Letter to the Editor: December 2003

That Anonymous Mother of the Year... Hang in There, You Orthodox Catholics!... From King Henry VIII to The Universal Life Church ... Changing the Rosary too?... The Mass That Will Not Die...

New Oxford Notes: December 2003

"I Learned That I Need to Keep My Mouth Shut"... Could Jennifer Granholm Be the St. Thomas More of Our Times?... Poor Deal Hudson, he feels left out - as he should be... Telephone Skills — And Other Classes for Women

Protecting Our Children from Catholic Schools

YES, REALLY!

Charles James

Parents expect a faithful presentation of the Catholic faith, but they actually get dissent and the unexamined clichés of the social "gospel" and pop "spirituality."

Raising Religious & Moral Standards for Catholic High School Students

YES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO FAIL A RELIGION CLASS

Jason T. Adams

The typical student in religion class today has never been required to think deeply about the more complicated or abstract concepts of Catholicism.

A Schola Cantorum for Today's Liturgy

RETROSPECT & RATIONALE

Ted Ley

The Schola Cantorum of the Pacific is a living celebration of liturgy as community and music as its exalted language.

Charles Dickens's 'A Happy Holidays Song'

GUEST COLUMN

F. Douglas Kneibert

What advice would a politically correct contemporary American publisher give to Charles Dickens regarding A Christmas Carol?

The Non Serviam of the Episcopal Church: Unsex Me!

GUEST COLUMN

Larry A. Carstens

The Catholic Church will never capitulate to the times, and those among her members who do generally do not remain within her for long.

The Catholic Ethic Made Politically Correct

Thomas Storck

Take orthodoxy away and eventually you end up as some kind of Protestant or secularist, with beliefs no one can predict.

If You’re Looking for One Solidly Catholic Book…

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Knox defines religion as living in the presence of an unseen world, a world that gets hold of you, binds you, and makes claims on you.

Why Nothing Ever Changes in Public Education

Barbara Nauer

Those in charge merely stir the tepid bath water, having long ago thrown out the precious baby.

Briefly: December 2003

Reviews of Amchurch Comes Out: The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda by Paul A. Likoudis... On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs by James V. Schall, S.J... The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc... In God's Time: The Bible and the Future by Craig C. Hill