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...means of independent research and reporting, TIME has gone behind the headlines to explore the roots of current religious thought. Typical of its thoroughness have been two cover stories, one on Christian missionaries from St. Paul to 1960 (April 18, 1960), another on U.S. Catholics and the State (John Courtney Murray, Dec. 12, 1960). Both are examples of the splendid method in which TIME has sought to bring the wider perspective of history to contemporary religious action and issues...
...society is changing," and has ordered the fund's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to take a two-year look at the problem. With an assist from such men as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, University of California President Clark Kerr and Jesuit Philosopher John Courtney Murray, Hutchins hopes to turn up "various viewpoints on what the Good Life shall be in America," to reach "dependable conclusions about our national strength and weakness...
...Mosaic reflects a sureness and even a kind of clubby smugness in possessing a public that Current nervously lacks. Current is not aimed at Catholic intellectual opinion, for the very good reason that there is no such thing. Catholicism in America--with the exception of a man like John Courtney Murray, or lone magazines like Commonweal and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker-- is not a significant intellectual force. Its compromises with the same American Way that Carey McWilliams speaks of have cut the American Church loose from the main European intellectual currents of Catholic thought. Content with being...
WILLIAM G. COURTNEY...
Education is represented by Courtney C. Smith '38, president of Swarthmore College; finance by Devereux C. Josephs '15, president of the Board of Overseers and former chairman of the Board of the New York Life Insurance Company; journalism by John Cowles '21 of the Cowles newspaper chain; and business by Stanley Marcus '25, president of Nieman Marcus, Dallus department store...