Letter to the Editor: September 2001

Fan Mail From Hell... Balthasar's Fighting Fans... Balthasar's Cultivated Fans... Ugliness Takes Its Vengeance... Cast Into the Furnace of Fire...

New Oxford Notes: September 2001

Liturgical Pacifism... Pacifying Men and Boys... Pacifying Prolifers

Confessions of an Ob-Gyn

A JOURNEY FROM DEATH TO LIFE

Beverly McMillan

My conversion involved non-participation in any form of contraceptive prescribing or sterilization, and promotion of Natural Family Planning.

A Brief, Air-Tight Argument Against Abortion

WITHOUT APPEALING TO RELIGION

Eugene Hoyas

My opposition has nothing to do with the Bible or the Church; it is based squarely upon biological science and the political principles upon which our government was founded.

The Catholic Hiroshima

RADIATION SICKNESS IN THE CHURCH

Dermott J. Mullan

Dissent affects spiritual life in a way that is analogous to what happens to biological life in the aftermath of an atomic bomb.

Smoke If You Must, But Get Rid of That Execrable TV

TELEVISION IS WORSE THAN TOBACCO

Jack Taylor

Television use is linked to a significant loss of intellectual ability in young children, increased violent behavior, and loss of morals.

The Great Father Grump

GUEST COLUMN

James F. O'Callaghan

Christian love demands more than charitable works and hugging one another: It also demands acts of orthodoxy, because our first love must be God, who is Truth.

To Be a Faithful Catholic at Any Mass: A Pledge

GUEST COLUMN

Larry A. Carstens

This pledge, a response to the wide number of common abuses currently in vogue at many Masses, is for the individual Catholic and is intended to be kept as a reference.

A Handmaiden's Tale

GUEST COLUMN

Sandra Marcellina

Chances are there’s a neglected duty somewhere in your parish that you can take over. Do it with all your might to the glory of God alone.

The Virgin Mary's Unique Privilege

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

All but the last two mysteries of the Rosary are taken directly from Scripture, and even the Assumption and Coronation are “veiled” there in the Prophets.

The Return of the Physician-Executioner

David C. Stolinsky

We would do well to heed the lesson of Deuteronomy 30:19 (Choose life…"), rather than the teachings of "ethicists" who cannot distinguish human babies from fish.

To Die of Love

Elaine Hallett

Poet Paul Claudel describes the apotheosis of Thérèse as "this little girl burning like a Pentecost." Bishop Gaucher writes, "A short life can live love to a white-hot degree."

Briefly: September 2001

Reviews of Visions: The Soul's Path to the Sacred... Surprised by Truth 2... Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology... The Belief of Catholics