Letter to the Editor: February 2005

Impatient with the debate over Ave Maria University... The funeral for syncretistic ecumenism... The Iraq War... Could the Almighty be sending us a message?...

New Oxford Notes: February 2005

If I Am the Body of Christ, Who Needs the Host?... Ms. Goodie Two-Shoes Rhetoric... When It Comes to Abortion, Rationality Goes Out the Window... The Ambiguities of Maturity... "Father, Forgive Them"... No Longer Part of the Church Militant

New Age Traps

WHY BE SUCKERED?

Anne Feaster

Catholics need not look to revamped pagan religions for spiritual enrichment, especially since these religions contain grave error.

Reflections on the Church Hierarchy

A LOOSE CANNON, ETC.

Tom Bethell

Has there ever before been a time in Church history when moral and disciplinary laxity in the hierarchy has had to contend with a free and active press?

Errors & Deception in The Da Vinci Code

A BROWN OUT

Larry A. Carstens

Dan Brown refuses to speak to anyone who challenges him, or to appear in any but the most friendly and fawning of venues.

Beautiful Words About Women

KIERKEGAARD AGAINST FEMINISM

Alice von Hildebrand

The degradation nurtured by the feminist movement is to convince women that their greatness resides not in love -- a self-giving abandonment -- but in rivaling males.

I, Liturgist

GUEST COLUMN

Jim Macri

To require episcopal permission for the ancient liturgy is to suggest that the "old" Mass is somehow disturbing, like an exorcism.

A Giant Among Catholic Economists

Thomas Storck

Those who have studied conventional economics will find in Heinrich Pesch a starting point that is faithful both to economic facts and to the Church's teaching.

Briefly: February 2005

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture... The Resurrection of the Son of God... The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life