The Monumental Showdown Draws Ever Nearer

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Dissenters place already settled matters up for free-for-all discussion, thereby undermining the Magisterium and further disorienting the faithful.

Letter to the Editor: November 2003

Leon Suprenant's Drop-Dead Understanding of Obedience ... Our Fiddling Bishops... More Than "Strongest"... Caught Red-Handed... An Anglican View of The Eucharist... Mass Confusion... The Apostate Episcopal Church...

New Oxford Notes: November 2003

A Rebel in Search of a Cause... Inclusion Confusion... "Honor Among Thieves"... This Man Has No Shame... Why Don't Catholics Evangelize?... Bio-Luddites and the Secularist Rapture

The Story of a Rejected Candidate for Seminary

IF YOU'RE NOT A "NICE GUY," YOU DON'T HAVE A VOCATION

Jeffrey R. Jackson

The diocesan psychologist requested that I draw a picture of a man, which I did -- wearing a cassock. Then she drew her own picture of a man -- hanging.

Education & the Ideology of Choice

LIFE IN A STYROFOAM WORLD

Edmund B. Miller

Choice does not define us as human beings. That which distinguishes man from his fellow creatures is his having been called.

Looking Eastward

IS THERE HOPE FOR CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX REUNION?

Charles A. Coulombe

As the world grows ever more secular and anti-Christian, we may hope that true believers in the East and West will grow ever closer.

The Four Marks of a Vocation

THE VOCATIONS DROUGHT THAT NEED NOT BE

Michael S. Rose

Without prayer, without hard work, and without generosity, sacrifice would be meaningless in the life of a priest or anyone else.

Real Catholics: Be the Squeaky Wheel!

GUEST COLUMN

Sandra Marcellina

Positive changes can happen when we are willing to work, suffer, pray, make concrete proposals, go up the chain of command, and take the heat.

Pointing God’s Pilgrims Home

Cicero Bruce

What we desire, says Augustine, is to be at home with the Creator, in whom we have our first and final cause.

Briefly: November 2003

Reviews of Switching Churches: A Layman's Guide to a New Commitment by Donald Hook... If You Really Loved Me: 100 Questions on Dating, Relationships, and Sexual Purity by Jason Evert... Forced Labor: What's Wrong with Balancing Work and Family by Brian Robertson

Bookmark: November 2003

Thomas Ellis

Reviews of The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy by Josef Pieper... Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words by Rod Bennett...