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Real Marriage - And the Wearing Of the Black Beret
BY Michael Pakaluk
July 1-7,2001 Issue 
The average American feels in his gut that something is not quite right with “homosexual marriage.”
But, typically, he can't back up his strong sensibility with an airtight argument. And he's silenced by the fear that, even if he were able to articulate his views with utmost reason and charity, he... READ MORE
The Truth Can Navigate the Conscience Maze
BY Donald Demarco
July 1-7,2001 Issue
Conscience, like most important concepts in the contemporary world, is widely misunderstood. In fact, its more popular usage is the perfect antithesis of what it really means. The world, being skeptical and not believing that one can know what is true, has disconnected conscience from the realm of... READ MORE
Energy: How Human Beings Can Always Keep the Lights On
BY James Schall SJ
June 24-30, 2001 Issue
In a recent article in USA Today, a number of Germans commented on the world's energy problems.
All said essentially the same thing: Blame the United States.
“We are having these difficulties because the Americans are buying all the oil and wasting like crazy,” said Christa Keim, 53, interviewed as... READ MORE
Angry White Female
BY Ben Wiker Margaret Sanger's Race of Thoroughbreds
June 24-30, 2001 Issue
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was one of the lead architects of the culture of death. Not only was she a major contributor to the liberation of sexuality from all restraint, but sexual liberation was for her part of a larger program of eugenics. While Planned Parenthood has... READ MORE
The Dollar, The Witch And the Wardrobe
BY Tim Drake
June 24-30, 2001 Issue
Over the past month, my 5-year-old son and I have established a nightly ritual.
Just before bedtime, he sits on my lap and I read to him from The Magician's Nephew, the first in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series.
Last week, we read the vivid passage in which Digory and Polly, along with the... READ MORE
Incremental ‘Victories’ Mean Deadly Compromises
BY Patrick Delaney
June 17-23, 2001 Issue
Every social evil can be traced to a lie. In its infamous 1973 decision, the Supreme Court imposed a rather radical lie upon the United States. This lie states that pre-born children were to be considered non-persons under constitutional law; they therefore have no basic inalienable human rights.... READ MORE
Better To Save Some Lives Now Than None At All, Ever
BY Darla St. Martin
June 17-23, 2001 Issue
Pro-lifers share a common goal. We want to end abortion and build a world which respects the lives of all God's children, born and unborn.
But not all pro-lifers agree on the best strategy for achieving that goal.
The millions of Americans who have worked with National Right to Life, its state... READ MORE
Our Holy Father Is the World’s ‘Model Dad’
BY Pia De Solenni
June 17-23, 2001 Issue
Contrary to the popular reading of Ephesians 5, the father's role as head of the family is not intended to be one of domination.
His headship must be given to him by the woman because men and women are of equal dignity, both possessing free will. The husband cannot demand authority. If he were to... READ MORE
Religious Profiling a Fact of Life in Irish Abuse Scandals
BY David Quinn
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KEYWORDS: Commentary
June 10-16, 2001 Issue
Ireland has been hit by a wave of clerical sex-abuse scandals.
No one now doubts that children in the care of priests and religious were abused. The trouble is that an atmosphere has been created in which every allegation is believed, and in which it is easy for anyone to destroy the lives of... READ MORE
A Layman Will Lead Them - So What?
BY John Grondelski
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KEYWORDS: Commentary "Georgetown in Hands of Layman."
June 10-16, 2001 Issue
So read the Register's March 18–24 headline announcing Dr. John DeGioia's selection as president of the Jesuit university in Washington, D.C., Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was quoted in the article saying: “While many of us were hoping that a Jesuit priest might be found for the leadership of this... READ MORE
What the Daycare Study Says About Motherhood
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez
June 3-9, 2001 Issue
Even though it was 10 years in the works, a study on the long-term effects of daycare on children was all but thrown out by scads of vocal “children's activists” who did not like the results.
Not surprisingly, their dismissal found plenty of support from the mainstream media.
The study, sponsored... READ MORE
What Do You Do With ADrunken Student Early in the Morning?
BY James V.Schall On curbing drunkenness - collegiate-style
June 3-9, 2001 Issue
In April, eight players of the Eastern Nazarene College baseball team were caught breaking their school's rules of conduct: They had been drinking. As the team only had 17 players, one of whom was ill, the school canceled the rest of the season's schedule.
Evidently, all students at the college,... READ MORE
My Wife at 40: Her Suffering Will Bring Life
BY Benjamin D. Wiker
June 3-9, 2001 Issue
Converting to the Catholic faith has been good for my imagination, and my wife's.
I am not speaking simply about the aesthetic treasury of the Church — the architecture, the icons, the music, the liturgy — but the expansion of our souls to include what we thought was too difficult, if not... READ MORE
Do Your Part for Catholic Art: Befriend the NEA
BY Mark Gordon
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
If you want to pick an argument, tell a group of devoutly Christian American citizens that you think the National Endowment for the Arts has been doing a reasonably good job lately.
To many Catholics and evangelical Protestants, the NEA is public enemy number one in the culture wars.
While... READ MORE
Authentic Liturgy … At Last
BY Raymond J. de Souza
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
In Italian the word for translator, traduttore, is similar to the word for traitor, traditore — and Vatican wags often remark that the translator is apt to betray the original author.
Few issues are more neuralgic than the question of how to translate the Church's official Latin liturgical books... READ MORE
Tolkien Confounds The Critics
BY Michael Coren
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
When various bookstores, newspapers, magazines and literary societies compiled their rolls of all-time greats at the end of last year, J.R.R. Tolkien topped list after list.
First it was a chain of bookstores, polling more than 25,000 readers. Dickens, Tolstoy and Jane Austen did well, but the... READ MORE
They’ll Call You a Hypocrite, But Love Virtue Anyway
BY Don DeMarco
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
When Dostoevsky submitted his manuscript of Crime and Punishment for publication, he included a cover letter that gave a brief synopsis of the novel.
In this way, he informed the publisher that his story was about a university student who “had submitted to certain strange, incomplete ideas which... READ MORE
Cardinal Newman’s ‘Kindly Light’ Shines On
BY Raymond J. De Souza
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
In his homily during the most recent consistory for the creation of new cardinals, Pope John Paul II noted that the ceremony fell on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Cardinal John Henry Newman (Feb. 21, 1801), the most important English churchman of the 19th century, and one of the Catholic... READ MORE
A Landscape With Humans
BY Karl Keating
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
Saturday was blustery, filled with persistent showers and a low overcast. I saw our weekend plans running into the storm drains. Late at night I awoke, peeked out the bedroom window, and saw stars — a good sign.
The storms were passing and, with them, the winds. Sunday dawned cloudless, the air... READ MORE
Mary and the Marines
BY John C. Goodrich
May 20-26, 2001 Issue
I was thrilled when I read the article about Michael Lambert in the May 6-12 issue of your wonderful paper (“The Hand of Mary: A Marine's Encounter in a Bloody Battle”). Several months ago I met a former U.S. Marine who could relate a story to you that I think you would be also be very interested... READ MORE
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