Some years ago, when I sat on the Board of Regents of a well-known Catholic women’s’ college, the question of parietals, and more generally of a moral code suitable to the student body, was regularly brought before the board. After one of these sessions, one of my fellow regents, the president of another women’s’ college and … Read more
In an unusually outrageous essay in the August, 1983, issue of this journal, Michael Novak informs us that “the American social system is morally superior to any historical Catholic social system, whether of the Vatican or of any Catholic state.” This is the kind of statement one finds all too commonly on freshman exams, written … Read more
Kenneth Woodward titles a recent article on John Paul II in Newsweek (June 20, 1983), “The Vision of a Socialist Pope,” and provocatively contrasts John Paul’s purported socialism with Pius XI’s statement that “No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist.” In the body of his article, Woodward … Read more