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DECEMBER 1996 * VOL. 6, NO. 11

EDITORIAL A Scandal Too Late

LETTERS On debate and dissent, courtship and marriage, and more

WORLD WATCH Election Season, and...

FOLLOW UP New Developments on Stories Featured in Catholic World Report

UNITED STATES Ignoring the Obvious

EAST TIMOR Finally, The World Awakens

SECOND SPRING Poverty, the Incarnation, and Christian Idealism

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ZAIRE A New Scramble for Africa?

ENGLAND Breakthrough in a Debate on Morality

PROFILE An Ally in the Culture Wars

ESSAY Is Darwinism a Religion?

BOOKS A Culture Indicted; Reviving a Word and a Tradition