That Mosquito on the Tuxedo

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: October 2001

What Has Happened To Peter Kreeft? Let's Join the Environmental Debate... "Spiritually Perverse"?... Yes, a "Catholic Christian" Is What He Is...

New Oxford Notes: October 2001

Spilling the Beans... 'Till Death Do Us Part (And Not Soon Enough... Conformed to the World?... Petty — or Just Very Observant?

The Mother of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

EARTH IS NOT OUR TRUE HOME

Joan Gormley

Zélie Martin's readiness as a young woman to change her vocational plans and to enter wholeheartedly into the vocation of wife and mother are evidence of spiritual maturity and greatness.

Toward a Caste System in The American Church

BRAHMINS RULE?

R. Michael Dunnigan

Learned persons have a great deal to offer to the Church, but no degree of learning or exalted social status entitles a person to a privileged place under Church law.

Theology of Clay

A TIME FOR SMASHING

Steve Kellmeyer

Today's adults have not been ennobled by the doctrines of the Church; they are in a state of baptismal grace, perhaps, but essentially unformed and unaffected by doctrine.

The "Catholic" Politician of 2001 & The Southern "Gentleman" of 1860

IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE?

John L. Botti

The Southern "Gentleman" of 1860: "I am not in favor of slavery; indeed, personally I am opposed to it. But I do not feel it is my place to impose my convictions upon anyone else!"

The Unwelcome Ex-"Gay" Phenomenon

CHALLENGING THE "UNCHANGEABLE"

John C. Cort

A practicing psychiatrist who has specialized in reparative therapy says if patients "bring in the spiritual component," the recovery rate is "significantly higher."

"Except Jews"

A DOUBLE STANDARD FOR ISRAEL

David C. Stolinsky

Those who support the creation of a state where Jews are forbidden to live may not consider themselves racists, but they are.

Standing Seldom by the Crib, But Often by the Coffin

GUEST COLUMN

Carrie Tomko

As we bury our parents and watch our circle of family diminish, will we finally humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for rejecting the gifts He had to give us?

The First Crusade

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The Gerusalemme liberata is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature and a culmination of Italian Renaissance poetry.

Briefly: October 2001

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