Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
From Aquinas to Aquarius
Men Astutely Trained:A History of the Jesuits in the American Centuryby Peter McDonough Free Press, 616 pages, $24.95…
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…
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…
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…
Editorial: Democratic Waves
Democracy is still very much a minority phenomenon among the nations of the world, but it is…
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…
Reviving the Missionary Mandate
The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described…
