Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Joseph. A. Cirincione -- Catholic culture and everyday life -- Catholic initiation or Christian initiation of adults / Paul Turner -- The idea of the parish / Michael V. McDevitt -- For the laborer is worthy of his hire / Gerald L. Miller -- Catholic culture and the imaginative life -- Writing as sacrament / Ron Hansen -- Catholic poetry : an essay in definition / Patricia Cleary Miller -- Chesterton's Catholic imagination / John C. Chalberg -- The sacramental and twentieth-century French literature / M. Kathleen Madigan -- Catholic culture and postmodern life -- John Dryden's journey to Rome : church authority and Catholic culture / Joseph A. Cirincione -- Today's ethicist and the development of Catholic moral doctrine / Wilfred LaCroix -- Philosophy and the struggle for the soul of western culture / Curtis L. Hancock -- Ultimate ends -- Is there a Catholic culture? / Richard J. Janet.