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In March, Scarecrow Press will publish the third, supplemental volume to its compendium, Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Michael L. Coulter et al. eds.). The new supplement updates the 848 entries of the first two volumes (2007) and contains 202 new entries from over 100 contributors.
Authors contributing to the new volume include eminent scholars Professor Robert P. George (Princeton University) and St. John’s own Dorothy Day Professor of Law, David L. Gregory (see his CLR Forum biography here). Professor Gregory contributes an entry co-authored with Ms. Daniella E. Keller—currently a third-year student at St. John’s Law—detailing the life of John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop of New York from 1984 through 2000. In particular, Professor Gregory and Ms. Keller’s entry concentrates on the Cardinal’s emphatic support for labor rights—a focus always central to Cardinal O’Connor’s ministry. (See thisNew York Times account of one of the Cardinal’s final homilies, which describes his dedication to the labor movement.)
Like the encyclopedia’s first two volumes, the upcoming supplement addresses new issues of Catholic social teaching in the abstract—for example, the principles expressed in Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (2009). It additionally explores specific, real-world implementation of these principles, such as Cardinal O’Connor’s labor activism mentioned above.
Other noteworthy contributors include: Father Robert John Araujo, S.J. (Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law and contributor to Mirror of Justice); Father Kevin L. Flannery, S.J. (Professor, Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome); William E. May, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus, Pontifical John Paul II Institute and Senior Research Fellow, Culture of Life Foundation); and the very well known Michael Novak (among other accomplishments, regular New York London dominated the nation as no other urban center did. The title of White’s book, A Great and Monstrous Thing, comes from the section on the capital in Daniel Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain. Size matters here, as the monstrosity was a function of the city’s dynamic surge in population, building, and (for some) prosperity. As White points out, London had recently overtaken the relatively stagnant Paris as the largest city in the West, if not in the whole world. It left far behind even Amsterdam, which continued to expand until the second half of the century. At two thirds of a million in 1750, London dwarfed places like Berlin, Madrid, and Rome, each with less than a quarter of its population. Only Naples was coming up on the outside at 300,000. Equally important, London dominated the nation as no other urban center did: England had only a dozen or so towns big enough, at around 10,000 people, to make them regional hubs, and none at all bigger than the roughly 30,000 reached by Bristol and Norwich. (At the time of the American Revolution, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston would have ranked among the top ten British cities: At the mid-century Charleston had been as large as Manchester, Leeds, or Sheffield.) By contrast, France, the states of Italy and Germany, and even the tiny Netherlands were dotted with substantial cities. Such rivals ought to have induced healthy competition, and in some ways they did. Yet London flourished partly because of its unique position. It dominated national government, trade, shipping, finance, culture, and entertainment—all these are among aspects of its life vividly exposed by White. Until the Industrial Revolution started to make inroads in the 1770s, this monopoly by the metropolis extended even to manufacturing and industry. Today people complain about the dominance of the South-East in the British economy, but the region exercises no more cultural or financial influence than London did t British boxer (1946–2007) For other people with the same name, see Paul Sykes (disambiguation). Paul Sykes Paul Sykes Wakefield, England Wakefield, England Paul Sykes (23 May 1946 – 7 March 2007) was a British professional boxer and weightlifter. A substantial portion of Sykes' adulthood was spent inside prison, where he became notorious as one of the most difficult prisoners in the country. In 1979, he engaged in a consequential match against John L. Gardner, as he competed for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. Born on Thursday, 23 May 1946 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, Paul Sykes was the son of Walter Sykes and Betty Barlow. He spent his upbringing in Lupset Council Estate, where he embraced boxing at the age of 7 as a member of the Robin Hood and Thorpe Amateur Boxing Club. He began heavy drinking at a young age. At 16, he journeyed to Germany for a fight but found himself carried out of a bar the night before the bout, leading to a defeat. His initial encounter with the criminal justice system occurred when he was just 17 years old. During a prison term in 1971, he engaged in sparring sessions with Roger Tighe. While serving a five-year sentence at HMP Walton, Sykes secured the opportunity to join the Maple Leaf Amateur Boxing Club in Bootle, which was overseen by a local magistrate. This arrangement allowed him to represent the North-Western Counties team in 1973 while on a temporary release, positioning him as a potential ABA heavyweight champion. His journey was halted when he was defeated in the semi-fi .New to The New Criterion?
Paul Sykes (boxer)
Born
(1946-05-23)23 May 1946Died 7 March 2007(2007-03-07) (aged 60) Nationality British Statistics Weight(s) Heavyweight Height 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) Stance Orthodox Boxing record Total fights 10 Wins 6 Wins by KO 4 Losses 3 Draws 1 Early life