Letter to the Editor: January 2008

Defending Dr. Scott Hahn... Arise, You Bishops... The Real Beginning of Our Salvation... No Ecumenical Council of Vienna... Thumbs Down to the USCCB... From Hot Pants to Habit... Islam Vis-a-Vis Post-Enlightenment Ideology... Simpletons in Portugal... Highly Inappropriate... Mary: the Real Hope for Russia... Byzantine Rite... Shame on You...

New Oxford Notes: January 2008

Archbishop Burke Has Courage... Be Fruitful & Multiply... Pope Benedict XVI Is Ambivalent About the Second Vatican Council... "Gay" Is Good -- for Business... Msgr. Mannion Is Infatuated With the Modern World... "The Great Blunder"

Whatever Became of Hell?

HAS THE UNQUENCHABLE FIRE BEEN QUENCHED?

Hurd Baruch

Jesus spoke of the evildoer as being in the netherworld, separated from the just by an impassable chasm, and tormented in flames.

The Lost Art of Conversation

WIT, PLAYFULNESS, IRONY & SATIRE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The verbal arts of wit, repartee, story­telling, and joking become obsolete without the normal, natural experience of conversation on a myriad of subjects.

Church, Women & Pants

BEAUTY & THE BEST

Gerrie Goguen

Difficulties arise when women wear tight or revealing pants to Church: Men start seeing them as a collection of titillating body parts.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Pets Over Priests... Down In the Alley... Disneyland: the Ultimate Destination... Caving In... Father Fruitcake... Always Our Priests... Death on Wheels... Trans-fer Students... The Best Day of Your Life...

Selected Quotes of Pope Pius XII

GUEST COLUMN

Margherita Marchione

Pius XII spoke out on many issues of moral concern and of public policy. He was a highly respected 20th-century Church leader.

The Private Writings of Mother Teresa

Mary McWay Seaman

For the last 50 years of her life, she suffered a "darkness" that began just after the Missionaries of Charity was launched in India in 1948.

The Traditional Catholic Worker Movement

Thomas Storck

Dorothy Day's movement is a solid expression of traditional Catholicism, rooted in the spirituality and thought of the Church.

Briefly: January 2008

Reviews of The Vatican's Exorcists... The Search for St. Valeria