To My Daughter On Her Confirmation

BY Susan Baxter

April 15-21, 2001 Issue

My dear daughter,

I have prayed, throughout your life, even before you were conceived, that you would grow to love God beyond all else. I knew that, if you learned to do this, all I hope for you would follow. Now that you are a young woman in the last days before the Easter Sunday on which you will... READ MORE

Without the Passion, We Lose Our - Passion

BY Benjamin D. Wiker

April 08-14, 2001 Issue

When I was in graduate school, one of my evangelical Protestant friends once said to me, “Ben, do you know why we have a bare cross?”

He pointed to a cross without a corpus on the wall of the divinity library. “Because Jesus is risen!”

This, of course, was a little friendly Catholic baiting, yet... READ MORE

The Good Friday Appeal, Two Years Later

BY Willard M. Oliver

April 08-14, 2001 Issue

“[T]he dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern society has the means of protecting itself without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform. I renew the appeal I made … for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is... READ MORE

Making Holy Thursday Last All Year

BY Andrew McNair

April 08-14, 2001 Issue

Like many converts, Scott Adler takes his Catholic faith seriously.

He attends a weekly Gospel reflection with friends and organizes study circles on papal encyclicals in his home. At work, he puts into practice what he learns about his faith. At 39, married, with three children, Scott considers... READ MORE

Bush Administration Brings New Hope for China

BY J. Fraser Field

March 18-24, 2001 Issue

On the whole, which individual is safer and more secure — a Christian in a secular society or a secularist in a Christian society?

History has shown time and again that, when religious perspectives are barred from the public square, the resulting vacuum is filled with, in the words of Father... READ MORE

Our Wrath Is Righteous - But Is it Right?

BY Leo White

March 18-24, 2001 Issue

Suppose you live in a town in the Wild West. Call it Glory Gulch. An armed and dangerous killer, a wily career criminal who has eluded capture for years, is at large. The sheriff, under pressure from the towns-folk to see to their safety and security, decides to put the man's wife and children in... READ MORE

St. Joseph: He’s Not What We Call Him

BY Steve Michael

March 18-24, 2001 Issue

By today's definition, the term “foster father” does not fit St. Joseph, whose feast we celebrate March 19.

By law, a foster parent is an adult who cares for a child that is neither biologically nor legally his own. The commitment undertaken is temporary, with guardianship offered for a short time... READ MORE

Guided by a Patron Saint Through Two Kinds of School

BY Susan Baxter

Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue

Sometimes, a saint won't wait to be asked.

I was a senior in high school in a little Pennsylvania coal-mining community. My father was gravely ill, my mother struggling to feed eight hungry mouths and make the payments on a hefty mortgage. There was very little to eat, and our clothes made us easy... READ MORE

Marriage: Accept No Substitutes

BY David Orgon Coolidge

Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue

Every week seems to bring a new headline about some law that legitimizes unmarried couples, including members of the same sex. Vermont has legalized “civil unions” for same-sex couples. France has passed a law allowing any two unmarried individuals to enter into a “solidarity pact.” A number of... READ MORE

Good Governance Flows From the Ground Up

BY Scott McDermott

Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue

The most disputed election in U.S. history is an increasingly dim memory.

Sure, it's been good to see Washington return, along with the new president, to a certain everyday routine. And President Bush has been quite impressive right out of the gates, with his focus on education reform and cutting... READ MORE

Parent/Teacher Fright

January 14-20, 2001 Issue

The constant harping of many nowadays about how bad modern parents supposedly are doesn't ring true under close scrutiny.

Case in point: Dr. Ray Guarendi's “Family Matters” column in the Dec. 31 issue, in which he claims that parents rarely show up for high school parent/teacher nights.

I am the... READ MORE

The Toronto Miracle of Catholic Renewal

BY Raymond J. De Souza ------ KEYWORDS: Commentary

January 7-13, 2001 Issue

Parkdale was once a grand Toronto neighborhood.

It's a few blocks from Lake Ontario and a 20-minute streetcar ride from the heart of Canada's financial district. Today grandness is found mostly in the dreams of the immigrant families establishing a life for themselves on streets where prostitutes... READ MORE

Darkness to Light, Advent to Epiphany

BY Don Demarco ------ KEYWORDS: Commentary

January 7-13, 2001 Issue

Light clarifies and illuminates, uplifts and reveals. As it does all these things, it leads us, as the Star of Bethlehem led the Magi to the Christ Child on the first Epiphany, to God. Light ultimately leads to love.

Dante Alighieri opens the Paradiso segment of his Divine Comedy by proclaiming... READ MORE

Sub-Pagan Winter Groans for New Christian Spring

BY Benjamin D. Wiker ------ KEYWORDS: Commentary

January 7-13, 2001 Issue

I truly believe that this new millennium will witness a new springtime of evangelization.

Or better, re-evangelization, since much of the territory to be conquered was won in the first thousand years only to be lost in the last one hundred.

It is especially in such territory that Christianity will... READ MORE

What Should Catholics Think About Globalization?

BY Gregory Beabout

April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue

I recently came across a flier that said: “The majority of the earth's inhabitants and the earth herself are not doing very well at all as globalization moves forward.” A pamphlet handed out by magenta-haired, nose-ringed adolescents at the Seattle or Washington, D.C., anti-world-trade protests? No... READ MORE

Nuns Who Saved Polish Jews

BY Father Zygmunt Zielinski

A Yom HaShoah Remembrance

April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue

As the world commemorates Yom HaShoah Day, remembering the Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust, a Polish priest recounts the heroic rescues of Polish Jews by Catholic nuns.

Poland was attacked from two sides in 1939. Nazi Germany attacked her Sept. 1; Soviet Russia... READ MORE

These ‘Catholics’ Are Heaven Sent For Gullible Press

BY Helen Alvar… ----- KEYWORD: Commentary

April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue

A few TV seasons ago, there was an episode of “Seinfeld” in which Jerry's dentist was a new convert to Judaism. With a hand firmly planted in Jerry's mouth, he cracked one insulting Jewish joke after the next. Finally Jerry objected, but the dentist insisted that, as a Jew, he was entitled. Anyway,... READ MORE

The Church, the Culture and the Curse of Contraception

BY John F. Kippley

April 1-7, 2000 Issue

While most Americans were celebrating the first day of spring on March 21, protectors of life were noting the 70th anniversary of a day of infamy.

It was on March 21, 1931, that the Federal Council of Churches, the forerunner of today's National Council of Churches, voted to accept contraception as... READ MORE

Is the Great Commission a Call to … Proselytism?

BY Father James V. Schall

April 1-7, 2000 Issue

The Washington Post of Feb. 20 described a religious theme park in Orlando built by “Marvin Rosenthal, a Jew who became a Baptist minister.”

The Florida park seems to be a replica of downtown Jerusalem in Christ's time. It has an entry fee of $17 and evidently attracts mainly aging Christians.... READ MORE

Brave New Feminism On the Rise

BY Pia de Solenni

April 1-7, 2000 Issue

Seconds after being shot, Pope John Paul II noticed the glaring absence of an image of Mary over St. Peter's Square.

Later, while recovering, he commissioned a mosaic of the Madonna and Child — the New Eve and the New Adam. In the years that followed, as the Marian dimension of his Christian... READ MORE

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