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January 27, 2010

Balthasar on Claudel. New in our online archive:

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Afterword to The Satin Slipper. (1999)

January 8, 2010

Ratzinger on Sunday. New in our online archive:

Joseph Ratzinger, The Meaning of Sunday. (1994)

December 14, 2009

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December 1, 2009

International Communio Roundup. What a few of our sister editions are up to.

The French Communio participated in a Symposium on Evolution and Creation last week. The Germans published a recent issue on Jesus Christ, Judge and Savior, followed by The Search for the Lost Father. The Belgian-Netherlandish Communio marked a 450th ecclesial anniversary in the Low Countries with a special number this year. Download and search all the back issues of Communio Spain. The Portuguese continue the series on the Mysteries of the Life of Jesus. Finally, back at home, various editors and board members of the American Communio are participants in a conference on "Experience" this week in Washington DC. Subscribe here to join the family.

November 20, 2009

Just added to our online archive (PDF): Avery Dulles, Critera of Catholic Theology (1995) and Romano Guardini, The Playfulness of the Liturgy (1994).

November 9, 2009

From the archive: Roberto Graziotto, How Christians Should Think About Politics. Reflections in a Time of War (2004).

November 3, 2009

Readings for thinking about the issues surrounding the forthcoming Apostolic Constitution on Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans.

Joseph Ratzinger, What Unites and Divides Denominations? Ecumenical Reflections (1972)
Joseph Ratzinger, Luther and the Unity of the Churches: An Interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (1984)
Joseph Ratzinger, Thoughts on the Place of Marian Doctrine and Piety in Faith and Theology as a Whole (2003)

Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Meaning of Celibacy (1976)
Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Anti-Roman Attitude (1981)
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Editorial: The Meaning of the Communion of Saints and Catholicism and the Meaning of the Communion of Saints (1988)
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Women Priests? A Marian Church in a Fatherless and Motherless Culture (1995)

Martin Brüske, Newman's Essay on the Development of Doctrine: An Alternative Interpretation (2001)
Richard G. DeClue, Primacy and Collegiality in the Works of Joseph Ratzinger (2008)
Ian Ker, The Significance of Newman's Conversion (1995)
Ian Ker, Newman, the Councils, and Vatican II (2001)

October 3, 2009

From the archives: Jean-Charles Nault, Acedia, Enemy of Spiritual Joy
Adrian J. Walker, 'Rejoice always.' How Everyday Joy Responds to the Problem of Evil
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joy and the Cross

Read the Introduction to the Summer, 2004 issue on "Joy" here.

September 15, 2009

From the Summer, 2009 Communio:

Jose Granados, Priesthood: A Sacrament of the Father
Peter Gilbert, Not an Anthologist: John Bekkos as a Reader of the Fathers

Read the Introduction here. Subscribe here.

August 17, 2009

The Summer, 2009 Communio focuses on the theme of "Paternity." Articles include:

God the Father: A Beginning Without Beginning
Priesthood: A Sacrament of the Father
Disappearing Fathers, Destabilized Families
John Paul II's Theology of the Body and his Roman Tryptich

Subscribe here to start with the Summer issue.

July 13, 2009

To make room in our archives for upcoming books and journals, we're having a sale on back issues. All our remaining back issues from 1986 through 2005 are $4, online orders only. Click here to see a list of all the issues.

Two notes: First, some of our issues, particularly the early ones, are already sold out, but because they continue to be requested we make these issues available in photocopied form. This is noted in the title and in the table of contents for the sold-out issues.

Second, as to shipping: the cost of the journals already includes media mail postage within the US. If you live outside the US, you are also very welcome to participate in our archive-clearing sale, but unfortunately, because of increased postage rates, we will have to include a fee for airmail. We will email you the amount after you place an order.

July 2, 2009

Spring 2009: The Mysteries of the Life of Jesus: The Entry into Jerusalem | View contents

June 3, 2009

The Spring 2009 issue of Communio includes a short editorial from editor David L. Schindler in response to Notre Dame's decision to honor President Obama at the university's graduation ceremonies last month. President Obama, Notre Dame, and a Dialogue that Witnesses: A Question for Father Jenkins.

June 2, 2009

Winter 2008: Henri de Lubac's Catholicism at 70 Years | Read the Introduction

May 20, 2009

The 2008 Communique newsletter may be read here. Many thanks to all our Study Circle coordinators and members. We were delighted to read of your activities over the past year and are grateful for all you bring to Communio. Study Circles are listed here.

May 1, 2009

On St. Joseph's Day: Giorgio Buccellati, The Prophetic Dimension of Joseph, from the Spring 2006 Communio.

April 17, 2009

From the archives: Joseph Ratzinger, Truth and Freedom, from the Spring 1996 Communio.

March 26, 2009

From the archives: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Ethics and Politics on the Eve of the 21st Century from the Winter 1993 Communio. An address Solzhenitsyn gave in September 1993 to the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein.

March 11, 2009

The Fall 2008 issue features a collection of articles on the topic of "Natural Law," including David Crawford, Natural Law and the Body: Between Deductivism and Parallelism, and William Portier's review of Fergus Kerr's Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians, Thomist Resurgence. To see the full table of contents, click here, or read the Introduction.

February 4, 2009

Now available online: Joseph Ratzinger, The Theological Locus of Ecclesial Movements. Also on the topic of ecclesial movements, see Antonio Maria Sicari, Ecclesial Movements: A New Framework for Ancient Charisms, Massimo Camisasca, Priestly Fraternities: Living the Sacrament of the Other, and Juan M. Sara, Secular Institutes According to Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Also added to our collection of articles on the notion of person, an interview from the Winter 2007 issue: Robert Spaemann and Holger Zaborowski, 'An animal that can promise and forgive'.

January 15, 2009

In honor of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), who died August 3, 2008, the Fall, 2008 Communio includes two articles by Fr. Alexander Schmemann on the significance of the great Russian author's experience and writings: On Solzhenitsyn, and Reflections on The Gulag Archipelago.

December 9, 2008

Now online: Cardinal Ratzinger's Church and Economy: Responsibility for the World Economy, originally published in Communio 13 (1986).

November 6, 2008

The Summer 2008 issue includes a tribute to Patricia Buckley Bozell, which we include here along with a wonderful series of her letters, published in Communio in 2003.

October 9, 2008

The first volume of the papers delivered at from Communio's 2005 conference, "Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition" is available from Eerdmans. The second volume is forthcoming.

August 6, 2008

Please visit our Featured Back Issues section, which, periodically, will highlight a single issue from Communio's 35-year history.

July 1, 2008

There is much talk these days surrounding the forthcoming new liturgical translations. To contribute to the discussion, we offer you the following two articles:

Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, The Catechetical Role of the Liturgy and the Quality of Liturgical Texts: The Current ICEL Translation (1993).
Lauren Pristas, The Orations of the Vatican II Missal: Policies for Revision (2003).

June 2, 2008

What effect will California and New York's recent decisions on same-sex marriage have on the culture's understanding of marriage in general? For an analysis in terms of an ultimate elimination of the gender difference from the notion of person, read David S. Crawford, Liberal Androgyny: 'Gay Marriage' and the Meaning of Sexuality in Our Time. Crawford is associate professor of moral theology and family law at the John Paul II Institute at The Catholic University of America.

May 28, 2008

The new film version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited coming out from BBC Films this fall has generated some discussion regarding faithfulness to the text, on one hand, and whether Waugh's novel of decadence and theology can be made intelligible to popular culture at all, on the other. As a contribution to the discussion, we have brought up from our archives the 1983 article, The Death of Charm and the Advent of Grace: Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, by Thomas Prufer. Prufer, who taught philosophy at the Catholic University of America from 1960 to 1993, argues in this short text that Waugh's achievement in the novel is "to have made a work in which the integrities of both art and faith are respected in their interaction," and offers a reading of the novel's depiction of the place of worldly charm: as only a forerunner, but also a real forerunner, of grace.

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