Catholic Essays (contents)

Catholic Essays
by Stanley L. Jaki
1990 (Front Royal, Va.: Christendom Press, 1990), xiii+176pp.

1. "Science for Catholics"
   This chapter was first published in The Dawson Newsletter, 5/4 (Winter, 1986-87). Reprinted here with permission.
2. "The Case for Galileo's Rehabilitation"
   This chapter was first published in Fidelity 5/4 (1986), pp.37-41. Reprinted with permission.
3. "The Creator's Coming"
   This chapter was first published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 85/3 (December 1984), pp. 10-15. Reprinted with pemission.
4. "A Most Holy Night"
   This chapter was first published in Reflections 5/3 (Summer 1986), pp. 1 and 21. Reprinted with permission.
5. "Christ, Catholics and Abortion"
   This chapter was first published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 85/6 (March 1985), pp. 7-15. Reprinted with permission.
6. "Man of One Wife or Celibacy"
   This chapter was first published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 87/4 (January 1986), pp. 18-25. Reprinted with permission.
7. "G. K. C. as R. C."
   This chapter was first published in Faith and Reason 12/3-4 (1986), pp. 211-28. Reprinted here with permission.
8. "The Business of Christianity and the Christianity of Business"
   Invited paper presented at the Conference on World Religions and Business Behavior at the Netherlands School of Business, Nijenrode, The Netherlands, November 26-28, 1980. This chapter first appeared in Conference on World Religions and Business Behavior. Documents (Nijenrode, The Netherlands: The Netherlands School of Business, 1981), pp. 206-29. Reprinted here with permission.
9. "The Intelligent Christian's Guide to Scientific Cosmology"
   This chapter first appeared in Faith and Reason, 12/2 (1986), pp. 124-36. Reprinted here with permission.
10. "Commencement"
    Address at the Graduation of the Class of 1989, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa.

Some notes:

First, a correction: The bibliography in SLJ's A Mind's Matter for Catholic Essays gives the first chapter index as "1986(14)". This must be revised to "1986(16)". It also appears that way in Heffner's earlier bibliography given in Creation and Scientific Creativity.

The topic of Christ's coming and Advent (chapters 3 and 4) is also addressed in SLJ's Advent and Science and The Virgin Birth and the Birth of Science, which contains some wonderful reprints of pictures by Blake.

Chapter 5, "Christ, Catholics and Abortion" was reprinted again in SLJ's The Ethical Foundations of Bioethics.

The topic of chapter 6, "Man of One Wife or Celibacy" is considered at greater length in SLJ's Theology of Priestly Celibacy.

Chapter 7's subject of GKC (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) is considered in several other essays and in SLJ's Chesterton a Seer of Science.