Tomorrow and Tomorrow

MICHAEL NOVAK

Recent issues of Harper’s magazine, otherwise so admirable, have outdone themselves in apathy toward religion in the name of enlightenment. Indeed, editor David Sanford expressed more than pique at the overwhelmingly favorable response Pope John Paul II received from the American press. Writing as one who regards atheism as a bulwark of liberal enlightenment, Mr. Sanford deplored not so much the excesses of religion as religion itself.