Continuing the conversation
McCarthy, Robert E.
From the archives By f;ir the most radically important thing slid by President Roosevelt in his address on the state ol I he Union was what he had to say concerning religion as the primal,...
...But 1 think that its recognition as an epoch-marking public paper will come, for I believe that a great part of our population, Protestants, Jews, and Catholics, and many upholders of the Western traditions oi society—which depend upon the truth pro- claimed so admirably by Mr...
...M1CHALL WILLIAMS inn the founding editor nf Common weal...
...It differed essentially, it seems to me, from the pious platitudes and conventional appeals to religious sentiment used by so many politicians and publicists, but really having little save a purely sentimental relation to the realities of government or economics...
...Rt'i'iinh'ti from January 20, JW...
...From the archives By f;ir the most radically important thing slid by President Roosevelt in his address on the state ol I he Union was what he had to say concerning religion as the primal, indeed the unique source of human liberties- -and, hence, of the highest values associated with our form of government...
...Commonweal 6 January 15,1999...
...So far as my own newspaper reading shows, among the commentators only Walter l.ippmann and Dorothy'Thompson recognized the significance of the president's utterance...
...Roosevelt for their preservation—are uniting in a common consciousness, of the practical value of what too long has been relegated to private as distinct from public life and interests...
...Indeed, 1 think it the most im- portant thing said by any secular statesman in modern times...
Vol. 126 • January 1999 • No. 1
