HUMANITAS. – A monthly Catholic review founded in January 1946, with the aim of greater engagement with pressing issues and a broader openness to the needs of those distant from the Church, while explicitly remaining faithful to Catholic teaching (Brescia, publisher Morcelliana).
Each issue is divided into four sections: religion, philosophy and sciences, history-politics-economics, and literary and artistic criticism. A clear innovative note is evident in the religious section, which posits a revision of pastoral care and apologetics more in terms of inspiration than of methods; significant is the tendency to emphasize the Augustinian-Pascal-Blondel line in the philosophy section; rather indulgent toward avant-garde criticism is the literary section; less defined is the direction of the history-politics-economics section. There is extensive collaboration from foreign authors; noteworthy are the attempts at a referendum on “Occidente e Oriente russo” (nos. 8–9, 1947) and on “Che cos’è l’Europa” (nos. 8–9, 1950), as well as the special issues “La cultura oggi ed i suoi problemi” (nos. 8–9, 1949) and “Marxismo e cattolicesimo” (no. 5, 1950).