Letter to the Editor: January 2004

'Drying Snot'

New Oxford Notes: January 2004

Special Breeds and Lesser Breeds... Democracy, Anyone?... How Many of Our Priests Are Leading Secret Lives?... Priestly Pedophilia: Soul-Murders or Merely "Incidents"?... God the Father, the Elephantine God — Whatever... The "New Springtime" for the Church Is a Long Ways Off... How CUF became the bishops' friend.

Do We Measure Up as Catholics?

WE MEASURE WHAT'S IMPORTANT

Eugene Kania

Business management experts say that what and how we measure our people will drive their behavior. What do our parishes measure?

The Empty Self vs. the Rich Soul

MEN WITHOUT CHESTS

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The inner life of man is a world copiously rich and full, capable of loving and knowing, and designed to grasp the transcendentals of truth, goodness, and beauty.

Homosexuality & Same-Sex 'Marriage'

JUVENAL VS. EPICURUS

Leland D. Peterson

The context for sexual corruption in our time, and in Juvenal's Rome, is godless Epicurean hedonism. Like causes will have like effects.

The Wages of Roe v. Wade

GUEST COLUMN

Geoffrey Henderson

Shakespeare showed what murder does to murderers. We, too, can examine what abortion has done to abortionists and the mothers and fathers of those killed.

From the Darkness

GUEST COLUMN

William H. Soisson III

"Wasn't it wonderful that simple creatures like us were allowed to be so helpful? But every now and then, since we've been retired, I can't help wishing for the old days."

Open Season on Catholic History in the U.K.?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

An attempt to "construct" martyrs as rhetorical ploys does not work. Nothing is more real and solid than their immortal victory and unfading glory.

The Stale Good Guy/Bad Guy Formula

Thomas Storck

It is unhistorical to read our current liberal versus conservative dichotomy backward into history.

Briefly: January 2004

Reviews of The Teachings of the Church Fathers, edited by John R. Willis, S.J...and Priest: Portraits of Ten Good Men Serving the Church Today by Michael S. Rose