Contents, Volume 9 #5

November/December 1991

Dossier

Christians and Social Justice

New directions for
Canadian churches

A century of Catholic
social teaching

Leader
Catholic social teaching helps reveal the spiritual meaning of history. Jack Costello SJ (p.2)

Symposium: Canadian Churches and Social Justice: Priorities for the 1990s (p.6)

Experience and Religious Meaning of Social Justice (p.8)

What has church social justice work achieved since 1970?
John Williams, Joseph Hacala SJ and Archbishop Edward W. Scott

What is the religious meaning of social justice?
Janet Somerville, Frederick H. Zemans and Gregory Baum

Target Groups and Issues (p.17)

Where should the churches target their social justice work?
Michael Shapcott, Eric Kierans and Lorraine Michael

What issues should the churches address, and why?
Duncan Cameron, Lise Corbeil and Edward Hyland SJ

Strategies and the Pros and Cons of Coalitions (p.26)

What political action strategies should the churches follow?
Richard Johnston, Harry Kits and Ursula Franklin

What are the pros and cons of interchurch coalitions?
Christopher Lind, Karmel Taylor and John Barker

Social Teaching for Modern Times (p.35)
A hundred years of Catholic social documents show the Vatican's changing priorities.
William Ryan SJ

A Perestroika for Capitalism?
Much of the pope's obituary for communism applies to capitalism as well, especially in the Third World.
Francisco Javier Ibisate SJ (p.40)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary
She took Gospel teaching with the literalness of a child and never lost that terrifying simplicity of vision.
Rosemary Haughton (p.42)

Film

Ingmar Bergman and His Kind
Scandinavia's ongoing film creativity demonstrates that movies can explore and reveal life. Marc Gervais SJ (p.43)

Black Robe

The Madonna Moment

Music

Wolfgang and the Archbishop
The story of Mozart's relations with the prince-archbishop of Salzburg is a little-known episode to recent Mozart converts.
Richard Gale (p.48)

Books

On A Hinge of History
By Ivan L. Head. Reviewed by Debbie Culbertson (p.50)

The Waterloo Mennonites
By J. Winfield Fretz.
Limits on Liberty
By William Janzen.
Reviewed by John Howard Yoder (p.53)

Words with Power
By Northrop Frye.
The Book Of J
Translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom.
Reviewed by Monty Williams SJ (p.55)

Features

Letters
Obstacles to Hindu-Christian dialogue. (p.4)

Points
Views of hope, reflections on poverty and ignorance through TV. (p.5)

Disputatio
Highrises and subdivisions are not the only choices. Martin Liefhebber and Myrna Moore (p.58)

Testament
World, flesh and devil in a rosy hue. Sean McEvenue (p.59)