Letter to the Editor: January 2001

Why Were the Altar Rails Removed?... Applause — for the Glory of Man... Fr. Sirico Replies... Souls Falling Into Hell Like Snowflakes... Why the Clergy Don't Preach About Sin...

New Oxford Notes: January 2001

Feminism in the Service of Exploitation... Fetch Your Pooper-Scooper!... Evangelicals Have "Made It" — Onto the Slippery Slope... Bacterial Roulette

The Stage-Managed Emotionalism of Today's "Worship Experience"

OPTING FOR MAGIC OVER GRACE

Eric J. Scheske

Modern man wants a form of worship that is both understandable and predictable. And, because grace is the fruit of worship, this implies he wants his grace without mystery.

Weaving the Tangled Web

THE TYRANNY OF THE SUPREME COURT

Joseph Collison

A great irony of history is that in Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court announced its adherence to a prescientific concept of fetal life.

Notes From County Jail

RISING FROM SLEEP

Edmund B. Miller

In jail, men in their idleness begin to look inward, to ask questions, to wake from their action-driven sleep.

If Everyone Is Saved...

WHY BOTHER?

Dale Vree

If no one goes to Hell, then all the talk about Hell in the Bible — and from the Church — is utterly cruel, needlessly cruel, maybe sadistic.

A Possible Solution To the Vouchers Issue

GUEST COLUMN

Richard Bruce

Perhaps we would have better luck if we asked for a voucher that covered the secular portion of a parochial-school education.

Cardinal Ratzinger vs. St. Bozo’s Parish

Stephen Hand

Ratzinger was keenly aware of the ways the Mass has been trivialized and made to appear as an ongoing and evolving experiment.

Calls to Repentance & Salvation

Rosemary Lunardini

Major apparitions of the Blessed Mother have occurred at those times when people most needed to hear her Gospel message.

Briefly: January 2001

Reviews of There's No Place Like Work: How Business, Government, and Our Obsession With Work Have Driven Parents from Home... Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Doctrine of John Paul II... Bernadette Speaks: A Life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous in Her Own Words... The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts... Choosing a World-View and Value System: An Ecumenical Apologetics

Bookmark: January 2001

David Arias Jr.

Reviews of Husband and Wife: The Joys, Sorrows and Glories of Married Life... A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning... A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum...