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Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
March 10-16, 2002 Issue 
Religious ROTC
TODAY'S CATHOLIC, Feb. 15 — In a unique program, the University of Notre Dame trains Reserve Officers' Training Corps students to be lay prayer leaders for the military units to which they will be assigned, reports the newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind.
The... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
February 10-16, 2002 Issue
More from AmeriCorps
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Jan. 30 — In his State of the Union address Jan. 29, President Bush proposed to expand by 50% the number of participants in AmeriCorps, which provides funds for college in exchange for a year of community service. He also called for upgrading... READ MORE
A Tour of the Church’s Finest Hours
BY Father C.J. Mcclosky III Weekly Book Pick
February 10-16, 2002 Issue
In my pastoral experience working with converts, I have seen people touched by the Holy Spirit in many ways as they draw closer to the Church.
Some are attracted by the coherence of the Church's teaching, others by the beauty of the art, music and literature that its culture has produced, and... READ MORE
Weekly Book Pick
BY Joseph Pronechen Getting to Know Blessed Padre Pio
February 03-09, 2002 Issue
JOSEPH PRONECHEN
MEET PADRE PIO
by Patricia Treece Charis, 2001 144 pages, $9.99 To order: (800) 458-8505
Looking to make the acquaintance of one of the Church's most beloved and recognizable saints-in-waiting? Adults and youth will find an agreeable and satisfying encounter in Meet Padre Pio.
With... READ MORE
The Battles of Knox, Newman and Belloc
BY Michael J. Miller Weekly Book Pick
January 6-12, 2002 Issue
Before television, people read a lot more than they do today. Instead of watching sit-coms, they would read short stories. In the absence of panel-discussion shows and talk radio, they followed current debates on the pages of magazines. One very popular subject was “the intelligent discussion of... READ MORE
A ‘Just Right’ Guide to the ‘Christmas’ Gospel
BY Michael J. Miller
December 9-15, 2001 Issue
IGNATIUS CATHOLIC STUDY BIBLE: THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
With introduction, commentary and notes by Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, and with study questions by Dennis Walters
Ignatius Press, 2001
82 pages, $9.95
To order: (800) 651–1531 or http://www.ignatius.com
Many Scripture commentaries in recent years... READ MORE
Bringing the Faith to a World That Fights It
BY Mary C. Walsh
December 9-15, 2001 Issue
THE TRUTH OF CATHOLICISM: TEN CONTROVERSIES EXPLORED
by George Weigel
HarperCollins/Cliff Street, 2001
208 pages, $24
Available in bookstores or at http://www.harpercollins.com
Here is an outstanding work of contemporary apologetics from the author who brought us the definitive biography of Pope... READ MORE
Mother Teresa: The Paradox of Her Severe Joy
BY Wayne A. Holst
December 9-15, 2001 Issue
MOTHER TERESA: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS
Selected by Jean Maalouf
Orbis Books, 2001
143 pages, $15
To order: (800) 258–5838 or http://www.orbisbooks.com
“The presence of God is fidelity to small things,” writes Mother Teresa. “Infidelity to small things will lead you to sin.” Her Spartan poignancy can be... READ MORE
Feminist, Philosopher, Jew, Catholic, Saint
BY Sister Mary Thomas Noble
November 18-24, 2001 Issue
EDITH STEIN: SR. TERESA
BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS
by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda
Our Sunday Visitor, 2001
207 pages, $11.95
The controversy over Edith Stein and Carmelite St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross is alive and well. Were they two people, or is she one? Was Edith Stein's canonization an insult to... READ MORE
A Gifted Teacher Leads a Magisterial Tour of the Catechism
BY Michael J. Miller
November 11-17, 2001 Issue
The Catholic Way: Faith for Living Today
by Bishop Donald W. Wuerl
Doubleday, 2001
288 pages, $14.95
Ave Maria Grotto, on the grounds of the Benedictine Abbey in Cullman, Ala., consists of dozens of architecturally accurate miniatures of famous churches from all over the world, constructed of bits... READ MORE
How to Bring Back the Late, Great Hippocratic Oath
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez Weekly Book Pick
August 19-25, 2001 Issue
Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America by Wesley J. Smith Encounter Books, 2001 285 pages, $23.95
“Traditional morality and medical ethics are crumbling before our very eyes,” writes Wesley J. Smith in Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.
“Twenty years... READ MORE
Families’ Priceless Gift to Free Society: Self-Giving Love
BY Louise Perrotta
August 05-11, 2001 Issue
Love & Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work
by Jennifer Roback Morse
Spence Publishing Company, 2001
288 pages, $27.95
“Motherhood provoked me into writing this book,” explains Jennifer Roback Morse in the prologue to her insightful exploration of family, economic and political... READ MORE
Mariology for the Masses
BY Wayne A. Holst Book Review
June 24-30, 2001 Issue
Popular professor and apologist Scott Hahn wrote this book so that his fellow Catholics would never be ashamed of their supernatural mother, as he once was of his natural mother.
He recounts the incident in his introduction.
When he was 15, he got sick in school. His mother came to pick him up, and... READ MORE
An American Ambassador and His Pope
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez
June 17-23, 2001 Issue
From his first encounter with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla in a Boston parish in 1969, Ray Flynn recalls, he knew there was “something special” about the Polish prelate.
Flynn, who would later be named U.S. ambassador to the Vatican by President Bill Clinton, would next meet the churchman 10 years later... READ MORE
Accusers Unmasked as the Real Pius XII Stands Up
BY Mark Dittman
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
Who is this man who was beloved by two generations but whose “silence” during World War II is now attacked by the media?
Anyone who studies the historical record will see that the answer is simple: Pius XII was not silent. He spoke out, directly and often, both personally and through his cardinals,... READ MORE
Have Your Wedding Cake and Eat It, Too
BY Eve Tushnet Book Review
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher Doubleday, 2000 260 pages, $24.95
Last summer's publication of Judith Wallerstein's The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce prompted a wind-fall of media reports on the effect... READ MORE
Put a Little Easter in Every Mass You Make
BY Michael J. Miller
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
The Spirit of the Liturgy
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Ignatius Press, 2000
232 pages, $17.95
In 1918, the year after World War I ended, Romano Guardini published an insightful book titled The Spirit of the Liturgy. Eighty-three years later, the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine... READ MORE
An Ode to Joy in Words and Charts
BY Sister Mary Thomas Noble Book Review
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
If you want to know what St. Thomas Aquinas, the Fathers of the Church and the classical philosophers had to say about “this particular animal” — man — it is not too late.
You don't need a university class — this deceptively slim volume will help you draw from the wholesome waters of ancient... READ MORE
In Every Leaf That Trembles, In Every Grain of Sand
BY Michael J. Miller Book Review
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
A piece of flint found in a soybean field has chipped edges. Archaeologists conclude that tool-making hominids once lived at the site.
The DNA in one cell is shown to encode enough information to fill a CD-ROM. Evolutionary biologists assure us that it's a descendant of the first cell, which they... READ MORE
The Chair of St. Peter in the Third Millennium
BY Michael j. Miller
February 18-24,2001 Issue
It all starts in a restaurant not far from the Vatican. Over spaghetti and vino, the author, a Catholic journalist, converses with a “Vaticanologist” about the future of the papacy. His colleague believes in defining papal authority downward.
Russell Shaw is reporting, but he's not buying.
In his... READ MORE
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