The Bishops Confront Capitalism  

The Catholic bishops hadn’t even produced any part of a first draft of their pastoral letter on “Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy,” when Business Week and Fortunestarted whimpering. Business Week (12/19/83) quoted such authorities as Van P. Smith, …



The Bishops Stay the Course  

The Catholic bishops have a nice sense of timing. Last November, just before the election, they released the second draft of a pastoral letter that called for a “halt” to the “testing, production and deployment of new strategic weapons” (Dissent, …



The Catholic Church and Socialism  

Strange things have been happening on the interface between religion and socialism, and few more strange or interesting than some of the developments within the Catholic church. In Poland, at this writing, the Communist bulldozer has buried the first offspring …