THOSE OF US who planned this new journal did so under the working title Catholicism in Crisis. We did so with the example of Reinhold Niebuhr vividly in mind, who on February 10, 1941, under analogous circumstances, finding existing periodicals inhospitable, launched Christianity and…
Crisis Magazine: The First Issue
In November of 1982 Michael Novak and Ralph McInerny founded Catholicism in Crisis: A Journal of Lay Catholic Opinion, which quickly became one of the leading voices—often the only voice—in support of Catholic laymen and their essential role in the marketplace, the public square, and the domestic realm. Below are all the articles that appeared in the very first issue of Crisis (also available in PDF form here).
Today, Crisis Magazine stands renewed. Each day, Crisis will remind countless Catholics of their heritage, give them the confidence to defend the common good, a just society, the teachings the Church, the family, the dignity of work and the sanctity of life.
For more on the renewal of Crisis Magazine, you may read Crisis Publisher William Fahey’s Trigesimo Anno: Continuing Crisis and Crisis Editor John Zmirak’s Picking up the Broadsword.
