HUMANITAS. - A Catholic monthly review, founded in Jan. 1946, with the intention of adhering more closely to living problems and of being more open to the needs of those distant from the Church, while explicitly remaining faithful to Catholic teaching (Brescia, Morcelliana publishing house).
Each issue is divided into 4 sections: religion, philosophy and science, history-politics-economics, literary and artistic criticism. The innovative note is evident in the religious section, which calls for a revision of the care of souls and of apologetics, more in inspiration than in expedients;
significant is the tendency to emphasize the Augustine-Pascal-Blondel line in the philosophical section; the literary section is rather accommodating towards avant-garde criticism; less clearly defined is the orientation of the historical-political-economic section. There is extensive collaboration by foreign authors; noteworthy are the attempts at referenda on « West and Russian East » (nos. 8-9 of 1947) and on « What is Europe » (nos. 8-9 of 1950); as well as the special issues « Culture Today and Its Problems » (nos. 8-9 of 1949) and « Marxism and Catholicism » (no. 5 of 1950). Mario Bendiscioli