The Catholic World articles from September 1993

The Catholic World archives from September 1993

Catholic megatrends. (Cover Story)
September 1, 1993... Since the first Megatrends book was published in the late 1980s, I have been intrigued by the potential for applying those ideas to the Roman Catholic Church. In those intervening years, I have been applying the "trends" cited in all three of...

A vision for the unity of human kind.
September 1, 1993... The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age," wrote G.K. Chesterton.(1) If we put aside the polemical bluster of "the only thing," his statement makes an important point. When...

Moral theology 2000: four signs and shifts.
September 1, 1993... Making guesses about the future is a risky, sometimes foolish thing to do. but not thinking about the future may be still more foolish. Thus it is with a mixture of humility and playfulness that I take a leaf from Dickens' A Christmas Carol and...

"Who will they be saying that I am." (Jesus Christ)
September 1, 1993... Where have we come from? Nowhere has the impact of modern biblical scholarship been stronger than in the Christian community's ongoing effort to know and understand Jesus. For centuries, the accent of the Church's teaching about Jesus fell...

Encountering God in the third Christian millenium: a spirituality of contradiction and mystery.
September 1, 1993... Early in the morning of a new beautiful Thai day, I woke up to my alarm, quickly got dressed, had several cups of strong tea and walked over to a nearby beach with a new friend from the retreat center. We went to take a swim and pray at sunrise...

Simplicity in the midst of complexity: religious education in the twenty-first century.
September 1, 1993... "The mill isn't turned by last year's water." This adage captures well the challenge we face in educating people in the faith in the twenty-first century. What worked in the past may not--probably will not-- be effective in the future. Just...

Mission to Rural America: The Story of W. Howard Bishop, Founder of Glenmary.
September 1, 1993... W. Howard Bishop believed that Catholicism flourished better in the wholesome air of the countryside than in the congestion of smoky cities. The life of Jesus, he pointed out, is largely a rural story which begins in a farm stable, while nearly...

Calling forth the talents.
September 1, 1993... With song and story, with prose and poetry, in word and action, each of us discovers and rediscovers a way to offer our God-given gifts At first it may appear that the initiative is ours--that we have to be self-starters in our various...

Bartolome de Las Casas: The Only Way.
September 1, 1993... This book contains three parts: an introduction by Helen R. Parish; a work by Las Casas; additional texts. 1. The introduction, written by Helen R. Parish, entitled "Las Casas' Spirituality--The Three Crises," is an insightful, vivid, and...

Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
September 1, 1993... After all the media hype that still surrounds the subject even some forty years after their discovery, this new contribution to the Anchor Bible Reference Library comes across as the authoritative word on what the Dead Sea Scrolls really have...

Here All Dwell Free.
September 1, 1993... The recovery and healing of the feminine is the most urgent task of our time, and this recovery as renewed reverence for earth, body, instinct, is addressed in this timely book. Drawing on the work of Marie-Louise von Franz, Gertrud Nelson...