Worldview magazine

For almost three decades, political philosophers, scholars, churchmen, statesmen and writers tackled the international issues of the day in Worldview's pages. Unlike the articles in many political affairs journals, however, they also attempted to frame the discussion in ethical terms and to place it within what Worldview itself referred to as the "West's perennial tradition, which is deeply, essentially rooted in the values of the Judeo-Christian, classical humanist view of man and society." This mission paid homage to the Council's beginnings in 1914, when Andrew Carnegie assembled a group of distinguished religious leaders -- Catholic, Protestant and Jewish -- in the hope that together they could make a positive contribution to world affairs. In the decades spanned by Worldview, both the Council and the magazine remained primarily a forum for a select group of scholars and opinion makers, the majority with religious convictions and many from a Catholic background, although of different political allegiances and a wide range of (often clashing) opinions.