But, every so often, things come together in a way that has me shaking my head over just how much the times have changed during the course of my own lifetime.
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Pornography, Incorporated
BY Tim Drake
May 13-19, 2001 Issue 
Sex sells. That seems to be at the heart of recent business decisions by corporations such as Amazon.com and AT&T to support and promote the pornography industry. It doesn't seem to bother these powerful businesses that, in pursuing their own lust for profits, they are increasingly corrupting the... READ MORE
Lots to Learn About Leadership On May 13
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
Who will be the most essential Catholic leaders of the third millennium?
Will it be bishops and priests? Catholic scholars, Christian CEOs and politicians?
All these leaders have an important role in creating a Christian culture, but none is as influential and effective as … our moms. We seldom... READ MORE
Frequent Confession for Priests, Too
May 13-19, 2001 Issue
The inspiring Holy Thursday letter to priests from the Holy Father regarding the importance of frequent confession restates so well the constant teaching of the Church on this matter ("In Holy Thursday Letter, Pope Urges Frequent Confession,” April 8-14). Besides hoping and praying that this... READ MORE
Celibacy: Greater Love Than the World Can Know
BY Cardinal Desmond Connell
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
“Follow me.” These words are addressed to every Christian. Christ is the way that all must follow: Nobody comes to the Father except through him.
But when he said to the Apostles, “Follow me,” this was the beginning of their formation as leaders of his people.
This call he has addressed to you [the... READ MORE
America: Decline the Dutch Descent
BY Benjamin D. Wiker
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
It came as no surprise when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. In mid-April, that country's senate voted to pass into law a bill that had been approved by its lower house of parliament last fall.
The Dutch had been... READ MORE
Has Collar Envy Eradicated The Lay Vocation?
BY Pia de Solenni
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
I recently learned that the term “melting pot” has been replaced by the politically correct “salad bowl.”
(In the melting pot, everything loses its proper identity. However, in a salad, the sundry ingredients retain their own differences.)
Generally, I tend to reject the notion of political... READ MORE
Loving the Culture Out of its Attachment to Homosexuality
BY Joseph Nicolosi
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
If we don't understand the truth about homosexuality, we can't respond intelligently, prudently and compassionately to the popular culture's efforts to legitimize homosexual acts.
So says Christopher Wolfe, a professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee and president of the... READ MORE
It Is a Tangled Web They Spin
BY Randall K. O'Bannon
Planned Parenthood's slick annual report can't hide the tale the numbers tell
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
The number of abortions has been steadily declining in the United States — yet business is booming for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation's largest and most aggressive abortion chain.
According to its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood performed 182,854 abortions in... READ MORE
Help Wanted: New Evangelizers … Low Pay, Great Benefits
BY Gregory R. Beabout
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
Many of us spend a good part of our adult lives at our places of employment. How can Catholics put the new evangelization to work at work?
Pope John Paul II continues to remind Catholics that the Holy Spirit is summoning the Church to a “new evangelization.” He doesn't mean that the contents of the... READ MORE
On April 15, Every American Longs for a Tax Cut
BY J.R. Morse
So President Bush proposes to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years, and the battle is joined.
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
As a Catholic economist, I support his proposal wholeheartedly. Let me tell you why.
Opponents of the tax cut charge that it “favors the rich.” The truth that is any plan to cut all rates across the board results in the poor receiving a smaller refund. This is a feature of our progressive tax rate... READ MORE
The Empty Tomb as Viewed from the PYRAMIDS
BY Raymond J. De Souza
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
Last year, on what was Easter Sunday according to the eastern liturgical calendar followed by many in Egypt, I visited the pyramids of Giza.
Standing under the watchful gaze of the Sphinx, I was reminded that the pyramids are tombs — tombs on a grand scale, to be sure, but tombs nevertheless.
The... READ MORE
To My Daughter On Her Confirmation
BY Susan Baxter
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
My dear daughter,
I have prayed, throughout your life, even before you were conceived, that you would grow to love God beyond all else. I knew that, if you learned to do this, all I hope for you would follow. Now that you are a young woman in the last days before the Easter Sunday on which you will... READ MORE
Without the Passion, We Lose Our - Passion
BY Benjamin D. Wiker
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
When I was in graduate school, one of my evangelical Protestant friends once said to me, “Ben, do you know why we have a bare cross?”
He pointed to a cross without a corpus on the wall of the divinity library. “Because Jesus is risen!”
This, of course, was a little friendly Catholic baiting, yet... READ MORE
The Good Friday Appeal, Two Years Later
BY Willard M. Oliver
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
“[T]he dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern society has the means of protecting itself without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform. I renew the appeal I made … for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is... READ MORE
Making Holy Thursday Last All Year
BY Andrew McNair
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
Like many converts, Scott Adler takes his Catholic faith seriously.
He attends a weekly Gospel reflection with friends and organizes study circles on papal encyclicals in his home. At work, he puts into practice what he learns about his faith. At 39, married, with three children, Scott considers... READ MORE
Bush Administration Brings New Hope for China
BY J. Fraser Field
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
On the whole, which individual is safer and more secure — a Christian in a secular society or a secularist in a Christian society?
History has shown time and again that, when religious perspectives are barred from the public square, the resulting vacuum is filled with, in the words of Father... READ MORE
Our Wrath Is Righteous - But Is it Right?
BY Leo White
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
Suppose you live in a town in the Wild West. Call it Glory Gulch. An armed and dangerous killer, a wily career criminal who has eluded capture for years, is at large. The sheriff, under pressure from the towns-folk to see to their safety and security, decides to put the man's wife and children in... READ MORE
St. Joseph: He’s Not What We Call Him
BY Steve Michael
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
By today's definition, the term “foster father” does not fit St. Joseph, whose feast we celebrate March 19.
By law, a foster parent is an adult who cares for a child that is neither biologically nor legally his own. The commitment undertaken is temporary, with guardianship offered for a short time... READ MORE
Guided by a Patron Saint Through Two Kinds of School
BY Susan Baxter
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
Sometimes, a saint won't wait to be asked.
I was a senior in high school in a little Pennsylvania coal-mining community. My father was gravely ill, my mother struggling to feed eight hungry mouths and make the payments on a hefty mortgage. There was very little to eat, and our clothes made us easy... READ MORE
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