NEWS AND VIEWS // Newman had heen at Vatican 71 (from an article by John Couison in the English newsletter, Search): "There, where all the leading progressive theologians are assembled,...
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CORRESPONDENCE "Nuclear War" Cambridge, Mass. To the Editors: I was surprised to find in Peter Steinfels' review of Justus George Lawler's Nuclear War (January 21) my name associated more...
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FOOD FOR FREEDOM Nothing is simpler than to solve the world's food problems on paper. All one does is to calculate the potentially available land suitable for food production, estimate how...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED GROWING UP CATHOLIC What does it mean to grow up Catholic? Elsewhere in this issue James T. Farrell gives part of his answer; not unnaturally, his full-scale treatment of...
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CENSORSHIP IN THE CHURCH Time for reform JAMES V. SCHALL The existence of censorship within the Church is, without doubt, one of the greatest obstacles to the Church's mission in the minds...
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COMMENT OX JUDGING GOD Of evil, it can be said that its sense of timing is often exquisite. Examples are easy to come by, but my own choice at the moment is a recent fire at a Yonkers,...
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NANCY PRICE ONE-NIGHT FAIR A traveling fair pitched by our pasture gate once. I still remember the ferris wheel's yellow lights going around the dark like a slow mill, only it spilled a...
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Behind the mask GRAHAM f-ltll \l S COMEDIANS DAVID LODGE It has been often observed that Graham Greene has displayed, in recent years, an uncanny aptitude for setting his stories in parts of...
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Chicago's South Side THE WORLD I GREW UP IN JAMES T. FARRELL What was it like? The Catholic world in which I grew up? Strictly speaking, it was not a Catholic worldit was a Chicago world,...
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KEEP TALKING THE STAGE Of all the creatures that prowl the word-jungle, the playwright probably has the meagerest means of natural protection. The novelist conceals himself in a jet...
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THE SCREEN Not since Orson Welles startled movie-goers with an opening scene showing I ago being punished in an iron cage has there been such a disputatious "Othello" as the current film...
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BOOKS A round-up of recent religious books WILLIAM BIRMINGHAM In a remarkable contribution to the Teilhard Conference Proceedings 1964 (Human Energies Research Institute, Fordham University...
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