Letters to the Editor: April 2023

The Body Is Not a Container for the Soul... The Moment of Decision... Calumnious Conclusions... Religion by Muscle Memory... Exasperatingly Incomplete... More Ups & Downs Than a Yo-Yo

The News You May Have Missed: April 2023

Contrarian Credo... Daddy’s Warbucks... Big Blow to the Blow Biz... Iberian Exposure... iPrescience... Nine Going on 18... The Genetic Jackpot... and more

Miracles for Empiricists

EASTER EGG HUNTING

Hugh Hunter

Is it true that miracles no longer occur? Not according to the Catholic Church, which identifies new saints with verified miracles almost every year.

The Effect of Divine Grace on the Human Intellect

AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY RIZZI

Christopher Beiting

Man should learn through his natural powers and seek grace to strengthen his fallen intellect. Sanctity is about growing in truth and living in that truth.

Night Bus Across Baluchistan

TALES FROM THE GREAT HIPPIE TRAIL — PART I

Thomas Basil

For $333 I would receive “transportation by bus and double occupancy of a tent” on an escorted 60-day ride from Frankfurt, Germany, to Kathmandu, Nepal.

Our Future Foretold

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Twice as many Hispanic Catholics do not attend Mass after the pandemic as before. Weren’t they the ones who were supposed to revive American Catholicism?

The Second Last Word

LOOKING BEYOND WORLDLY THINGS

Casey Chalk

To die well means to place our physical concerns, however legitimate, within the broader context of the spiritual, which is infinitely more important.

The Eucharist & Eulogies: Are They Connected?

GUEST COLUMN

John M. Grondelski

The evisceration of eucharistic theology leaves gaping holes in other parts of Catholic life and praxis.

Fr. Peter Gumpel, R.I.P.

GUEST COLUMN

Ronald J. Rychlak

He treated people with respect but was not afraid to challenge a superior. John Paul II said of Gumpel that at last someone had the courage to be honest with him.

Briefly Reviewed: April 2023

Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s... Beheading Hydra: A Radical Plan for Christians in an Atheistic Age