Contents, Volume 10 #3

July/August 1992

Dossier

The State in Decline

New meanings of sovereignty
have political, economic and
religious implications

Leader
Facing new choices in a world of weaker states. Robert Chodos (p.2)

A New Look at Canadian Water
Sovereignty is not the best argument for resisting the massive diversion of our water to the United States. James Laxer (p.6)

Turbulence in the Air
A swirl of mergers and bankruptcies means that the national airline is a thing of the past--especially in Canada. Rae Murphy (p.9)

Casualties of the New World Order
Without a state of their own, the Kurds rely on an organization that challenges state power. Jim Lavery (p.13)

From 5,000 Languages to 15 Words
The nation-state has helped cut down the world's rich forest of languages. Uwe Pörksen (p.16)

The Dialectic of Church and State (p.16)

Canada's Doukhobors. George Woodcock

Britain's Established Churches. Michael Hare Duke

China's Christians. Michel Marcil SJ

The Struggle for Russia. Ioan Davies

Quebec: Nation or State?
Language is a shibboleth that separates the "Québécois pure laine" from the "others." Connie Dilley Tadros (p.24)

The Experience of Exile
A crisis point, a kind of schizophrenia and a home in the imagination. An interview with Josef Skvorecky and Zdena Salivarova (p.26)

St. Edgar and St. Edward
Medieval peacemakers were the twin peaks of English sacramental kingship. Joe Mróz SJ (p.30)

Articles

Sex, the Vatican and André Guindon
The conflict over understandings of sexual meaning is a product of changes that have already taken place. Lisa Sowle Cahill (p.31)

Canada's Great Unknown Poet
Neglected during his lifetime, Fr. R.J. MacSween's poetry is marked by a tragic dimension and classical strength of thought. Louis Dudek (p.34)

Books

The Age of Ecology
By David Cayley. Reviewed by John McCarthy SJ (p.41)

In the Way
By Kenelm Burridge. Reviewed by William Robbins SJ (p.44)

Preston Manning and the Reform Party
By Murray Dobbin.
The New Canada
By Preston Manning.
Reviewed by Doug Smith (p.46)

Bookshelf Gleanings
The church in Quebec, Eliot's ambiguity and "pop-ed." (p.48)

Features

Letters
More on McMillan and Mormons misidentified. (p.4)

Points
Human nature, rigor mortis and glorifying wounds. (p.5)

Colloquy
The mystery and miracle of the martyrs. Michael Czerny SJ (p.40)

Disputatio
A trenchant critique of our economy is welcome. Lukin Robinson (p.50)

Testament
Peace comes after long, patient struggle. Samira B. McCarthy (p.51)