The Commonweal week by week NUCLEAR WEAPON CONTROL p IUS XII's annual Christmas messages have long dealt with a concern close to his paternal heart: man's quest for peace and security. The...
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Conditions of Freedom " IN ASSERTING FREEDOM AS AN ABSOLUTE, SOMEHOW DIVORCED FROM ORDER, WE ARE REPUDIATING OUR HISTORIC LEGACY OF FREEDOM" RUSSELL KIRK ORDERS and degrees," Milton says,...
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SOUTH AFRICA Darkness Over the Land NED O'GORMAN O NE of the most agonizing tasks a man of vision and charity can be called to perform in society is the task of the politician. He must move...
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THE DOUBLE I did not choose this road: the crack Of birth discovered me upon my way Following in all weathers my own mirror. The man who walks before me wears my shape, Gloves myseh~ fingers,...
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SPLIT IN LABOR "Catholic Plot" Down Under WILFRID SHEED W HEN Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov decided to choose freedom and the Australian way of life early in 1954, he unwittingly but...
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THE STAGE THE MATCHMAKER A FTER a good dinner, and a better bottle of wine, Mr. Thornton Wilder's farce about marrying and being taken in marriage, "The Matchmaker," seems the quintessence of...
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THE SCREEN IT AIN'T GONNA RAIN NO MORE T HIS remake of Louis Bromfield's once-popular novel, The Rains Came, has been produced by Frank Ross on such an elaborate and definitive scale that I...
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OF NOTE THE UNITY OF TRUTH p ARTICIPATING in the recent observance of Founders' Day at Saint Louis University, the Reverend John Courtney Murray, S.J., addressed the Faculty Convocation on the...
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BOOKS Religion in the Melting Pot of America PROTESTANT-CATHOLIC-JEW. By Will Herberg. Doubleday. $4. By ALBAN BAER I N Protestant-Catholic-lew Mr. Will Herberg has investigated the three...
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