In 1979, Peter Steinfels identified a new movement and predicted it would be the decade’s most enduring legacy to American politics. In a new Introduction he describes its evolution from a reaction to
Predicts a significant decline in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, examining its responses to important issues, noting twentieth-century changes, and making suggestions about how the fa
Twenty-seven scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policymakers and politicians contribute 23 essays exploring the mos