Letter to the Editor: October 2005

The Same Old Shell Game... Why, Yes, Let's Kill Two Birds With One Stone... End This "Experiment"... Not a Dime's Worth of Difference... Lamont on Vatican II... Appropriate Dress for Catholic Women... "An Inadvertent Pawn Of Our True Enemy"...

New Oxford Notes: October 2005

Here Come the Catholic Cheerleaders... The Same Old Yada-Yada... Shall We Privatize "Marriage" & Everything Else?... Hysteria Central

Grand Detours From the Second Vatican Council

A RESPONSE TO JOHN LAMONT

Robert Sungenis

One of Vatican II's major problems was that its message of altruistic love and spiritual freedom was given to a society on the verge of cutting loose most of its social mores.

Freedom of Religion -- in the Church

ON PILGRIMAGE

Theresa Marie Moreau

The pains and sufferings of our walking pilgrimage will be offered as a penance for the special intention of the resurrection of the Tridentine Latin Mass.

Financial Vulnerabilities At the Parish Level

POST-DEPOSIT EMBEZZLEMENTS

Michael W. Ryan

If the essence of effective anti-embezzlement measures could be summarized in a single phrase, it might be 'separation of duties.'

A First Reckoning With the Latin Mass

SO MUCH LIFE PACKED WITH SO MUCH QUIET

Joseph O'Brien

The Latin Mass is an immersion in mystery and an intricate recognition of my own subordination as simple creature before simple Creator.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Mom Rock... Ph.D. in Air Guitar... Something to Do... Silicone Junkies... "Deferred Success"... Locker-Room Discrimination... Hey Wait...It's Art!

Looking for Media Sin in the Wrong Places

GUEST COLUMN

James O. Clifford Sr.

The mass media dropped the ball on national coverage of another sex scandal: sex cases and cover-ups involving public school teachers.

Athanasius Against the World: Still Looking for Some Company

GUEST COLUMN

Daniel M. Hoffman

People jealously want to control the one thing that demonstrates God's infinite artistry and creativity -- life.

A Man of Courage

Patrick Rooney

Men are essentially the protectors, the warriors. And women are the nurturers, the nest builders. This fact hasn't changed for millennia, and it never will.

Briefly: October 2005

Reviews of Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium... Swimming With Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic... Fully Human, Fully Divine: An Interactive Christology... Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus Through the Gospel of John... Silent Music: The Life, Work, and Thought of St. John of the Cross