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Opinion

May Letters

Various

Moral Stem Cells

E. Christian Brugger

The desire of the scientific community for embryonic stem cells is not diminishing. Indeed, it is increasing,…

The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom

Thomas F. Farr

Diplomacy may be the art of letting someone else have your way, but, these days, disagreements over…

Suing the Church

Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap.

Last summer, attorneys in Colorado filed the first sex-abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese of Denver since the…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 5

Various

The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Traditionby Huston Smith.HarperSanFrancisco, 160 pages, $22.95. Written toward the end of…

The Lilliputian Imagination

John Wilson

Life in the Undergrowthby David AtttenboroughPrinceton University Press, 288 pages, $29.95 There’s an ancient human dream to…

Tsars & Commissars

Daniel J. Mahoney

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Cultureby Richard Pipes.Yale University Press, 216 pages, $30.…

The Beginning of the Journey

Thomas S. Hibbs

Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue 1913–1922by alasdair macintyrerowman & littlefield, 224 pages, $25.95 In the summer of…

The Road from Damascus

Edward T. Oakes

Paul of Tarsus: A Visionary Lifeby Edward Stourton.Paulist, 224 pages, $24. St. Paul is, to put it…

Poetry

Rejection Note for Paradise Regained

A. M. Juster

Loved that first book”it’s got no equal” but, Johnny, we don’t love your sequel. If you would…

Playing Scratch-and-Win

Belle Randall

The Scratch machine dispenses fun in little pictures. You choose one as flat and bright as a…