The Catholic World articles from November 1994

The Catholic World archives from November 1994

Pursuit of the common good: the church's world mission.
November 1, 1994... "The church has a distinct and deliberate all discussions on labor, economics and social class: it is to reaffirm the dignity of the human person." The Second Vatican Council urged the church to engage the modern world in every area of...

A public faith: Christian witness in society.
November 1, 1994... The Catholic Christian tradition has always appreciated the vocation of those who go to the desert or the mountaintop, so long as their motive is love of the city. But the one who retreats from the cares and concerns of his or her brothers and...

Looking at the world in a theological way. (Michael Novak) (Interview)
November 1, 1994... First of all, Dr. Novak, let me congratulate you on receiving the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion last May at Westminster Abbey. You have been recognized world-wide for your contributions to the field of public theology. Your latest...

Public theologies in an age of ethnic rivalries.
November 1, 1994... The two sets of quotations given below will illuminate elements of the title I have chosen for this article. The first is from an unpublished sermon on the outbreak of the American civil war by the founder of the Paulists, who was also the...

The king's conscience. (church history)
November 1, 1994... Public theology, the use of f religious ideas in debates about public policy, is far from a twentieth century novelty. Perhaps Augustine would have understood himself as something of a public theologian when he wrote The City of God to defend...

Karl Adam: Catholicism in German Culture.
November 1, 1994... Karl Adam (1876-1966) is an acknowledged pioneer of Catholic theology in the twentieth century. Although his books are no longer found on best-seller lists in religious literature, his influence resonates down to the present day in writers as...

The Pacem in Terris Institute: educating college students from war-ravaged lands. (includes related article on a visit to a Croatian refugee camp)
November 1, 1994... What happens in today's world when governments fail to solve conflicts? And, further, what happens when the conflicts at hand are violent ones which threaten the broader peace of a region or even a hemisphere? The news media have illustrated...