Bewildering, Indispensable Original Sin

BY Ellen Wilson Fielding

November 22-28, 1998 Issue

“Original Sin: A Disputation,” by Edward T. Oakes (First Things, November 1998)

Jesuit author Edward T. Oakes tries to follow Thomas Aquinas' example by setting out the arguments against original sin before he responds to them. He writes: “[H]ow can guilt, an ethical and spiritual category, be... READ MORE

Father of the Prodigal Son

BY Ellen Wilson Fielding

November 08-14, 1998 Issue

Father of the Prodigal Son: “The Pursuing Father”

by Kenneth E. Bailey

(Christianity Today, October 26, 1998)

Kenneth E. Bailey writes: “This parable must be seen as the third part of a trilogy in Luke 15. The Pharisees challenge Jesus: ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ … What... READ MORE

The Problem with Hate Crime Laws

BY David Peterson

November 08-14, 1998 Issue

Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics

by James Jacobs and Kimberly Potter

(New York: Oxford University Press 1998, 224 pages, $24.95.)

Throughout the early '90s, state legislatures across the country began to adopt new measures seeking to outlaw what are referred to as “hate crimes.” A... READ MORE

Neuhaus on ‘the Catholic Moment’Now

BY Ellen Wilson Fielding

THE DEFINITE ARTICLE

September 20-26, 1998 Issue

“The Catholic Moment Now” by Father Richard J. Neuhaus (Crisis, September 1998)

Writing more than 10 years after the publication of his influential book The Catholic Moment, Father Neuhaus first reminds his readers, “By a ‘moment’I meant a period of history, an era, a kairos, if you will, extending... READ MORE

The Evolution of Catholic Charity in U.S.

BY Robert Kennedy

September 20-26, 1998 Issue

The Poor Belong to Us by Dorothy Brown and Elizabeth McKeown (Harvard University Press, 1997, 352 pages, hard-cover, $45)

Despite what might seem a dry as dust academic topic, Dorothy Brown and Elizabeth McKeown have managed to write an interesting history of Catholic charitable institutions in the... READ MORE

Why Ob-Gyns Don’t Do NFP

BY Ellen Wilson Fielding

Digest of Marjorie Dannenfelser's article "Doctors of the Church," in the July-August issue of Crisis magazine

August 16-22, 1998 Issue

In the July-August issue of Crisis magazine, Marjorie Dannenfelser fills readers in on why so few Catholic obstetricians and gynecologists are able and willing to support women who practice Natural Family Planning (NFP).

“More than 1.5 million American women practice natural family planning (48% of... READ MORE

The Right Stuff For Speaking

BY Raymond De Souza

August 16-22, 1998 Issue

Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas with Style, Substance, and Clarity by Peggy Noonan (HarperCollins, 1998, 212 pp., $23.00)

The Collected Speeches: Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris (HarperCollins, 1997, 667 pp., $35.00)

Everybody is speaking in public today. Talk radio, television... READ MORE

Growing Protestant Opposition To Contraception

BY Ellen Wilson Fielding

July 12, 1998 Issue

The summer 1998 issue of Sursum Corda magazine carries an article by Elizabeth Altham on Protestants who reject birth control because “God is the best population planner.”

“Children are God's blessing,’ says [father of five] Scott Wiest. ‘Why would anyone want to stop God from blessing him? When I... READ MORE

Pat Buchanan’s SOS for America

BY David Peterson

July 12, 1998 Issue

The Great Betrayal by Patrick Buchanan (Little, Brown and Company, 1998, 328 pp., Hardcover, $22.95)

Nearly everyone has taken notice of America's great economic miracle. The Dow Jones index has skyrocketed past the 9,000 mark, the Gross National Product (GNP) has reached record levels, and both... READ MORE

A Historian Breaks More Ground

BY Edward Peters

June 21-27, 1998 Issue

The King's Good Servant but God's First: the Life and Writings of St. Thomas More

by James Monti

(Ignatius Press 1997, 492 pages, $ 19.95 paperback)

If you don't count the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is, after all, in a league of her own, there are more books, articles, and reviews written about St.... READ MORE

A Priestly Dream Realized Before Death

BY Brian Caulfield

April 05-11, 1998 Issue

Forever: The Life of Father Eugene Hamilton

by Father Benedict Groeschel CFR

(Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1998, 206 pp., $9.95)

Forever: The Life of Father Eugene Hamilton could spark a renewal of priestly vocations. It surely will challenge the reader with thoughts of life, death, divine Providence,... READ MORE

Nixon’s Rules to Rule By

BY Pius Murray CSS

January 18-24, 1998 Issue

Nixon's Ten Commandments of Statecraft: His Guiding Principles of Leadership and Negotiation

by James Humes

(Scribner, 1997, 192 pp., $20)

In the Bible, the Decalogue or Ten Commandments (cf. Ex 20:1-17; Dt 5:6-21), are primarily concerned with apodictic law, not legal judgments. As such, they... READ MORE

Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls

BY Mitch Pacwa SJ

January 18-24, 1998 Issue

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

by Geza Vermes

(Allen Lane-The Penguin Press, 1997, 648 pp., $39.95)

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd, Mohammed edh-Dhib, entered a cave into which he threw a rock and... READ MORE

Straightforward Orthodoxy from Bishop Bruskewitz

BY Russell Shaw

January 11-17, 1998 Issue

A Shepherd Speaks

by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz

(Ignatius Press, 1997, 421pp., $14.95)

One day in the spring of 1996 I received a call from a network TV magazine show. Would I be willing to be interviewed about the situation in Lincoln, Neb.? Specifically, would I say something in defense of Bishop... READ MORE

Prepping for the Second Coming

BY Mark Brumley

Worried about the End Times? Here's some sober-headed advice

January 11-17, 1998 Issue

Is Jesus Coming Soon?

by Ralph Martin

(Ignatius Press, 1997, 178 pp., $11.95)

The Late Great Planet Earth was a bestseller in the 1970s. Its thesis: biblical prophecies could be correlated to daily, world events. Careful analysis of these prophecies, argued author Hal Lindsey, revealed that the... READ MORE

Exiles’ Hopeful Sigh: ‘Next Year In Cuba’

BY Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz

April 13-19,1997 Issue

WHEN JOHN PAUL II agreed to meet with Fidel Castro a few months ago, the Cuban exile community was stunned. No one believed that Castro had suddenly converted or that the Pope was unaware of the thousands of political prisoners who have been tortured and executed in Cuba. But before predictions... READ MORE

Why Demography Is Destiny

BY John Prizer

April 13-19,1997 Issue

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City by David Courtwright

(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996, 357 pp., $29.95)

-DON't THESE DESCRIPTIONS sound familiar? Gangs of adolescent and post-adolescent young men roam the streets, armed with handguns... READ MORE

Papal Record on Slavery Stands Tall

BY Mark Brumley

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

The Popes and Slavery, by Father Joel Panzer (Alba House, 1996, 124 pp., $7.95)

BETWEEN THE “Christianity of Christ” and the religion that once justified slavery, wrote former slave Frederick Douglas, is the “widest possible distance.” Such strong language naturally leads the thoughtful Catholic to... READ MORE

‘This Administration Today, Here and Now, Declares Unconditional War on Poverty in America’

BY John Prizer

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, by Irwin Unger (New York: Doubleday, 1996, 400 pp., $27.95)

Bill Clinton won the recent election, in part, because he promised to balance the budget without deep cuts in Medicare, education and... READ MORE

Shusaku Endo-Paradox of Japanese Catholicism

October 22, 1996 Issue

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