Commonweal Confronts the Century

Peter Steinfels, former co-director of the Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture, is a university professor at Fordham. He was religion columnist for The New York Times and editor of Commonweal. Steinfels is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America (Simon & Schuster, 2003). He lives in New York City.

• ContentsIntroduction, by Peter SteinfelsEncountering the Twentieth CenturySetting the SceneGeorge N. Shuster Terror in ViennaMichael Harrington The Other AmericaWilliam Clancy The Catholic in the Modern World: A Liberal ViewE. J. Dionne, Jr. The Political CrisisReligion and PoliticsThe Editors Is Mr. Smith Dangerous?John A. Lukacs The Totalitarian TemptationEugene J. McCarthy The Christian in PoliticsJohn Cogley Kennedy the CatholicMichael McAuliffe Richard J. Daley -- A Personal MemoirThe Bottom LineEdwin V. O'Hara Catholic Industrial PrinciplesDorothy Day For the Truly PoorBudd Schulberg Waterfront PriestJoseph L. Bernardin Our Responsibility to the PoorStuart Dybek CharityRace and JusticeEllen Tarry Native DaughterGeorge H. Dunne The Sin of SegregationPeter Steinfels The Case of Mr. Y.Don Wycliff Affirmative on Affirmative ActionChurch and StateThe Editors Religion in the CampaignThe Editors Do Catholics Have Constitutional Rights?Eve W. Paul, Theressa Hoover, Richard Neuhaus, Rhonda Copelon, Ira Glasser, Janet Benshoof Correspondence: Abortion and the ConstitutionThe Editors Abortion, Religion, and Political LifeWar and PeaceThe Editors Civil War in Spain and the United StatesJacques Maritain Just WarJames Finn Citizen SoldierThe Editors Horror and ShameJohn Cogley Lonely ProtestThomas Powers On Nuclear DisbeliefThe Editors Is Deterrence Moral?Thomas Merton Nuclear War and Christian ResponsibilityThe Editors Getting OutDaniel Berrigan Notes from the UndergroundThe Editors Should We Go to War with Nicaragua?George Weigel A War About AmericaLife, Death, and the Dignity of PersonsThe Editors Justice for JewsAlfred Werner Christmas at DachauGordon Marino Justifying TorturePeter Steinfels The Search for an AlternativeDaniel Callahan The Primacy of CaringRand Richards Cooper The Dignity of HelplessnessLeon R. Kass Why Doctors Must Not KillRobert Johnson This Man Has ExpiredMichael Novak Marriage: The Lay VoiceBernard H ring The Encyclical CrisisJo McGowan Marriage Versus Just Living TogetherJean Bethke Elshtain Against Gay MarriageSidney Callahan Why I Changed My MindBeliefsGraham Greene On Becoming a CatholicJohn Alden Williams On the Holy MountainElizabeth A. Johnson A Theological Case for God-SheJohn Cogley The TragedyJohn Polkinghorne So Finely Tuned a UniverseMargaret O'Brien Steinfels Dissent and CommunionReinhold Niebuhr A Protestant Looks at CatholicsGeorge A. Lindbeck The Catholic CrisisGordon C. Zahn The Church Under HitlerThe Editors MisrememberedPaul Elie The Everlasting DilemmaJohn Garvey When a Child DiesArtWilla Cather EscapismWalter Kerr Catholics and HollywoodEvelyn Waugh Felix Culpa?Thomas Molnar Matter-of-Fact Confession of a Non-PenitentD. Bernard Theall, Thomas Molnar Correspondence: LolitaWilfrid Sheed A Guide to Hatchet JobsLeonard Mayhew Flannery O'Connor: 1925-64Rand Richards Cooper Charming AliceRichard Alleva Spielberg's "Schindler"

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