Letter to the Editor: December 2004

Bush Has Given Prolifers Hope... Cardinal Dulles Replies... George Weigel Replies... Radical Muslims Want to Destroy the Western World... Medjugorje - Very Strange... more

New Oxford Notes: December 2004

Sheer Idolatry... Special Rights & Rites... How to Become an Atheist... Why There's Not Much Point in Being a Christian... and more

The Fault of Being Nice

THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

While love is strong, niceness seeks the path of least resistance, declines to the lowest common denominator, and minces words.

Waking Up the Seminaries

THE KEY TO CHURCH RENEWAL

Charles James

Being unsatisfied with mere "attendance at liturgy," the spiritually awakened seminarian will personally seek the Lord in the liturgy.

Beware of Thomas Groome or Anything Associated With Him

SHARED CHRISTIAN GOBBLEDYGOOK

Stacey Johnson

Groome seemed well-respected in catechetical and episcopal circles, and his books were rubber-stamped by a committee at the USCCB.

When God Takes a Vacation (A Play in One Act)

GUEST COLUMN

Lois Manning

The year is 2005. God is sitting on His throne; He has just returned from a short, 50-year vacation in the far reaches of the galaxy.

The Content of Their Character — Forty Years Later

GUEST COLUMN

David C. Stolinsky

We have dropped the word "character" from our thinking. We can no longer fully grasp what Dr. King meant, so it's no wonder we haven't taken his advice.

The Age of the Swashbuckling Irishmen

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Jacobitism was a real threat to Protestant Ascendancy, and Irish bards kept alive the fervent hope for an imminent rescue from Europe.

Christianity, Materialism & Modern Physics

Gary Mar

Review of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen M. Barr and The Empirical Stance by Bas C. van Fraassen

Briefly: December 2004

Reviews of An Essay on the Restoration of Property by Hilaire Belloc