Letter to the Editor: April 2009

Personhood: An Exercise in Wishful Thinking... A Question of Style... Catechesis, Post-Vatican II Style... The Third Secret: Fully Revealed?... Fatima Freaks Get a Grip... Pray for Obama's Intentions?... Not Hitler's Pope... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Born Believers?... Move Over, Milk... Elevating the Bible... St. Barack... Robot Mini-Me... Cutthroat Competition... Homecoming (Drag) Queen... Banned in Birmingham

New Oxford Notes: April 2009

The Self-Destruction of a Cult of Personality... Return Volley... U.S. Seminaries: Condition Stabilized...

On Denying Pro-Abortion Politicians Holy Communion

A RECONSIDERATION

E. Christian Brugger

For a thousand years the Church has excluded "publicly unworthy" persons from Eucharistic communion.

Travels in Europe's Once & Future Faith

CHRISTIANITY ON THE CONTINENT

Thomas Basil

From 2001 to 2008 this author traveled to 16 European countries for business, attending Mass in each. This is what I encountered.

A Vocation Disabled

SEARCHING FOR COMMUNITY

Lindy Morelli

I searched for an opportunity to fulfill my vocation in community, but the answer was always the same: My lack of sight was simply too big an obstacle.

Intimate Memories of the Late Pope

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The Pope went boldly into the public square because he couldn't see the Church confined to the sacristy. He thought the Church should be wherever "man is."

Pius XII as ‘Phayer’s Pope’

Vincent A. Lapomarda

The Pope realized that the Church would not have been able to save as many Jews as she did had he not been concerned with saving Rome.

Briefly: April 2009

Review of The Popes of Avignon...