The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war’s settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral?Ethics Beyond War’s End provides answers to these questions from the just war tradition. Just war thinking ...

From the Catholic martyrs at Auschwitz to Oscar Romero; from Ita Ford and her companions to the recent murders of Christians in India, it is estimated that more than one million Christians died for their faith in the “century of progress” we have just experienced. In The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, Robert Royal presents a wide-ranging history of these martyrs. The book traces the specific situation of each incident and studies the political system and the reason for confront...

No Catholic library is complete without these five landmark works by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century.This treasury brings back into print Regnery's classic translations by Stella Lange with a new introduction by Robert Royal: The World and the Person, The Church of the Lord: On the Nature and Mission of the Church, The Word of God: On Faith, Hope, and Charity, The Virtues: On Forms of Mo...

Using Josef Pieper's Leisure as a point of departure, the contributors to this volume share a mutual concern for the diminishing role of the liberal arts in Catholic higher education. The overwhelming impression they share is that U.S. Catholic universities, with notable exceptions, have forgotten the very goal of university education, and especially Catholic university education: to aid in forming young men and women to pursue the truth and helping them to become freer persons.

Secular humanists and other progressives” have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem: those who were supposed to be liberated by the secular gospel that God is Dead aren’t buying it. Except for some parts of western Europe and in countries culturally destroyed by Communism, secularization in the radical sense has not occurred.While it has not obliterated the religious impulse, however, the drive towards progressive irr...

In this wide-ranging and ambitious volume, Robert Royal, a prominent participant for many years in debates about religion and contemporary life, offers a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of the Catholic intellectual tradition in the twentieth century. The Catholic Church values both Faith and Reason, and Catholicism has given rise to extraordinary ideas and whole schools of remarkable thought, not just in the distant past but throughout the troubled decades of the twentieth century.

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States. Volume 2, American Catholics, American Cultur...

This book tells the powerful and often overlooked stories of modern Christian martyrs around the world. From priests and religious to laypeople, it documents their suffering, courage, and unwavering faith amid persecution by extremist groups and oppressive regimes. Readers will learn what defines true martyrdom, where Christians face the greatest dangers today, and how spiritual combat and witness continue in the most brutal conditions.

This book tells the powerful and often overlooked stories of modern Christian martyrs around the world. From priests and religious to laypeople, it documents their suffering, courage, and unwavering faith amid persecution by extremist groups and oppressive regimes. Readers will learn what defines true martyrdom, where Christians face the greatest dangers today, and how spiritual combat and witness continue in the most brutal conditions.

This book tells the powerful and often overlooked stories of modern Christian martyrs around the world. From priests and religious to laypeople, it documents their suffering, courage, and unwavering faith amid persecution by extremist groups and oppressive regimes. Readers will learn what defines true martyrdom, where Christians face the greatest dangers today, and how spiritual combat and witness continue in the most brutal conditions.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this "impressive book" ( The Washington Post).Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qualities that make certain leaders—in America and elsewhere—succeed as transformativ...

Late in life William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring" said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it" as conservatives do "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots ...