From the archives
From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating ifs 75th anniversary. Here from the February 5,1960 istue is an editorial on "The Catholic Liberal." Catholic Liberal:...
...promoted that awarenes- nf liturgical reform which is so significant in religious lift- today...
...Not everyone identified as a 'libenl Catholic" will welcome the appellation, and wi .v.:iselves would not encourage its use...
...Thl Editors Commonweal W June 4,1999...
...He can now point to a significant body of achievements which have been produced by "liberal Catholics...
...Il is tin- "liberal Catholic" who has aligned himself with I hose whose record concerning social legislation, opposition to Hitler and to Soviet imperialism is most atlmiiahlu...
...It is the "liberal Catholic" who, following Saint Augustine's injunction to "love intelligence greatly," has attempted to renew in America the Catholic tradition of the intellectual life...
...Catholic Liberal: Oddity in Terms," which appeared in a journal intended primarily for Catholic priests, is an article that...attempts to saddle the "liberal Catholic" with the manifold errors of philosophical liberalism and with the responsibility for the now-dead liberal myths of the inevitability of progress, of human perfectibility, of Utopian planning....While the charge is an old one, the "liberal Catholic" of today no longer has to define terms anew, to voice only aspirations for the future, or to reassert, however redundantly, his allegiance to Ihe teaching church...
...It is the "liberal Catholic" who has most \ igurously tried to implement the social encyclicals of Leo XIII...
...But judm'd -imply by the accomplishments of those to whi >m it i- applied, it can hardly be thought n term of reprobation...
...It is the "liberal (."jtruilie," again, who hat...
Vol. 126 • June 1999 • No. 11
