Fr. James L. Heft, SM (Marianist) is the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of twelve books and over 170 scholarly articles, and currently serves as the president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC. His recent research has focused on the mission of Catholic education and inter-religious dialogue.Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Dayton. She is a cultural historian of US Catholicism, and the author of All Good Books Are Catholic Books: Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America.

• Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction ; James L. Heft, SM, and Una M. Cadegan ; Chapter 1- The Cliff and the Tower: Reflections on the Past Half-Century in Light of the Past Half-Millennium (Or So) ; Una M. Cadegan ; Chapter 2-Bridges: Truth, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and Building Cultural Relationships in the Image of God ; Miguel H. Diaz ; Chapter 3-Threnody or Spoliation? Responding to the Place of the Catholic Intellectual in the Pagan University ; Paul J. Griffiths ; Chapter 4-Professional Education and the Paschal Mystery ; Amelia J. Uelmen ; Chapter 5-Breaking the Silence: Sex, Gender, and the Parameters of Catholic Intellectual Life ; Leslie Woodcock Tentler ; Chapter 6-Sex and Gender and Sexuality: Competing Claims? A Catholic Response ; Nancy Dallavalle ; Chapter 7-Changing Media, Changing Problems: Catholic Intellectual Life, Identity, and Fragmentation ; Vincent J. Miller ; Chapter 8-"Shame, Fear, Conflict, and Compassion": Media Coverage of Catholicism During The First Decade Of the AIDS Crisis ; Diane Winston ; Chapter 9-A Global Agenda for American Catholicism: The Promise and Predicament of Catholic Intellectual Life Today ; Scott Appleby ; Index

"[T]he real value of this volume lies in the finely textured picture of contemporary Catholic intellectual life painted in different strokes by the various contributors. Each chapter presents highly relevant descriptions of present cultural realities and the efforts of Catholic scholars to avail themselves of the resources of CIT in diverse contexts...this text would make a welcome addition to the library of any Catholic university, center, or institute seekingresources for thoughtfully engaging the Catholic intellectual tradition."--American Catholic Studies"These wide-ranging papers examine Catholic intellectual life fifty years after Vatican II. The 'predicament' is that Catholic intellectual and cultural achievements and resources are overshadowed by internal divisions, changing patterns of religious belief and practice, pressures on academic institutions, and a changing media culture. Contributors resist simplistic arguments about secularism and relativism and hold out the hope, the 'promise,' that renewedcommitment to the 'Logos of Love,' truth and charity, will enable Catholic scholars and artists, now at the intellectual centers, to enrich the Church and the human family." --David O'Brien, LoyolaProfessor of Catholic Studies, Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross

Fr. James L. Heft, SM (Marianist) is the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of twelve books and over 170 scholarly articles, and currently serves as the president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC. His recent research has focused on the mission of Catholic education and inter-religious dialogue.Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Dayton. She is a cultural historian of US Catholicism, and the author of All Good Books Are Catholic Books: Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America.

• Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction ; James L. Heft, SM, and Una M. Cadegan ; Chapter 1- The Cliff and the Tower: Reflections on the Past Half-Century in Light of the Past Half-Millennium (Or So) ; Una M. Cadegan ; Chapter 2-Bridges: Truth, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and Building Cultural Relationships in the Image of God ; Miguel H. Diaz ; Chapter 3-Threnody or Spoliation? Responding to the Place of the Catholic Intellectual in the Pagan University ; Paul J. Griffiths ; Chapter 4-Professional Education and the Paschal Mystery ; Amelia J. Uelmen ; Chapter 5-Breaking the Silence: Sex, Gender, and the Parameters of Catholic Intellectual Life ; Leslie Woodcock Tentler ; Chapter 6-Sex and Gender and Sexuality: Competing Claims? A Catholic Response ; Nancy Dallavalle ; Chapter 7-Changing Media, Changing Problems: Catholic Intellectual Life, Identity, and Fragmentation ; Vincent J. Miller ; Chapter 8-"Shame, Fear, Conflict, and Compassion": Media Coverage of Catholicism During The First Decade Of the AIDS Crisis ; Diane Winston ; Chapter 9-A Global Agenda for American Catholicism: The Promise and Predicament of Catholic Intellectual Life Today ; Scott Appleby ; Index

"[T]he real value of this volume lies in the finely textured picture of contemporary Catholic intellectual life painted in different strokes by the various contributors. Each chapter presents highly relevant descriptions of present cultural realities and the efforts of Catholic scholars to avail themselves of the resources of CIT in diverse contexts...this text would make a welcome addition to the library of any Catholic university, center, or institute seekingresources for thoughtfully engaging the Catholic intellectual tradition."--American Catholic Studies"These wide-ranging papers examine Catholic intellectual life fifty years after Vatican II. The 'predicament' is that Catholic intellectual and cultural achievements and resources are overshadowed by internal divisions, changing patterns of religious belief and practice, pressures on academic institutions, and a changing media culture. Contributors resist simplistic arguments about secularism and relativism and hold out the hope, the 'promise,' that renewedcommitment to the 'Logos of Love,' truth and charity, will enable Catholic scholars and artists, now at the intellectual centers, to enrich the Church and the human family." --David O'Brien, LoyolaProfessor of Catholic Studies, Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross

Fr. James L. Heft, SM (Marianist) is the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of twelve books and over 170 scholarly articles, and currently serves as the president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC. His recent research has focused on the mission of Catholic education and inter-religious dialogue.Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Dayton. She is a cultural historian of US Catholicism, and the author of All Good Books Are Catholic Books: Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America.

• Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction ; James L. Heft, SM, and Una M. Cadegan ; Chapter 1- The Cliff and the Tower: Reflections on the Past Half-Century in Light of the Past Half-Millennium (Or So) ; Una M. Cadegan ; Chapter 2-Bridges: Truth, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and Building Cultural Relationships in the Image of God ; Miguel H. Diaz ; Chapter 3-Threnody or Spoliation? Responding to the Place of the Catholic Intellectual in the Pagan University ; Paul J. Griffiths ; Chapter 4-Professional Education and the Paschal Mystery ; Amelia J. Uelmen ; Chapter 5-Breaking the Silence: Sex, Gender, and the Parameters of Catholic Intellectual Life ; Leslie Woodcock Tentler ; Chapter 6-Sex and Gender and Sexuality: Competing Claims? A Catholic Response ; Nancy Dallavalle ; Chapter 7-Changing Media, Changing Problems: Catholic Intellectual Life, Identity, and Fragmentation ; Vincent J. Miller ; Chapter 8-"Shame, Fear, Conflict, and Compassion": Media Coverage of Catholicism During The First Decade Of the AIDS Crisis ; Diane Winston ; Chapter 9-A Global Agenda for American Catholicism: The Promise and Predicament of Catholic Intellectual Life Today ; Scott Appleby ; Index

"[T]he real value of this volume lies in the finely textured picture of contemporary Catholic intellectual life painted in different strokes by the various contributors. Each chapter presents highly relevant descriptions of present cultural realities and the efforts of Catholic scholars to avail themselves of the resources of CIT in diverse contexts...this text would make a welcome addition to the library of any Catholic university, center, or institute seekingresources for thoughtfully engaging the Catholic intellectual tradition."--American Catholic Studies"These wide-ranging papers examine Catholic intellectual life fifty years after Vatican II. The 'predicament' is that Catholic intellectual and cultural achievements and resources are overshadowed by internal divisions, changing patterns of religious belief and practice, pressures on academic institutions, and a changing media culture. Contributors resist simplistic arguments about secularism and relativism and hold out the hope, the 'promise,' that renewedcommitment to the 'Logos of Love,' truth and charity, will enable Catholic scholars and artists, now at the intellectual centers, to enrich the Church and the human family." --David O'Brien, LoyolaProfessor of Catholic Studies, Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross