March 1997
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A Mirror of the National Soul
The Public Square A Mirror of the National Soul An incisive article by Hadley Arkes (with Arkes,…
Theories of Evolution
Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996 1. In celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of…
Ukraine: Christians in Conflict
Kiev is a place whose buildings suggest that the time is out of joint. The decrepit concrete…
What Are You Looking For?
In Genesis 37:15 we read the story of how Joseph arrived in the town of Shechem in…
The Real Reason for Religious Freedom
Why do we protect freedom of religion? The commonsense answer, which I think hits close to the…
Homosexuality and the Truth
Strangers and Friends By Michael Vasey. Hodder & Stoughton (London), 276 pages. Homosexuality and the Politics of…
Assisted Suicide: No and Yes, but Mainly Yes
“Administration Asks Court to Reject Assisted Suicide,” the headlines ran after Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger filed…
We’re No. 144
When I came to New York eight years ago, it was a much tougher town than it…
A Tale of Three Pregnancies
When Hollywood dispatches its most important people to enlighten us on a most important subject, one can…
Derrida, Death, and Forgiveness
Barth, Derrida, and the Language of Theologyby graham ward cambridge university press, 258 pages, $54.95 The Gift…
Briefly Noted 134
Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade By Carole Joffe…
The Neoconservative Classroom?
In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School that Works By Mark Gerson. Free Press, 258 pages,…
Withered by the Sun
Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World’s Beliefs By Ninian Smart. University of California Press,…
Catholicity and Protestant Survival
The Catholicity of the Reformation Edited by Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson. Eerdmans, 112 pages,…
Bible, Creed, and Science
Bible and Science By Stanley L. Jaki Christendom Press, 222 pages, $9.95 In this book Father Jaki…
Feet
Maundy Thursday Daily dust over the jaggedstair steps of toes, between the crackedskin; heels bruised by heat,small…
The Muse in Brighton
The beauty school on Brighton Lane spills pink-smocked girls at twelve o’clock. They blossom cigarettes and talk,…
If God is My Unsable Past
If God is my usable past, the part worth saving, the minutes, episodes, chance in-counters when I…
