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The Reason for the Season: A Character Study
BY Carl E. Olson
October 27-November 2, 2002 Issue 
The Saints' Guide To
Knowing The Real Jesus
by David MillsCharis, 2001 168 pages, $9.99 Available in bookstores or call (800) 486-8505
“What is the good of words,” G. K. Chesterton once asked, “if they aren't important enough to quarrel over?” He further noted that “the Church and the heresies... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
October 20-26, 2002 Issue
What Scandal?
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, Sept. 18 — A spot check by the paper of 18 Catholic high schools in Ohio and Kentucky showed a slight increase in overall enrollment this fall compared with a year ago.
“The finding is significant,” said the newspaper, because it “is the first opportunity to... READ MORE
Be Brave - Be Uncomplicatedly Catholic
October 20-26, 2002 Issue
THE COURAGE TO BE CATHOLIC: CRISIS, REFORM, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH by George Weigel Basic Books, 2002 256 pages, $22 Available in online and retail bookstores, or call (800) 386-5656
To understand the nature of the crossroads the Catholic Church has come to at this moment in its history, you... READ MORE
Health Plan Includes Contraception Coverage
October 20-26, 2002 Issue
First in a three-part series on the promotion of contraception and abortion on college campuses — and how some Catholic and pro-life groups are fighting pro-abortion initiatives.
WASHINGTON — Last spring, officials at George Washington University received a letter sent on behalf of three law... READ MORE
Mystics in Your Neighborhood
BY Joe Cullen
October 13-19, 2002 Issue
NO WONDER THEY CALL IT THE REAL PRESENCE: LIVES CHANGED BY CHRIST IN EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
by David Pearson Servant/Charis, 2002 177 pages, $10.99 Available in online and retail bookstores or call (800) 486-8505
Every February I attend a festive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to mark a friend'... READ MORE
Focus Staffs Secular Campuses With Full-Time Missionaries
BY Wayne Laugesen
October 13-19, 2002 Issue
BOULDER, Colo.—The University of Colorado at Boulder can be a scary place for parents to send their kids, fresh out of high school.
In recent years the school has been known for routine riots in neighborhoods surrounding the campus, complete with burning police cars and millions of dollars worth of... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
October 06-12, 2002 Issue
Donor Woes
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Sept. 27 — A civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission this month alleges that L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former head of Tyco International Ltd., donated company money in his own name to Seton Hall University, his alma mater.
Kozlowski... READ MORE
Unity + Procreation = Healthy, Holy Marriage
BY John M. Grondelski
October 06-12, 2002 Issue
LIFE-GIVING LOVE: EMBRACING GOD'S BEAUTIFUL DESIGN FOR MARRIAGE by Kimberly HahnCharis, 2002 375 pages, $13.99 Available in online and retail bookstores or call (800) 486-8505
The bond between the procreative and unitive dimensions of sexual intercourse, a nexus established by God, should not be... READ MORE
Beauty Comprehended by the Beast
BY Patrick J. Walsh
Septembar 29-October 5, 2002 Issue
ROMANCING REALITY: HOMO VIATOR AND THE SCANDAL CALLED BEAUTY
by Marion Montgomery
St. Augustine's Press, 2002
138 pages, $30
To order: (800) 621-2736 or (773) 568-1550
Pope John Paul II understands that the crisis of the modern world is first and foremost a manifestation of confusion about the... READ MORE
Keeping the Faith One Century at a Time
BY Michael J. Miller
Septembar 1-7, 2002 Issue
FOUR WITNESSES: THE EARLY CHURCH IN HER OWN WORDS
by Rod Bennett Ignatius Press, 2002 343 pages, $16.95 To order: (800) 651-1531 or http://www.ignatius.com
While in Europe for the first time as an exchange student, I regularly attended a little parish church in Heidelberg that is older than the... READ MORE
Weekly Book Pick
BY Joe Cullen
August 11-17, 2002 Issue
Sex Scandals: Cuts That Only Zeal Can Heal
FROM SCANDAL TO HOPE
by Father Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR
OSV Publishing, 2002
216 pages, $9.95
To order this TITLE:
(800) 348-2440
or http://www.osv.com
If the events usually described as the “clergy sex-abuse scandal” remain a whirlwind for you, this... READ MORE
Court Says Aid Program Discriminates Against Religion
BY Joshua Mercer
August 11-17, 2002 Issue
KIRKLAND, Wash. — When Northwest College student Joshua Davey chose pastoral ministry as a major, he received a phone call from the college's financial aid department regarding his Washington Promise Scholarship.
“I could either change my major and get the money or keep my major and lose the... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
May 12-18, 2002 Issue
Court Hearing
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, April 25 — The Jesuits’ Gonzaga University was at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing April 24 about whether students can sue colleges under the 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which prohibits colleges and schools that receive... READ MORE
War of the Worldviews
BY Michael J. Miller
May 12-18, 2002 Issue
THE CLASH OF ORTHODOXIES: LAW, RELIGION, AND MORALITY IN CRISIS
by Robert P. George ISI Books, 2001 387 pages, $24.95
To order: (800) 621-2736 or http://www.isibooks.org
The campus revolutionaries of the 1960s and ’70s are ensconced by now in influential governmental and academic jobs. They've also... READ MORE
War of the Worldviews
BY Michael J. Miller
May 12-18, 2002 Issue
THE CLASH OF ORTHODOXIES: LAW, RELIGION, AND MORALITY IN CRISIS by Robert P. George ISI Books, 2001 387 pages, $24.95
To order: (800) 621-2736 or http://www.isibooks.org
The campus revolutionaries of the 1960s and '70s are ensconced by now in influential governmental and academic jobs. They've also... READ MORE
The ‘Magna Carta’ of Priestly Formation, Ten Years Later
BY Barry Michaels
May 12-18, 2002 Issue
Ten years ago this spring, Pope John Paul II offered to the Church a document addressing “one of the most demanding and important tasks for the future of the evangelization of humanity.”
The document was the apostolic exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis — On the Formation of Priests in the... READ MORE
Ecumenism by Civil Debate
BY Caroline Schermerhorn Weekly Book Pick
May 5-11, 2002 Issue
CHALLENGING CATHOLICS: A CATHOLIC-EVANGELICAL DIALOGUE
by Dwight Longenecker & John Martin Paternoster Press, 2001 205 pages, $19.95
To order: (+44) (0) 1228 611746 or http://www.paternoster-publishing.com
When I sat down with this volume, I was expecting the classic Catholic vs. evangelical... READ MORE
Strong Words: Pope Again Condemns Clergy Abuse
March 31-April 6, 2002 Issue
Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, March 7 — Adult stem cells circulating in the blood are able to differentiate into a number of organ-specific cells, researchers have found, and they believe these floating repair kits play an active role in replacing normal tissue or repairing... READ MORE
Bang the Gavel Slowly
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez Weekly Book Pick
March 24-30, 2002 Issue
CHRISTIANITY ON TRIAL: ARGUMENTS
AGAINST ANTI-RELIGIOUS
BIGOTRY
by Vincent Carroll and David C. Shiflett Encounter Books, 2001 244 pages, $15.95
To order: (800) 786-3839 or http://www.encounterbooks.com
Going strictly by the numbers, Christianity is as mainstream as a religion gets, and yet, as... READ MORE
The Lion That Contemplated Christ
BY Carroll Mcguire Weekly Book Pick
March 24-30, 2002 Issue
Pope Pius XII once called Dietrich von Hildebrand “our 20th-century Doctor of the Church.” More recently, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger referred to him as “one of the great Catholic philosophers of the 20th century.”
Although his numerous books have been highly regarded in Catholic intellectual... READ MORE
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