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Letters

October Letters

Various

Who’s in Hell? Avery Cardinal Dulles’ characteristically clear and comprehensive article “The Population of Hell” (May) brings…

Essays

Getting Along at the Altar

Richard John Neuhaus

The Marriage Amendment

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Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.…

Two Popes

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

Twenty-five years as pope is no small thing. When John Paul II celebrates his papal jubilee this…

The Supreme Court Rules

Michael M. Uhlmann

Not so very long ago, defenders of judicial activism felt it necessary to justify how an unelected…

Christ and Nothing

David Bentley Hart

As modern men and women—to the degree that we are modern—we believe in nothing. This is not…

War, Peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Stanley Hauwerwas and Paul J. Griffiths Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her…

Opinion

October Letters

Various

Waking from the Dead

Wesley J. Smith

Terry Wallis recently woke up. For most of us, this would not be news. But for Terry…

Scandal and the Constitution

L. Martin Nussbaum

Let us stipulate from the beginning, as we lawyers say, that the Catholic scandal is fueled by…

Fretful Orthodoxy

Alan L. Mittleman

There is a pamphlet making its way, via the Internet, through the Modern Orthodox stream of the…

Reviews

Roots of Jihad

Robert Louis Wilken

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis Modern Library. 170 pp. $19.95…

Sweet Sistine

Gregory Wolfe

Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by ross king walker and company, 373 pages, $28 According to Giorgio…

Briefly Noted 56

Various

Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?. By Michael Ruse. Harvard University Press. 371 pp. $29.95.…

Postmodernist Ecumenism

Avery Cardinal Dulles

The Church in a Postliberal Age by George A. Lindbeck edited by James J. Buckley Eerdmans, 300…

A Conservative Innovator

George McKenna

Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden Yale University Press. 615 pp. $35 Since Jonathan Edwards’…

Poetry

Verses of the Soul That Pines to See God

St. John of the Cross Rhina P. Espaillat

Not in myself do I live but in such great hope, that I die of longing to…