an American philosopher may belong, but there is still…
Catholicism and the Bible: An Interview with Albert Vanhoye
Father Albert Vanhoye recently began his second five-year term as Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. In…
Judaism or Jewishness?
Jewish life in America began, at least for the vast majority of Jewish families, in the decision…
Unbelievable
Hymns of Prudentius: The Cathemerinon; Or, The Daily Round Translated by David R. Slavitt. Johns Hopkins University…
Robert Graham, S.J.
On February 10, 1997, Father Robert Graham, S.J., an indefatigable defender of Pope Pius XII against posthumous…
Smoke and Mirrors at the Crystal Cathedral
Centurions ride through the audience on white Arabian horses, Pilate feeds his pet tiger while interrogating Jesus,…
April in Black and White
April was a month crowded with events in America’s continuing muddled encounter with the dilemmas of race.…
Breaking the Law, Bending the Law
Copyright (c) 1997 First Things 74 (June/July 1997): 13-15. Federal Judge John E. Sprizzo will never again…
A Passionate Witness
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by sam tanenhaus.random house, 638 pages, $35. I’d hardly wish to disguise that…
The Seed of the Church
Their Blood Cries Out: The Growing Worldwide Persecution of Christians by Paul Marshall. Word, 304 pages, $12.99.…
Briefly Noted 137
Religion, Science, and Naturalism by Willem Drees Cambridge University Press, 314 pages, $59.95 Among philosophical naturalists, there…
The Nuns’ Story
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara. Harvard University Press, 751…
I Am No Lazy Lover
I am no lazy lover with sweeping grandeurs of small talk. Words, you discover are passing; love…
The Prodigals
I hope to kill the fatted calf somehow, Before its youth is gone, and in its stead…
Black Scrawl
The crimson lake that laps her cheek, her scarlet kiss, her madder hair once singed the virgin…
Fiat Rex
There being neither bangled dancers swirling cloth-of-gold and green nor golden peacocks set in trees above the…
