June/July 2001
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The Challenges of Ecumenism
As an ELCA Lutheran I share James Nuechterlein’s concerns in his “ Ecumenical Conundrums ” (March). I’m…
Anthropic Coincidences
How important is the human race in the scheme of things? According to the Epistle to Diognetus,…
The Blight of Cultural Rights
Last December, soon after the Supreme Court had pulled the chain on Florida’s chad fest, Bill Ivey,…
The Stupid Party
One of the reasons intelligent young people are drawn disproportionately to the left in politics is that…
Politics at Prayer
Liturgy and politics don’t mix. For two things to mix, they have to be separable; liturgy and…
States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876
Forrest McDonald, the Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama, writes that “the most…
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
The great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. penned a host of memorable aphorisms that summarize his legal…
Briefly Noted 34
Examining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Edited by Anthony J. Cernera and Oliver J. Morgan. Sacred Heart University…
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Jonathan Glover is stirred and troubled by the atrocities of the twentieth century, and wants to know…
Thinking Through Vatican II
History of Vatican II: The Mature Council-The Formation of the Council’s Identity – First Period and Intersession,…
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Mary Ann Glendon’s latest project is in its way far more ambitious than her previous books about…
Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825–2000
In the introduction to this book Joel Schwartz calls our attention to the titles of two major…
Poetry
My wife framed a poster decades ago, Take time ”picture of a daddy holding a kid. So…
