Houses Built on Sand

EDITORIAL

Pieter Vree

If we are wise, recent economic crises will remind us that all we gather on this earth eventually slips out of our grasp. Wealth and security are transient.

Letter to the Editor: December 2008

The Old & New Guard... Limbo: An Enigma... What is the Life of an Unborn Baby Worth... The Target of Evil... Prayer in Adoration... The Pleasure of Kalpakgian... How to Kick the Bad Music Habit... Medjugorje Contradictions... Why Jesus Ordained Only Men... Three Marys... Traditional Catholic Resources... and more

New Oxford Notes: December 2008

Paying Homage to the Monkey God... Space Invaders... The Enemy Within... 'Inquiry' Shall Set Us Free?

The New Mathematical Mandarins

HUMAN FREEDOM: A TECHNICAL PROBLEM?

Joseph K. Woodard

Hardin treats freedom as an attribute requiring manipulation but not as a perennial reality forever behaving in unexpected ways.

Faith Journey or Road to Hell?

ENTER BY THE NARROW GATE

Richard Anderson

Can someone who has ignored every proscription of the Catholic faith be described as being on a "faith journey"?

Miracles Do Not Speak Halfway

A SHORT STORY

Mitchell Kalpakgian

Miracles do not just occur in the Gospels or in the lifetime of Christ. They can happen in ordinary life to anyone.

Philadelphia's Glorious Catholic Music History

AN INCOMPLETE BICENTENNIAL

Lucy E. Carroll

Pennsylvania built the first Catholic churches in the U.S., and its music gained renown even among non-Catholics.

Everyone Knows That!

GUEST COLUMN

Raymond W. Belair

Sometimes the truth is so simple, so easily recognizable and self-evident that even children have no trouble comprehending.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Silent Witness... Adoption, the Loving Option... Bishop's Bloody Blessing... The Pre-Fig-Leaf Church... How to Leave the Church... Sanctuary for Women... Hacked Off

Death & Eternal Life According to Ratzinger

Arthur C. Sippo

This erudite exposition of Catholic dogmatics includes biblical, patristic, magisterial, ecumenical, and theological insights from the very heart of the patrimony.

Briefly: December 2008

Review of The Day Donny Herbert Woke up... Rights By Stealth... Marriages, Shack-Ups & Other Disasters...