Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Church as Interest Group, Once More
In the January issue, this section carried a commentary titled “The Catholic Church as Interest Group.” Among…
Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project
There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a…
The Catholic Public Servant
The Supreme Court is not exempt from the law of unintended consequences. The Court may have anticipated…
Marburg and Modernity
A history of the relation of sacramental theology and practice to Western intellectual and cultural history has…
The Grammar of Baptism
Feminism has become a truly significant force within American culture. Its presence and power is felt in…
A Guide to Barth
How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology by george hunsinger oxford university press, 298…
Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse
Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past…
Editorial: Democratic Waves
Democracy is still very much a minority phenomenon among the nations of the world, but it is…
The Popes and the Economy
Papal doctrine on political economy has long been misunderstood as well as mistrusted among those economic liberals…
Reviving the Missionary Mandate
The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described…
Editorial: That Encyclical
We do not ordinarily publish official church statements. In fact, we never have before. This issue, however,…
The Economics of Human Freedom
Editors’ Note: The following is a condensation of Centesimus Annus (“The Hundredth Year”), Pope John Paul II’s…
The Mother of Editorials: The Times Gets Religion
Maybe we have been too hard on the editorial page of the most influential of our parish…
Not the Catholic Moment?
The Church, Pilgrim of Centuries by thomas molnar eerdmans, 182 pages, $15.95 Perhaps of all world religions,…
What Crisis in the Black Church?
The Black Church in the African American Experience by c. eric lincoln and lawrence h. mamiya duke…
