Letter to the Editor: December 1999

The Do-It-Yourself Altar Rail... No Evidence on Gay Suicides... Father Bozo Is For Real... Airheaded... The Immoral Life Is Expensive...

New Oxford Notes: December 1999

Rome - or Beach Blanket Babylon... Catholicism Is Y2K-Compliant... But Are Catholics B.C./A.D.-Compliant?... Speak Ye Uncomfortably to Jerusalem... Billy Graham's Crumbling Journalistic Legacy... Number One in Spirituality?

Homosexual Memoirs for Catholic Freshmen: Why?

NOWHERE NEAR HEAVEN'S COAST

Katherine Kersten

At a Christian university, students and faculty should be committed to a search for the truth about the truly good life for man.

Hating the Body

BODY PIERCING, BLOOD RITES & TRANSSEXUALISM

Thomas Storck

Often the body is treated not as part of the human body-soul complex, but as a mere shell, which can be manipulated at will.

When Death Is Our Physician

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ASSISTED-SUICIDE MOVEMENT

Wesley J. Smith

Assisted-suicide guidelines are ignored routinely or have been expanded to the point where they are ephemeral.

Confronting Sexual Immorality

TO CIVILIZE THE COMING GENERATION

Anthony Zimmerman

The Lord God, eschewing the “pastoral prudence” of hesitant confessors, asked the Original Penitents point blank to tell what they had done.

Away With the Manger, a Sleigh for His Bed?

GUEST COLUMN

John M. Grondelski

Emotionalism or Ritualism - Or the Best of Both?

GUEST COLUMN

David Mills

The liturgy does not try to create or evoke emotions but expects them to grow from our recognizing and feeling the truths the ritual expresses.

Liturgical Theology & Priestly Identity

John-Peter Pham

Just settling the question of “presider” or “priest” could spark resolution of a host of issues — authority, salvation, and more.

Briefly: December 1999

Reviews of Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death... Means to Message: A Treatise on Truth

Bookmark: December 1999

David Arias Jr.

Reviews of Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy... Vital Remnants: America's Founding and the Western Tradition... Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle... The Best of Mike Royko: One More Time... Religion, Politics, and Peace... Misión Guadalupe...