Talking Back Softly to an Angry World

BY Sherry Antonetti

A Mother of Many’s Response

July 12-25, 2009 Issue

The Octuplet mom has prompted a slew of discussions online, over the airways and in print about the “proper size” of a family. Leaving aside the facts of Nadya Suleman, whom most would argue is a unique case, with multiple moral quandaries involved, the generic commentary about large families... READ MORE

Encounters With Grace

BY Mark Shea

Sacraments, Part 2

July 12-25, 2009 Issue

Previously, we noted that the Incarnation is not simply an isolated anomaly, but the establishment of an eternal principle: God reveals himself to us sacramentally, first in the body of Jesus Christ and, till he comes again, through the sacraments of holy Church that Christ established.

We looked... READ MORE

Bodies, Minds, Protestants and Sacraments

BY Mark Shea

Part I of a Series

June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue

Evangelical Protestants, like all orthodox Christians, vigorously affirm the doctrine of the Incarnation — the faith of all Christians that God the Son, the second person of the blessed Trinity, was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary and became man.

Evangelical... READ MORE

The Fourth of July and the Pursuit of Happiness

BY Donald DeMarco

June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

So reads the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which the... READ MORE

John Adams at Mass

BY Dominick D. Hankle

June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue

If you have not had the opportunity to see the HBO production of John Adams, you missed a very good account of an interesting period in American history.

David McCullough did an excellent job presenting one of America’s founding fathers in his book John Adams, and HBO did an excellent job... READ MORE

Marian Diversity

BY David Mills

June 21-27, 2009 Issue

Spaced evenly in front of the floor-to-ceiling shelves lining three sides of the large room, the four shop clerks were watching . . . three shirts, in one pile on a waist-high shelf on the right-hand wall. This was a store in Moscow, in the then Soviet Union about 30 years ago, and it was a typical... READ MORE

Tiller and the Logic of ‘Choice’

BY Donald DeMarco

June 21-27, 2009 Issue

The recent murder of Wichita, Kan., abortionist George Tiller has sparked responses from pro-lifers and reactions from pro-abortionists. The pro-life responses have been immediate and uniform, condemning a violent action which is contrary to the meaning and purpose of the pro-life movement. The... READ MORE

God Lovers and People Lovers at Mass

BY Father Dwight Longenecker

June 21-27, 2009 Issue

When Jesus was asked which of the commandments was most important, he replied that we should love God and love our neighbor. He added that on these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets. He might have added that on these two things hang everything that matters to everyone... READ MORE

How Sin Takes Over

BY Mark Shea

June 14-20, 2009 Issue

Sin blinds as it kills. The more depraved a culture is, the less it can see its depravity. That is why a culture like ours can reach a state where a professor entrusted with passing on the riches of the Western philosophical tradition can instead be hired by a major university in order to persuade... READ MORE

Sonia Sotomayor, Catholicism and the Court

BY Gerald Russello

June 14-20, 2009 Issue

Talk about a majority. If Sonia Sotomayor, recently nominated by President Obama to succeed departing Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, is confirmed, she will join five other Roman Catholics on the court, a number unprecedented in Su--preme Court history.

Sotomayor, currently a judge on... READ MORE

‘I Am … Therefore I Think’

BY Donald DeMarco

The Universal Nature of the Human Being: A Program for Ending Discrimination

June 14-20, 2009 Issue

John Paul II, in Crossing the Threshold of Hope, refers to “the great anthropocentric shift in philosophy,” in which Descartes redefines the human being in terms of consciousness. Referring to St. Thomas Aquinas, John Paul reiterates that “it is not thought which determines existence, but... READ MORE

Bad Ideas End Badly

BY Mark Shea

June 7-13, 2009 Issue

Last week we looked at how a sane sexual ethic, unhinged from the Catholic tradition, decays. The Christian revelation teaches us that sexual relations between two consenting married heterosexual adult human beings not related already by blood are not just good but, among the baptized,... READ MORE

Where Is the Middle Ground?

BY Donald DeMarco

June 7-13, 2009 Issue

Somewhere between the White House and the jailhouse there is, allegedly, a mythical region called the “middle ground.” Occupants of a jailhouse in South Bend, Ind., had plenty of time to ponder President Obama’s message to Notre Dame graduates on May 17, 2009, concerning this “middle... READ MORE

Nancy Pelosi's New Ideology: Condom-ism

BY Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D.

June 7-13, 2009 Issue

Barack Obama promised us “change we can believe in.” He promised to move beyond all the tired ideologies and culture wars of the past. How strange then, that on his watch, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should propose the implementation of one of the most outdated and laughable ideologies... READ MORE

Right, Wrong and Clueless

BY Mark Shea

May 31-June 6, 2009 Issue

The Catholic faith has always taught that sexual relations between two consenting married heterosexual adult human beings not related already by blood are not just good but, among the baptized, sacramental.

The West got rid of the Catholic faith and assumed that its moral norms would just continue... READ MORE

Facing the New Fascism

BY Jennifer Morse Roback, Ph.D.

May 31-June 6, 2009 Issue

The premise of Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism is that the socialist or liberal left frequently uses the tactics of the fascist right. Some liberals are so convinced of the correctness of their cause that they think themselves entitled to the use of any methods, no matter how illiberal, to... READ MORE

10-10 ... Eternity

BY Father Thomas D. Williams, LC

May 31-June 6, 2009 Issue

Suzy Welch's best-selling new book 10-10-10 carries the provocative and promising subtitle "a life-transforming idea."

Welch is the wife of General Electric magnate Jack Welch, and her celebrated self-help book builds a decision-making method around the simple premise that we make better... READ MORE

How Marriage Lost in Iowa

BY Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.

May 24-30, 2009 Issue

By now, everyone knows that the Supreme Court of Iowa has imposed same-sex "marriage" on the heartland of America, a mere 10 years after the people of that state had expressly voted against it. What very few people know is exactly how unfair this fight really was. Not only was the lineup within the... READ MORE

Georgetown Jesuit on Notre Dame

BY William Blazek, SJ, M.D., FACP

May 24-30, 2009 Issue

Is all this bluster over Notre Dame's commencement ceremony honors for President Obama simply in-house spring cleaning for the American Catholic Church? Not by a long shot.

The deeper question is whether it is ever suitable, in Catholic environments or elsewhere, to acclaim a man as an icon of... READ MORE

Adopting Embryos: Here’s Why Not

BY Monica Migliorino Miller, Ph.D.

May 24-30, 2009 Issue

This article will clarify a certain dimension of the debate over embryo adoption and lead to the conclusion that a woman who chooses to have an orphaned embryo implanted in her womb (heterologous embryo transfer, which we'll call HET), cannot be morally approved.

I have been a leader in the... READ MORE

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