NEWS AND VIEWS Pope Pius XII continues to catch it from historians and journalists digging into the minutiae of World War II. The latest glancing blow comes from Robert Katz in Death in Rome (due...
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CORRESPONDENCE War, Peace and John Leo Baltimore, Md. To the Editors: Someone, I am afraid, has seriously misinformed John Leo (News and Views, Sept. 16) that Cardinal Shehan "ordered his...
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AMERICAN MALAISE When President Johnson first took office, most liberals thought he would push through the domestic programs left over from the New Deal, Fair Deal and New Frontier; he would then...
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH The publication of several recent books on the assassination of PresidentKennedy has evoked numerous suggestions that a new panel of inquiry be appointed to...
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RELIGION AND WAR Violence and the human condition JAMES V. SCHALL On the surface, any attempt to juxtapose the notions of war and religion seems to be absurd. The two appear to be simply...
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Aggiornamento comes to a halt FAILURE IN FLORENCE ERIC COCHRANE Although most foreigners think of it merely as one vast art gallery, the city of Florence was also, until about four years ago, a...
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WEATHERING THE FOLLY THE STAGE "Under the Weather," hereinafter to be known as Saul Bellow's Folly, will undoubtedly provoke many a solemn thought about what goes wrong when novelists take to...
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PROS, JUST PROS THE SCREEN "The Professionals" referred to in the film of the same name are four tough, hardened-by-experience men who are hired by a wealthy southwestern rancher to bring back...
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BOOKS Theology as life and history God and the Human Mind F. J. SHEED Sheed and Ward, $5 DANIEL J. O'HANLON When I finally finished this book (after much picking up and putting down)...
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