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My Wife at 40: Her Suffering Will Bring Life
BY Benjamin D. Wiker
June 3-9, 2001 Issue 
Converting to the Catholic faith has been good for my imagination, and my wife's.
I am not speaking simply about the aesthetic treasury of the Church — the architecture, the icons, the music, the liturgy — but the expansion of our souls to include what we thought was too difficult, if not... READ MORE
Do Your Part for Catholic Art: Befriend the NEA
BY Mark Gordon
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
If you want to pick an argument, tell a group of devoutly Christian American citizens that you think the National Endowment for the Arts has been doing a reasonably good job lately.
To many Catholics and evangelical Protestants, the NEA is public enemy number one in the culture wars.
While... READ MORE
Authentic Liturgy … At Last
BY Raymond J. de Souza
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
In Italian the word for translator, traduttore, is similar to the word for traitor, traditore — and Vatican wags often remark that the translator is apt to betray the original author.
Few issues are more neuralgic than the question of how to translate the Church's official Latin liturgical books... READ MORE
Tolkien Confounds The Critics
BY Michael Coren
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
When various bookstores, newspapers, magazines and literary societies compiled their rolls of all-time greats at the end of last year, J.R.R. Tolkien topped list after list.
First it was a chain of bookstores, polling more than 25,000 readers. Dickens, Tolstoy and Jane Austen did well, but the... READ MORE
They’ll Call You a Hypocrite, But Love Virtue Anyway
BY Don DeMarco
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
When Dostoevsky submitted his manuscript of Crime and Punishment for publication, he included a cover letter that gave a brief synopsis of the novel.
In this way, he informed the publisher that his story was about a university student who “had submitted to certain strange, incomplete ideas which... READ MORE
Cardinal Newman’s ‘Kindly Light’ Shines On
BY Raymond J. De Souza
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
In his homily during the most recent consistory for the creation of new cardinals, Pope John Paul II noted that the ceremony fell on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Cardinal John Henry Newman (Feb. 21, 1801), the most important English churchman of the 19th century, and one of the Catholic... READ MORE
A Landscape With Humans
BY Karl Keating
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
Saturday was blustery, filled with persistent showers and a low overcast. I saw our weekend plans running into the storm drains. Late at night I awoke, peeked out the bedroom window, and saw stars — a good sign.
The storms were passing and, with them, the winds. Sunday dawned cloudless, the air... READ MORE
Mary and the Marines
BY John C. Goodrich
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
I was thrilled when I read the article about Michael Lambert in the May 6-12 issue of your wonderful paper (“The Hand of Mary: A Marine's Encounter in a Bloody Battle”). Several months ago I met a former U.S. Marine who could relate a story to you that I think you would be also be very interested... READ MORE
New Evangelization Won’t Wait for the Times-or for Me
BY David Pearson
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
I've got little time for nostalgia over how the world used to be and, as a Christian, no use for despair over the sorry state we're in now.
But, every so often, things come together in a way that has me shaking my head over just how much the times have changed during the course of my own lifetime.
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Pornography, Incorporated
BY Tim Drake
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
Sex sells. That seems to be at the heart of recent business decisions by corporations such as Amazon.com and AT&T to support and promote the pornography industry. It doesn't seem to bother these powerful businesses that, in pursuing their own lust for profits, they are increasingly corrupting the... READ MORE
Lots to Learn About Leadership On May 13
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
Who will be the most essential Catholic leaders of the third millennium?
Will it be bishops and priests? Catholic scholars, Christian CEOs and politicians?
All these leaders have an important role in creating a Christian culture, but none is as influential and effective as … our moms. We seldom... READ MORE
Frequent Confession for Priests, Too
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
The inspiring Holy Thursday letter to priests from the Holy Father regarding the importance of frequent confession restates so well the constant teaching of the Church on this matter ("In Holy Thursday Letter, Pope Urges Frequent Confession,” April 8-14). Besides hoping and praying that this... READ MORE
Celibacy: Greater Love Than the World Can Know
BY Cardinal Desmond Connell
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
“Follow me.” These words are addressed to every Christian. Christ is the way that all must follow: Nobody comes to the Father except through him.
But when he said to the Apostles, “Follow me,” this was the beginning of their formation as leaders of his people.
This call he has addressed to you [the... READ MORE
America: Decline the Dutch Descent
BY Benjamin D. Wiker
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
It came as no surprise when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. In mid-April, that country's senate voted to pass into law a bill that had been approved by its lower house of parliament last fall.
The Dutch had been... READ MORE
Has Collar Envy Eradicated The Lay Vocation?
BY Pia de Solenni
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
I recently learned that the term “melting pot” has been replaced by the politically correct “salad bowl.”
(In the melting pot, everything loses its proper identity. However, in a salad, the sundry ingredients retain their own differences.)
Generally, I tend to reject the notion of political... READ MORE
Loving the Culture Out of its Attachment to Homosexuality
BY Joseph Nicolosi
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
If we don't understand the truth about homosexuality, we can't respond intelligently, prudently and compassionately to the popular culture's efforts to legitimize homosexual acts.
So says Christopher Wolfe, a professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee and president of the... READ MORE
It Is a Tangled Web They Spin
BY Randall K. O'Bannon Planned Parenthood's slick annual report can't hide the tale the numbers tell
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
The number of abortions has been steadily declining in the United States — yet business is booming for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation's largest and most aggressive abortion chain.
According to its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood performed 182,854 abortions in... READ MORE
Help Wanted: New Evangelizers … Low Pay, Great Benefits
BY Gregory R. Beabout
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
Many of us spend a good part of our adult lives at our places of employment. How can Catholics put the new evangelization to work at work?
Pope John Paul II continues to remind Catholics that the Holy Spirit is summoning the Church to a “new evangelization.” He doesn't mean that the contents of the... READ MORE
On April 15, Every American Longs for a Tax Cut
BY J.R. Morse So President Bush proposes to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years, and the battle is joined.
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
As a Catholic economist, I support his proposal wholeheartedly. Let me tell you why.
Opponents of the tax cut charge that it “favors the rich.” The truth that is any plan to cut all rates across the board results in the poor receiving a smaller refund. This is a feature of our progressive tax rate... READ MORE
The Empty Tomb as Viewed from the PYRAMIDS
BY Raymond J. De Souza
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
Last year, on what was Easter Sunday according to the eastern liturgical calendar followed by many in Egypt, I visited the pyramids of Giza.
Standing under the watchful gaze of the Sphinx, I was reminded that the pyramids are tombs — tombs on a grand scale, to be sure, but tombs nevertheless.
The... READ MORE
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