Contents

Preface

Thomas W. Smith, Catholic Social Thought and Modern Liberal Democracy

 Damian P. Fedoryka, The Concept of "Gift" as Hermeneutical Key to the Dignity of the Human Person

 Robert C. Koerpel, The Form and Drama of the Church: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Mary, Peter, and the Eucharist

 William F. Murphy, Jr., A Reading of Aquinas in Support of Veritatis Splendor on the Moral Object

 Basil Meeking, Celebrating the Liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI

 H. Wendell Howard, The World of Brother Cadfael

 Lloyd W. J. Aultman-Moore, Envy and Grace