Letter to the Editor: December 1998

Why Attack Us?... Why Latin Is Hated Today... Brave German Clergy... Automatically Excommunicated?... Strong, But Not Ugly...

A Season of Grace, a Season of Thieves

ADVENT'S PREGNANT SILENCE

James Schmitmeyer

No seminars or programs can rival the spiritual potential of the month of December in the life of a family — or that of a pastor.

Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas Today

"DECREASE THE SURPLUS POPULATION"

Lawrence D. Hogan

Scrooge stated, “Let those poor go to the prisons and the Union workhouses. And if they’d rather die, they had better do it."

The United Religions Initiative, A Bridge Back to Gnosticism

"IF I'M WRONG, I'M DEAD WRONG" -- BISHOP SWING

Lee Penn

Episcopal Bishop Swing said the world needs “a global soul,” to be created by conferences, fundraising, and declarations.

"Catholic Studies": The New Catholic Ghetto

A NEW ELECTIVE AT CATHOLIC COLLEGES: CATHOLICISM!

Nino Langiulli

A single program relieves the institution of the responsibility to give the entire curriculum a Catholic character.

"Ed Speak" Invades Catholic Schools

AD MAJOREM MUNDI GLORIAM

Ellen Chris Fanizzi

State licensing and certification lend legitimacy to “experts” but, as the Teacher from Nazareth remarked, by their fruits ye shall know them.

What Government Can Do for the Family: Just Leave It Alone!

THE SACRED FRONT DOOR

Thomas Fleming

The home “is older than the law and stands outside the state,” says Chesterton. This view is the common sense of Christendom.

Why Keeping the Welsh Language Alive Is a Christian Concern

REMEMBERING SAUNDERS LEWIS, A WELSH CATHOLIC

Preston Jones

The Common Cup & the Common Bug

GUEST ASCENDENCY

E. Coli

By the seventh communicant, the chalice is circumplastered with lip prints and dotted with crumblets and sundry foreign minutiae.

Chess Players Beware: Big Sister May Be Watching

GUEST COLUMN

Edward O'Brien

A Lump in the Throat

Luis R. Gámez

Review of Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry

God’s Good Servant, but the King’s First?

William J. Tighe

Thomas Cranmer was one of the overseers of what Diarmaid MacCulloch calls “a religious revolution of ruthless thoroughness.”

Briefly: December 1998

Reviews of Theological Lexicon of the New Testament... The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy... Mass Confusion: The Do's and Don'ts of Catholic Worship