THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by weekA TIME FOR RESOLUTIONS THE BEGINNING of a new year is traditionally...
|
The Expansion of Christianity For twelve centuries Christianity has had an organic relation with the social and moral structure of one particular society of peoples by CHRISTOPHER DAWSON THE...
|
Radio has paid a ruinous price for its survival What Ever Happened to Radio? by DONALD P. COSTELLO RADIO is still here. It has been resurrected from its own ashes; but not as a phoenix—more...
|
De Gaulle's landslide represented a national swing to the Right The French Pendulum by ROBERT BARRAT IN LAST NOVEMBER'S elections, as in 1951 but directly opposite to 1956, the pendulum...
|
HERE AND THERE PERSON TO PERSON IN HIS CONTRIBUTION to Religion in America, Father Walter J. Ong says: "A democracy may perish in the cataclysm when its citizens come to blows. In the face of...
|
THE STAGE THE LESSON Of THE MASTER TO THAT MEAGER chronicle of art's high world of concepts and of life translated itself into art, "The Disenchanted" must be said to add only a melancholy...
|
THE SCREEN EGGS IN ONE BASKET THEN suddenly it's the end of the year; and reviewers go scurrying to their typewriters to name their ten best. That number ten is rather arbitrary; but the custom...
|
OF NOTE LITURGY AND MASS CULTURE IN A RECENT issue of Worship (Collegeville, Minn.), Father Andrew M. Greeley discusses the relation of the liturgy to our society's cultural...
|
BOOKS A Man With a Sense of Mission PORTRAIT OF A PARISH PRIEST. By Lancelot C. Sheppard. Newman. $3.50. By PHILIP DEASY FORESEEING the inevitable, question, "Why another life of the Cure...
|
ART The Happy Genius of Henri Matisse Europe." There is nothing in the previous pages, however, to show this to be a fact. Is the Machiavellian idea in the author's own mind, a bit of...
|