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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
In Tearing Down Pius XII, Revisionist Historians Forget the Facts
BY George Sim Johnston
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Here they go again.
Ever since Rolf Hochhuth's 1962 propaganda play The Deputy indicted Pius XII for complicity in the Nazi genocide, it has been a commonplace of editorial writers that the Vatican was a silent, and therefore guilty, bystander to the murder of 6 million Jews.
The recent Declaration... READ MORE
Shall We Abandon the United Nations?
BY Maryann Glendon
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Many Catholics of good will believe the .N. has lost its way and that pro-family groups should have nothing more to do with it. Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon—and Pope John Paul II—think there's a better solution.
The more one reflects on the topic “international organizations and the... READ MORE
It Takes An Extended Family: Reflections of a Favorite Aunt
BY Kathleen Howley
November 23-29,1997 Issue
When my niece, Michaela, was three-years-old and still learning her place in the world, on occasion she would inform me, solemnly, that I was her aunt.
This I already knew. Although, she was just emerging from her baby-talk stage and had a tendency to pronounce “aunt” as if she were saying... READ MORE
Women’s Rights in a Traditional Church
BY Brian Mullady
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Justice in the Church: Gender and Participation by Benedict M. Ashley OP
(Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996, 234 pp.)
This book comprises the 1992 Michael J. McGivney Lectures given by Father Benedict Ashley at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and... READ MORE
Elusive ‘Authority’ Gives Authors the Slip
BY Robert Kennedy
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America
by Eugene Kennedy and Sara Charles
(The Free Press, 1997, 244 pp., $24.50)
ISSUES SURROUNDING authority are not new—either to the governance of nations or to the management of households and the rearing of children. The classical questions, however,... READ MORE
The Enlightenment’s Cultural Revolution Comes Home to Roost
BY John Prizer
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities
by John Ellis
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997, 262 pp., $25)
THE TEACHING of literature at the university level has taken a turn for the worse during the past 15 years. Studying language and writing for beauty and... READ MORE
Kennedy’s Annulment Under the Microscope
BY Edward Peters
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
Shattered Faith
by Sheila Rauch Kennedy
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1997, 238 pp. $23)
I WANTED TO like this book. I had seen Sheila Rauch Kennedy on numerous TV talk shows and, while prepared to disagree with her on certain points, I was favorably impressed with her as a person.
I was ready to... READ MORE
Has Hollywood Gone Soft on Angels?
BY John Prizer
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
ENCOUNTERS WITH angels are back in fashion. Television's highest rated special this Christmas season was Unlikely Angels, starring Dolly Parton, and People magazine featured the heavenly creatures in its holiday cover story.
Recent motion picture box-office hits also include two comedies about... READ MORE
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