The Faith of a Theologian

Cardinal Dulles speaks on the interdependence of faith and theology from his own life experiences. He reflects on the necessity for orthodoxy to remain as the irreformable and infallible truth while pushing for a renewed call for its importance.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/uscc_marianist_award/1015/thumbnail.jp

Power of the President over Foreign Affairs

In a recent article former Assistant Attorney General James M. Beck challenges the constitutionality of the measures which President Wilson has taken in the carrying out of the foreign affairs policy of this government. While his criticism is especially directed against the action of the President in appointing such confidential agents as John Lind and Colonel House without the consent of the Senate, he makes the sweeping assertion that the President must share the general control of foreign affairs with the Senate. Mr. Beck\u27s position is clearly shown in the following quotations from his article: Those provisions of the Constitution which require the concurrence of the Senate with the President in the conduct of our foreign relations, have been observed and cherished with a general and jealous acceptance of their wisdom. * * * To the framers of the Constitution there was no provision of greater importance than those which required joint action by the Executive and the Senate in determining the Foreign Policy of the Republic. To them this concurrent authority marked the principal distinction between a monarchy and a republic

The New Evangelization and Theological Renewal

Rev. Avery Dulles, S.J. is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University. This paper was presented at Sacred Heart University on July 18, 1995 as the keynote address at the conference The New Evangelization and the Renewal of Catholic Theology, sponsored by the Center for Theological Renewal