Letter to the Editor: February 2001

Bishop O'Donnell Responds... St. Trash?... A Response From Sacred Heart Seminary... Let's Have a National Debate... The Mission of CUF...

New Oxford Notes: February 2001

Why No Call for Dialogue With "Homophobes"?... Let's Have More Loneliness!... "Gay" Priests Set the Tone... Bow Down and Worship Me!

Confessions of a Patchwork Catholic

LEARNING HOW BIG CHRIST'S CHURCH IS

Teresa Manidis

I'm an Eastern Catholic but I’ve attended the Maronite, Armenian, and even the rare Mozarabic liturgy, and I sometimes attend the “regular,” Roman Catholic Mass.

A Tale of Two St. Mary's Churches

DO THEY BELONG TO THE SAME RELIGION?

Ken Skuba

The Byzantine liturgy elevated my soul to a higher plane of worship. My soul was indeed magnifying the Lord.

The New New Funeral Rite: Let's Eulogize! Let's Emote!

AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL

Philip Brannigan

The modern Catholic funeral liturgy has taken on a life of its own, independent of any of the Church’s stifling rules and traditions.

Hospitality

A LOST ART?

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The cultivation of leisure, friendship, good cooking, and delightful storytelling are never learned if everyone is too busy or too lazy to be host or guest.

"Knowing Catholic"

LAYING THE FOUNDATION

Michael S. Rose

Catholics need to be educated as Catholics, bishops need to be leaders, and priests need to catechize those entrusted to them.

The Bileworm Memorandum

SIX STRATEGIES FOR SATANIC SOVEREIGNTY

Eugene Hoyas

The devil shares his business plan to destroy "orthodox fools" through schism, revolution, division, and other tactics.

Remodel the Cathedral: What a Boondoggle!

GUEST COLUMN

James A. Henderson

A problem with today’s Catholic clergy, who squander money on “renovating” churches, is they often seem to spend other people's money with abandon.

A Baptist Meets a Mutant Mass

GUEST COLUMN

Jeremy Lott

The way most Baptists (and evangelicals) normally celebrate Communion -- a practice that Christ commanded us to repeat to evoke His sacrifice -- is a scandal.

A Great Gift Book — But Give It Anonymously

Mary Meehan

"Cuss Control" suggests that some people who swear have an underlying problem of excessive anger and a bad disposition.

Adventure Stories

John C. Chalberg

A history of British “literary converts” is a story of spiritual inspiration over the course of the “age of unbelief” that constitutes the full run of the 20th century.

Catholic History, Misconstrued

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

A problem arises when someone unfamiliar with Catholic history composes a study of eminent Catholics who lived under persecution.

"The Church's Best Kept Secret"

Thomas Storck

Although the Church’s social doctrine is an integral part of her patrimony, it has elicited little interest, even from Catholics.

Briefly: February 2001

Reviews of The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism... Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues... In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity... The Silence of St. Thomas

Bookmark: February 2001

David Arias Jr.

Reviews of A Student's Guide to the Study of History... Alphonsus de Ligouri: Selected Writings... Knowledge and Faith (The Collected Works of Edith Stein: Volume Eight)... Scripture Alone? Twenty-One Reasons to Reject Sola Scriptura... The Conversion of Ratisbonne... A Student's Guide to Literature