Letter to the Editor: May 2004

Oakland is San Antonio... Offensive and Slanderous... Charles James Responds... Un-Christian Article...

New Oxford Notes: May 2004

Some Ecumenical Straight-Talk... Thank Goodness for the Unitarians!... Why (Most) Women Will Never Again Be Happy... Can the Pope Overrule a Vatican II Document?... more

My Soul-Shattering Experience in the Seminary

SILENT NO MORE

Martin Heinz

I threatened to break the nose of one priest after he propositioned me, but word got around. I, not the homosexual, was made out to be the bad guy.

Graffiti in Warsaw, Mormons in Krakow, & Basements in Auschwitz

TRAVELS IN POLAND

Thomas Basil

In Poland the presumption is that truth is one, and there is only the true Church. If it's not Catholic, it's not true. The spiritual maze is simple to navigate.

Chastity & the Prolife Movement

PROMISCUITY IS THE BASIC CAUSE OF ABORTION

Mattei Radu

The prolife movement of the 21st century must adopt chastity as the fifth pillar of advocacy for preborn children.

Christian Learning & The Daily Grind

GUEST COLUMN

Preston Jones

Christian teachers who feel overwhelmed can remember that, if they are using well the gifts God has given them, good things are being done amid their busy-ness.

The Heart of Darkness: How Visceral Hatred of Catholicism Turns Into Genocide

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Historians have minimized the Vendée genocide because it does not fit the atheist myth that Catholics are the persecutors, while atheists are liberal and tolerant.

No Catholic Church, No Dorothy Day

Edmund B. Miller

Only love, no matter how historically insignificant it might seem, can create; and no work, no matter how well financed, if done without love can be fruitful.

Briefly: May 2004

Reviews of You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian's Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy by Olivier Clément... Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, and Politics by James A. Bill and John Alden Williams... Vexilla Regis: Devotions and Intercessions for All Affected by War by Robert Hugh Benson