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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
Thinking Person’s Pro-Life Battle Guide
BY Helen M. Valois
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
Healing the Culture: A Commonsense Philosophy of Happiness, Freedom and the Life Issues by Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., with Dr. Robin Bernhoft and Camille E. De Blasi Ignatius Press, 2000. 347 pages, $16.95
At last, a chance to advance to “Pro-Life 102.” For three decades now, our discussions of the... READ MORE
Water for the Catechism’s Rich Soil
BY Daria Sockey
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KEYWORDS: Books
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
Living the Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Sacraments by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn (translated by John Saward) Ignatius Press, 2000. 160 pages, $10.95.
I was listening to Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio program recently when a caller asked for advice about her search for a spiritual base to... READ MORE
What Matthew Meant to Convey, Then and Today
BY Helen M. Valois
April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue
Mystery of the Kingdom: On the Gospel of Matthew by Edward P. Sri Emmaus Road Press, 1999 160 pages, $9.95
Apologetics readers may recall Edward Sri, assistant professor of religious studies at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., as one of the contributors to the same publisher's Catholic for a... READ MORE
Ammunition for the Catholic Bible Brigade
BY Mark Dittman BOOK REVIEW
April 1-7, 2000 Issue
Catholics don't know the Bible, and many Catholic beliefs are man-made traditions that have no biblical basis.
Bible Basics is Steve Kellmeyer's attempt to answer these common claims against the Church. He addresses both head-on — the first, by offering Catholics a chance to improve their biblical... READ MORE
A Firm Foundation for a Powerful Prayer Life
BY Brother Craig Driscoll
February 27-March 4, 2000 Issue
The Basic Book of Catholic Prayer: How to Pray and Why by Father Lawrence G. Lovasik, SVD Sophia Institute Press, 1999 214 pages, $14.95
“Prayer is the lifting of our minds and hearts to God, to praise His goodness, to thank Him for His kindness, to acknowledge our sins and plead for pardon, to ask... READ MORE
Youíll Be Transformed ó Indulgences Guarantee It
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding Article Digest
February 20-26, 2000 Issue
“The Fullness of the Father's
Mercy: The Meaning of Indulgences”
by Romanus Cessario, OP (The Magnificat: Pilgrim's Guide to the Great Jubilee)
Writing for the special Jubilee Guide edition of Magnificat, Dominican Father Romanus Cessario explores the Church's understanding of indulgences in light... READ MORE
A Jubilee Journey with Dante
BY Elias Crim Book Review
February 20-26, 2000 Issue
Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy,
Divine Spirituality
by Robert Royal
Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999
118 pages, $16.95
Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the great Russian poet who disappeared into the Soviet gulag in 1938, recorded her husband's fatalistic advice to his friends living in that terrible... READ MORE
Real Body, Real Soul
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding ARTICLE DIGEST
February 13-19, 2000 Issue
“Transubstantiation — The Literal Truth”
by Carson Daly Crisis, January 2000
Carson Daly, a New York-based writer, contributes the fifth in a series of articles in Crisis on the Real Presence. “To the unchurched and the unbeliever, many religious doctrines seem far-fetched,” writes Daly. “But few... READ MORE
A Seeker’s Guide to the Scriptures
BY Helen M. Valois BOOK REVIEW
February 13-19, 2000 Issue
Making Sense Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did by Mark P. Shea Basilica Press, 1999 263 pages, $14.99
Maybe you've tried it yourself. You decide you're going to read the Bible cover to cover, a chapter or two at a time, then give up before you've even polished off... READ MORE
Purgatory: Where the ‘I’ Disintegrates
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
December 5-11, 1999 Issue
Editorial on Purgatory
by Peter John Cameron, OP
(Magnificat, November 1999)
Dominican Father Peter John Cameron, editor of the monthly devotional guide Magnificat and professor at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., writes about the meaning of “the most important moment of our life: death. ...... READ MORE
A Well-Mannered Defender of the Faith
BY Mark S. Gordon
December 5-11, 1999 Issue
What is Catholicism? Hard Questions — Straight Answers
by John Redford
(Our Sunday Visitor Books, 1999 240 pages, $12.95)
A parish priest from Canterbury, England, and a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism, Father John Redford is well qualified to explain the Catholic faith to Christians with... READ MORE
The Heart of a Poet, Exposed
BY David Pearson
November 7-13, 1999 Issue
The Hound of Heaven at my Heels: The Lost Diary of Francis Thompson
by Robert Waldron
(Ignatius, 1999 90 pages, $8.95)
All earnest followers of Christ pray for virtue in the midst of a cunning world whispering sweet enticements. What must it be like to have to beg God, hour by hour, for the will to... READ MORE
Reprinting the Classics
Publishers return to time-honored works by Catholic authors
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
The Heroic Face of Innocence: Three Stories by Georges Bernanos (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 150 pages, $13.00)
Bernanos is best known for his novel Diary of a Country Priest. This volume collects three of his shorter works: Joan, Heretic and Saint; Sermon of an Agnostic on the Feast of St.
Thérèse and... READ MORE
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