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Marriage: Accept No Substitutes
BY David Orgon Coolidge
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue 
Every week seems to bring a new headline about some law that legitimizes unmarried couples, including members of the same sex. Vermont has legalized “civil unions” for same-sex couples. France has passed a law allowing any two unmarried individuals to enter into a “solidarity pact.” A number of... READ MORE
Good Governance Flows From the Ground Up
BY Scott McDermott
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
The most disputed election in U.S. history is an increasingly dim memory.
Sure, it's been good to see Washington return, along with the new president, to a certain everyday routine. And President Bush has been quite impressive right out of the gates, with his focus on education reform and cutting... READ MORE
Parent/Teacher Fright
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
The constant harping of many nowadays about how bad modern parents supposedly are doesn't ring true under close scrutiny.
Case in point: Dr. Ray Guarendi's “Family Matters” column in the Dec. 31 issue, in which he claims that parents rarely show up for high school parent/teacher nights.
I am the... READ MORE
The Toronto Miracle of Catholic Renewal
BY Raymond J. De Souza
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KEYWORDS: Commentary
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
Parkdale was once a grand Toronto neighborhood.
It's a few blocks from Lake Ontario and a 20-minute streetcar ride from the heart of Canada's financial district. Today grandness is found mostly in the dreams of the immigrant families establishing a life for themselves on streets where prostitutes... READ MORE
Darkness to Light, Advent to Epiphany
BY Don Demarco
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KEYWORDS: Commentary
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
Light clarifies and illuminates, uplifts and reveals. As it does all these things, it leads us, as the Star of Bethlehem led the Magi to the Christ Child on the first Epiphany, to God. Light ultimately leads to love.
Dante Alighieri opens the Paradiso segment of his Divine Comedy by proclaiming... READ MORE
Sub-Pagan Winter Groans for New Christian Spring
BY Benjamin D. Wiker
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KEYWORDS: Commentary
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
I truly believe that this new millennium will witness a new springtime of evangelization.
Or better, re-evangelization, since much of the territory to be conquered was won in the first thousand years only to be lost in the last one hundred.
It is especially in such territory that Christianity will... READ MORE
What Should Catholics Think About Globalization?
BY Gregory Beabout
April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue
I recently came across a flier that said: “The majority of the earth's inhabitants and the earth herself are not doing very well at all as globalization moves forward.” A pamphlet handed out by magenta-haired, nose-ringed adolescents at the Seattle or Washington, D.C., anti-world-trade protests? No... READ MORE
Nuns Who Saved Polish Jews
BY Father Zygmunt Zielinski A Yom HaShoah Remembrance
April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue
As the world commemorates Yom HaShoah Day, remembering the Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust, a Polish priest recounts the heroic rescues of Polish Jews by Catholic nuns.
Poland was attacked from two sides in 1939. Nazi Germany attacked her Sept. 1; Soviet Russia... READ MORE
These ‘Catholics’ Are Heaven Sent For Gullible Press
BY Helen Alvar…
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KEYWORD: Commentary
April 30-May 6, 2000 Issue
A few TV seasons ago, there was an episode of “Seinfeld” in which Jerry's dentist was a new convert to Judaism. With a hand firmly planted in Jerry's mouth, he cracked one insulting Jewish joke after the next. Finally Jerry objected, but the dentist insisted that, as a Jew, he was entitled. Anyway,... READ MORE
The Church, the Culture and the Curse of Contraception
BY John F. Kippley
April 1-7, 2000 Issue
While most Americans were celebrating the first day of spring on March 21, protectors of life were noting the 70th anniversary of a day of infamy.
It was on March 21, 1931, that the Federal Council of Churches, the forerunner of today's National Council of Churches, voted to accept contraception as... READ MORE
Is the Great Commission a Call to … Proselytism?
BY Father James V. Schall
April 1-7, 2000 Issue
The Washington Post of Feb. 20 described a religious theme park in Orlando built by “Marvin Rosenthal, a Jew who became a Baptist minister.”
The Florida park seems to be a replica of downtown Jerusalem in Christ's time. It has an entry fee of $17 and evidently attracts mainly aging Christians.... READ MORE
Brave New Feminism On the Rise
BY Pia de Solenni
April 1-7, 2000 Issue
Seconds after being shot, Pope John Paul II noticed the glaring absence of an image of Mary over St. Peter's Square.
Later, while recovering, he commissioned a mosaic of the Madonna and Child — the New Eve and the New Adam. In the years that followed, as the Marian dimension of his Christian... READ MORE
Finding Peace Below Beacon Hill
BY David Gordon
February 27-March 4, 2000 Issue
Editor's note: This is the third installment in a series tracing David Gordon's journey “home to Rome” from evangelical Protestantism.
With Lent fast approaching, so too is the day when I am “fully incorporated into the society of the Church,” as the Catechism says. For the last 18 months, I have... READ MORE
DOES PPHILOSOPHY HHAVEA FUTURE?
BY Donald DeMarco
February 27-March 4, 2000 Issue
The earliest philosophers were called “wise men.” Believing such an appellation to be presumptuous, Pythagoras coined the term “philosophy” (philia + sophia) around 500 b.c. to indicate that philosophers should be known not as the epitome of Wisdom but as her friends or lovers. A philosopher, then,... READ MORE
The Horror Of All Things Victorian
BY George Sim Johnston
February 27-March 4, 2000 Issue
Whenever I open the New York Times Book Review I only have to read a few pages before coming across a statement which illustrates George Orwell's remark that there are some ideas that are so stupid that only intellectuals can entertain them. Take, for example, Richard Posner's recent review of... READ MORE
God, Business and the Super Bowl
BY Gregory R. Beabout
February 20-26, 2000 Issue
Should a business firm consider the religious background of a job candidate during the hiring process? When sizing up how much energy and effort the individual will put into the job, ought the company take into account his or her practice of the faith he or she professes?
Consider how these... READ MORE
Why the New Century Won't Bring Vatican III
February 20-26, 2000 Issue
It is now 35 years since the Second Vatican Council ended. Young Catholics, those under the age of 35, were not even born then, let alone lived through the council and the turbulent times that followed. Yet they, along with those of us who well remember those times, have heard many calls for... READ MORE
Despite Rumors, Consecrated Life Is Alive and Well
BY Thomas Williams Lc
February 20-26, 2000 Issue
Consecrated life teeters on the brink of extinction, or so the story goes. Besides the raw data — vocations have plunged since the Second Vatican Council — some see the crisis as rooted in the nature of religious life itself. The logic is very simple. Religious life, the practice of consecrating... READ MORE
Why RU-486 Isn't a “Pill” and Other Facts
February 06-12, 2000 Issue
Father Frank Pavone
What's in a Maiden Name? In Quebec … Everything
February 06-12, 2000 Issue
James Mahony
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