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They Want The Vatican Nixed. Why?
February 06-12, 2000 Issue 
Austin Ruse
THE CRISIS OF LAW
BY Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
December 5-11, 1999 Issue
On Nov. 10, the department of jurisprudence at the Free University of the Blessed Mother's Assumption (LUMSA) in Rome conferred an honorary doctorate upon Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The following was excerpted from his acceptance speech as... READ MORE
Don’t Let Them Distract You From Life
BY J.R. Morse
December 5-11, 1999 Issue
Pro-life advocates face a variety of obstacles in their conversations with their neighbors. While some people truly advocate the culture of death, far more of our neighbors and countrymen have merely acquiesced to it. Many of them never quite make it to seriously considering the core issues of life... READ MORE
A ‘90s First-Grader Cries for Confession
BY Susan Baxter
November 14-20, 1999 Issue
I remember my Baltimore Catechism as though it is stored somewhere at the base of my spinal cord. The little blue-and-white book, the cold Sunday mornings in church with the heater turned way down, the smell of the woodwork, the warm sun spilling through stained glass and onto my shoes, my dress,... READ MORE
Ghostly Occupants of the Net
BY Donald DeMarco Netizens
November 14-20, 1999 Issue
Gabriel Marcel once characterized his philosophy as “a persistent, unceasing fight against the spirit of abstraction.” A Catholic convert, Marcel gave central place to the notion that man is an incarnate being (être incarné). Human beings do not have bodies; they are bodies. “Incarnation,” he... READ MORE
To Save Babies Is to Save America’s Soul
BY Sam Brownback
November 14-20, 1999 Issue
Last April, a botched partial-birth abortion resulted in the birth of a little girl in Cincinnati. She lived for three hours. It was reported that an emergency-room technician rocked and sang to her until she died. Afterward, the staff grieved so deeply that several members wound up spending hours... READ MORE
Cuban Bishops Striking a Delicate Balance
BY Alejandro Bermudez
November 7-13, 1999 Issue
Thanks to a visit from Pope John Paul II in January 1998, the Catholic Church in Cuba is now experiencing something of a rebirth. Part of its new “awakening” is being able to offer a safe environment for political dissenters who wish to express their opinions.
For example, prior to the papal visit,... READ MORE
Will ‘Partnerships’ Render Marriage Meaningless in France?
BY John M. Grondelski
November 7-13, 1999 Issue
The French National Assembly dealt a blow to the state of marriage in the West when it approved legislation Oct. 13 creating “civil solidarity pacts” (le pacte civil de solidarité, “PACS”). PACS institutionalizes a legal alternative to marriage, recognizing homosexual and unmarried heterosexual... READ MORE
How the GOP Could Neutralize Buchanan’s Exit
BY Kenneth D. Whitehead
November 7-13, 1999 Issue
Republicans are concerned that Pat Buchanan's bolt from the Grand Old Party might prevent a Republican from winning the presidency in 2000. Polls give Buchanan in a three-way race only about 6% of the total vote — coming mostly from Republican ranks — but this could be enough to throw the election... READ MORE
Warning: I Brake For Genuflectors
BY Karl Keating
October 24-30, 1999 Issue
I have modified the way I receive Communion. I used to give a deep bow when I got to the front of the Communion line, but the bow has given way to a genuflection. Yes, it is more visible (more obtrusive, some might say), but I don't care about that. By my reading of the rubrics, a genuflection is... READ MORE
Saving the West from the New Barbarians
BY Robert R. Reilly
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
Few would dispute that Western civilization is in trouble. Despite its riches and power, it is declining both morally and demographically. This is a matter of more than parochial concern. Western civilization belongs to everyone because it is the only civilization that addresses itself, not just to... READ MORE
The Supreme Court at the Crossroads
BY kavin Hasson
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
There is a saying in Washington that “personnel is policy.” For better or worse, that saying applies especially to the Supreme Court, whose nine life-tenured justices have the final word on questions of federal law. We will soon be facing an important moment in the court's—and our... READ MORE
Saving the West from the New Barbarians
BY Robert R. Reilly
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
Few would dispute that Western civilization is in trouble. Despite its riches and power, it is declining both morally and demographically. This is a matter of more than parochial concern. Western civilization belongs to everyone because it is the only civilization that addresses itself, not just to... READ MORE
The Supreme Court at the Crossroads
BY kavin Hasson
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
There is a saying in Washington that “personnel is policy.” For better or worse, that saying applies especially to the Supreme Court, whose nine life-tenured justices have the final word on questions of federal law. We will soon be facing an important moment in the court's—and our... READ MORE
The Voice of the Lord Upon the Waters
BY Raymond J.De Souza
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
At Sunday vespers during ordinary time the Church sings a beautiful antiphon: The whole creation proclaims the greatness of your glory. Ordinary time includes the summer holiday months, the time when vacations are opportunities to experience what the liturgy sings.
St. Paul taught the Romans that... READ MORE
The Voice of the Lord Upon the Waters
BY Raymond J.De Souza
August 22-28, 1999 Issue
At Sunday vespers during ordinary time the Church sings a beautiful antiphon: The whole creation proclaims the greatness of your glory. Ordinary time includes the summer holiday months, the time when vacations are opportunities to experience what the liturgy sings.
St. Paul taught the Romans that... READ MORE
Whatever Happened to Hell?
BY George Sim Johnston
August 15-21, 1999 Issue
Recently, at his Wednesday general audience, Pope John Paul II brought up a topic that has almost disappeared from Catholic preaching: The existence of hell. Today, Catholic books and homilies soft-pedal the subject or don't mention it at all. I attended a Mass not long ago where the celebrant... READ MORE
What Faith in the Father Should Mean
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
August 15-21, 1999 Issue
“God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth” (The Catholic Faith, July/August 1999)
Jesuit Father John A. Hardon, executive editor of The Catholic Faith magazine, writes: “In the opening of the Apostles' Creed, we profess our faith in one God, the Father, the Almighty, Creator of heaven... READ MORE
The View from the Other Side of the Rio
BY Alejandro Bermudez
May 16-22, 1999 Issue
In his postsynodal apostolic exhortation The Church in America, Pope John Paul II issued a strong appeal for conceiving of the Americas as one united continent — “Not the Americas, but America,” as he stressed. He was not speaking of a dream for sometime in the future. He was giving spiritual... READ MORE
The New Lectionary
BY Father James P. Moroney 'Maximum Possible Fidelity'
May 16-22, 1999 Issue
Three years ago, as pastor of Mary, Queen of the Rosary parish in Spencer, Mass., I lifted the Lectio-nary to read the Gospel. As I did, the binding broke and the page with the Gospel I was about to read floated away like an errant angel. I decided it was time for a new Lectionary.
But I wasn't the... READ MORE
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