No. 1

The appeal of existentialism: not since William James and Bergson has philosophy found itself so squarely planted in the marketplace, so gifted with the power to move people/James Collins. -- pp. 7-9.

Our sick coal industry/John Brophy. pp. 9-11.

In search of a program/Michael P. Fogarty. -- pp. 12-13.

The stage: dear Charles/ Richard Hayes. -- pp. 14.

The screen: if the slipper fits/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 14-15.

Communications: "science and security"/Francis E. O'Meara. -- pp. 15-16.

Examining the practical basis for foreign affairs/George W. Jaeger. -- pp. 18-19.

No. 2

Mystique of the right: the core of the conservative myth is the belief in the possibility and desirability of stability/William V. Shannon. -- pp. 31-33.

The game of revolution/Dan Kurzman. -- pp. 34-36.

The stage: a midsummer night's dream/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 36-37.

The screen: whim with a wham/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 37-38.

Communications: "core of the curriculum"/Edward J. Tully. -- pp. 38-39.

The dual heritage of Julien Green/Mrs. George Norman. -- pp. 39-42.

Finding an epicurean basis for a victorian culture/Vivian Mercier. -- pp. 42-43.

The mind and heart of a hero/John Cournos. -- pp. 43-46.

No. 3

A reckoning with my readers: 'you my reader, and I are both listening together to what is called the spirit of the age, and in this secret sharing we are contemporaries/Elisabeth Langcaesser. -- pp. 56-59.

The stage: the domestic interior/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 60.

The screen: home is the star/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 60-61.

Tonynbee's odyssey of the west/Christopher Dawson. -- pp. 62-66.

The Catholic lessons to be learned from the past: politics of belief in nineteenth century France/Erwin W. Geissman. -- pp. 68.

No. 4

Mendes-France: "nothing less than a revolution in France is needed to prevent the country from becoming a minor power"/Robert Barrat. -- pp. 87-89.

A Sunday in East Berlin/Donat O'Donnell. -- pp. 90-91.

The stage: the boy friend/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 93.

The screen: prettiest tinsel on the tree/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 94.

Communications: "science and security"/James Bernartd Kelly. -- pp. 94-95

The problem of the paper-back/Cecil Hemley. -- pp. 95-97.

An idealist's vision of our contemporary distress/Joseph M. Duffy. --- pp. 98.

The freedom of the Sons of God/Francis Sweeney. -- pp. 99.

The burden of the Chosen people/Seymour Krim. -- pp. 101-102.

No. 5

Two worlds: physical interdependence has become a fact; the moral sense has failed to keep face/Barbara Ward. -- pp. 115-117.

Things that are Caesar's: 'the struggle for the mind and heart of man is largely being fought on a political battleground"/JohnCogley. -- pp. 117-120.

Church unity and world unity: where should the world look for a foundation for its unity?/Bernard Lambert. -- pp. 120-128.

The are of Catholic freedom: it is wider than those outside the church can sometimes see or understand/Wiliam P. Clancy. -- pp. 129-134.

The church and the arts: the Christian ideal is the harmonious collaboration between the sacred and the secular/JohnW. Simons. -- pp. 135-137.

Thirty years of the commonweal: what was said on some of the central issues during the last three decades/ --- pp. 138-139.

No. 6

Germany's new role: a critical analysis of the power alignment which results from the rearmament of Germany/Hans J. Morgenthau. -- pp. 159-164.

The real issues in the dock strike/Michael P. Fogarty. -- pp. 164-166.

The stage: some varieties of comic experiences/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 166-167.

The screen: gracious gumshoe/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 167-168.

Communications: "mystique of the right"/John A. Lukacs. -- pp. 168-169.

Europe and America/Erik Von Kuehnell-Leddihn.-- pp. 169.

The way thing are in an Irish world/Frank Getlein. -- pp. 170.

The Saint who belonged to the people/Claire Huchet Bishop. -- pp. 170-171.

Two secrets of sanctity/Alban Baer. -- pp. 172-173.

A new apologetics/H.A. Reinhold. -- pp. 173-175.

No. 7

Two cultures in India: "groans are as much Mediterranean Europeans as the descendants of various European nationalities are today Americans"/David Johnstone. -- pp. 184-186.

The ferment inside Lutheranism/Gunnar D. Kumlien. -- pp. 186-187.

The screen: the Jones girl and the Alan Lad/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 188-189.

The stage: sing me no lullaby/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 189.

Flaubert as letter-writer/Martin Turnell. -- pp. 189-192.

Two modern studies of the life of Christ/H.A. Reinhold. -- pp. 192.

jesus and his time/Robert Paul Mohan. -- pp. 193.

A search for unity in chaos/Vivian Mercier. -- pp. 196-197.

The year in retrospect/Claire Huchet Bishop. -- pp. 199.

No. 8

The Necessity of government: "history does not prove that a lack of government is necessarily a sign of freedom. it may as easily be a sign of slavery"/James V. Scchall. -- pp. 215-217.

Germany today: an analysis of the tone and temper of a Germany which one again is building a military force/George N. Shuster. -- pp. 218-220.

Capitalism:debate and definition/John C. Cort. -- pp. 221-222.

The stage: pan/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 223.

The screen: parasites in Paris sites/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 223-224.

The poetry of Leonie Adams/ Wallance Fowlie. -- pp. 224-226.

Hope and disappointment: a study of French politics/Michael Harrington. --- pp. 227- 228.

Sir Winston's American grandfather/Wayne Andrews. -- pp. 229230.

Justice and love/Marjorie Crowe Hughes. -- pp. 231.

No. 9

Morning in Wales: "I walked through the streets like a stranger come out of the sea"/Dylan Thomas. -- pp. 243-245.

Somerset Maugham: " the rime seems especially ripe to consider this wise old literary cat"/Seymour krim. -- pp. 245-250.

The stage: fortune on 48th street/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 250-254.

The screen: not wisely but too well./Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 254-256

Communications: "nuclear war"/Walter Mills. -- pp. 256.

An artist's vision of the Goodness of all that is/Anne Fremantle. -- pp. 267.

The making of a society: Christianity and Western civilization/M.A. Fitzsimons. -- pp. 258-259.

No. 10

Nuclear war: the problem is to prevent attack, and if that is impossible to prevent the use of nuclear weapon from gutting the world/T.F. Walkowicz and William Pfaff. -- pp. 279-283.

Maugham the artist: he became an expert at relating his fiction to the self-concern of his readers/Seymour Krim. -- pp. 284-287.

The stage: two for the money/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 288-289.

The screen: "bury their parents strife"/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 289-290.

The development of an American poet/Nicholas Joost. -- pp. 291293.

No. 11

Myths of U.S. Liberalism: a dissent from certain key tendencies of this county's foreign and domestic policies/Michael Harrington. -- pp. 303-306.

The totalitarian as diplomat: "he had appreciated the fact of power early, and early made his peace with it"/Frank Gibney. -- pp. 307-309.

'Border' Catholics and 'normal Catholic/Gunnar D. Kumlien. -- pp. 309-311.

The screen: bing on a binge/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 312.

Communication: Catholics and liberals/Francis B. Randall. -- pp. 312-313.

The logic of survival in a thermonuclear age/George W. Jaeger. -- pp. 314-315.

Man in rebellion against history/Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. -- pp. 315-316.

No. 12

Christmas and home: Bethlehem is home, even in the significance of its name, the house of bread/Robert J. Dwyer. -- pp. 327-328.

Conversation with Cardinal Lercaro/Philip Merrifield. -- pp. 329-331.

The stage: the living room/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 333-334.

The screen: there's no Schmaltz, like show Schmaltz/Philip T. Hartung. -- 334-335

Of note: Catholics and coexistence/ --- pp. 335-336.

Frontier of psychiatry and religion/Victor White. -- 336-339.

An environment in which protest literature was born/ Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. -- pp. 339-340.

The Roots of Christian culture/M.A. Fitzsimons. -- pp. 341-342.

Multiple facets of the Catholic mind/Francis Sweeney. -- pp. 342.

No. 13

Italian war of words: a report on the techniques used by both communists and anti-communists to win the loyalties of the Italian people/ Gunnar D. Kumlien. -- pp. 351-354.

Life in the living room/John Stanley. -- pp. 354-355.

The censure of Senator McCarthy/Francis J. Keenan. -- pp. 356-358.

The stage: the bad seed/ Richard Hayes. -- pp. 358-359.

The screen: brisket of blowfish basted in barnacles/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 359-360.

The new conservatism/William V. Shannon. -- pp. 360-363.

The re-evaluation of an eminent victorian:Cardinal Manning: his life and labours/Alban Baer. -- pp. 364.

Queen, Prophet, and reformer: Saint Bridget of Sweden/Karl Stern. -- pp. 365.

No. 14

The dissolution of liberalism: "it is expiring under our very eyes for lack of the higher imagination"/Russell Kirk. -- pp. 374-378.

The last CIO convention?/John C. Cort. -- pp. 378-380.

The screen: I'll never forget what's its name/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 380-381.

Communications: trade with Japan/George P. Carlin. -- pp. 381.

Christian Culture/Joseph H. McMahon. -- pp. 381-384.

Walt Whitman at home/Seymour Krim. -- pp. 384-386.

"The Wit, flamboyance and faith of Dylan Thomas"/Nicholas Joost. -- pp. 387.

Questions of crime and punishment/Michael P. Gogarty. -- pp. 388-391.

No. 15

Neutralism in Asia: it it is part of China's strategy to drive a wedge between the Asian neutrals and the United States/Shao Chuan Leng. -- pp. 399-402.

The revenge/Graham Green. -- pp. 403-404.

Obituary for distributism/John Stanley. -- pp. 404-405.

The stage: appearance and reality/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 406-407.

The screen: from high noon on/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 407

Communications: capitalism/William E.W. Gowen. -- pp. 408-409.

Ten who would have changed America/Will Herberg. -- pp. 410-411.

No. 16

The burden of arms: "we in Europe are subject to material limitations which are inconceivable to most American/Erik Von Kuehnelt-Lessihn. -- pp. 423-426.

Slow boat to freedom/Howard R. Simpson. -- pp. 426-428.

The stage: portrait of a lady/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 429-430.

OF note: the Chritian and the State/ -- pp. 430-431.

The survivor's debt/William Pfaff. -- pp. 431-433.

No. 17

Orwell's secular crusade: "he had not only a concern for the common man, but a temperamental affinity with him"/Richard J. Voorhees. -- pp. 448-451.

Can the small college survive?/Alfred F. Horrican. -- pp. 452-454.

The stage: house of flowers/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 454-455.

The screen: now is the winter of our discontent/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 455-456.

Of note: religious art/ -- pp. 456.

Communication: Christian culture/J.J. Mulloy. -- pp. 457-459.

Building a bridge between dream and reality/Anne Fremantle. -- pp. 460-461.

No. 18

Experiment in simplicity: "our purpose was to escape from industrialism altogether, from the whole system of mechanization"/Bede Griffiths. -- pp. 471-474.

Incident on the Manila waterfront/John C.Cort/ -- pp. 474-476.

The stage: the saint of Bleecker street/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 476-477.

The screen: "some corner of a foreign field"/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 477-478.

Communication: Christian culture/Charles Stinson. -- pp. 478-479.

Marxism's changing face/Will Herberg. -- pp. 482-484.

No. 19

A letter of Americans: "in matters of war the American people today lean backwards so far that they risk becoming appeasers/Sal Tas. -- pp. 495-497.

Political battle in Chicago/James V. Cunningham. -- pp.497-500.

Agnosticism on the BBC/Michael P. Fogarty. -- pp.500-502.

The stage: the flowering peach/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 502-503.

The screen: law and order/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 503.

Communication: "obituary for distributism/John Lyon. -- pp. 504

The defense of a basic American tradition/Michael Harrington. -- pp. 508-509.

No. 20

The narrowing gap: whichever system demonstrates its superiority in solving key problems may well the allegiance of millions of Asians/Harol C. HInton. -- pp. 519-522.

Mendes-France vs the alcohol Lobby/Robert Barrat. -- pp. 522-524.

The stage: the doctor's dilemma/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 524-525.

The screen: chips of the Auld Sod/ Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 525-526.

Communications: "obituary for distributism"/Ammon Hennacy. -- pp. 526.

Varities of Americanism/John Cooley. -- pp. 527.

The fate of Oscar Wilde/Vivian Mercier. -- pp. 528-530.

One man's journey toward universality and truth/Anne Fremantle. -- pp. 530-532.

No. 21

Vision in the novels: " the future has never since man could read and write, been less valid as an incentive to action that the fast"/Anne Fremantle. -- pp. 545-547.

The Bourgeois communists/Gunnar D. Kumlien. -- pp. 548-549.

The MacArthur speech/John Cogley. -- pp. 550.

The screen: fun-loving marines and medics/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 551.

The stage: variety/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 551-553.

Communications: "Father Gillis retires/Cormac Philip, F.S.C. -- pp. 553-556.

The church's human element/H.A. Reinhold. -- pp. 560-561.

No. 22

Politics and change: willingness to accept the inevitability of change is a key test of the political thinkers grasp of reality/Peter Viereck. -- pp. 575-577.

The spirit of Lent/H.A. Reinhold. -- pp. 577-580.

As Mr. Wingright sees it/John Cooley. -- pp. 581.

The screen: come, Josephine, in my flying machine/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 582.

The stage: the empire of sentiment/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 582-583.

Communications: Christian culture/Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. -- pp. 583-584.

The modern writer's quarrel with his culture/Vivian Mercier. -- pp. 587-589.

God's existence/Leo R. Ward. -- pp. 589-590.

Royal paranoia: the mad Monarch/Robert Holzhauer. -- pp. 590-591.

No. 23

Diamonds and fear: the Afrikander, unseeing, uncomprehending, holds in his hands the future of civilization in Africa/D.C. Johnstone. -- pp. 599-602.

Communism and the worker-priests/Gunnar D. Kumlien. -- pp. 602-604.

The screen: woe is me and woe is you/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 604-605.

Communications: "obituary for distributism/Lucile D. Sisson. pp. 605-606.

Of note/Waldemar Gurian. -- pp.606-607.

As Mr. Wingleft sees it/John Cogley. -- pp. 608.

The MAn who played the fool/Mrs. George Norma. -- 609-611.

Seeking a definition of the national interest/George Jaeger. -- pp. 612-613.

Sanctity: the meaning of holiness/Alban Baer. -- pp. 613-614

No. 24

The morality of nuclear war: justice rules out mass-slaughter of non-combatants, or even mass-destruction of the natural resources of earth/F.H.Drinkwater. -- pp. 623-627.

Why Mendes-France was defeated/Robert Barrat. -- pp. 627-628.

A case of ignorance/John Cogley. -- pp. 629.

The stage: the immortal husband/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 630.

The screen: until sits the schoolhouse/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 630-631.

Of note: the ultraconservative Catholic/ -- pp. 632.

Communications: "the narrowing gap"/Edward R. O'Connor. -- pp. 632-633.

Robert Grave's odyssey of a Greek princess/Seymour Krim. -- pp. 636.

The Black Monks of the west: Saint Benedict and his Monks/Alban Baer. -- pp. 637-638.

No. 25

The sin of slums: "the slum is a great weight that must be carried, an affliction like a running sore or a collapsed lung"/John Stanley. -- pp. 647-650.

Last hope in Viet Nam/Howard R. Simpson. -- pp. 650-652.

Labor's house united/John C. Cort. -- pp. 652-653.

A strange alliance/John Cogley. -- pp. 654.

The stage: two strikes and a foul/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 655.

The screen: "the droghte of March"/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 655-656.

Reality, art, and prayer/Thomas Merton. -- pp. 658-659.

Yeats lifelong immersion in the Spirit of Ireland: he letters of W.B. Yeats/Vivian Mercier. -- pp. 660-661

American Prelate: Cardinal O'Connell of Boston/Joe Dever. -- pp. 661-663.

No. 26

Peron and the Church: "from the beginning, the Peron regime regarded the church as a potent instrument for the conquest of power/Francis E. McMahon. -- pp. 670-674.

Good Friday/Victor White. -- pp. 674-676.

The stage: silk stockings/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 676.

The screen: three chills/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 677.

Communications: Christian culture/Christopher Dawson. -- pp. 678.