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Francis Canavan

—Fr. Francis Canavan, S.J. (1917-2009) was a professor of political science at Fordham University and the author of several books, including two collections of columns he did for the newsletter catholic eye: Pins in the Liberal Balloon and Fun Is Not Enough. This column is reprinted from the latter collection, which was edited by Dawn Eden Goldstein and published in 2017.


The Problem of Evil

10 Nov 2025
  [This column originally appeared in the February 1989 issue of catholic eye, and was also included in the book of collected Canavan pieces for catholic eye,  Pins in the Liberal Balloon.] ____________________________________________________________ Cardinal Ratzinger has...
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Growing Into

08 Sep 2025
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   [This (2009) column is reprinted from Fun Is Not Enough, a collection of Fr. Francis Canavan’s Catholic eye columns edited by Dawn Eden Goldstein and published in 2017.] __________________________________________________________________________ Since man is a social...
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The Hearts of the Faithful

14 Jul 2025
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  This essay first appeared in Pins in the Liberal Balloon, a 1990 collection of essays from Fr. Canavan. ____________________________________________________________________________ The face of the earth has changed over the centuries and is changing more radically in the...
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The Sermon on the Mount

27 May 2025
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  The late John Courtney Murray, S.J., once told me that at a convention he attended, a Protestant theologian said to him in a rather worried tone of voice, “I don’t see how we can base a foreign policy on the Sermon on the Mount.” Replied Fr. Murray, “I never thought we...
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