It is a delight to find a readable and entertaining book on this controversial topic that gives a valid, well-researched and comprehensive history and explanation of... READ MORE
Built on sound doctrine, St. John's Chapel thrives
Eve Christman walked into St. John's Chapel at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and was immediately drawn to the stained glass windows and the large crucifix. “Then I looked to one side and saw the statue of Mary,” the senior recalled. “She was beautiful, and I felt like I was home.”
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Religion is Dead Where Truth is Forbidden
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
Article Digest
March 21-27, 1999 Issue 
“The Cry of the Scholar: From ‘Religious Studies’ to Catholic Theology”
by Paul Thigpen
(Lay Witness, March 1999)
Paul Thigpen, a fellow in theology at the College of St. Thomas More in Fort Worth, Texas, writes: “I came across a simple petition of St. Thomas Aquinas [which] captured the longing of... READ MORE
Luke, From Its Roots to Today’s Issues
BY Helen Valois
March 21-27, 1999 Issue
Mission of the Messiah: On the Gospel of Luke
by Tim Gray
(Emmaus Road Publishing, 1998,149 pages, $9.95)
When we meditate on Scripture, we generally focus on the more uplifting passages. This is why Psalm 23:1 (“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”) is more familiar than, say, Luke 23:19... READ MORE
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
March 14-20, 1999 Issue
Vouchers Proposed By New York Mayor
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, March 5—New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has stepped us his campaign for publicly financed voucher program for his city.
A New York Daily News report noted that school Chancellor Rudy Crew is opposed to the idea and, at first, threatened to... READ MORE
The Man Who Made Steubenville Is Stepping Aside After 15 Years
BY Helen M. Valois
March 14-20, 1999 Issue
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio—During a quarter century in the leadership of Franciscan University of Steubenville, Father Michael Scanlan turned a stumbling, small-time concern into a humming center of Catholic intellectual and devotional life, doubling enrollment in the process.
The “Scanlan revolution” as... READ MORE
Education Notebook
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
The Other America Article on Ex Corde Ecclesiae
AMERICA, Jan 30—An article in America magazine by Fathers Edward Malloy CSC and Donald Monan SJ led to sensational news reports about conflict between Catholic universities and the American bishops. But there was another article on the Ex Corde... READ MORE
Colleges Feeling Heat Over Sweatshop Goods
BY Patricia Zapor
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
WASHINGTON—The litany of schools could be a list of basketball powerhouses: Duke, Georgetown, St. John's, Holy Cross, Boston College, the University of North Carolina.
What they represent, however, is a movement on campuses that takes a cue from 1960s civil rights and anti-war protests, with the... READ MORE
Saints Within Reach
BY Jim Malerba
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words by Ann Ball (Our Sunday Visitor Books, 1998, 254 pages, $9.50)
Ann Ball's Faces of Holiness does a great service by introducing readers to men and women of inspiring holiness, from our time, who readers may have missed.
The “Century of Martyrs”... READ MORE
Pro-life ‘Gains’: Much Ado About Little
BY Matt McDonald
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
Political Orphan? The Pro-Life Cause after 25 Years of Roe v. Wade by Kenneth Whitehead (New Hope Publications/CUL, 1998, 352 pages, $14.95)
Is he pro-life?” a friend of mine often says. “I'd vote for Attila the Hun if he was pro-life.” The problem with that line of thinking these days is you have... READ MORE
Au Revoir, Father Jacques
BY Helen Valois
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
Père Jacques: Resplendent in Victoryby Francis Murphy (Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1998, 200 pages, $10.95)
Père Jacques: Resplendent in Victory is the well-written and captivating biography of a French Carmelite friar who defied the Nazis, and paid full price. The life of this extraordinary... READ MORE
100 Years of News, With Gaps
BY Gerry Rauch
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
The Century
By Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Doubleday, 1998, 605 pages, $60)
The Century is a fascinating and lavishly illustrated account of the events of the last 100 years. This sizable book has had a deservedly high place on the best seller list for several months. It was produced as a... READ MORE
The Little Flower’s Gift, Roots and All
BY Mary Thomas Noble OP
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
The Power of Confidence, Genesis and Structure of the “Way of Spiritual Childhood” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux by Conrad de Meester OCD, translated by Susan Conroy (Alba House, 1998, 377 pages, $22.95)
When Louis Martin leaned over to pick a small white flower in the garden of Les Buissonnets, he... READ MORE
The Good News of Pain and Suffering
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
“The Providence of God, the Question of Evil, and the Mystery of Suffering” by Carol Egan (The Catholic Faith, January/February 1999)
Carol Egan, a mother of five, writes: “In an earlier age, people had a more sober view of life; there seemed to be a greater understanding of the mystery of human... READ MORE
When ‘Dry’ is Better
BY James Malerba
Catholic campuses wrestling with problem drinking
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
The epidemic of drinking on college campuses has fueled more than its share of jokes in recent years.
This month it turned deadly.
A student at Southwest Texas State who had drunk himself unconscious was bludgeoned to death at a party where beer was plentiful and available to underage students,... READ MORE
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
February 14-20, 1999 Issue
At Harvard, Christianity Is a 'Skeleton in the Closet’
WALL STREET JOURNAL, Jan. 29—Christopher King and Fentrice Driskell lost their combined bid to be elected to Harvard's Undergraduate Council after a fellow student asked a few others to pray for them by e-mail.
The two students did not solicit... READ MORE
Cardinal George Warns Colleges About U.S. ‘Culture of Autonomy’
BY Mo Fung
February 14-20, 1999 Issue
WASHINGTON—Francis Cardinal George, archbishop of Chicago, said the “culture of autonomy” in the United States is a major challenge to the American bishops’ implementation of a papal document on Catholic colleges and universities.
In remarks Feb. 2 to a meeting of Catholic college educators,... READ MORE
Education Notebook
January 31 - February 6, 1999 Issue
Archdiocese Rejects Sex Ed Series
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, Jan. 21—The Archdiocese of Denver rejected the request of Jere Allen, religious education director at St. Thomas More parish in Englewood, to distribute the New Creation sex education program to be used privately by parents.
The Rocky Mountain... READ MORE
Former Solidarity Activist Bronislaw Misztal Brings a Passion for Freedom to the Campus
BY William Murray
Professor of sociology monitors the processes of social change
January 31 - February 6, 1999 Issue
WASHINGTON—When the Polish secret police arrested Bronislaw Misztal in 1980, the Solidarity activist spent a harrowing 24 hours in jail.
“The jailers were playing Russian roulette with me” with a loaded gun, he recalled. They had detained him for organizing workers before Solidarity became a legal... READ MORE
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