No. 1

Crisis in Afghanistan: "when Agfhans feel lonely and bitter, their thoughts can roam North to Russia"/Christopher Rand. -- pp. 7--10.

Monday's Vision: [a poem]/John Fandel. --- pp. 10.

A life for a life/Victor C. Ferkiss. --- pp. 11--12.

The stage: the skin of our teeth/Richard Hayes.--- pp. 13.

The screen: in the forests of the night/Philip R. Hartung. --- pp. 14.

Of note: patriotism and religion/ --- pp. 14.

The lesson of Captain Dreyfus/William Clancy. --- pp. 17--20.

Thomas Mann's last novel/Henry Popkin. --- pp. 21-22.

Revolution: China under communism/Michael Harrington. --- pp. 22--23.

No. 2

Persecution and the poles: the individual Catholic is no longer able to afford the luxury of standing aside and ignoring the great problems'/Gunnar D. Kumlien. --- pp. 31--33.

Places of pleasure/Gabriel Gersh. -- pp. 33--35.

Portrait of America?/Howard Davis Spoerl. --- pp. 35--37.

Progress toward disaster/Robert Barrat. --- pp. 37--39.

The stage: the Bostonians/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 40.

The screen : no color line/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 40--41

Communications: sugar strike/Leon Godchaux II.-- pp. 41-42.

"I confess"/George Carthage. --- pp. 42.

"The road to desegregation"/Dixie Ann McCleary. -- pp. 42-43.

"Plight of the intellectual"/Joseph A. Breig. -- pp. 43.

'Person and the Church"/W.Harrington and P. Libreria Noel. --- pp. 43.

The despair and hope of modern man/Michael Harrington. --- pp. 44.

A classic theme/James Greene. -- pp. 45--46.

In Africa/R.A. Holzhauser. --- pp. 46--47.

No. 3

Fulfillment for the East: "the question is whether or not the spiritual tradition og India can withstand the shock of Western materialism"/Bede Griffiths. --- pp. 55--57.

After person, what?/Jaime Potenze. --- pp. 58--60.

Varieties of innocence/Geral Weales. --- pp. 61.

The stage: the French lesson/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 62.

The screen: man's castle/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 63

Communications:" week by week"/June Lockett. -- pp. 64-65.

"Patriotism and religion/John Cooley. --- pp. 65--66.

Spanish poet in a American Metyropolis/Jack Patterson. --- pp. 67.

Mannered Elegance/Nora Magid. --- pp. 68.

The great emancipator/John Cournos. --- pp. 69--71.

No.4

The political novel today: "the affirmation, if there is one, no longer pro-claims the proletarian; it asserts rather the peasant"/Michael Harrington. -- pp. 79--81.

Contrasts in elegance/Wallace Fowlie. --- pp. 82--85.

Experiment in learning/Michael P. Focarty. --- pp. 86--89.

The screen: "chicks and ducks better scurry/ Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 90.

The stage: songs of innocence and experience/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 91--94.

Lost personalities in a modern setting/Anthony Bailey. --- pp. 95.

Journey through dead: study of Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre/Philip J. Scharper. --- pp. 96--97

Search for a self: the pillar of salt/James Greene. --- pp. 98--99.

On the docks/William Pfaff. --- pp. 100--103.

No. 5

Bastions of freedom: "the present danger to civil liberties lies not so much in public apathy as in a fundamental blindness"/Thomas E. Kennelly. --- pp. 111--113.

The failure of collectivization/Cunnar D. Kumlien. --- pp. 114--115.

Problems of interim rule/Thomas J. Foley. --- pp. 116.

Stage: " I want my catharsis"/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 117.

The screen: look ma, no cinemascope, no color/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 118.

"Plight of the intellectual/Thomas Molnar. -- pp. 119.

Patriotism and religion"/Francis E. McMahon. --- pp. 117--120.

Rebirth of the senses/Ned O'Corman. --- pp. 121--122.

Life and dream/R.T.Horchler. --- pp. 123.

Molesworth ride again/John P. Sisk. --- pp. 123.

Song and sanctity/John Fandel. -- pp. 124--125.

The Joy, power and beauty/Doris Grumbach. --pp. 126--127.

No. 6

The age of discussion: "although the majority of Americans are conservative, they lack any intellectual leadership in the serious journals/Russell Kirk. --- pp. 135--137.

Franfurt: economic barometer/Desmond Fennell. --- pp. 138--139.

Testing a new technique/John C. Cort. --- pp. 140.

The stage: a handful of dust/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 141.

The screen: father, dear father, come home with me now/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 142.

Of note: Catholic intellectual responsibility/Theodore Frankel. --- pp. 143--144.

Catholics and the grammar of dissent/Erwin Geissman. --- pp. 145--146.

Gothic: Southern style/John F. Sullivan. -- pp. 147.

Early American/Wayne Andrews. --- pp. 148.

The rooted sorrow/Jean Holzhauser. --- pp. 149.

Thepharisaic publican/Leo Ward. --- pp. 150--151.

No. 7

Case for the farmer: "the American farmer is at the mercy of forces which are beyond his control/James Hearst. --- pp. 159--163.

Spiritual pilgrimage/Douglas Hyde. --- pp. 164

The screen: alarums and excursions without/Philippine T. Hartung. --- pp. 165.

The stage: the Belle of St. Trinians/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 166.

Immigration and Japan/George P. Carlin. --- pp. 167--168.

The prize of the Goncourt novels/William Dunlea. --- pp. 169.

Silver and gold/Elizabeth Bartelme. --- pp. 170.

Diamond-hard/Jean Holzhauer. --- pp. 171.

Children and science-fiction/Claire Huchet Bishop. --- pp. 172--174.

No. 8

The Geneva illusion: "if it was not a mistake to go there, it was at least a mistake to go there and talk in this dreamlike Language of the Russians"/William V. Shannon. -- pp. 191--192.

Types of anti-Catholicism/Robert McAfee Brown. --- pp. 193--196.

Chances for a non-communist left/Robert Barrat. --- pp. 197--198.

The screen: December in December/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 199.

The stage: tiger at the gates/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 200.

"Band of angels"/J.F. Curley. --- pp. 201.

Agonizing reappraisal of T.E. Lawrence/M.A. Fitsimons. --- pp. 202.

The literary aficionado/Jack Patterson. --- pp. 204--205.

Religious tension in the U.S./J,N, Moody. --- pp. 206--207.

No. 9

Contrasts in Catholicism: " the aims of the most articulate of French Catholics are increasingly difficult for foreigners to assess in any really meaningful way "/Walter J. Ong. --- pp. 215--219.

Conversation with Mauriac/Donat O'Donnell. --- pp. 220--222.

The stage: the Cherry Orchard/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 223--224.

The screen: Palace in the Palace parlor/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 225-- 228.

Of note: the Cardinal's advice/James F. Cotter, SJ. --- pp. 228--229.

The writer as vengeful moralist/ William Pfaff. --- pp. 230.

Bemused Hero/W.J. Smith. --- pp. 230-231.

Bloody man, bloodless book/Victor C. Ferkiss. --- pp. 232--233.

Critics' choices for christmas/Elizabeth Bartelme. --- pp. 234--235.

The Vatican/Jean Neuvecelle. --- pp. 236.

No. 10

The case of Ezra pound: "it is only prudent to remind ourselves that one room at St. Elizabeth's is a closet which contains a national skeleton"/Sam Hynes. --- pp. 251--253.

Changing Britain/Michael P. Focarty. --- pp. 254--255

Voices from the Philippines/John C. Cort. --- pp. 256--257.

The screen: Jennifer's dove, Joan's Bee/ Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 258.

Marriage in Norway/Stanley Lichtenstein. --- pp. 259.

Battle of the scrolls/ Joseph A. Fitzmyer. --- pp. 260--261.

Ordeal and achievement/Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. --- pp. 262.

A younger Willy Loman/Nora Magid. --- pp. 262---265.

No. 11

Catholics and anti-intellectualism: " there have been grave reasons in recent years to fear that we have frequently revealed a nervous spirit of impatient and sullen anti-intellectualism/John J. Wright. --- pp. 275--277.

The lesson of anarchism/Cunnar D. Kumlien. --- pp. 278--279.

Princess Margaret's choice/John M. Todd. --- pp. 280--281.

Shakespeare and shopping-baskets/Walter Kerr. --- pp. 282--283.

The stage: in defense of frivolity. --- pp. 284.

The screen: Achilles' heel/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 285--286.

Revealing example of charity and hope/H.A. Reinhold. --- pp. 288.

No. 12.

Christmas: Anno Domini 1955:"our historical situation is one or great embarrassment for christendom"/H.A. Reinhold. --- pp. 299--300.

Mempries of war/Alice Saxon. --- pp. 301--303.

The stage: the lark/ Richard Hayes. --- pp. 304.

The screen: mourning becomes magnani/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 305--306.

"Case for the farmer"/Samuel J. Hazo. --- pp. 306--307.

The decisive Mr. Truman/William V. Shannon. --- pp. 308--309.

The fruitful ambiguity in Newsman's thought/Frederick D. Whilhelmsen. --- pp. 310--311.

Not to destroy, but to fulfill/Robert Paul Mohan. --- pp. 311--312.

No. 13

America's role in Asia: "before World War II, our Far Eastern policy was formed largely by lawyers who did not understand the realities of the situation"/Harold C. Hinton. --- pp. 323--326.

History in the making/John C. Cort. --- pp. 327--328.

See Venice and die/Gerald Weales. --- pp. 329--330.

The stage: hello down there/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 331.

The screen: arm in a sling/Philip T. Hartung. ---pp. 332.

Proust's early novel/Martin Turnell. --- pp. 333--334.

Man's necessary encounter with the other/Leo R. ward. --- pp. 335.

A house divided/Frank Getlein. --- pp. 336.

Maid of honor/Elizabeth Bartelme. --- pp. 336--337.

Feet of clay/Anne Frematle. --- pp. 337--339.

No. 14

A question of confidence: " people who set a very high price on the intellect feel an exaggerated mortification if something is put over on them/Donat O'Donnell. --- pp. 347--348.

The task head/Luigi G. Liguti. --- pp. 349.

Church militant/Graham Greene. --- pp. 350--352.

The screen: see how they run/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 353.

The stage: darkness and devils/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 353--354.

"Catholics and anti-intellectualism"/Bernard G. Murchland. --- pp. 355.

The limits of art/Anthony Bailey. --- pp.356--357.

And ever the twain shall meet/William Dunlea. --- pp. 358.

The recurring dilemma/Michael Harrington. --- pp. 359-.

Ironic sketches/Edwin Kennebeck. --- pp. 360.

Way to sanctity/Doris Grumbach. --- pp. 361.

A decent genius/Henry Popkin. --- pp. 632.

No. 15

Conditions of freedom:"in asserting freedom as an absolute, somehow divorced from order, we are repudiating our historic legacy of freedom/Russell Kirk. --- pp. 371--373.

Darkness over the land/Ned O'Gorman. --- pp. 374--375.

"Catholic plot" down under/Wilfrid Sheed. --- pp. 376--378.

The stage: the matchmaker/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 379.

The screen: it ain't gonna rain no more/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 380.

Of note: the unity of truth. --- pp. 381--382.

Religion in the melting pot of America/Alban Baer. --- pp. 383--384.

Rage into Order/Dadchine Rainer. --- pp. 384--385.

The sea change/Anne Fremantle. --- pp. 386--387.

No.16

Communists i unions: "the government has demonstrated a woeful misunderstanding of the American labor movement and of the role of the community party within it"/Paul Jacobs. --- pp. 395--397.

Hope in the East/Emmanuel Jaques. --- pp. 398--399.

Negro voter in the South/John J. O'Connor. --- pp. 400--402.

The screen: the ego and I/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 403.

Of note: liturgy and television/ --- pp. 403--404.

"Crisis in Afghanistan/Christopher Rand. --- pp. 405.

An end to anguish?/Neville Braybrooke. --- pp. 406.

An ultimate kind of poetry/Ned O'Gorman. --- pp. 407.

A brilliant second/Michael J. O'Neill. --- pp. 408.

The same secret/John Cournos. --- pp. 409.

A falling of/Francis Sweeney. --- pp. 410--411.

No. 17

Freedom to teach: " against all the infiltrations of fear and suspicion, we still know that freedom is the very air we breathe"/Helen C. White. --- pp. 419--421.

The work of UNESCO/Jerome D'Souza. --- pp. 422--424.

Failure of an elite/J.L. Benvenisti. --- pp. 425--427.

The stage: prestidigitation/Richar Hayes. --- pp. 428.

The screen: various violence/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp.429.

OF note: State aid to church schools/ --- pp. 429--432.

"A question of confidence/Ethel Morrison. --- pp. 433--435.

Short stories of new and established writers/William J. Smith. --- pp. 436-436.

Soul of Russia/Heleme Iswolsky. --- pp. 437--438.

British abroad/Nick Thimmesch-- pp. 439--[441].

No. 18

The specter of starvation: "the number one problem today is how to feed the world's people"/Francois Houtart. --- pp. 451--452.

Understanding the French/George H. Tavard. --- pp. 453--454.

America: image and reality/Gunnar D. Kumlien. --- pp. 455--456.

The stage: North and South/Richard Hayes. --- pp. 457--458.

The screen: how to launch 1,000 ships/Philip T. Hartung. --- pp. 459.

Of note: worship and the arts/ --- pp. 459--460.

"The case of Ezra Pound"/ Rev. Harry J. Byrne. --- pp. 461.

"The lesson of anarchism/A. Quatermain.-- pp. 462--463.

The universe rang true when fairly tested/Anne Fremante. --- pp. 464.

Tineless world/Doris Grumbach. --- pp. 465.

Paradox of the good-nad writer/James Finn. --- pp. 466--467.

No. 19

Mission of the press: "the Catholic press is often unpopular, not for what it writes, but for its profession of faith"/Federico Alessandrini.--- pp. 475.

Journals of opinion/Robert C. Hartnett. --- pp. 476--479.

A columnist's lot/Donald McDonald. -- pp. 480--481.

The screen: valentines from abroad/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 482.

The stage: pirandello/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 483.

"Catholic intellectual responsibility"/John J. Gilligan. -- pp. 484--486

Zeal/J.F. Powers . --- pp. 487--492.

Impersonal ironist of the single vision/John F. Sillivan. -- pp. 493--494.

No. 20

The facts of foreign aid: "on the question of foreign aid, there appears to be a happy concurrence between national interest and larger human values"/Robert C. Good. -- pp. 507--510.

A Catholic President?/John J, Kane. -- pp. 511--512.

The uses of Gaelic/David H. Greene. -- pp. 513--515.

The screen: Winner take all/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 516.

Of note: freedom versus authority/ --- pp. 516--517.

"communists in union/ Rev. Charles Owen Rice. -- pp. 518--519.

The Princess fate was wiser than she liked to think/Geral Weales. -- pp. 520--521.

Continuing mystery of the master-race/Victor C. Ferkiss. -- pp. 522--523.

No. 21

The Church in America: "by an extraordinary process, the church in Amrtica has become dominantly nordic in tone"/Gunnar D. Kumlien. -- p. 533--534.

Child prodigy or literary hoax/Robert Barrat. -- pp. 535--536.

The Layman in perspective/Henry J. Bowne. -- pp. 537--539.

The stage of the time, of that place/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 542--543.

The screen: knight into Kaye/ Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 544--545.

Critics' choices of Catholic books/Alban Baer. -- pp. 546--554.

No. 22

The offshore Island:"there seems to be only way to save the nation, alists from the consequences of their own folly/Harol C. HInton. -- pp. 563--566.

Beginning of the end?/John Caxton. -- pp. 567.

The stage: citizen welles/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 568.

The screen: watermelon and ham/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 569.

"Journals of opinion"/Gilbert A. Harrison. -- pp. 569.

Worhip and the arts/Renard A. Koehnemann. -- pp.570--571.

Philosophers of anxiety/James Kritzeck. -- pp. 572--573.

The literary psyche of Modern Italy/William Dunlea. -- pp. 574.

Popular parapsychology/John P. Sisk. -- pp.575.

More fact than fiction/Hroffrey Wagner. -- pp. 576.

God and Caesar/Leo R. Ward. -- pp. 577.

An honest eye/Bette Richart. -- pp. 578--579.

No. 23

The new West: "the political resonance is only a surface manifestation of deep-flowing currents/ Victor C. Ferkiss. -- pp. 587--589.

Edito's dilemma/Roland E. Wolseley. -- pp. 590--591.

The screen: something borrowed, something new/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 592.

The stage: king and desperate men/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 593.

Foreign aid/Alexander Wolsky. -- pp.593.

"Catholic plot down under"/Lyle Blair. -- pp. 594--595.

Freud, Catholics, and culture/John K, Daly. -- pp. 596--598.

Selected splendor for MacArthur/Harold C. Hinton .-- pp. 599.

A fascinating potpourri/Janes Greene. -- pp. 600--601.

Symbol and acts/Ned O'Gorman. --- pp. 602--603.

No. 24

Mr Dulles in perspective: "we live in a wilderness in which the knife may be hidden but seldom safely sheathed/C.K. Yearley, Jr. -- pp. 611--613.

O'Neill's long journey/Stephen Whicher. -- pp. 614--615.

The stage: a lady of quality/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 616.

The screen: what are patterns for?/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 617.

" A columnist lot"/Garry Wills, S.J. and Frank B. Higgins, SJ. -- pp. 618--619.

The nature of stalinism/Michael Harrington. -- pp. 620--621.

The moral burden of Mr. Greene's parable/William Clancy. -- pp. 622.

Ambitions and vanities/Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. -- pp. 623.

To renew our interest/J.N. Moody. -- pp. 624.

A record of notable failure/William Pfaff. -- pp. 625.

From Screen to book to screen/William Smith. -- pp. 626--627.

No. 25

The American experiment: " what even leftist French find most fascinating is that in this society the predictions of Marx seem to have lost their validity/Thomas Molnar. -- pp. 635--638.

The eisenhower paradox/William V. Shannon. -- pp. 639--640.

Tea-cup tempest/Peter F. Anson. -- pp. 641-642.

The screen: "hell's black intelligencer"/Philip T. Hartung. -- pp. 643.

The Catholic press/David Host. -- pp. 644.

"Negro voter in the South/C.J. Beaucarre. -- pp. 645.

A general's vision of greatness/M.A. Fitzsimons. -- pp. 656.

The social dance of life/Anthony Bailey. -- pp.647--648

Indian life/Jean Holzhauer. -- pp. 649.

Bourgeois symbol/Henry Popkin. --pp. 650--651.

No. 26

The rise of poujade: "there would be no annihilation camps in a Poujadist France, but quite a few politicans would be hanged/John Caxton. -- pp. 659.

The farm vote/Sidney Baldwin. -- pp. 660--662.

The stage: democratic vistas/Richard Hayes. -- pp. 663.

Of note: charity and the Christian/ -- pp.664.

The Powell amendment/Gerry Brandmeyer. -- pp. 665

The failure of an elite/Rudolf Allers. -- pp. 665.

Capital punishment/Richard C. Pilger, Jr. -- pp. 666.

"Catholic plot down under/Neville R. Wills. -- pp. 666.

Scenes of clerical life/Evelyn Wauch. -- pp. 667.

Primer of democratic politics/Philip Scharper. -- pp. 668.

Modern Saga of investigation/Geoffrey Ashe. -- pp. 669.

Of new India/Edwin Kennebeck. -- pp. 669--670.