Catholicism
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After the Fall
The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Oxford University Press,…
A Contested Legacy
John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation edited by robert p. hunt and kenneth l. grasso…
When Shepherds Are Sheep
A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops by Thomas J. Reese Sheed & Ward,…
Baptism and Development
In the north Indian state of Bihar, there are indigenous peoples who never converted to the Hinduism…
Christmas Carols in Traditional Sound
Christmas Carols in Traditional Sound Let all the songsOn Christmas Day, playAnd with heraldingChoristers sing, ringThe coming…
The Pope and the Liberal State
It is not hard to understand why when Centesimus Annus was issued in 1991, its economic teachings…
Tolerance as Catholic Doctrine
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,” wrote Abraham Lincoln. Is there any…
The Protestant Ethos
Protestants:The Birth of a Revolution by Steven Ozment Doubleday, 270 pages, $20 I am a Catholic, but I married…
A Tale of Two Bishops
In the years 1975-76, Catholics attending Mass anywhere in the state of Montana would have heard the…
Naming Good and Evil
Eighty-one years ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote a book entitled What’s Wrong With the World? His answer to…
Catholicism and the American Proposition
The year 1991 marked the centenary of modern Catholic social teaching—the issuing of the encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope…
From Aquinas to Aquarius
Men Astutely Trained:A History of the Jesuits in the American Centuryby Peter McDonough Free Press, 616 pages, $24.95…
A Roman Cautionary Tale
On July 6,1991, the Italian Jesuit biweekly, La Civilta Cattolica, published a lengthy editorial arguing that the…
Teach Me: A Catholic Cri de Coeur
No, the situation could hardly be more serious, unless Diocletian reclined still in his palace, and martyrs…
Enigmatic Subtleties
Saint Augustine: Confessions translated by Henry Chadwick Oxford University Press, 311 pages, $24.95 Translating Augustine’s Confessions is…
