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Unity of the Church - Unity of Mankind. A Congress Report

Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI
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Communio - Fall–Winter 2018 - Peace and Homo Viator
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Volume 45.3–4

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  • Introduction: Peace and Homo Viator
  • The Role and Dignity of the Christian Soldier
  • The End of Sovereignty: An Essay in Christian Postliberalism
  • “A Twice-Told Tale”: The Wars of Religion as Girardian Myth
  • Making Peace through the Blood of His Cross
  • Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord: Jews and the Parousia of Jesus
  • Bound in Freedom: Odysseus at the Mast as Archetype of the Homo Viator
  • Homo Viator, Puer in Patria: On Ferdinand Ulrich’s Philosophical Anthropology of Childhood
  • The Indissoluble Nexus of Nature, Body, and Person: 50 Years after Humanae Vitae
  • Teleology and Transcendence: The Thought of Robert Spaemann
  • What Makes Persons Persons?
  • A Keyhole for Unbelievers? The Public Character of Cultus and the Broadcasting of the Mass on TV
  • The Many Homes of Anna Karenina
  • The Closing of Stores of Sunday: The Church’s Social Doctrine Says Yes
Communio - Damaged Issue - Damaged Issue
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Volume 01.0

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Communio - Summer 2018 - Priesthood, Consecration, Marriage: Is Love Possible? A Symposium Discerning the Signs of the Times
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Volume 45.2

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  • Introduction: Priesthood, Consecration, Marriage: Is Love Possible?
  • Do Not Hold Me: Ascending the Ladder of Love
  • Friends of the Bridegroom: Reflections on Priestly Fatherhood in Light of Contemporary Challenges
  • The Contribution of St. John Paul II to the Integral Human Formation of Priests
  • Educating to Love
  • Marriage, Priesthood, and the Sincere Gift of Self
  • A Critical Introduction to Blondel’s “Letter to Fr. Bieil”
  • Letter to Fr. Bieil: The Discernment of a Philosophical Vocation
Communio - Spring 2018 - “Forgive Us Our Debts, As We Forgive Our Debtors”
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Volume 45.1

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  • Introduction: “Forgive Us Our Debts, as We Forgive Our Debtors”
  • Those Dear Words, Debt and Debtors: Biblical Journeys
  • Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Our Debtors
  • Catholic Penance
  • Sacrifice and Freedom: On Mystagogy and the Way of Atonement
  • The Purification of Memory
  • The Mystery of Beauty: The Immaculate Conception as the Most Sublime Redemption
  • Literature in the Waste Land: Brideshead Revisited and Literary Education
  • Gift and Mediation at the Heart of Poetry
  • Foreword to Benedict XVI’s “Grace and Vocation without Remorse”
  • Grace and Vocation without Remorse: Comments on the Treatise De Iudaeis
  • The Lord’s Prayer: Sermon 5
  • Forgiveness: A Homily on the Unmerciful Servant
  • The Lady Left for Dragon’s Meat
Communio - Winter 2017 - Tradition
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Volume 44.4

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  • Introduction: Tradition
  • From Flesh to Flesh: On the Sacramental Meaning of Tradition
  • Henri de Lubac on the Development of Doctrine
  • Taking Truth for Granted: A Reflection on the Significance of Tradition in Josef Pieper
  • Technocracy and Tradition
  • On Poetic Traditions: T. S. Eliot, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the Practice of Reason
  • Olivier Messiaen and the Promise of Avant-Garde Traditionalism
  • Tradition as Gift: On the Theologian’s Responsibility to Tradition
Communio - Fall 2017 - Food
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Volume 44.3

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  • Introduction: Food
  • “Plenty of Food for Everyone”: A Balthasarian Look at Babette’s Feast
  • The Economy of a Small Farm
  • Sacro Speco—St. Benedict’s Cave: The Roots of Monastic Cheesemaking
  • Reason for Being: Festivity, Perfection, and the “Very Good”
  • Ordering All Things Well: The Role of Eating in the Old Testament
  • The Wine of the Wedding
  • Affirming Childhood: The Form of Familial Relations
Communio - Summer 2017 - Joseph Ratzinger: In Honor of His 90th Birthday
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Volume 44.2

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  • Introduction: “Joseph Ratzinger: In Honor of His 90th Birthday”
  • A Happening That Really Took Place: Ratzinger on Reason, Revelation, and the “Adventure of Thinking”
  • Ratzinger on the Timelessness of Truth
  • The 2015 Marriage Referendum in Ireland: A Ratzingerian Analysis
  • Ratzinger on the Augustinian Understanding of Religious Freedom
  • Augusto Del Noce on the “New Totalitarianism”
  • Love and Beauty, the “Forgotten Transcendental,” in Thomas Aquinas
  • The Ontological and Psychological Notion of “Person” in Trinitarian Theology and Christology
  • Sources Chrétiennes and the One Unique Source
  • The New Evangelization
  • In Memoriam: Kenneth L. Schmitz
Communio - Spring 2017 - “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
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Volume 44.1

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  • Introduction: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
  • Effects of the Eucharistic Sacrifice: A Brief Commentary on Trent’s De Missae Sacrificio, Chapter 2
  • Panis Angelicus—Gift of Life: On the Poetic Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Hymn “Sacris Solemniis”
  • What Bread Is This? What Bread This Is!
  • Asking God for What We Do: On an Aphorism of Ignatius of Loyola
  • Between a Criticism of Evolution and Atheism: A View on the Philosophy of Thomas Nagel
  • On Trivializing the Lives of “Ordinary People” in Liberal Societies
  • Why We Need Erich Przywara
  • Eucharist and Labor
  • Our Father
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar’s The Grain of Wheat: Reflections on Spirit and Truth
Communio - Winter 2016 - The City
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Volume 43.4

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  • Introduction: The City
  • City Stories of Nature and Grace: An Urban Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Political Life and the Horizon of the Human: Polis, Church and State, and Totalitarianism
  • The Creation of the City of Man
  • Flannery O’Connor and the City
  • The Conversation of Ascent: A Reading of St. Augustine’s Confessions, Book IX, Chapter 10
  • The City and Apostolic Solitude
  • We, the Ordinary People of the Streets
  • God in the City
  • Religion and the Life of Civilisation
  • Jane Jacobs: “Who Is This Crazy Dame?”
  • All the Talk About Silence
Communio - Fall 2016 - Time
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Volume 43.3

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  • Introduction: Time
  • Technology and Time
  • The Consummation of the World as a Re-capitulation
  • The Experience of the Unity of Time and Christian Faith in the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich
  • Being, Gift, Self-Gift (Part Two)
  • Giving Time: The Trinitarian Origin of Created Spatio-Temporality
  • “Once upon a Time”: Preserving the Past in a Presence Open to the Future
  • The Mystery of the Liturgical Year: The Easter Liturgy
  • Pre-verberation of Eternity: Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Communio - Summer 2016 - Body and Gender (photocopy)
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Volume 43.2

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  • Introduction: Body and Gender
  • “The Flesh Is of No Avail”: Theology of the Body as Necessary to Understanding Life in the Spirit
  • Perfect Difference: Gender and the Analogy of Being
  • The Spirit of Christian Doctrine
  • Public Reason and the Anthropology of Orientation
  • Gender Ideology and the Humanum
  • Sexuality and the Forgetfulness of God: Unseasonal Thoughts about a Biblical Connection
  • Forbidden Difference
  • Claiming our Belovedness: Our Bodies Reveal the Truth to Us
Communio - Spring 2016 - “Hallowed Be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven”
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Volume 43.1

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  • Introduction: “Hallowed Be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven”
  • “Hallowed Be Thy Name”: Of God and Men and the Miracle of Language
  • Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven
  • The Freedom of Christ: Notes on “Gnomie” in Maximus the Confessor
  • Maximus the Confessor on Christ’s Human Will
  • “Unless You Become a Philosopher . . . ”: On God, Being, and Reason’s Role in Faith
  • The Synergy of Doctrine and Life
  • John Paul II’s “Meditation on Givenness”
  • Eucharist: Gift of Love
  • Péguy and the Communion of Saints
Communio - Winter 2015 - Integral Ecology
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Volume 42.4

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  • Introduction: Integral Ecology
  • Habits of Presence and the Generosity of Creation: Ecology in Light of Integral Human Development
  • Work as Contemplation: On the Platonic Notion of Technê
  • Ecology on One’s Knees: Reading Laudato Si’
  • Reading Natural Hierarchy in a Trinitarian Key
  • Economics, Ecology, and Our Common Home: The Limits of a Preference-based Approach to Human Behavior
  • Gospel of Creation and the Technocratic Paradigm: Reflections on a Central Teaching of Laudato Si'
  • Seeing with Christ in a Culture of Power
  • Created by God
  • The Coherences of Home: Life on Whiffletree Farm
Communio - Fall 2015 - Poverty and Kenosis
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Volume 42.3

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  • Introduction: Poverty and Kenosis
  • The Kenotic Decision of the Son and the Filial Obedience of the Christian
  • The Precarity of Love: Dorothy Day on Poverty
  • Vides Trinitatem Si Caritatem Vides: Persons in Communion
  • Love: Philosophy’s Blind Spot? Toward a Wisdom of Love
  • Most High Poverty: The Challenge of the Franciscan Experiment
  • The Franciscan Conundrum
  • Messianic Jews and the Catholic Church: Reflections on the Ecclesiology of Mark S. Kinzer
  • Searching Her Own Mystery Together: A Response to Roch Kereszty
  • Rejoinder to Mark S. Kinzer
  • Georges Bernanos: “Blessed the Poor in Spirit!”
  • The Personal Unity of Glory and Poverty in Freedom as Love
  • Eucharist and Kenosis
Communio - Summer 2015 - Saving the Differences
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Volume 42.2

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  • Introduction: Saving the Differences
  • The Saving Difference
  • Totalitarian Tendencies and the Perversion of Language
  • “Political Correctness” as a Form of Humanism, and the Christian Mission
  • Being, Gift, Self-Gift: Reply to Waldstein on Relationality and John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
  • The Light of Glory: From Theosis to Sophiology
  • Authority Versus Power
  • The Logos and the Logoi
  • Faith and the Sacrament of Marriage: A Response to the Proposal of a New "Minimum Fidei" Requirement
  • Nature and Grace: The Sacramental Reality of Marriage
  • The Integrity of Moral Deliberation: On Paragraph 137 of the Instrumentum Laboris
Communio - Spring 2015 - “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven”
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Volume 42.1

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  • Introduction: “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven”
  • “The Father Without the Son Would Not Be the Father”: The Concept of God at the Council of Nicaea
  • “Further Up and Further In!” C.S. Lewis on Heaven
  • Vatican II and the Catholicity of Salvation: A Response to Ralph Martin
  • God and the Cross: The Doctrine of God in the Work of Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • The Church as the Sacrament of Creation: A Reading of Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
  • The Christocentric Mystagogy of Joseph Ratzinger
  • Hope and History
  • The Music of Eternity
  • The Real World: A Metaphysical Reflection on The Great Divorce
Communio - Winter 2014 - Ecclesiam Unam (photocopy)
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Volume 41.4

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  • Introduction: Ecclesiam Unam
  • The Unity of the Church
  • Ecclesia de Trinitate
  • Conscience, the Emperor, and the Pope: The Witness of St. Maximus the Confessor
  • “In the Beginning Was the Word”: Mercy as a “Reality Illuminated by Reason”
  • Fruitfulness and the Rediscovery of Finitude
  • “The Mystery of Mysteries”: On Péguy’s Vision of Hope
  • Nature and Notes of the Church
  • A Meditation on Givenness
Communio - Fall 2014 - Health
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Volume 41.3

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  • Introduction: Health
  • On the Sacramental Nature of Health
  • Human Wellbeing, the Natural Family, and Natural Law
  • From Nature to Glory: The Grace of Illness
  • The Healthy and the Holy
  • Health and Disease: Aspects of Wellbeing and Human Flourishing
  • Reconceiving the Organism: Why American Catholic Bioethics Needs a Better Theory of Human Life
  • Health Between Science and Wisdom
  • Healing the “Healthy”
  • Satan Was the First Philanthropist
Communio - Summer 2014 - Marriage: Theological and Pastoral Considerations
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Volume 41.2

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  • Introduction: Marriage
  • Marriage and the Family Between Anthropology and the Eucharist
  • Marriage and the Family Within the Sacramentality of the Church
  • The Sacramental Character of Faith
  • Marriage’s Indissolubility: An Untenable Promise?
  • The Merciful Gift of Indissolubility
  • The Crisis of Marriage as a Crisis of Meaning: On the Sterility of the Modern Will
  • “What God Has Conjoined, Let No Man Put Asunder”
  • Gay Marriage, Public Reason, and the Common Good
  • Pastoral Care of Marriage: Affirming the Unity of Mercy and Truth
  • God’s Gift of Life and Love: On Marriage and the Eucharist
  • Divorce and Remarriage in the Early Church
  • In Memoriam: Stratford Caldecott (1953-2014)
Communio - Spring 2014 - Apologetics (Photocopy)
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Volume 41.1

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  • Introduction: Apologetics
  • The Witness of the Martyrs in the Early Church
  • On Reason’s Authority
  • “Faith Is Obvious”: The Apologetics of Creation
  • “If Philosophy Begins in Wonder”: Aquinas, Creation, and Wonder
  • The Primacy of the Pope and the Unity of the People of God
  • The Dispute Between Maximus the Confessor and Theodosius
  • Why We Need Coventry Patmore
  • The Rod, The Root, and the Flower
Communio - Winter 2013 - Ecclesiam Sanctam (photocopy)
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Volume 40.4

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  • Introduction: Ecclesiam Sanctam
  • The Confession of the Casta Meretrix
  • "Sacrosancta Ecclesia": The Holy Church of Sinners
  • “Blessed Is She Who Believed”: Mary’s Faith and the Form of Christian Existence
  • The Communion of Saints and the Vocation to Holiness
  • Confirmation: A Sacrament of Christian Initiation
  • Political Ambition and the Christian Life
  • The Eclipse of the Good in the Modern Rights Tradition
  • Content and Form: From Linguistics to Abstract Art
Communio - Summer-Fall 2013 - Dignitatis Humanae and the Rediscovery of Religious Freedom
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Volume 40.2

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  • Introduction: Dignitatis Humanae and the Rediscovery of Religious Freedom
  • Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: An Interpretation of DH on the Right to Religious Liberty
  • The Nature and Scope of Religious Freedom in Our Contemporary Culture
  • Religious Liberty and the Church’s Voice in Transforming Our Culture: An American Perspective
  • America and Religious Freedom
  • Dignitatis humanae: Origins and Unexpected Consequences
  • Karol Wojtyła and DH: A Historical Perspective
  • Religious Freedom and Truth: The Contribution of Pope Benedict XVI
  • Is Religious Liberty Possible in a Liberal Culture?
  • The Pretention of Universality: Liberal Culture and Religious Freedom
  • The Right and the Good, and the Place of Freedom of Religion in Human Rights
  • Christian Culture and the Form of Human Existence
  • The Church in History: Status Viatoris
  • “All Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange”: Liberal Society and Pluralism
  • Absolute Pluralism: How the Dictatorship of Relativism Dictates
  • Liberalism, Religious Freedom, and the Common Good: The Totalitarian Logic of Self-Limitation
  • Religious Liberty After Liberalism: Re-Thinking DH in an Age of Illiberal Liberalism
Communio - Summer 1985 - The Eucharist (photocopy)
The Eucharist (photocopy)
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Volume 12.2

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  • Introduction: The Eucharist
  • The Unity and the Multiplicity of Aspects in the Eucharist
  • The Holy Church and the Eucharistic Sacrifice
  • “Do This in Remembrance of Me”: The Sacrifice of Christ and the Sacrifice of the Faithful
  • God’s Mystery in Christ: Reflections on Erich Przywara and Eberhard Jüngel
  • Ministry from Above and/or Ministry from Below…
  • Apostolicity According to Schillebeeckx: The Notion and its Import
  • Reflections on Post-Conciliar Shifts in Eucharistic Faith and Practice
Communio - Winter 1984 - Sin and Forgiveness (photocopy)
Sin and Forgiveness (photocopy)
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Volume 11.4

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  • Introduction: Sin and Forgiveness
  • Education in the Sense of Forgiveness
  • Jesus and Forgiveness
  • Flannery O’Connor and the Christian Pharisee
  • Faith, Philosophy and Theology
  • The Catholic Concept of Social Justice: A Historical Perspective
  • Nuclear Weapons and the Sermon on the Mount
  • The Experiences of a Catholic Theologian
  • Toward a Christian Culture
Communio - Spring 1983 - Religious Education (photocopy)
Religious Education (photocopy)
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Volume 10.1

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  • Introduction: Religious Education
  • The Catechism: A Means of Transmitting the Faith
  • Should Faith or Theology be the Basis of Catechesis?
  • Sources and Transmission of the Faith
  • The Birth of the Catechism
  • Christianity and Its Psychological Imitations
  • The Bond of the Word
  • Moral Education in the United States: An Overview
  • Contemporary Methods of Faith Transmission in Poland
  • “Much Progress and Some Deteriorization” - An NCEA Study of REOI and REKAP
Communio - Winter 2012 - Liturgy and Culture
Liturgy and Culture
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Volume 39.4

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  • Introduction: Liturgy and Culture
  • The Liturgy: Presence of a New Body, Source of a Fulfilled Time
  • The Eucharist as the Form of Christian Life
  • The Sacraments as Actions of the Mystical Body
  • Apostolicity and Eucharist
  • Trinity Spermatiké: The Veiled Perception of a Pagan World (Part 1)
  • The Birth of Sources Chrétiennes and the Return to the Fathers
  • “The Christian Mystery is the Mystery of Creation”: An Introduction to Jean Daniélou
  • The Presence of God
  • Christian Culture
  • The Art of the Second Virtue: On the Unity of Freedom and Obedience in Translation
Communio - Spring 2013 - Catholicity and Education (photocopy)
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Volume 40.1

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  • Introduction: Catholicity and Education
  • “Your Reasonable Worship”: Catholic Communion as the True Life According to Reason
  • The Universality of the University
  • On the Universality of the University: A Response to Jean-Luc Marion
  • Athens – Jersualem – Rome
  • Becoming Catholic: John Henry Newman
  • The Courage to Educate
  • Trinity Spermatiké: The Veiled Perception of a Pagan World (Part 2)
  • The Absoluteness of Christianity and the Catholicity of the Church
  • Faith and the Multiversity
Communio - Summer 1994 - “The Splendor of Truth”
“The Splendor of Truth”
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Volume 21.2

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  • Christian Faith as “the Way”: An Introduction to Veritatis Splendor
  • Moral Questions and Evangelization Today
  • Veritatis Splendor: An Overview of the Encyclical
  • The Relevance of Christ or the Sequela Christi?
  • The Integrity of Christian Moral Activity: The First Letter of John and Veritatis Splendor
  • Martyrdom and Christian Morality
  • Veritatis Splendor and the Family: The Future of Christianity in the Postmodern Era
  • Form in Tragedy: Balthasar as Correlational Theologian Veritatis Splendor
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Continuing Youthfulness of the Exercises
  • The University as Community: Community of What?
  • Reflections on Veritatis Splendor
  • The One Truth of Freedom: Gift of Self
  • Christian Art, Christian Act
Communio - Fall 1999 - A Symposium on Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio
A Symposium on Pope John Paul II's Fides et Ratio
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Volume 26.3

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  • The Future of the Philosophy of Being
  • Human Freedom and Truth According to the Encyclical Fides et Ratio
  • God and the End of Intelligence: Knowledge as Relationship
  • Reason’s “Rightful Autonomy” in Fides et Ratio and the Continuous Renewal of Catholic Higher Education in the United States
  • John Paul II: The Complementarity of Faith and Philosophy in the Search for Truth
  • Believing Thought as a Category in Russian Religious Philosophy
  • What the Angels See at Twilight
  • Faith and Reason: Then and Now
  • The One Who Went Unnamed: Maurice Blondel in the Encyclical Fides et Ratio
  • The Search for the Meaning of Life and Faith in the Revelation of Jesus Christ According to Fides et Ratio
  • The “Truth about the Good”: Practical Reason, Philosophical Ethics, and Moral Theology
  • Thinking Beyond the Reef: The Cross, Faith, and Reason in the Trinitarian Ontology of Klaus Hemmerle
Communio - Fall 1996 - Hope
Hope
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Volume 23.3

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  • The Signification of Hope for the Present Time
  • Notes and Reflections on the Virtue of Hope
  • Communion, Universality, and Apocatastasis: Hope for All?
  • Christ: Alpha and Omega
  • Hope Does Not Disappoint
  • The Use of Scripture in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • A Theological Meditation on the Liturgy of the Eucharist
  • Religious Vows and the Structure of Love
  • Eternal Damnation or Universal Salvation?
  • The Structure of Hope
  • The Sacrament of Iconography
  • The Oxford Declaration on Liturgy
Communio - Winter 1998 - The Petrine Mission / Augusto Del Noce: Thomism and the Critique of Rationalism
The Petrine Mission / Augusto Del Noce: Thomism and the Critique of Rationalism
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Volume 25.4

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  • Vatican II’s Reception of the Dogmatic Teaching on the Roman Primacy
  • A Lutheran’s Reflections on the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome
  • A Catholic Response to W. Pannenberg Regarding the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome
  • The Nuptial Mystery at the Heart of the Church
  • The Religious Sense
  • “The Religious Sense” and American Culture
  • Theodicy Ex Nihilo
  • Augusto Del Noce: Between Thomism and Religious Existentialism
  • Thomism and the Critique of Rationalism: Gilson and Shestov
  • For a Philosophy That Stems from Christ
  • Digging for Buried Treasure: Origen’s Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture
Communio - Spring 1995 - “Honor Your Father and Your Mother” / Pope John Paul II’s Crossing the Threshold of Hope (photocopy)
"Honor Your Father and Your Mother" / Pope John Paul II's Crossing the Threshold of Hope (photocopy)
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Volume 22.1

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  • The Honor of Becoming Children: What It Means to Honor One’s Father and Mother
  • Honor Your Father and Your Mother
  • The Attitude of the Child in the Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar
  • “Unless You Become Like Children”: Ferdinand Ulrich’s Philosophical Anthropology of Childhood
  • John Paul II’s Letter to Families: Dead Letter or Good News?
  • The Holy Family as Icon and Model of the Civilization of Love
  • The Passage of Love: Wojtyła’s Radiation of Fatherhood
  • God in Pope John Paul II’s Crossing the Threshold of Hope
  • On Christic Polytheism and Christian Monotheism
  • Person: Substance and Pelation
  • Women Priests? A Marian Church in a Fatherless and Motherless Culture
  • The Blossoming of the Desert
  • A Meditation on Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Communio - Summer 1992 - The Catholic University (photocopy)
The Catholic University (photocopy)
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Volume 19.2

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  • Mary, Peter, John: Figures of the Church
  • The Community of St. John
  • The Encounter of Two Freedoms
  • Deconstructing the University
  • The Role of the Catholic University in the Church’s Mission of Re-Evangelization
  • Towards a Distinctively Catholic School
  • Marriage: A Personalist or an Institutional Understanding?
  • Clarifying the Filioque: The Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue
  • On D’Ambrosio and Ressourcement Theology
Communio - Spring 1998 - “You Shall Not Steal” / The Sexual-Gender Difference / Diagloue and Jewish-Christian Relations
“You Shall Not Steal” / The Sexual-Gender Difference / Diagloue and Jewish-Christian Relations
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Volume 25.1

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  • Hatred of Theft, Love of the Thief
  • Charity and Justice: Christian Economy and the Just Ordering of the Commandments
  • Interreligious Dialogue and Jewish-Christian Relations
  • The Dignity and Mission of Women: The Anthropological and Theological Foundations
  • Homosexual Inclination as an “Objective Disorder”: Reflections of Theological Anthropology
  • Ascension, Parousia, and the Sacred Heart: Structural Correlations
  • Religious Awareness in Modern Man
  • Luigi Giussani on the “Religious Sense” and the Cultural Situation of Our Time
  • Ancient Culture and the Shape of Early Christian Discipleship
  • St. Matthew’s Spiritual Understanding of the Healing of the Centurion’s Boy
  • Lazarus and the Rich Man
  • From Galileo to Mount Cashel: Reflections on History, Myth and Truth
Communio - Spring 1990 - The Resurrection of the Body (photocopy)
The Resurrection of the Body (photocopy)
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Volume 17.1

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  • God Enters into the Flesh, the Flesh Enters into God
  • “Resurrection of the Flesh” in the Faith of the Church
  • The Ripening of Salvation: Hope for Resurrection in the Early Church
  • The Crucified Christ and the World’s Evil
  • Jesus Christ Today
  • Henri de Lubac on Dei Verbum
  • Reflections on the First Beatitude
  • Natural Law and Private Ownership
  • On Interpreting Dogmas
Communio - Fall 1997 - St. Therese of Lisieux / Dorothy Day (photocopy)
St. Therese of Lisieux / Dorothy Day (photocopy)
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Volume 24.3

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  • Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
  • Sisters in Doing the Truth: Dorothy Day and St. Thérèse of Lisieux
  • Reintroducing Virgil Michel:Towards a Counter-Tradition of Catholic Social Ethics in the United Sta
  • The Spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux as Seen in Her Poetry
  • None Greater Born of a Woman: The Theological Figure of John the Baptist
  • Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Problem of Atheism
  • The Centrality of the Crucified Christ in the Work of William Congdon
  • Art and Forgiveness
  • The Birth of the Image
  • Thérèse
  • Sermon of an Agnostic on the Feast of St. Thérèse
  • Missionary Love
  • Anne Klejment’s and Nancy Roberts’ American Catholic Pacifism
  • John Hugo’s Weapons of the Spirit
Communio - Summer 1990 - Christianity and Postmodernity (photocopy)
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  • Faith and the Postmodern Challenge
  • Modernity and Christianity
  • Postmodern or Modern-plus?
  • Philosophical Presuppositions of Postmodernity
  • Postmodern Dogmatics: Toward a Renewed Discussion of Foundations in North America
  • On Meaning and the Death of God in the Academy
  • Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity: The Thought of Henri de Lubac
  • Postmodernity and the Resources of the Christian East
  • Ineffable Speech: Carmelite Mysticism and Metaphysical Poetry
  • The Canon of Scripture in Postmodern Aesthetics
  • The End of the Modern World
Communio - Spring 1997 - “You Shall Not Commit Adultery” / On the Theology of God the Redeemer (photocopy)
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  • The Chastity of Jesus and the “Refusal to Grasp”
  • The Sacred History of Love
  • Eros and Agape: The Divine Passion of Love
  • The Chastity of Jesus
  • The Formation of Priests in the Pastoral Care of the Family
  • Beatrice, That Is, “On Fidelity”
  • Love of God, Human Love: Hugh of St. Victor and the Sacrament of Marriage
  • Max Scheler’s Principle of Moral and Religious Solidarity
  • Vladimir Solovyov and the Idea of the Papacy
  • Solovyov and the Papacy: A Catholic Evaluation
  • Select Questions on the Theology of God the Redeemer
Communio - Fall 1992 - The Theology of Henri de Lubac / Communio at Twenty Years (photocopy)
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  • The Sanctity of Intelligence
  • On Mystery in Philosophy
  • Henri de Lubac and the Critique of Scientific Exegesis
  • The Nature-Grace Problematic Within Henri de Lubac’s Christological Paradox
  • De Lubac’s Critique of the Postconciliar Church
  • Address to the Group Representing the Journal Communio
  • Communio: A Program
  • “Communio” in Henri de Lubac
  • Christian Philosophy and Charity
  • Catholicism in America
  • On Christian Philosophy
  • Communio: International Catholic Review
Communio - Spring 1996 - “You Shall Not Kill” / Gaudium et Spes After Thirty Years (photocopy)
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  • The Mystery of Easter and the Culture of Death
  • Truth and Freedom
  • A Dangerous Reflection on the Fundamental Act of the Creature
  • Are We Really Serious When We Ask God to Deliver Us From War?
  • Sincere Gift: The Pope’s “New Feminism”
  • The Meaning of Suffering
  • The Family at the Heart of a Culture of Life
  • Martyrdom and the Following of Jesus
  • The Truth of Love, the Lie of Death
  • Only Christ Can Fulfill Man’s Hopes
  • The Theological Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes
  • The Relevance of the Message of Gaudium et Spes Today
  • Christology and the Imago Dei: Interpreting Gaudium et Spes
  • How Weighty is the Argument from “Uninterrupted Tradition” to Justify the Male Priesthood?
  • Mary-Church-Office
  • To the Editor
Communio - Fall 1994 - The Catechism of the Catholic Church
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  • The New Catechism: An Event of the Faith
  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church: Its Literary Form, Authority and Catechetical Implications
  • A Mystery to Share In: The Trinitarian Perspective of the New Catechism
  • The Call to Holiness in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Section on Sacred Scripture
  • ‘Father, Give Me a Word’: Patristic Voices in the Catechism
  • Praying the Catechism
  • “They Shall All Be Taught by God’: The Event of Catechesis Today
  • On the Mystery of Hope
  • Only the Unique Really Dies: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Uniqueness of the Word
  • The Formation of an Attitude of Ecological Responsibility
  • On Dupré‘s Passage to Modernity
Communio - Summer 1999 - Tertio Millennio Adveniente: God the Father of Jesus Christ (photocopy)
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  • God the Father
  • “God the Father Almighty”: Thoughts on a Disputed Term
  • “As the Father has Loved Me” (Jn 15:9): Batlhasar’s Theodramatic Approach to a Theology of God the Father
  • Authority: Philosophical Reflections on a Controversial Issue
  • Ignatius of Antioch, “Attaining the Father”
  • Confession as a Sacrament of the Father’s Mercy According to Adrienne von Speyr
  • “Existence Precedes Essence”: Fear of the Gift
  • Solitude, Communion, and Ecstasy
  • Episcopal Conferences: Theological Bases
  • The Mystery of the Holy Innocents
  • A Meditation on the Principle of the Moral Life
  • Hymns Ancient and Postmodern: Catherine Pickstock’s After Writing
  • Reflections on John Paul II’s “Letter to Artists”
Communio - Fall 1979 - Art and Christianity (photocopy)
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  • Twentieth-Century Church Music: An Elusive Modernity
  • On Building Churches
  • Eric Rohmer: The Cinema’s Spiritual Destiny
  • Is Alfred Hitchcock a “Catholic director”?
  • Dutch Catholicism in Historical Perspective, 1919-1977
  • A New Moral Theology Text
  • “Meaning” in Mental and Emotional Suffering
Communio - Spring 1978 - Hans Urs von Balthasar Symposium (photocopy)
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  • Catholicism and the Religions
  • Christian Prayer
  • Response to My Critics
  • Current Trends in Catholic Theology and the Responsibility of the Christian
  • Pistis and Gnosis
  • A Methodological Critique of von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
  • Divine Initiative and Christian Praxis
  • A Question for Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar on Non-Christian Religions and Meditation
  • Death of Father Van Ackeren
  • Humanae Vitae Symposium
Communio - Winter 1976 - Christian Belief (photocopy)
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  • On the Critical Study of Religion: Positivism, the First Amendment, and the Roemer Case
  • The Meaning of Celibacy
  • Christian Belief and Christian Life in a Secular Age
  • Wiseman’s Essene and Others: The U.S. Religious Film as an Aesthetic Problem
  • Spiritual Direction and Prayer
  • Eucharistic Congress in Bicentennial Year of American Revolution
  • The Woman in the Pew
  • A Reader’s Approach to the Holocaust
Communio - Spring 1991 - Eternal Life (photocopy)
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  • An Empty Hell? The Restoration of All Things?: Balthasar’s Concept of Hope for Salvation
  • Time in Eternity, Eternity in Time: On the Contemplative-Active Life
  • The Anointed Imagination: The Character of Catholic Literature in the Twentieth Century
  • Toward Ecology as an Ecclesial Event: Orthodox Theology and Ecological Ethics
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar: Witness to the Integration of Faith and Culture
  • Eternity and the Triune God
  • The Promotion of Communio in Britain
  • Theology in an Eastern Catholic Monastery
Communio - Spring 1994 - “Keep Holy the Day of the Lord” (photocopy)
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  • The Meaning of Sunday
  • The Fulfillment of the Sabbath: From the Holiness of the Seventh Day to God’s Resting in God
  • The Messianic Sabbatical Year and the Social Mission of the Church
  • Christian Faith and the Search for Happiness
  • The Playfulness of the Liturgy
  • Beauty and Hesychia in Athonite Life
  • Inculturation and Western Culture: The Dialogical Experience Between Gospel and Culture
  • Whatever You Did unto One of the Least, You Did unto Me
  • Divine and Creaturely “Receptivity”: The Search for a Middle Term
  • On Esse and Relation
  • Response to Long’s Comments
  • Response to Blair’s Comments
  • The Person: Philosophy, Theology, and Receptivity
  • Easter
Communio - Winter 1977 - Christian Existence, the Eucharist (photocopy)
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  • The Real Presence
  • The Eucharist as Eschatological Presence
  • The Eucharist in the Life of Cardinal Newman
  • Death Disguised in Life and Liturgy
  • Allegory, Typology, and Symbol: The Sensus Spiritalis
  • The Crisis of Episcopalianism
  • The Treatment of Homosexuality in the C.T.S.A. Report on Sexuality
  • Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
  • Summer Program of Catholic Studies
Communio - Winter 1996 - The Ministry of Christ: Laity and Clergy / The Centenary of the Birth of Henri de Lubac
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  • Laypersons, Deacons, and Priests: A Difference of Ministries
  • The Lay Vocation in the World According to Balthasar
  • Priestly Ministry at the Service of Ecclesial Communion
  • The Priesthood and the Evangelical Counsels
  • Thoughts on the Priesthood of Women
  • Henri de Lubac and Fundamental Theology
  • Nature and grace in Henri de Lubac: From Surnaturel to Le mystere du surnaturel
  • The Spiritual Sense of Scripture
  • De Lubac and the Theological Foundation of the Missions
  • The Eucharist, the Church and Evangelization
  • Henri de Lubac in Connecticut: Unpublished Conferences on Renewal in the Postconciliar Period
  • Nothing Human is Foreign to Us
  • Letter to Yourselves
  • Men, Stones, Faith
  • Editorial: On the Catholic Common Ground Project
Communio - Fall 1995 - Faith / Newman’s Conversion
Faith / Newman’s Conversion
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  • Faith as the Beginning of Salvation
  • Faith and Witness: Confessio and Martyrium
  • The Ecclesial Dimension of Faith
  • The Significance of Newman’s Conversion
  • Development: The Context and the Content (1839-1845)
  • The Development of Doctrine: “A Remarkable Philosophical Phenomenon”
  • Christopher Dawson on the Oxford Movement: The Relationship of Development to Authority
  • A Christological Interpretation of Psalm 1? The Psalter and Christian Prayer
  • The Development of Christian Doctrine
  • Christian Universalism: On Two Collections of Papers by Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Peter’s Plaint and Petrine Claims: The Poetry of Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
  • A Cry of Alarm and a Message of Hope
Communio - Winter 1990 - Vatican Council II (photocopy)
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  • The Council’s Vision for a Renewal of the Church
  • The Universal Call to Holiness in the Church
  • The Council’s Development to Maturity
  • Integral Sex Complementarity and the Theology of Communion
  • Saint Augustine and Conjugal Sexuality
  • The Marian Orientation of Spirituality in the Thought of John Paul II
  • Bernard the Theologian: Forty Years of Research
  • The Council of Holy Spirit
  • The Total Meaning of Man and the World
  • Biblical Foundations of Priesthood
  • To the Editor: On the Distribution of Property
Communio - Summer 1977 - On Unceasing Prayer (photocopy)
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  • Church, State, and Charles Curran
  • Pride in the Church
  • What Belonging to the Church Has Come to Mean
  • A New Editorial Board Member
  • Kueng’s Christianity
  • The Authenticity of Christian Ministry: A Reply
  • Views of Man Opposed to the Sacramental Understanding of Marriage
Communio - Spring 1976 - On the Priesthood (photocopy)
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  • The Old Testament and Christian Priesthood
  • Faith in Religious Studies
  • Ministerial Leadership and Discernment
  • Religious Women and the Meaning of the Feminine
  • A note on the male-female relationship according to St. Paul
  • Boniface and Communio in the Eighth Century
Communio - Winter 1978 - The Grandeur of the Liturgy (photocopy)
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  • The Church Sings the Canticle of the Lamb
  • The Unfolding Presence of Christ in the Celebration of Mass
  • The Grandeur of the Liturgy
  • The Voices of Silence in the Liturgy
  • Toward an Aesthetic of Liturgical Music
  • The CTSA and the Ordination of Women
  • Mystique of Nature
  • Imminent Apocalyptic or Patient God? Toward an Eschatological Ecclesiology
  • Reflections on Some of Martin Marty’s Insights
  • Summer Program of Catholic Studies
Communio - Fall 1978 - Fall 1978 (photocopy)
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  • Sacramentality Sexuality and the Ordination of Women
  • Nature and Praxis
  • Sexuality and Fidelity in Marriage
  • New Communio Chairman
  • Avvakum and the Raskol: Lessons for the Present Crisis
  • The Non-Scientific, Non-Ethics of Professor Scriven
Communio - Summer 1979 - The Problem of Evil (photocopy)
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  • On the Scientific Eradication of Evil
  • The Problem of Evil in Perspective
  • Affectivity and spirituality: A second look at the “Blue Book”  Institutional
  • Liturgy of, by, and for Poor People Today
  • Psyche, Evil, and Grace
Communio - Spring 1977 - The Christian Experience of God (photocopy)
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  • The Christian Experience of God
  • On the life, death, and transfiguration of martyrdom: the Jewish testimony to the divine image in our time
  • The Psychology of Religious Experience
  • Tracy’s “Blessed Rage” and the Language of Order
  • H. Richard Niebuhr: Critic of Political Theology
  • Attitudes of Some Couples Using Natural Family Planning
Communio - Summer 1976 - American Values and Theology (photocopy)
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  • American values and Roman Catholic promise
  • The Bicentennial and Other Milestones: Anniversary Assessments of American Catholicism
  • Is There an American Theology?
  • The Bicentennial and the Lively Experiment
  • Is the party over? - The present position of Catholics in America, if any
  • Reflections on ecclesial policy-making
  • The Roman Catholic Church: The true American counter-culture
Communio - Summer 1978 - On Technology (photocopy)
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  • Technology and Spirituality: A Little More Than Nothing
  • Contemporary Technology and the Church
  • Psychological, Philosophical, and Moral Aspects of Biogenetic Engineering
  • More Than Integration: The CTSA Report on Human Sexuality
  • Stanislaw Lem’s Science Fiction: Some Religious Aspects
Communio - Fall 1977 - Fall 1977 (photocopy)
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  • The Language of Worship
  • Church and Priesthood: A Perspective on Ordained Ministry
  • Fidelity in the New Testament
  • Will the Real Teilhard Please Stand Up?
  • Catholic Education and the Family
Communio - Spring 1979 - Approaches to the Study of Theology (photocopy)
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  • Hermeneutical Theology
  • The Method of Process Theology: An Evaluation
  • A Shift to the Human Subject in Roman Catholic Theology
  • Theology and the Historical-Critical Claims of Modernity: On the Need for Metaphysics
  • Theology and the Linguistic Turn
  • Theological Method: Praxis and Liberation
  • De Lubac on Teilhard
Communio - Winter 1979 - Toward a Lay Spirituality (photocopy)
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  • The Death of the Laity and the Birth of the People of God
  • Contemporary American Lay Movements in Spirituality
  • Towards a Lay Spirituality
  • Some Difficulties of Modern Spirituality
  • Spirituality and Scholarly Intent
  • St. Paul on Human Sexuality
  • Summer Program of Catholic Studies
Communio - Summer 1984 - On a Theology and Ethics of Work (photocopy)
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  • On a theology and ethics of work
  • The changing nature of work in the world system
  • The object of the theology of work
  • Problems in Catechesis Today: An Interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
  • The nuptial meaning of body in light of Mary’s assumption
  • Bede Griffiths and the uniqueness of Christianity
  • Beyond Mechanism: Physics and Catholic Theology
Communio - Winter 1980 - Authority in the Church (photocopy)
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  • The heologian and the Magisterium: The Ancient and Medieval Background of a Contemporary Controversy
  • Foundations for Unity amid Pluralism
  • The Church and Scientific Theology
  • Authority in the Church: An Essay in the Theology of History
  • Authority in the Church Today: A Theological Reflection
  • Summer Program of Catholic Studies
Communio - Fall 1983 - Earthly Beauty and Divine Glory (photocopy)
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  • The Education of Young Women
  • The Place of Women as a Problem in the Theological Anthropology
  • Woman as Deprived of the Spirit: An Aspect of Luther’s Thought on Woman
  • Trends in American Youth Character Development
  • The Death of Charm and the Advent of Grace: Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
  • The Christian Between Worlds
  • The Imitation of Christ, Updated
Communio - Spring 1985 - Community and Institution (photocopy)
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  • Life and Institution in the Church
  • Piety: The Debts Which Precede Our Rights
  • The Church’s Professions of Faith: On Drafting a New Catholic Catechism for Adults
  • On Hope
  • Commitment to the Poor and Discernment of the Truth: on the “Instruction on Certain Aspects
  • Technology, Ethics, and Biogenetic Art: Observations on the New Role of Man as Creator
Communio - Spring 1988 - Eastern Christianity and the Millenium of Rus’-Ukraine (photocopy)
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  • Reflections on a Millennium and the Christian Vocation of Rus’
  • Solzhenitsyn and the Art of the Soul
  • Suffering for Christ in the Eastern Church
  • The Theological Renewal of the Russian Startsi
  • Is America Bourgeois? A Response to David Schindler
  • Once Again: George Weigel, Catholicism and American Culture
  • The Marian Principle
  • Cardinal Fring’s Speeches During the Second Vatican Council
  • Dominum et vivificantem: The Conscience and the Heart
Communio - Winter 1981 - Winter 1981 (photocopy)
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  • The Church in Czechoslovakia
  • Sacramental Sexuality I
  • Ordination in the Pastoral Epistles
  • Ordination of women in the Diaconate
  • Lead, kindly light
  • R.I.P. Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
  • From East to West: On Certain ICEL Translations
Communio - Winter 1997 - Gnosis / The Pontificate of John Paul II
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  • Theologia in the Early Church
  • The Transfiguration of Gnosis in Late Enlightenment German Thought
  • John Paul II Theologian
  • Reorienting the Church on the Eve of the Millennium: John Paul II’s “New Evangelization”
  • Building the Civilization of Love: Recent Statements by John Paul II on Evangelizing Culture
  • Gaudium et spes, the Divine Image, and the Synthesis of Veritatis Splendor
  • Spirit and History: The Intelligence of Scripture
  • In Dominico Eloquio: Learning the Lord’s Style of Language
  • The Eucharist and Transubstantiation
  • Taking Time to Listen and Understand
  • The “Science So Falsely Called”: Seduction and Separation
  • “My Name is Sacrifice”: The Mission of Blessed Faustina
Communio - Summer 1986 - Summer 1986
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  • Church as “Communio”
  • The Being of Spirit and the Holy Spirit
  • The Meaning of the “Filioque”
  • Interpretation-Contemplation-Action
  • Understanding God and Discerning Spirits
  • An Artist, His Art and the Christian Community
  • Sculptural Creations
Communio - Summer 1987 - Theological Dissent
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  • The Foundations of Bultmann’s Work
  • Desire, Recollection and Thought: On Augustine’s Confessions I, 1
  • The Meaning of Christ’s Saying, “I Am the Truth”
  • The Spiritual Mission of the Laity
  • The German Bishops on the Role of the Laity in the Church and the World
  • What is Faith?
Communio - Spring 1980 - Mystical Crosscurrents (photocopy)
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  • The Infancy Narratives and Critical Biblical Method
  • Jung, Oriental Wisdom, and the West
  • The Meaning of American Political Thought and Practice
  • On the Withdrawal of Hans Küng's Authorization to Teach
  • Religious Harassment in Czechoslovakia
  • New Board Member
Communio - Spring 1986 - Person: Psychology and Spirituality (photocopy)
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  • The Mirror and the Spark: Some Paradoxes of Contemporary Education
  • On the Concept of Person
  • The Geography of the Human Person
  • Self-Actualization and the Sinful Creature
  • Image, Likeness, and Deification in the Human Person
  • Film and the Mystery of the Person
Communio - Summer 1989 - The Forgiveness of Sins (photocopy)
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  • Guilt and Its Resolution outside the Christian Tradition
  • Christian Satisfaction and Sacramental Reconciliation
  • Man Between Reproduction and Creation
  • Pope John Paul II’s Letter on the Dignity and Vocation of Women
  • Theses on Christian Memory, Hope and Assent
  • What is anthropocentric and what is theocentric in Christian existence?
  • Louis Bouyer the Theologian
  • Bibliography 1938-1988, Books
  • Letter to Father Duployé
  • An Interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
  • Regarding the Motto on Cardinal Ratzinger’s Coat of Arms
Communio - Fall 1976 - Ecumenism (photocopy)
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  • Ecumenism and Denominational Conversion: Reflections of a Roman Catholic
  • Evangelization in an Ecumenical Age
  • An Evangelical Views the New Catholicism
  • A New Phase in Ecumenical Expressions
  • The Pearl of Great Value
  • Where Do We Stand on the Road toward Church Unity?
  • The Authenticity of Christian Ministry: A Story of Failure
  • New Things and Old
Communio - Winter 1982 - Religion and Politics (photocopy)
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  • Pluralist Christendom and the Christian Civil Magistrate
  • The Moral Majority and Christian Politics
  • Our Pluralistic Society
  • Natural Law and the American Regime: Murray’s We Hold These Truths
  • Maritain on Church and State
  • Murray on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom
  • Opening Our Hearts to the Poor
Communio - Fall 1980 - Discernment and Renewal (photocopy)
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  • Towards a Reevaluation of the Counter-Reformation
  • Contemporary Theologies of the Laity: An Overview since Vatican II
  • Freedom and the Moral Order
  • Morality and Interests: A Critique of Kohlberg’s Ethical Theory
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  • The Theologian as Catechist
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  • A Reflection on the Ideals of Communio
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  • In Search of the Miraculous
  • Peace and Justice in Crisis: The Task of Religion
  • In Response to Glenn W. Olsen and J. Brian Benestad
  • In Reply to Richard John Neuhaus
  • The Problem of the Future: Total Secularization or a Return to Christian Culture
  • Evangelization in Crisis
  • The Third World Churches are Becoming Missionary
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  • The Church as Sacrament of Unity
  • An Introduction to von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord
  • Christian Experience in Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Death is Swallowed up by Life
  • Freedom and Liberation: The Anthropological Vision of the Instruction Libertatis conscientia
  • The Whole Christ: On the Unity of the Church
  • The Artist and His Model
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  • Sanctity, Crisis, Theological Renewal
  • Theology and Holiness
  • Blondel and Loisy in the Modernist Crisis
  • St. Thomas: Contemplative in the University
  • St. Ignatius and the Reformation
  • The Spiritual Man in the Thought of Henri de Lubac
  • The Witness from Alexandria: Athanasius Contra Mundum
  • Catholicity and the State of Contemporary Theology: The Need for an Onto-logic of Holiness
  • Edith Stein, Woman of the Church
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  • The Polish Strike: “Maybe People Are Not Really Bad”
  • Participation in Community: Wojtyla’s Social Anthropology
  • The Gay Middle Ages: A Response to Professor Boswell
  • Biotechnology and Bodiliness
  • The Social Message of John Paul II to the People of Africa and Latin America
  • After the Synod: The Church in the Netherlands
  • For All Men and Women
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  • A Crisis of Credibility: The Managerial Class before the Social-economic Teaching of the Church
  • Global Community and Subsidiarity
  • Human Rights: The “So-Called” Judaeo-Christian Tradition
  • Theology and Aesthetic
  • The Muddle: A Parable for Universities
  • Robert Lowell’s Catholicism
  • Thoughts on Contemporary Religious Experience
  • Pornography: Much Ado About Nothing
  • Christ in the Agora
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  • Editorial: Buddhism - An Approach to Dialogue
  • Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue: Notes on the Intellectual Presuppositions
  • How Can We Bring the Ephhapax of the Historical Christ Closer to the Asiatic Patterns of Thought?
  • Dynamics of Hinduism and Hindu-Christian Dialogue
  • Understanding Non-Objective Meditation
  • A Résumé of My Thought
  • The Catholic Moment?
  • On Richard John Neuhaus’s The Catholic Moment
  • Buddhist Charity and Christian Charity
  • Telegram for the Funeral of Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Homily at the Funeral Liturgy for Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Humanae Vitae Revisited
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  • Genital Good
  • Man and Woman He Made Them
  • The Roots of Liberation
  • Complements
  • Ideology and the Person
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  • The focus of discussion today: Luther and the unity of the churches
  • Luther and the Unity of the Churches: An Interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
  • Radical charity and involuntary poverty
  • The Role of Love in Marriage: A Historical Overview
  • Psychological Subject and Consciousness in Christ
  • Religious Poverty Today
  • Simone Weil on Suffering and “Reading”
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  • God Is His Own Exegete
  • In search of a “post-critical” method of biblical interpretation for Catholic theology
  • Reading Holy Scripture ‘In the Spirit’
  • Rhetoric and the Integrity of the Scripture
  • The “Bible and Christology” Document of the Biblical Commission
  • Lectio Divina among the Monks
  • Liturgy and Sacred Music
  • A Note on Church and Politics
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  • Theology and Spirituality: The Task of a Synthesis
  • The Case for Spiritual Exegesis
  • Augustine’s Sapiential Discipline: Wisdom and the Happy Life
  • Eastern and Western Spirituality: At the Crossroads
  • Possibility of a Lay Spirituality: A Re-examination of Some Theological Presuppositions
  • A Questionnaire on Walker Percy’s Latest Book
  • “Convert So That You May Live”: St. Bernard’s Theology of Conversion
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  • Unity and Diversity in the New Testament Theology
  • Called to Unity and Wholeness
  • The Church and pluralism
  • A Primer on Pluralism
  • On the Christian Model of Unity: The Trinity
  • The Unfailing Witness: Notes on the Canon of Scripture
  • Ministry in the Church: Taking Issue with Edward Schillebeeckx
  • The Sacred in Art
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  • Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theological aesthetics
  • From Silence to Speech: Negative Theology and Trinitarian Spirituality
  • The Benedictine way of life: yesterday, today, tomorrow
  • Scholarship, sanctity and spirituality
  • Religious freedom and the Church: J. C. Murray
  • The interpretation of the Resurrection: historical and theological truth
  • The Delivery of Human Services: Mediating Structures and Catholic Social Thought
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  • Reflections on the Place of the Child in the Church
  • Hope in the Final Coming of Jesus Christ in Glory
  • Apocatastasis: Fascination and Paradox
  • Peace in Theology
  • The Chief Points in the Discussion about the Apostolate of the Laity in the Church Today
  • Pascal and Teilhard de Chardin, Frères Spirituels
  • Values as an Obstacle to Truths: Some Remarks on the State of the Humanities
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  • Immaculate Conception
  • Prayer in the Life of the Blessed Virgin
  • Marian Themes in the Writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Mary in the Western Liturgy: Marialis Cultus
  • Redeeming the Word: The Future of Christian Language
  • Jesus and Mary
  • The Catholic Response to the Augsburg Confession
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  • Purity of Heart
  • “You Are Full of Grace”: Elements of Biblical Devotion to Mary
  • From Anarchy to Principles
  • Teresa of Avila: Mystical Experience in Defense of Dogma
  • The Role of Mysticism within the Church as Conceived by Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Religion, Christianity, Catholicism
  • In the Image of God: Male, Female and the Language of the Liturgy
  • On the Death of Father Balthasar
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  • Catholicism and the Communion of Saints
  • The “Communion of Saints” as Three States of the Church
  • Sensus Fidelium-Witness on the Part of the Community
  • Life, Love and Community
  • Peter and Paul and the Founding of the Church of Rome: Forgotten Perspectives
  • Catholicism
  • “Suffer the Children”: The Education of the Christian Parent
  • Umberto Eco: Author of the Postmodern
  • Letter on the “Virgin Birth”
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  • Male and Female He Created Them: A Summary of the Teaching of Genesis Chapter One
  • The Biblical Foundations of the Thought of John Paul II on Human Sexuality
  • The Family: A Place of Fraternity
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Anthropology in Light of His Marian Thinking
  • Feminist Theology
  • Man and Woman under God: The Dignity of the Human Being According to Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Sex and Gender Differentiation in Hildegard of Bingen and Edith Stein
  • “Bride” and “Mother” in the Super Cantica of St. Bernard: An Ecclesiology for our Time?
  • A Word on Humanae Vitae
  • The Theological Anthropology of Catherine of Siena
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  • The Poverty of Christ
  • Church and Economy: Responsibility for the World Economy
  • The World Economy in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching
  • The Kingdom of God and the Economy in the Bible
  • The Dialogue between Church and Economy
  • The Ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council
  • Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation
  • On Defending Catholic Higher Education
  • The Kingdom of God in Islam and in Christianity
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  • From the Theology of God to Theology in the Church
  • “Intellectuals with Dirt Under Their Fingernails”: Attitudes Towards Science
  • Technological Security as a Problem of Social Ethics
  • C.S. Lewis on Joy
  • Televangelism: A Theology for the Central Nervous System
  • Kuangchi Program Service: The Church’s Multimedia Missionary in China
  • Catholic Television in the United States
  • Another Look at Christian Spirituality
  • The Nature of Chastity
  • Notes on the U.S. Religious Film: The Monastery
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  • Bolstering “The Domestic Church”
  • The Family in America, 1982
  • Towards a Spirituality of the Family
  • The Child: A Touchstone for Good and Evil
  • Putting God at the Center of Marriage Instruction
  • Christian Families and the Pope
  • Gardening, Gnosticism, and the Eschaton: Meditations on Thermonuclear War and Pacifism
  • The Attitude toward Abortion in Middle English Writings: A Note on the History of Ideas
  • Remembering Mauriac
  • The Current Liturgy: An Alternative View
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  • Theology and Holiness
  • Exegesis and Contemplation
  • The Glory of the Lord
  • Listening to the Fathers
  • The Two Halves of the Moon
  • Jesus Christ, Form and Norm of Man
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar: The Form of His Theology
  • Being Interpreted as Love
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  • The Logos Character of Reality
  • Creation and Trinity
  • Traces of Eternity
  • Cosmology, Eschatology, Ecology
  • Theological Questions to Scientists
  • Does the Church Need Philosophy?
  • The Meaning and Significance of Teilhard de Chardin
  • Teilhard de Chardin in the Context of Renewal
  • The Work of Edith Stein
  • Sophistry and Philo-sophy
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  • On Being Catholic in America
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  • Is America Bourgeois?
  • Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
  • Concrete Presence
  • The Consciousness of Christ Concerning Himself and His Mission
  • Time, Earth and Spiritual Temptation
  • Catholics United for the Faith
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