Many people claim that baseball is the ldquo thinking person rsquo s sport rdquo but I now believe that claim rightly applies only to spectators After reading Daniel Callahan rsquo s most recent two books one a memoir and the other a collection of essays spanning almost three decades of his ca

Written at the height of American affluence half a century ago the singular sociological insight of Michael Harrington rsquo s The Other America still rings true ldquo The other America the America of poverty is hidden today in a way that it never was before Its millions are socially invisible

Michael Novak’s autobiography is another remarkable American success story.

ldquo J F Powers 81 Dies Wrote about Priests rdquo So read the stark headline of this great Catholic writer rsquo s obituary in The New York Times in 1999 Powers did write about priests in most of his short stories and both of his novels including his comic masterpiece Morte d rsquo Urban

Caron E Gentry is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrew rsquo s in Scotland She is also a student of theology who has taught a course on international relations and Christianity This volume is the outcome of her effort to join the two disciplines The

Religious freedom We were against it before we were for it The papacy at one time unreservedly condemned religious freedom as ldquo madness rdquo but now U S bishops condemn any restrictions on it Earning interest on a loan The Vatican condemned this practice then it allowed the idea and s