Catholicism
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Christmas Carols in Traditional Sound
Christmas Carols in Traditional Sound Let all the songsOn Christmas Day, playAnd with heraldingChoristers sing, ringThe coming…
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…
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…
