HUMANITAS. - A Catholic monthly review, founded in January 1946, with the intention of adhering more closely to living problems and of greater openness to the needs of those far off, while nevertheless remaining explicitly faithful to Catholic teaching (Brescia, Morcelliana publishing house).
Each issue is divided into 4 sections: religion, philosophy and sciences, history-politics-economics, literary and artistic criticism. The innovative note in the religious section is evident, postulating a revision of the care of souls and of apologetics more in its inspiration than in its expedients; significant is the tendency to emphasize the Augustine-Pascal-Blondel line in the philosophical section; rather indulgent toward avant-garde criticism is the literary section; less defined is the direction of the historical-political-economic section. The collaboration of foreign authors is extensive; noteworthy are the attempts at a referendum on "The West and the Russian East" (nos. 8-9 of 1947) and on "What is Europe" (nos. 8-9 of 1950); and the special issues "Culture Today and Its Problems" (nos. 8-9 of 1949) and "Marxism and Catholicism" (no. 5 of 1950).
Mario Bendiscioli