And the Verdict Is…

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: February 1999

Clowns at Calvary?... Informing the World... May "It" Go Away...

The Language of the Body & the Mass

AT THE NAME OF JESUS, LET EVERY KNEE REMAIN UNBENT?

W. Patrick Cunningham

We may stand for someone we decidedly do not revere. Kneeling, however, is a clear signal of reverence and even worship.

The Looming Civil War Over Abortion

A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND

Benjamin D. Wiker

Either Christianity will rebaptize the heart of the nation or secularism will drive out Christianity, but one or the other will be victorious.

How to Form a Catholic Mind

WE LIVE AS WE THINK

Thomas Storck

We may be unwittingly of two minds or three minds precisely where our mind should be one.

The Martyrs of Gorcum

"FORNICATOR I ALWAYS WAS, HERETIC I NEVER WAS"

Barry Bossa

Visits to "Purgatory"

WEDNESDAY MORNINGS AT THE NURSING HOME

Aaron W. Godfrey

I bring comfort to nursing home patients but I gain comfort from them as well. I witness moments of grace and even of heroism.

Is Hell Closed Up & Boarded Over?

ON BEING MORE TENDERHEARTED THAN GOD HIMSELF

David Watt

Where eternal rewards and punishments are concerned, are we more tenderhearted and clear-eyed than our forebears in faith -- than God Himself?

The Sexual Revolution Is Doomed

NATURE NEVER FORGIVES

Mitchell Kalpakgian

Not to know God is not to know nature or your own nature – to trade the abnormal for the normal, to choose sterility over abundance.

No Premarital Sex? It's News to Catholic Students

DON'T DO THAT THING IF YOU AIN'T GOT THAT RING

Christopher Kaczor

In a place where young minds are supposed to be in training, the bodies are apparently active and the minds are apparently unengaged.

The Decadence of the Feminese Dialect

GUEST COLUMN

Roy Barkley

"Deja Vu All Over Again": The Return of Paganism

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph Collison

The Roman historian Livy observed: "We can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."

Converting the Pagans

John-Peter Pham

What happened during the thousand years from Constantine to Jogaila that made Europe Christian? And how did it work?

St. Thomas More: No Common Grounder

George Neumayr

More was an orthodox stalwart willing to die in a “battle to preserve England’s thousand-year communion with the see of Peter.”

Briefly: February 1999

Reviews of The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom... Henri Nouwen: A Restless Searching for God... Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography... Toward a Theology of the Body...