As promised last week, we offer further excerpts from our exceptionally heavy “McCarthy mail.”
EDITOR: Congratulations to Fr. Hartnett on his fine exposition of the McCarthy investigations and their effect upon the common good … It indeed strikes at the heart of the issue.
A look back at papal criticism of a system that “considers profit as the key motive for economic progress.”|”
Nothing in Pope Paul’s “On the Development of Peoples” has provoked more comment than §37, on demography. Running a respectable second, however, is § 26, on liberal capitalism, together with a few related sentences in §§33 and 58. The Communist press was jubilant over what it called the Pope’s anticapitalism. Typical was the headline over the encyclical story in Rome’s Communist daily, L’Unita: “The Crisis of Capitalist Society in the Social Encyclical of Paul VI.” On the other hand, the business-minded press was perplexed and critical. Under the title “A Blessing for Secular Error,” the Wall Street Journal dismissed the encyclical as an “entirely worldly analysis.” It did not believe that the Pope’s “warmed-Marxism” would be of much help underdeveloped countries.
Such reactions, revealing an egregious ignorance of the Church’s social
Our experience, like that of many adoptive parents, began in heartache: the inability to conceive. Few experiences challenge faithful Catholics as much as infertility, which even in light of contemporary biblical theology still feels like alienation from God’s greatest gift.
This year more than any other I can recall the pundits predict that the debates can be decisive in the presidential election James Fallows in The Atlantic September made the case that Gov Mitt Romney was an excellent debater and that President Obama may be in for a surprise I watched nearly a
What Catholics Do Best Re “Faith by Heart,” by David Impastato (9/10): While I am in full support of more catechesis and evangelization, there is no evidence that rote memorization will lead to greater retention of young Catholics. In fact, the Catholic Church actually has a greater rete
Graham Greene had a yen for dangerous places and his search for evidence of the rotten spot of the human heart took him to Vietnam Africa and in 1939 to Mexico The persecution of the church had cooled but he quickly learned to hate the place largely because of the hate he saw there He recall
Protect the Vulnerable Re “After Aurora” (Editorial, 8/13): The editors’ support for gun control ignores the practical benefits of private gun ownership. Research by Dr. John R. Lott Jr. (More Guns, Less Crime, 1998) shows that states that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons
Poor Harvard Though well known for being old rich and famous its reputation for being well-run and intellectually challenging has taken some serious hits in the last few weeks Most recently the New York Times has reported that the cheating scandal that has plagued New York City high schools and
Permissible Lobbying Re “Politics and the Pulpit” by Nicholas P. Cafardi (7/30): Dr. Cafardi seems to imply that Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle engaged in impermissible lobbying by assisting in gathering signatures in support of Referendum 74 in Washington State to undo the same-
