Contents, Volume 11 #6

January/February 1994

Dossier

Times of Celebration

The basic human need to
give significance to the
events of our lives

Leader
In one small day, we pause to give thanks for the gifts we are to one another. Mary Rose Donnelly (p.2)

The Sun Needs Us to Help It Rise
It is important to celebrate the mountain peaks and the dark valleys as well. David Nazar SJ (p.6)

Christmas Across the Centuries (p.10)

Medieval Christmas spirit. Monica Sandor

Dickensian plenitude. Frances Armstrong

Off-the-rack sentiment. Philip Street

For Everything Its Season (p.16)

Baptism. Halinka and Paul Shulist

Irish Wake. Patrick MacFadden

Powwow. Carl Urion

Trinidad Carnival. Carl Thorpe

South American Soccer. William Chico

St. Wenceslas
The Good King of the Christmas carol lived in a time of treachery. Curtis Fahey (p.23)

Peace on Earth--Christmas 1993

Notes for a New Foreign Policy
Canada's development NGOs provide some free advice to the new government. (p.26)

Systematic Torture Is Still Widespread
Without a proper accounting of torture's effects, we remain stuck in destructive patterns. Jim Joyce (p.30)

Armed Conflicts in the World 1993
Compass's seventh annual map of the planet's wars. (p.32)

Breakthrough in the Middle East
Israelis, Palestinians--and Christians. William Dunphy (p.34)

Forgotten Wars and Treaties (p.36)

Cambodia. Terry McCarthy

Ireland. Brendan Landers

Making Sense of Our Times--II

Culture, the Gospel and Generations to Come
Moving beyond enculturation and finding union in diversity. An interview with Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ (p.41)

Articles

Canadian Reality, a Little at a Time
Whether it's the economy or the constitution, no party seems able to see the whole picture. Charles Taylor (p.47)

Encyclical a Portent of Interesting Times
The declared intention of Veritatis Splendor is to set a new course for Catholic moral theology. Béla Somfai SJ (p.49)

Books

Unknown Gods
By Reginald Bibby. Reviewed by Janet Somerville (p.53)

Two Books on Ontario Politics
Reviewed by Rae Murphy (p.55)

Alice Munro: A Double Life
By Catherine Sheldrick Ross.
Susanna Moodie: Letters of a Lifetime
Edited by C.Ballstadt, E.Hopkins and M.Peterman.
Reviewed by Dennis Duffy (p.58)

Bookshelf Gleanings
French America and politics by other means. (p.62)

Features

Letters
Divorce, remarriage and the sacraments. (p.4)

Points
Book burners, super-illusions and women in red. (p.5)

Colloquy
Decision on the school field. Sommerville Wickham, Jr. (p.24)

Testament
Encounters with the face of God. Carmel Doyle (p.40)

Compass Cryptic
Electrifying attack and killer fungus. (p.61)

Disputatio
VOW said no to productivism. Malcolm Reid (p.62)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
I've given up trying to be in the know. (p.63)