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The Original Mass Medium: The Holy Spirit
BY Jay Dunlap
August 17-23, 2008 Issue
Consider some
astonishing facts leading to two powerful and timely conclusions.
Fact one: When Jesus Christ decided
to spread devotion to his Sacred Heart, he revealed himself from 1673-1675 to
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a holy, sweet, obscure, young nun described by The
Oxford Dictionary of... READ MORE
Anglican Agonies
BY Father Dwight Longenecker What happens when one church is really three?
August 17-23, 2008 Issue
This summer the Anglican church is in meltdown. Two
issues have revealed the deeper fault lines in the foundations of Anglicanism,
and these faults are producing the Anglican Communions most severe earthquake
ever. The two issues are homosexuality and the role of women in the church. The
fault... READ MORE
Remember the Real Enemy
BY Mark Shea
August 17-23, 2008 Issue
Last time, we
began talking about the problem of how a Catholic should respond to deliberate
acts of desecration of the Eucharist. We discovered that Scripture shows a
curiously double-sided response from Christ and his Church, which I sum up as
forgive and fight.
This pattern is laid out for... READ MORE
Teenagerism: The Unnecessary Rebellion
BY Holly Pierlot
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
Is “teenager”
a modern construct? It is a product of our times, according to Michael
Waldstein, father of eight, internationally-known biblical scholar, president
of the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria, and translator
of the recently published Man and Woman He Created... READ MORE
Mercy Meets Sacrilege
BY Mark Shea Connecting the Dots
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
Recently, the
Catholic League complained when a University of Central Florida student walked
out of Mass with the Host and held it hostage for several days.
In response to this, a professor
named P.Z. Myers, who teaches at the University of Minnesota, Morris, wrote a
viciously anti-Catholic post... READ MORE
Contraception: Breaking Silence
BY Father Walter Schu, LC Humanae Vitae at 40
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
Pope Paul
VI’s courageous encyclical Humanae Vitae is the
only papal encyclical to have been received with a firestorm of dissent by
theologians, lay Catholics, and even bishops. To understand the vital
importance of Humanae Vitae’s 40th anniversary, which is
being celebrated this month, it is... READ MORE
‘One Who Has Hope Lives Differently’
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
That quote from Pope Benedict’s encyclical Spe Salvi
(On Christian Hope) ran across the rear of many a Washington, D.C. mass-transit
bus around the time of the papal visit earlier this year.
To
the hardened, often jaded politicos of the nation’s capital, Benedict could
have been just a... READ MORE
Teenagerism Not So Inevitable…
BY Holly Pierlot
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
Teenagers.
Seeing them at World Youth Day inspires hope. Seeing them in their native
element too often doesn’t. The word “teenager” evokes many images: from the
poodle skirts and Brill-creamed hair of the American Graffiti
teen to the mini-skirts, go-go boots and bellbottoms of the ’60s.... READ MORE
Napoleon Of Queen Anne Hill
BY Mark Shea
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
I love local
patriots. I always loved Robert E. Lee because when he said he could not lift
his sword against his country, he meant Virginia, not America.
I
love Willa Cather because in My Antonia she makes it clear that she is trying to do for
Nebraska what Virgil did for Rome: sing the glories of... READ MORE
Time to Preach About Contraception
BY Janet Smith
July 20-26, 2008 Issue
Recently I
heard from someone planning a 40th year conference on Humanae
Vitae that Humanae Vitae is
considered passé — a document of a previous generation; the current generation
is the Theology of the Body Generation.
Count me as a huge fan of the
theology of the body. I certainly marvel at... READ MORE
A Great Battle for Love and the Family
BY Legionary Father Walter Schu Humanae Vitae at 40
July 20-26, 2008 Issue
On July 29,
1968, a crescendo of suspense was broken and Pope Paul VI publicly issued his
long-awaited encyclical Humanae Vitae (The
Regulation of Birth).
In the encyclical, the Holy Father
courageously reaffirmed the Church’s constant teaching that, in the words of
the encyclical, “each and... READ MORE
Paul VI vs. Playboy
July 20-26, 2008 Issue
In 1986, Brother Don Fleischhacker of Notre Dame
University wrote a letter to Playboy protesting that magazine’s fragmented view of
human sexuality.
Citing Humanae Vitae, this intrepid Holy Cross religious reasoned that once “the
contraceptive mentality is accepted, there can be no coherent... READ MORE
Ends and Means
BY Mark Shea
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
It would seem
that James Fagan, a defense attorney and Massachusetts lawmaker, is a monster
embodying all the most horrifying qualities of a legal shark.
A couple of weeks ago, he was being
vilified in the press for what appeared to be utterly evil sentiments spoken on
the floor of the... READ MORE
The New Civil Rights Movement
BY Jennifer Roback Morse
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
I am
participating in a conference sponsored by Southern Carolina Parents Involved
in Education. As I look out over the audience of high school and middle school
abstinence educators, I see what I usually see among pro-family, pro-life
groups: The audience is easily two-thirds women.
Long
ago, I... READ MORE
The Pope of the Young
BY LETICIA VELASQUEZ
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
Members of
the media had somber predictions about the Holy Father’s visit to the United
States, just as they do about his July 15-20 visit to World Youth Day in
Sydney, Australia.
What will the 81-year-old Pope have
to say to a generation of media-savvy youth whose role models are... READ MORE
Praying With Mozart and China
BY Legionary Father Joseph Tham
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
Much of the
world is looking to the Olympics in Beijing next month as the major 2008
landmark in China’s relationship with the West.
But for me, that landmark already
came.
I was able to attend in Pope Paul VI
Hall when the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai Opera House Chorus
played... READ MORE
Down, Not Out
BY LETICIA VELASQUEZ The Legacy of Jerome Lejeune and the Resurgence of Down Syndrome Research
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
There’s a
battle going on over Down syndrome babies. But these special children also have
a patron saint.
Let’s look at the battle first.
As if expectant mothers did not have
enough to worry about, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
recently recommended that all pregnant... READ MORE
SOS! Getting ‘Lost’
BY Mark Shea
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
My son and daughter-in-law have been hooked on Lost for
some time now, whereas Luddite me and the missus, who have no TV connection to
the outside world, have missed it.
However,
now that the first three seasons are out on DVD, the kids decided that they
could not rest until they had introduced us... READ MORE
Myth No. 4: Jesus Didn’t Found the Church
BY FATHER THOMAS WILLIAMS, LC
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
Though the
neo-atheist authors such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins take issue
with God himself and religion in general, they devote dozens of pages to
criticizing Christianity in particular.
They
attack the foundations of Christianity as well as its doctrines, in an attempt
to... READ MORE
Battle Over a Single Word
BY DANIEL KUEBLER
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
In
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet utters the famous line, “What’s in a
name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” As Shakespeare was keenly aware,
changing an object’s name does not change its underlying essence. Things retain
their identity... READ MORE
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