The 150th Anniversary of the Pallottines

EDITORIAL

Ralph F. Firneno

The Society of the Catholic Apostolate in Rome has worked in orphanages, slums, and prisons. Its members founded schools, cooperatives, and an agricultural bank.

Letters to the Editor: July-August 1985

Crippling Absolutist Mania... Double Standards... From a “Prisoner of Conscience”... Lively... Thomas Howard Crosses the Tiber

God Is Mercy

DEEPER INTO THE HEART OF DOGMA

L. Brent Bozell

In February 1931, Jesus appeared to Faustina with a message that launched the mission for which he had been preparing her from the beginning.

The Vatican Looks at Non-Marxist Socialism

WITH THE WISDOM OF THE AGES

Thomas Molnar

In its universal concern, the Church cannot be a mouthpiece for the West, even if, as a result, the Pope is accused of “misunderstanding the free-market economy.”

A Bold Venture in Liturgy

GUEST COLUMN

Mary Alma Parker

Now in our time an edition of the BCP has appeared under the auspices of the Roman Catho­lic Church, which does what none of its predeces­sors did or could do.

Walker Percy’s Christian Existentialism

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In every Percy novel there is a complex, reli­giously sensitive yet also modern and scientific sen­sibility at work.

Physician, Heal Thyself

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

A curious schizophrenia afflicts the corporate body of American Cath­olic institutions when it comes to the question of how to deal with a trade union.

Woody Allen’s Pessimistic Vision

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

Hankering for a Civil Religion

Richard V. Pierard

Neuhaus’s plea for the restoration of religious values in the public sphere and for the believing community to act there on the basis of its beliefs is proper and necessary.

Diagnosing America’s Troubled Ethos & Culture

Dale Vree

The social basis of our culture is bureaucratic consumer capitalism centered on the autonomous individual and generally hostile to older ideas of moral order.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

A POEM

Thomas Fleming

Briefly Reviewed

The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics... Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism: The 14th c. Apologia of Demetrios Kydones for Unity with Rome