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The End of Education
What should be the distinctive calling of the American Catholic university or college here and now? It should be to challenge its secular counterparts by recovering both for them and for itself a less fragmented conception of what an education beyond high school (...)
(issue: October 20, 2006) -
Lavender Hill Mob
There is no contemporary practitioner of the art of historical fiction more accomplished, in my view, than Thomas Mallon. His forays into the past have ranged from small-town life in post-World War II America (in Dewey Defeats Truman), to the frantic world of (...)
(issue: May 4, 2007) -
Reluctant Dissenter
Reviewers like to say, "this is a book which everyone should read." I wouldn’t say that about Jim Shannon’s Reluctant Dissenter, but I would say that it is a book every American Catholic bishop should read. That won’t exactly swell sales, but it (...)
(issue: April 9, 1999) -
Back to Christendom
In a recent speech commemorating the end of World War II, President George W. Bush dusted off a shopworn bit of far-right GOP dogma. He accused President Franklin D. Roosevelt of making a corrupt deal with Stalin at the Yalta Conference in 1945, thereby abandoning (...)
(issue: June 17, 2005) -
Be Not Afraid
Over much of the past decade, a celebrated and notorious play has set off a fierce debate at Catholic colleges and universities. The debate pits the values of Catholic identity against those of academic freedom, and invokes a broader battle for the heart and soul (...)
(issue: March 13, 2009) -
Religion Booknotes
In his classic work Mimesis, Erich Auerbach observed that the narrative of the Bible is all foreground; it is left to the human imagination to fill in the background. This is certainly true of the gospel portrait of Jesus. Christ the Lord Out of Egypt (...)
(issue: January 13, 2006) -
Covenants, monologues & burdens
CATHOLICS & JEWS TOGETHER? Fr. John R. Donahue’s thoughtful article “Trouble Ahead: The Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations” (March 13) lays great stress on an affirmation of the late Pope John Paul II. The pope said: “Just as we take (...)
(issue: April 10, 2009) -
Cross Examination
I have been a religious sister for more than thirty years, part of a community that has been active in this country for over a century, and whose work centers on teaching and health care. Our order belongs to an umbrella organization, the Leadership Conference of (...)
(issue: October 9, 2009) -
Shifting Allegiances
True story: It is the day before Pope John Paul II’s funeral, a year ago last April. Assembling in Rome are the members of the official delegation of the United States government, including President and Mrs. Bush and a number of Catholic senators and (...)
(issue: September 22, 2006) -
The Transfigured World
When St. Peter heard the cock crow early on the morning of the first Good Friday, the synoptic Gospels tell us that he went out and wept bitterly. “We are the heirs of a culture that, in a sense, sprang from Peter’s tears,” writes David Bentley (...)
(issue: May 8, 2009) -
John Paul II
In the last chapter of my Gifford Lecturers (With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology), I suggested that the great Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder and John Paul II represent the theological politics necessary to sustain (...)
(issue: April 22, 2005) -
Grecian Gifts, Plus
Since the mid-twentieth century, “virtue ethics” has staged a comeback among both theologians and philosophers. Reacting against the formalism of moral theory since Kant, scholars have drawn attention to the ways in which our actions are determined by (...)
(issue: November 20, 2009) -
Theology at the barricades
Catholic scholars have taken the dynamite of the church, have wrapped it up in nice phraseology, placed it in an hermetic container and sat on the lid. It is about time to blow the lid off... -Peter Maurin Few today can imagine that Catholic social thought has (...)
(issue: July 13, 2001) -
This Book Is Not Good
Christopher Hitchens used to be a courageous and electrifying writer. An heir to the mantle worn by Thomas Paine, William Hazlitt, William Cobbett, and George Orwell, he aimed his keen and pugnacious intelligence at all things false: from Henry Kissinger to Mother (...)
(issue: June 15, 2007) -
Versailles, Yalta, secularism & the pope
CARDINAL GEORGE RESPONDS Commonweal’s piece by William D. Wood misrepresents what I said at the University of Chicago on April 30 (“Back to Christendom,” June 17). Mr. Wood places my words in a political context that isn’t mine and (...)
(issue: July 15, 2005) -
Model Atheist
For years now, Christian culture warriors such as Richard John Neuhaus and James Dobson have been railing against the secularists who want to repress religion and eradicate the effect of religious beliefs on public morality and law. Until recently, however, (...)
(issue: July 13, 2007) -
Pro-life, Pro-Obama?
Significant portions of the Catholic Church in the United States appear committed to the proposition that the only acceptable political manifestation of being a Catholic entails embracing the Republican Party. Clearly this is the (at least de facto) position of (...)
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Liberalism Doesn’t Exit
I’d like to begin with the proposition, error has no rights. That is a proposition I take to be indisputable. It’s the beginning of a major syllogism. And it is the major syllogism that sustained religious persecution from about 320 a.d. into the (...)
(issue: November 19, 1999) -
After Enlightenment
This wonderful little book, drawn from Louis Dupré’s 2005-06 Erasmus Lectures at the University of Notre Dame, narrates the development of modern culture from its roots in early Christian encounters with Aristotelianism, through the Renaissance, the (...)
(issue: January 30, 2009) -
The Unveiling
A religious sister I know who is principal of an inner-city Catholic high school likes to joke that a nun’s retirement begins five minutes after the start of her wake. She exaggerates, of course, but she’s right that retirement is a rare luxury for most (...)
(issue: December 15, 2006) -
Catholics & the Liberal Tradition
Over the last several years, many Catholics have lamented their state of political homelessness. They want to know where they belong in today’s debates over public policy and political philosophy. Those are the debates that, in John Courtney Murray’s (...)
(issue: October 11, 2002)
