Editorials
Contents I Volume CXI, Number 19 & 20 Correspondence 580 Editorials 581 Politics & religion: John Garvey 584 The bishops & the bottom line: John Langan 586 Computerization...
...This editorial, in reality, is going to press a week before election day, at a time when all the polls but that final one on November 6 are pointing toward the reelection of the man who substituted Calvin Coolidge's picture for Harry Truman's in his administration's Cabinet Room...
...even the question of whether the bishops' credibility on "worldly...
...It is not clear how thoroughly the lesson stuck, even with members of the hierarchy...
...Anne Robertson Poetry: Rosemary Deen, Made Ponsot Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, Patricia Mazzola Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Publisher: Edward S. Sldllin Illll FAITH & THE ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY I I I S IXTYyEARSAGO, when the very first issue of Commonweal went to press, the presidential election returns were not yet complete but the identity of the winner was known...
...In sum, the president faced "prob- lems of unparalleled intricacy and magnitude --moral, economic, and interna- tional...
...Cynics might be tempted to observe that some things never change...
...Mercier, Virgil Michel, Charles Owen Rice, Martin C. Kyne, John P. Sisk, Eduardo Frei, John C. Cort, Helder Camara, James O" Gara, Stuart Dybeck 613 The Furore of Pover~: Michael Harrington 625 Books Freedom with Justice/Option for the Poor/Social Justice Ministry: Peter Steinfels 632 E.F...
...The new president, they wrote, would have to lead a"nation troubled and perplexed by most serious and highly perilous problems, complicated by the fact that this nation must in one way or another play a leading part among the other nations of the world at a time when peoples are facing a crisis graver than any recorded in the annals of humanity...
...Schumacher...
...It is with that e~,ent in mind that we have chosen to devote this anniversary issue to the topic of Christian faith and economics...
...Moral, economic, and international -- that sounds like a list of themes from the expiring presidential campaign...
...Contents I Volume CXI, Number 19 & 20 Correspondence 580 Editorials 581 Politics & religion: John Garvey 584 The bishops & the bottom line: John Langan 586 Computerization changes the rules: Fred L. Block & John B. Judis 592 The un~scussable assumption: James B. Rule 596 Economics & Christian values: Prentiss L. Pemberton & Daniel Rush Finn 597 On not skipping the sermon: James Carroll 603 Challenging a commodity culture: John Kavanaugh 606 Economics of shelter...
...A year earlier, the Catholic bishops' historic pastoral letter on nuclear arms tried to warn against such compartmentaliza- tion, in that case between morality and international security questions...
...If times indeed have changed, the changes have only added ominous resonance to the phrases with which Commonweal's editors greeted Mr...
...He was Calvin Coolidge...
...the challenge of living a Christian life resistant to the commodity culture of American capitalism...
...But now the bishops are about to try again, this time linking morality and economics...
...Only the lead article, however, directly discusses the bishops' effort, and we have tried to avoid covering topics that the bishops, draft was sure to address more thoroughly --the Scriptural basi~ of Christian attitudes toward economic life, for example, or the social teachings of the church over the last century...
...Francis J. Flaherty 635 Staff Editor: Peter Steinfels Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue Smith, Patrick Jordan Production Editor...
...Karen Sue Smith 610 Faith & economics: comments from sixty years: Thomas F. Woodlock, Henry Somerville, The Editors, John A. Ryan, Hilaire Belloc, John A. Loftus, Dorothy Day, Louis J.A...
...the intersection of Christian values and the working concepts of mainstream economic theory...
...the need for a nuanced debate on economic growth itself...
...Coolidge in 1924...
...the emergence of new forms of poverty and of social-science theories to explain them (or explain them away...
...Unfortunately the three themes often were com- partmentalized, with "moral," for example, referring to abortion, school prayer, and the knotty "religion and politics" issue...
...This issue emphasizes, instead, a number of adjunct or background considerations: the possibility that computerization may be rendering obsolete the economic remedies of both major political patties...
...Not long after the media report the results of the election, they will be reporting the contents of the first draft of the bishops' pastoral letter on the American economy...
Vol. 111 • November 1984 • No. 19
