October 1995
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That They May Be One
caThe Public Square It was, if I recall, Evelyn Waugh who wrote about a Catholic gentleman whose…
A Jew in Anti-Christian America
To speak of something called “Christian America,” as both the advocates and the opponents of this idea…
At the End of Pragmatism
The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority By John Patrick Diggins University…
Villages and Virtues
In Good Hands:The Life of a Family FarmBy Charles FishFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 29 pages, $21 Sitting…
The Gospel of Life: A Symposium
Avery Dulles In general terms, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), which was issued by John Paul…
Who’s Stupid Now?
John Stuart Mill famously dismissed conservatives as “the stupid party.” He was writing in England during the…
Spritely Ads
There is a vague connection to vulgarity-there exists a tinge of logical association-when Calvin Klein advertises underwear…
Dowsing in Scripture
Folded into the corner of a comfortable old sofa, reading an equally comfortable old novel, I discovered…
Wilsonian Dream, Bosnian Reality
When the definitive catalogue of twentieth-century horrors is assembled, the agonies endured by Bosnia in the 1990s…
A Contract with the Churches?
The amazing Republican victory in the election of 1994 has prompted many commentators to suggest that we…
Military Necessities
In a recent issue of the Spectator , the spunky British conservative magazine, there were two articles…
Lifted to Glory
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 By Caroline Walker Bynum Columbia University Press, 368…
Victim and Victor
Narratives of a Vulnerable God : Christ, Theology, and Scripture. By William C. Placher. Westminster/John Knox, 188…
Jung Love
The Jung Cult: Origins Of A Charismatic Movementby richard c. noll princeton university press, 387 pages, $24.95…
Case for the Prosecution
John Cardinal Krol and the Cultural Revolution By E. Michael Jones. Fidelity Press, 550 pages, $35 The…
The View from South Bend
The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism Edited by Richard P. McBrien HarperCollins, 1,349 pages, $45 A legendary story…
Living Under Authority
Chinese astronomers Hi and Ho were put to death for failing to foretell the solar eclipse of…
Sodomites
All day he’s tasted it. Last night too. His eyes burning, like the city where smoke still…
The Fall of Art
First there was magic, incantation; pure bulls walking the walls of Lascaux, bull leapers in Knossus. Then…
