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The Eve of St. Agnes—Green Bay, 2008
Saint Agnes Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was, The coach for all his sweaters was acold; The team limped weakly through the frozen grass, And bundled were the fans, a...
The Freedom of Theology
Benedict XVI, before becoming supreme pastor of the Catholic Church, served for two decades as a theology professor and then, for more than two decades, as prefect of the...
Who Can Be Saved?
Nothing is more striking in the New Testament than the confidence with which it proclaims the saving power of belief in Christ. Almost every page confronts us with a...
Development or Reversal?
A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan, jr. university of notre dame press, 280 pp., $30 Doctrinal development follows...
Postmodernist Ecumenism
The Church in a Postliberal Age by George A. Lindbeck edited by James J. Buckley Eerdmans, 300 Pages, $27 George Lindbeck was almost predestined to eminence in the fields...
The Jesuit Enigma
Passionate Uncertainty:Inside the American Jesuitsby peter mcdonough and eugene c. bianchiuniversity of california press, 380 pages, $29.95 At a press conference one day last summer, a newspaper correspondent asked...
What Price Reform?
The Reform of the Papacy: Costly Call to Christian Unity by John R. Quinn Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 189 pages, $19.95 In his 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint , Pope...
