Editorial
columnists, and writers have so pondered. But no more than the philosophers or Schindler do we have a clear answer to how the moral crisis of liberalism will resolve itself on such questions as...
...As we said, a hefty question, too hefty to tackle in a single editorial...
...It is a subject on which we will have more to say in our seventy-first year...
...Rather than seeing in liberalism's current troubles the "culture of death," shouldn't we Catholics see in them the opportunity to repay a debt by drawing into this project on human freedom our own tradition with its emphasis on the social nature of the human person and the social bonds that bind society together...
...the need for a vibrant defense of human dignity, first tutored in liberal societies...
...The Catholic church itself has learned much from liberalism: the virtue of separating church and state...
...But, at least for the moment, the countercultural critique authored by conservative Catholics reaches too far while offering little more than integral-ist rhetoric as a substitute for liberalism's actual moral strengths...
...But no more than the philosophers or Schindler do we have a clear answer to how the moral crisis of liberalism will resolve itself on such questions as abortion and euthanasia...
...the sinfulness of slavery, which the church defended down through the nineteenth century...
...We have no doubt that modern culture desperately needs such virtues...
...We think not...
...But do "A Civilization of Love" and Schindler's commentary give a fair account of liberalism's virtues...
...How can the human freedom and material well-being wrought by a liberal society be made more socially and communally responsible...
Vol. 121 • November 1994 • No. 20
