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Dissenters Lead Church on a Dangerous Road
BY George Sim Johnston
September 20-26, 1998 Issue 
This summer, Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter, Ad Tuendam Fidem (“To Defend the Faith”), which, like Gaul, is divided into three parts. It explains the different levels of Church teaching, adds them to canon law, and makes clear the responsibility of Church leaders to uphold Catholic... READ MORE
Take up the Sword to Fight for the Culture of Life
BY Robert Best Acting on the simple truth that we are children of God could be a major step in reversing society's demise
September 20-26, 1998 Issue
Recently I had occasion to spend time with a man who had been a prisoner of war for more than seven years in Vietnam, five of them in solitary confinement. During those years, Jeremiah Denton was severely tortured, both physically and psychologically. He lost more than 90 pounds and was reduced to... READ MORE
A Coarser America Has the Leader It Deserves
BY Kathleen Howley
September 20-26, 1998 Issue
I sat on the subway a few days ago, watching a businessman read his morning newspaper. He was one row in front of me, so it was easy to look over his shoulder and check the day's headlines.
He skipped by reports of a looming famine and political disarray in Russia. He leafed past the story of U.S.... READ MORE
The Ethics of Cloning
BY Bishop James McHugh
August 30-September 5, 1998 Issue
The American Enterprise Institute has just published an informative little book called The Ethics of Human Cloning. The book is an exchange between Leon Kass, a physician and bioethicist, and James Wilson, a retired UCLAprofessor who has written on restoring a moral sense to our nation. When it was... READ MORE
The Ethics of Cloning
BY Bishop James McHugh
August 30-September 5, 1998 Issue
The American Enterprise Institute has just published an informative little book called The Ethics of Human Cloning. The book is an exchange between Leon Kass, a physician and bioethicist, and James Wilson, a retired UCLAprofessor who has written on restoring a moral sense to our nation. When it was... READ MORE
Archbishop Chaput’s Five Key Themes on Faith
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
August 23-29, 1998 Issue
The July/August issue of The Catholic Faith carries an article by Charles Chaput, archbishop of Denver, on “The Task of Evangelization in Secular America.” Challenging Catholics to preach the whole message of Christianity, Archbishop Chaput writes: “All of us love Christmas. That is the easy part... READ MORE
A Trusty Handbook for People in the Pew
BY Edward Peters
August 23-29, 1998 Issue
Mass Confusion: The Do's and Do'nt's of Catholic Worship by James Akin (Catholic Answers, San Diego CA, 1998, 244 pages, paperback, $15.95)
As a rule of thumb, 90% of Catholics receive 90% of their exposure to things Catholic at Mass on Sunday. If Sunday Mass is sound sacramentally, doctrinally,... READ MORE
Pope’s ‘Family of Nations’Ideal Should Mark Globalization
BY Thomas Williams Lc
August 16-22, 1998 Issue
It's a small, small world.” If that was true back in the 1950s, how much more so in the '90s, especially after quantum advances in telecommunications, data processing and transportation. An unprecedented abundance of information and contact with other cultures and peoples combined with increasing... READ MORE
Among the Muslim Believers, 1998
BY Gabriel Meyer After a long intellectual sleep, a more outward-looking stream of Islamic thought may be on the move again
August 16-22, 1998 Issue
In a time when the nation's attention is focused on a resurgence of terrorism at U.S. embassies abroad — and a renegade ex-Saudi financier with ties to militant Islamic groups tops Washington's current list of suspects — it may seem bad timing to be writing an article on moderates and reformers in... READ MORE
Only God Can Sway Those Entrenched In Pro-Abortion Mentality
BY Helen AlvarÈ
August 16-22, 1998 Issue
Real change is so hard. Witness any one of our daily lives. How hard it is to change even our diet or to change the way we respond to one of our children's most nerve-touching behaviors. How hard it is to keep our oft-repeated promise to pray daily. But real change is possible. Recently, in the... READ MORE
C.S. Lewis’s Delight in Ordinary Life
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding Digest of Gilbert Meilaender's article 'The Everyday C.S. Lewis'in the August-September First Things
August 09-15, 1998 Issue
The August-September issue of First Things magazine showcases Gilbert Meilaender's thoughts on “The Everyday C.S. Lewis.”
“The ordinary pleasures of life,” writes Meilaender, “— both those simply given to us in nature and those derived from culture — play a large role in Lewis' thinking and account... READ MORE
A Secular Humanist Looks at Women Religious
BY Mary Thomas Noble
August 09-15, 1998 Issue
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 751 pages, Paperback $11.95, Hardcover $18.95)
Nuns seem to be an “in” topic these days, judging from the number of books currently being served up for the inquiring public. As... READ MORE
Middle-class America: A Study in Apathy?
BY Robert Kennedy
July 5-11, 1998 Issue
One Nation, After All
by Alan Wolfe
(Viking Penguin, 1998, 322 pages, hardcover $24.95)
One hundred twenty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln spoke briefly at a new cemetery at Gettysburg about the uniqueness of the American nation, a nation founded on a shared commitment to a set of propositions.... READ MORE
Young America’s Love AffairWith The Spice Girls
BY Kathleen Howley
July 5-11, 1998 Issue
When it comes to the Spice Girls, a scantily-clad English group that has evoked almost as much high-pitched screaming as The Beatles, it's not the lack of talent that bothers me.
Or the banal lyrics. Or the elevator-music quality that seems to infest their melodies.
No, I could live with all that.... READ MORE
Who Will Raise Our Children?
BY Lisa Royal
March 15-21, 1998 Issue
A recent issue of National Geographic reports findings from scientists who unearthed the remains of a child who had been sacrificed to the gods in an ancient Mayan ritual. Current medical testing allowed them to piece together a chilling picture of the child's last hours on earth. It was... READ MORE
Human Cloning: An Entrepreneur’s Sordid Dream
BY John Haas
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
What may be the next significant product for consumption? Cloned human beings.
It should come as no surprise. At least not in the United States, where every aspect of our culture seems increasingly to be driven by commercialism—or consumerism—as John Paul II would put it.
A Chicago physicist... READ MORE
An Urgent Reminder for a Missionary Church
BY Charles Chaput OFM Cap. The Archbishop of Denver's powerful exhortation to his flock has relevance for all American Catholics as we rush toward the Great Jubilee Year
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
The shepherds of the Judean hills were rough and simple men. But perhaps only in their simplicity could they hear the message which drove them urgently toward Bethlehem. They received the words of the angel with joy—and without fear. They acted on the revelation of God with faith, and that faith... READ MORE
Peace Corps Volunteers Could Do With Some Growing Up
BY Kathleen Howley
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
Two years ago, the naysayers predicted it was bad news for the Peace Corps when Clinton appointed his friend and communications director, Mark Gearan, 41, to head the agency. At the time, it seemed like just another political payoff for a F.O.B.—“Friend of Bill.” The baby-faced Gearan had no... READ MORE
A Guide to Hear God More Clearly
BY Pius Murray css
December 14-20, 1997 Issue
The Collegeville Bible Handbook(Collegeville Liturgical Press, 1997)
IF A HANDBOOK is defined as a type of manual or other reference work offering information about a particular subject, then The Collegeville Bible Handbook fulfills that definition in spades. This handy one-volume edition... READ MORE
Muggeridge’s Quest for a Hope that Lasts
BY Gerry Rauch
December 14-20, 1997 Issue
Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography by Gregory Wolfe (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997, 462 pp., $35)
THE THOROUGHLY fascinating life story of Malcolm Muggeridge has been told several times. In fact, the most interesting biographer of Muggeridge was Muggeridge... READ MORE
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