Letter to the Editor: October 2004

How God Judges Homosexuality... The Da Vinci Code at a Catholic High School... Things Deacons Should Not Do... Backbiting... For the Conversion of Islam... Contraception is the Problem... Draft the Abortionists...

New Oxford Notes: October 2004

Most Children Already Have Two "Fathers"... Our Testosterone-Depleted Church... A Bishop With Testosterone... Diiging Himself in Deeper... Dumb Dutchmen... more

Is Providence College All It's Cracked Up to Be?

A CLOSER LOOK

Jeffrey R. Jackson

Notwithstanding the general perception that Providence College is very Catholic, the occurrence of certain events call into question whether it has experienced a serious decline.

At the Tomb of St. Thérèse

THE LITTLE FLOWER AND THE GREAT WAR

Thomas Basil

She was thought so unimportant in her day that her newspaper obituary read: "Death on 30 September, of Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin, 24 years 9 months, nun at Carmel, rue de Jivarot."

A Response to Andrew Messaros

THE CASE FOR AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY

Nicholas J. Healy, Jr.

Ave Maria College's relocation plan began after it became clear that it was highly unlikely that the Michigan property would receive the required zoning change.

Catholic Voters: Play Hard to Get

GUEST COLUMN

Thomas Storck

Don't run to the Republicans who promise a lot and deliver next to nothing. Don't run to the Democrats who tell us to ignore the murder of the unborn.

Newman & Evangelization

Richard Geraghty

Just as Christ made no apologies or compromises in His preaching to the Apostles, so the Apostles make no apologies or compromises with their listeners.

For Catholic Dissenters, Abortion Is Like Mowing Grass

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The authors say abortion is "like pruning one's rose bush." Pruning a rosebush makes it bloom more abundantly. But when one aborts a child, does her capacity to grow improve?

Briefly: October 2004

Reviews of The New Encyclopedia of Islam by Cyril Glassé, The Remnant Spirit: Conservative Reform in Mainline Protestantism by Douglas E. Cowan, Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom by Thomas Dubay, G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense by Dale Alquist