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Med Students Re-Examine Hippocratic Oath
BY Bob Horning
June 22-28, 2003 Issue 
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Eleven newly-graduated medical students in Michigan recently took the Hippocratic oath — an oath almost all medical schools have discontinued in the past generation.
For 2,400 years physicians had traditionally subscribed to the Hippocratic oath as a way of pledging to uphold... READ MORE
How to Love Wisdom and Adore Its Author
BY John M. Grondelski
June 15-21, 2003 Issue
Philosophy 101 by Socrates
by Peter Kreeft
Ignatius Press, 2002
149 pages, $10.95
To order: (800) 651-1531
or http://www.ignatius.com
“Socrates is to philosophy what Jesus is to religion.” So says Peter Kreeft, Boston College philosophy professor and popular Catholic thinker, in introducing his... READ MORE
What If the Side Characters Had Their Say?
BY Ann Applegarth
June 08-14, 2003 Issue
What If the Side Characters Had Their Say?
SILENT WITNESSES IN THE
GOSPELS:
BIBLEBY STANDERS AND THEIR
STORIES
By Allan F. Wright
Servant/Charis, 2002
219 pages, $11.99
To order: (800) 486-8505
Jesus told perfect stories: simple, yet profound tales about ordinary people engaged in unremarkable yet... READ MORE
The High Cost of Unnatural Choices
BY Barry Michaels
June 1-7, 2003 Issue
NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE
by Hadley Arkes
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002
288 pages, $28 To order: 800-872-7423 or http://www.cambridge.org
One might think that, after three decades of legalized abortion in the United States, there is nothing left to say about the issue that hasn't already... READ MORE
New Generation in Bioethics Launches Magazine
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez
June 1-7, 2003 Issue
NEW YORK — Call them the “Kass generation.”
A new bioethics and technology journal coming out of the Washington Beltway promises to address some of the leading issues of the day — the culture of life issues — in a fresh, clear way.
And it's being run by young professionals — almost fresh out of... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
May 18-24, 2003 Issue
Milking Scandal
THE BOSTON GLOBE, April 21 — College courses relating to Catholicism are taking a new direction “in light of the clergy sexual-abuse crisis that has rocked Catholicism the past year,” the Boston daily reported.
Professors on both Catholic and secular campuses are writing books,... READ MORE
To Our Knees for Transformation
BY Carl E. Olson
May 18-24, 2003 Issue
LISTENING FOR TRUTH: PRAYING OUR WAY TO VIRTUE
by James Keating Liguori, 2002 96 pages, $6.95 To order: (800) 325-9521 or http://www.liguori.org
A couple of years ago, a slender book titled The Prayer of Jabez took the publishing world by storm. Written by an evangelical Protestant, the book... READ MORE
Questionable Speakers
May 18-24, 2003 Issue
— St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J. — New Jersey Superior Court Judge Reginald Stanton, who has advocated abortion rights and in 1986 ordered a Catholic hospital to withhold nutrition and thus starve a patient to death in accordance with her wishes.
— Boston College Law School — Supreme... READ MORE
Coalition Criticizes Colleges Honoring Pro-Abortion Speakers
BY Dana Wind
May 18-24, 2003 Issue
WORCESTER, Mass. — Pro-life and Catholic watchdog groups troubled by 12 Catholic colleges honoring pro-abortion commencement speakers have met silence when trying to appeal to college presidents and bishops regarding their concerns.
At the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., an alumnus... READ MORE
They Reversed Direction for Life
BY Maryanne Hannan
May 04-10, 2003 Issue
STERILIZATION REVERSAL: A GENEROUS ACT OF LOVE
Edited by John L. Long One More Soul, 2003 296 pages, $8.95 To order: (800) 307-7685 http://www.omsoul.com
Most of us have at least one or two “skeletons in the closet”—regrets that we manage by pushing them to the backs of our minds. Some of our past... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
April 27-May 3, 2003 Issue
Resent This
THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 12 — Literary scholar Harold Bloom will donate his immense personal library and his archives to St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt., because, he said, Catholic colleges still have “some sense of literature á and extraordinary aesthetic beauty.”
Bloom... READ MORE
Fun and Faith: Colleges Offer Summer Youth Programs
BY Mary Ann Sullivan
April 27-May 3, 2003 Issue
FRONT ROYAL, Va. — Following her sophomore year at a public high school, Britany Smith, a Catholic, felt distanced from her faith.
“My parents encouraged me toward the faith,” she said, “but I was not receptive to it.”
Her life changed considerably, however, after she attended a summer program at... READ MORE
A Mother’s Love Unbounded
BY Ann Applegarth
April 20-26, 2003 Issue
PRECIOUS TREASURE: THE STORY OF PATRICK
by Elizabeth Matthews
Emmaus Road, 2002
138 pages, $11.95
To order: (800) 398-5470
or http://www.emmausroad.org
This is not merely a book about a mother's love for her autistic son and her nine other children — although it attests to that seemingly limitless... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Joe Cullen
March 16-22, 2003 Issue
Fruits of Fidelity
WMTW.COM, Feb. 25 — After a decade of rising enrollments, St. Joseph's College in Standish, Maine, will start work soon on the college's first new academic structure in 47 years — a $10 million office, classroom and meeting facility, reported the Web site of Portland, Maine's... READ MORE
What the Beloved Disciple Saw
BY Carl E. Olson
March 16-22, 2003 Issue
ST. JOHN S GOSPEL : A BIBLE STUDY GUIDE AND COMMENTARY by Stephen K. Ray Ignatius, 2002 461 pages, $17.95 To order: (800) 651-1531 or http://www.ignatius.com
The Apostle John, St. Augustine wrote, “was one of those mountains concerning which it is written: ‘Let the mountains receive peace for thy... READ MORE
Rich in the Things of God
BY Michael J. Miller
March 9-15, 2003 Issue
HAPPY ARE YOU POOR: THE SIMPLE LIFE AND SPIRITUAL
FREEDOM
by Thomas Dubay, SM Ignatius Press, 2003 177 pages, $12.95 To order: (800) 651-1531 or http://www.ignatius.com
Most American cities east of the Mississippi have magnificent, century-old Catholic churches that were built with the quarters and... READ MORE
Fourth-Graders Reading Plato? At Cardinal Newman School They Do
BY Dana Wind
March 9-15, 2003 Issue
HOUSTON — A student arrives at school with a 12-inch quartz crystal — undoubtedly a calculated element of his parents’ garden — certain it would make a fine piece of jewelry. After all, his science teacher encouraged him to bring in rocks to polish in the tumbler.
But it wasn't meant to be. “Do you... READ MORE
The Gate Is Narrow, the Way Difficult
BY Carl E. Olson Weekly Book Pick
March 2-8, 2003 Issue
SALVATION OUTSIDE THE CHURCH?
Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas Our Sunday Visitor, 2002 170 pages, $10.95 To order: 800-348-2440 or http://www.osv.com
“I grew up in a ‘Catholic ghetto’ of the 1950s and ‘60s,” writes Father Peter Stravinskas. “I did not have a non-Catholic friend until seventh grade.”... READ MORE
Bioethical Bombshell
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez
Feburary 23 - March 1, 2003 Issue
LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE DEFENSE OF DIGNITY: THE CHALLENGE FOR BIOETHICS
by Leon R. Kass, M.D.
Encounter Books, 2002
313 pages, $26.95
To order: (800) 786-3839 or
www.encounterbooks.com
It's 2003. Do you know where your bioethics are? We've created babies in test tubes, opened egg and sperm banks, put... READ MORE
Campus Watch
BY Carl E. Olson
January 5-11, 2003 Issue
‘04 for S. Catholic
ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE, Dec. 5 — Southern Catholic College in Dawsonville, Ga., will delay its projected opening date by one year and open in fall 2004.
Jeremiah Ashcroft, president of the prospective college, said the institution will open at that time “if we meet critical... READ MORE
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