The Catholic Public Servant

by James L. Buckley

Catholics must take their place in defending the American . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1992

A Guide to Barth

by David Lewis Stokes, Jr.

How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theologyby George HunsingerOxford University Press, 298 pages, $32.50 There are two types of guidebook to a major gallery. One is designed for the occasional visitor who wants to find his way about with minimal effort and wishes to emerge with a general . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

Editorial: Democratic Waves

by The Editors

Democracy is still very much a minority phenomenon among the nations of the world, but it is hard to deny that there appears to be something like a democratic revolution afoot. According to Samuel Huntington of Harvard University (writing in The National Interest ), there have been three . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

The Economics of Human Freedom

by Pope John Paul II

I propose a “rereading” of Pope Leo’s Encyclical by issuing an invitation to “look back” at the text itself, but also to “look around” at the “new things” that surround us, very different from the “new things” at the final decade of the last . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Not the Catholic Moment?

by Kenneth Craycraft

Has the Catholic Church lost its place in the public . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

Beyond Liberty

by Dean C. Curry

We are nearly two years into the post-Cold War era—an era as yet without a name—and we have awakened to the sobering reality that democracy is easier to desire than it is to sustain. The painful experiences of nations as disparate as Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1991

The Vatican and the State of Israel

by Eugene J. Fisher

In a recently published book, Sergio I. Minerbi, formerly of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks of the Catholic Church as “the chief opponent” of the Zionist movement past and present, and he identifies “the real reasons underlying” this “hostility” as “immutable . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1991

Saints as Givers, Saints as Guides

by James Tunstead Burtchaell

Newman did not regard himself as a theologian, and it would distort his accomplishments to call him one. He was that rarer and more comprehensive figure, a Christian humanist, who set his face against utilitarians of both the mind and the spirit. The spirit of Newman sought wholeness of vision: the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991

Of Rome and Runnymede

by Paul V. Mankowski

Curious. Why should the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe all see fit to carry the story of the promulgation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the papal declaration on the mission of Catholic universities? On the face of it, Vatican norms for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991

“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”

by Mike Aquilina

V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I know the Code of Canon Law, and know which lines are optional for dear dissenting brethren, Manichean or adoptional. From seminars I’ve learned to be more challenging and quizzical, more . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991