Word: novaks
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...This is not the faith that nourished me," protests Michael Novak. A former seminarian and now resident scholar at the Conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Novak is a leading lay thinker in the U.S. Catholic Church. He is the author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, which posits that a free economy is the natural embodiment of Western religious ideals, and of the forthcoming Confessions of a Catholic, a reflection on the Nicene Creed. As a student of both strategic and theological questions, Novak finds the argument made in the draft pastoral letter of the National Conference of Catholic...
...admire the bishops for trying to make faith relevant to every aspect of life," he says. "But they go too far when they get into specific judgments about military strategy and weapons systems such as the MX." By addressing matters outside their expertise, Novak suggests, the church's spiritual leaders are also inviting challenge to their moral authority on matters of faith as well as politics. "It makes everything else they say subject to questioning." The church's authority, he says, "is a treasure not to be squandered, or to be wasted like water spilled upon the sands...
...dismay about Reagan among Reaganites brought an ill-assorted two dozen Some them together for a meeting a week before Haig's resignation. Some were writers and polemicists of standing, including Michael Novak, Irving Kristol and as Podhoretz; some edit obscure, cranky magazines that posture as if they them armies of followers; others have enough name recognition to get themselves onto talk shows on an off night. Richard Viguerie, whose computers contain the hottest list of right-wing fat cats, was there; so was Terry Dolan, who raises hours for commercials against candidates on his hit list. After five...
...after the seizure, stating that "the nation has affirmed its rights." Some church leaders duly noted that the occupation had initially cost no lives, but at least one new-breed prelate has since attacked that thinking. In a letter sent to his fellow bishops three weeks ago, Archbishop Jorge Novak of Quilmes cited other factors that should have been considered in the decision: "moral, cultural and economic costs that may be irreparable." However courageous the action, wrote Novak, it lacked "wisdom and prudence...
...ideal of capitalism is to generate long-term wealth for the general welfare. Unfortunately, in everyday practice capitalists extract as much short-term profit as possible. As America concentrates more of its wealth in fewer but larger corporations, we will forsake our moral strength and ethical honesty. Novak may believe what he has written. However, his theory abandons all values save that of the dollar...