In the Irish character is a profound disillusion with or nonacceptance of an ideal having to do with the very wellspring of culture, namely, identity.

The university as the pluralistic forum is not a picture of what a Catholic university is but a picture of what it is gradually, painfully becoming.

Although deeply penetrating in its vision of married love and containing the matrix of a theology of marriage, "Humanae Vitae" has not magisterially advanced thinking on the latter.

John Ryan, American Progressive, was the paramount figure in the Social Action Department and its role in great part reflected his own intellectual development.

Teilhard de Chardin's use of metaphor in "The Phenomenon of Man" is the perfect linguistic counterpart to his lifelong attempt to vision the unity of being.

Ironically, in adopting Neo-Platonism over Aristotelianism, Galileo made significant advances concerning the general problem of motion but in doing so bracketed the crucial issue of gravity.

A discussion of the remarkable relation between Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Ignatius Loyola, John XXIII, and the simple but vital ideas of Vatican II.