We Blew It!

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: January 2000

Feeling So Good I Could Vomit... The Uses of Satire... In Defense of Dr. Laura...

New Oxford Notes: January 2000

Workers of the World, Unite! — In Front of the Boob Tube... From Mere Christianity To Merest Christianity... All Power to The (Smart) People... The Prophet Elijah Deported and King David's Condo Up for Sale... Right From the Mare's Mouth... The Atheist, the Cardinal and The Liberals... Dogma: A Damnable Mess of a Movie

Why Are People Atheists?

FREUDIAN IRONIES

Paul C. Vitz

Atheism is a recent and distinctively Western phenomenon; no other culture has manifested such a widespread public rejection of the divine.

"Oh, I'm Nobody."

WHO AM I? GOD KNOWS!

Bernard J. Coughlin

God knows me as one to whom He continually gives being, and whom He holds and guides in His loving Providence.

'Power to the People' Can Only Mean Property to the People

A PRACTICAL RESPONSE TO CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

John C. Medaille

Capitalism and socialism begin with a practical materialism that elevates things over man or, worse, reduces man to a thing.

An Educational Funeral

GUEST COLUMN

David C. Stolinsky

Aside from somber, beautiful, or inspiring, a funeral I attended recently could be described as educational.

A Real Folk Mass

GUEST COLUMN

Paul C. Fox

The Western Church surrendered its own true folk Mass — the traditional sung Mass — in favor of contrived and artificial ones.

From Abortion to Family Breakdown & Child Abuse

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph Collison

With today’s lax morals, children witness loose, impermanent, and immature relationships among the adults on whom they depend.

It's a Gift to Be Simple

Elaine Hallett

Of the five Martin sisters, Léonie was the least gifted and the last to settle into convent life. Her handicaps make her of special interest.

Briefly: January 2000

Reviews of Philemon's Problem: A Theology of Grace... Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army... Children of the Breath: A Dialogue in the Desert...

Bookmark: January 2000

David Arias Jr.

Reviews of The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love... The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education... Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium... Revoking the Moral Order: The Ideology of Positivism and the Vienna Circle... Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem... Plague Journal: A Novel