Luke Timothy Johnson markably similar to those espoused by the author. Still, the success of that book—sucWhat Wills Misunderstood cess being measured here by its becom What the Gospels...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors The final secret In his review of my book Why I Am a Catholic ("Where's the Beef?" July 12), Peter Steinfels proves that he is an ideal subject of the current pope...
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Where's the beef? Why I Am a Catholic Garry Wills Houghton Mifflin, $21, 390 pp. Peter Steinfels Carry Wills, perhaps the nation's widest-ranging man of letters or, as the phrase now goes,...
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BOOKS God's journalist Chesterton Garry Wills l^ubkday, $14,330 pp. Luke Timothy Johnson Why should Gilbert Keith Ches-terton still matter? Born in Victorian England in 1874 and dead in 1936,...
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Bare ruined choirs? tion and abortion, the church's practice erfully also on the gap between the...
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From the council to the synod Raymond Flynn RAYMOND FLYNN holds a Master's degree from Harvard University School of Education. He worked as a probation officer before entering politics. He was a...
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BOOKS Critics' choices from the university presses Samuel Hazo For me the two most distinguished books published by university presses in 1974 were Anthony Kerrigan's translation of Miquel de...
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BOOKS Daughters of the Promised Land: Women in American History PAGE SMITH Little, Brown, $8.95 The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Polities 1830-193O ANNE FIROR SCOTT U. of Chicago Press,...
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BOOKS Even Catholics can read Chesterton 'safely' under Auden's auspices G. K. Chesterton: A Selection Front His Non-Fiction Prose SELECTED BY W. H. AUDEN Faber (London), 40s GARRY...
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MARY DALY ON THE CHURCH one has then moved out of the "old en- Questions Q In this period of change and vironment" of Catholic...
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The semantics of racism IN DEFENSE OF UNCLE TOMS GARRY WILLS There are no words more powerful, or more cruel, than "Uncle Tom." They are the special torture Negroes reserve for other Negroes....
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