Letter to the Editor: March 2000

Your Suffering Is Deserved... What "Watch"?... Better a Real Nobody Than a Fake Catholic?

New Oxford Notes: March 2000

Don't Call It "Adultery," Call It "Loving More"... Unwanted Children? Disposable as Last Sunday's Paper... Birdseed Catholicism... Naked — And Ye Clothed Me?... The Incredible Shrinking of Man

Hard Heart, Soft Heart, or True Heart?

CULTIVATING THE MORAL SENTIMENTS

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The truly human needs are the very things not absolutely necessary for mere survival: dignity, respect, gratitude, and kindness.

The Inflated Reputation of Hans Urs von Balthasar

COMPASSION TO A FAULT

Regis Scanlon

Hoping that all will be saved – when Scripture says that some are lost – is like hoping that no one ever sins when we know that Adam and Eve sinned.

Skinheads & Rock Stars -- or Saints?

ON CHOOSING HEROES WISELY

Eric J. Scheske

Hero-worship is so ingrained in our natures that if we cannot find a hero we may follow a pseudo-hero.

The Catholic Sensibility of Allen Tate

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Tate was a critic, poet, novelist, and intellectual of the first rank. Neglect of his work today is due in large part to his conversion to Catholicism.

Rarely Disagreeing

Christopher Kaczor

The conflicts between modern science and Christianity have been very rare, limited in fact to a few well-known cases.

Against Calculation & Compromise

Inez Fitzgerald Storck

The theme of the innocence and purity of childhood is central in the work of French novelist and essayist Georges Bernanos (1888-1948).

Briefly: March 2000

Reviews of Out of a Kantian Chrysalis? A Maritainian Critique of Fr. Marechal... The Scandal of Gender: Early Christian Teaching on the Man and the Woman... Enjoying God's Beauty... Tolkien: Man and Myth... Orestes A. Brownson: Sign of Contradiction