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EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: May 2001

Real Men Don't Become Priests — ??... Only the Appearance of Unity...

New Oxford Notes: May 2001

The Near-Death (Near-Hell) Experience... Baptizing a "Lonely Atheist"... Dodging the Real Issues... Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But...

Letter to a Catholic Friend In an Invalid Marriage

THE GRAVE SIN OF ADULTERY

Agnes Martin

A surprising number of couples remarried outside the Church opt to live as brother and sister, so that one or both can receive the sacraments and return to the state of grace.

A Smile From the Womb

WHEN THE ABORTION ISSUE GETS PERSONAL

David T. Koyzis

When our daughter was born, though she was not quite through the second trimester, she already had her own distinct personality and could smile.

Home-Schooling & Sacramental Preparation

NAVIGATING UNCHARTED WATERS

Leon J. Suprenant Jr.

Good guidelines affirm home-schooling as a legitimate response by parents to their role as primary educators, while also affirming that home-schoolers should be part of the local Church.

Those Heartless Social Scientists

HOMELESS VOYEURS?

Thomas Martin

The social scientist is not concerned with good and evil, honor and dishonor, just and unjust, although in his personal life he may be concerned with reputation and justice.

From "Renovation" to Restoration

CHURCH ARCHITECTURE

Michael S. Rose

The pew Catholic, however ignorant he may be of church architecture, has his Catholic intuition and common sense. If he says it looks ugly, it’s because it is ugly.

The Church of England, The Defiled “Panther”

William J. Tighe

Anne Barbeau Gardiner shows "that Dryden’s poem has a grand and unified design that has hitherto gone unnoticed.”

Briefly: May 2001

Reviews of The Idea of Culture... The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest... Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China... The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth... Voices of the Saints... The Montessori Method

Bookmark: May 2001

David Arias Jr.

Reviews of The Selfhood of the Human Person... The Savior of Science