In for the Long Haul

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: June 2002

Restoring Truly Sacred Music... Crossing the Tiber?... Don't You Realize that Our Church is Crumbling Fast?... Good Effects Are Not Good Enough... Free the Traditional Mass...

New Oxford Notes: June 2002

Priestly Pedophilia: Will Good PR Fix It?... Spreading the Disease... The Laity Out There in the Peanut Gallery... Here Come the (Canon) Lawyers

Understanding the Pedophilia Crisis in the Boston Priesthood

THE ISSUE IS HOMOSEXUALITY

G. Thomas Fitzpatrick

The foolish policy of playing musical chairs with pedophile priests was not Cardinal Law’s to start with. He inherited it.

A Nation of Narcissists?

"I'M ENTITLED..."

David C. Stolinsky

Can a nation, or a civilization, continue to prosper if it is peopled mainly by narcissists? I doubt that this has ever been tried before in history.

The Art of True Education

THE SOIL MUST BE RICH

Robert K. Carlson

He who is nurtured in an educational environment in which the true, the good, and the beautiful are rightly cultivated will, Plato argues, 'become noble and good' and 'salute' reason.

Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

ADVANCING CLASSICAL EDUCATION AT MERCY ACADEMY

Darrell Dobbs

Classical education fosters the patient acquisition of the perennial arts of learning rather than the rapid accumulation of 'relevant' knowledge.

Debt Relief the Cyrenian Way

GUEST COLUMN

A. Cyrenian

The Cyrenian approach to debt relief is personal: he lends a debtor money out of his own pocket at an unbeatable interest rate — nothing.

The Tribunal of Great Writers

Cicero Bruce

A classic attains permanent reputability not because it proves useful to one regnant ideology or another, but because it presents us with a unifying vision of nature and man’s place in it.

Briefly: June 2002

Reviews of America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen... The 33 Doctors of the Church

Bookmark: June 2002

Thomas Ellis

Reviews of Dangerous Diplomacy: The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews... From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today