Contents, Volume 12 #3

July/August 1994

Dossier

Summer Medley

Information superhighway,
human rights and diversity,
mystery of the forest,
and much more

Leader
Can we not learn from children's passion and enthusiasm for life? Wanda Taylor (p.2)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Information Superhighway
Amid all the hype, it's important to remember that the interests served by the new technology are subject to human control. Rae Murphy and Robert Chodos (p.6)

Prophets Anonymous
A twelve-step cartoon. Philip Street (p.10)

St. Francis de Sales
Seventeenth-century bishop found time for prayer in the midst of a busy life. Joseph F. Power (p.12)

Two Historic Elections Observed (p.13)

South Africa. Josephine Naidoo and Jim Webb SJ

El Salvador. Edward Hyland SJ

Human Rights, Human Difference
Moral philosophy based on natural law would have much to offer the modern world if it could come to grips with diversity. Charles Taylor (p.18)

Native Suicide: The Silent Scream
While an ongoing atrocity is happening in many aboriginal communities, the pain remains hidden for the rest of Canada. Fr. Barry McGrory (p.20)

Photo Essay

A Forest Filled with Mysterious Life
The crossroad of the Absence and the Presence in the awesome silence of the wilderness. Antoine Houdeville PFJ (p.22)

Fiction

Unperformed Experiments Have No Results
A short story. Janette Turner Hospital (p.25)

Art

The Drama of the Lost Cornerstone
How a Gauguin painting could have helped bridge the distance between modern creative art and the church. Peter Larisey SJ (p.32)

Books

Brotherhood to Nationhood
By Peter McFarlane.
Blood and Belonging
By Michael Ignatieff.
Reviewed by Doug Smith (p.35)

Rituals of Failure
By Sandro Contenta.
School's Out
By Andrew Nikiforuk.
Reviewed by Len Altilia SJ (p.37)

Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
By Ross V.G. Dobson. Reviewed by Tom Webb (p.40)

Bookshelf Gleanings
Global solutions for global problems, religious variety in China and churches' healing mission. (p.42)

Features

Letters
Maurice Tugwell's paranoia, Quebec bishops' oversimplification and Fr. Kolvenbach's lack of context. (p.4)

Points
Flattering the people, frightened establishment and the price of mastery. (p.5)

Colloquy
Bridge of forgiveness across the abyss. Carol Loughlin (p.24)

Testament
Indiscreet charm in a women's prison. Bruce Henry (p.34)

Compass Cryptic
Inkatha's tribe, Xanadu's sea and Barney's half-son. (p.45)

Disputatio
For Holocaust survivors, the details bring the tears. Rivka Augenfeld (p.46)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
The sad fate of people who ask why. (p.47)