Letter to the Editor: May 2005

Jesuits and Abortions... More Cancelled Subscriptions... Dan Brown: With a Little More Imagination... The Church Milquetoast... Catholic Immigrants Won't Save the U.S. Church... more

New Oxford Notes: May 2005

What It Means to Be a "Better Person"... Putting a "Positive Light" on Murder?... Crisis Magazine's Guilty Dreams of Glory... Update on Fr. Stravinskas... A Sore Loser?

The Legion of Christ

HOPE FOR THE CHURCH?

Cecilia H. Martin

The order's critics charge that seminary students are denied any true discernment of their vocations. Instead, the young boys are cunningly recruited and become totally "owned."

Paul Shanley, Pervert Priest

JUSTICE IS DONE

Theresa Marie Moreau

Despite Shanley's repeated warning, "If you tell, no one will believe you," the jury of 12 men and women believe Ron.

Pray the Rosary

HOPE IN A HOPELESS WORLD

Timothy P. Collins

My family being away, I am alone and come home to a house unchanged from how I left it in the morning. So, I decide to go to the Wednesday-evening Rosary at the chapel.

The Present State of the Catholic Church in England

ON CARDINAL HUME

Piers Paul Read

If a new generation of Catholics has arisen which is largely ignorant of what it means to believe, then Cardinal Hume must take part of the blame.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Homosexual Weapons Research... Solicitations Are Legion... Same-Sex Simpsons... Homophobic Menu?... Zookeepers in Dutch... Family Values Prohibited... more

Is It Time to Elect Bishops Again?

GUEST COLUMN

Charles Molineaux

Kenneth Baker, S.J., urged that bishops stay with appropriate dioceses and not be moved from place to place, always on the lookout for an ecclesial career upgrade.

Why Orthodox Catholics Are Angry With the Legion of Christ

Michael S. Rose

The order and its lay affiliate were banned from certain dioceses and are unwelcome on many Catholic campuses.

Briefly: May 2005

Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue... Angel in the Waters... Life with Mother Teresa: My Thirty-Year Friendship with the Mother of the Poor... The Catechism of the Council of Trent