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Did the Tide Turn on April 20?
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
August 1-7, 1999 Issue 
“Awakening at Littleton”
by Jody Bottum (First Things, August/September)
Jody Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard and poetry editor of First Things, writes on the religious fallout from the Columbine High School murders: “And then at last they reached a bright-eyed... READ MORE
For the Business of Everyman
BY Father Christopher Meade
August 1-7, 1999 Issue
Journal of Markets & Morality: Scholarship for a Humane Economy (Published by the Center for Economic Personalism)
Certain events and persistent trends in our culture tend to leave people perplexed. From whence come these periodic bloody rampages in our public schools? What inspires the... READ MORE
Is the Public School Still Possible?
Lawsuit in Bedford, N.Y., by Catholic parents reveals a deep divide in public education
July 25-31, 1999 Issue
Brian Caulfield
Charles Colson Back in Prison
Article Digest
July 25-31, 1999 Issue
Ellen Wilson Fielding
Education Notebook
July 11-17,1999 Issue
The Emptiness of High School ‘Volunteerism’
USA TODAY, June 23—While free-lance writer Robin Henig is willing to admit that “compulsory volunteerism is a ‘startling oxymoron,’” she favors the now-popular high school requirement — when properly done.
But “credit for compulsory volunteering can now... READ MORE
Salvo at SATs Triggers Fears in Academia
BY Martha Lepore
July 11-17,1999 Issue
A proposal that may stifle use of the Scholastic Aptitude Test as a tool in college admissions has ignited a furor in academia.
In May a copy of draft guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education document was leaked and published by the Chronicle of Higher Education. According to the... READ MORE
The Papacy, Defender of Christian Spirituality
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
July 11-17,1999 Issue
“The Roman Primacy and the Spiritual Life” by John A. Hardon, SJ (The Catholic Faith, May/June 1999)
Jesuit Father John Hardon writes: “We now know, more clearly than before, that not only progress in the spiritual life depends on people's faith in the supreme authority of the Bishop of Rome. The... READ MORE
How ‘Failure’ Transformed the World
BY Gerry Rauch
July 11-17,1999 Issue
The Inner Life of Jesus: Pattern of All Holiness by Romano Guardini (Sophia Institute Press, 1998 134 pages, $12.95)
Blessed Are You: Mother Teresa and the Beatitudes edited by Eileen and Kathleen Eagan, OSB (Ignatius Press 1999 152 pages, $9.95)
Since the first day of his papacy, John Paul II has... READ MORE
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
July 4-10, 1999 Issue
THE WASHINGTON POST, June 22— “Twenty-five years after court-ordered busing tore this city apart, the parents of four white children and a local advocacy group have filed a lawsuit against Boston public schools alleging reverse discrimination and calling for an immediate end to race-based student... READ MORE
Break Down Unseen Wall Between Americas, Cardinal Urges
BY Clifford Anthony
July 4-10, 1999 Issue
CLEVELAND—Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago urged educators, students in Catholic universities and the clergy June 24 to remove the unseen wall separating North America from South America and to work toward creating a unified continent.
Cardinal George, in his keynote address at the opening of... READ MORE
When God Pushes Us Further
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
July 4-10, 1999 Issue
“The Second Calling” by Father Ronald Lawler, OFM Cap (New Covenant, June 1999)
Father Lawler writes: “When we are young and inexperienced in the ways of grace, God gives us easier tasks. Then, as we begin to grow up in faith, He gives us more difficult tasks, even trials. … When we first encounter... READ MORE
A Novel Look at Noble Sparta
BY Robert Royal
July 4-10, 1999 Issue
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield(Doubleday, 1998 352 pages, $23.95)
Portraying the good human life is always hard, especially so in the modern world. We are not well situated to see the essential things, the virtues that make existence something more... READ MORE
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
June 27 - July 03, 1999 Issue
College Students Hooked on Credit
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 13—University of Central Oklahoma freshman Mitzi Pool — $2,500 in debt — hanged herself in 1997 in her dormitory room, her checkbook and credit-card bills spread out on her bed.
The AP's Marcy Gordon reported that consumer groups are... READ MORE
The Churchís Source and Summit
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding Article Digest
June 27 - July 03, 1999 Issue
“A Eucharistic Prayer”
by Bishop Eugene J. Gerber (Crisis, June 1999)
Bishop Eugene J. Gerber of Wichita, Kan., writes: “Of all the sacraments, only the Eucharist is described by the phrase ‘Real Presence.’ It is not that the other experiences are not real presences of God, but only in the... READ MORE
Mindlessness Meets the Millennium
BY Mary Thomas Noble, Op
June 27 - July 03, 1999 Issue
The Post-Christian Mind: Exposing its Destructive Agenda by Harry Blamires (Servant Publications, 1999 209 pages, $10.99)
“The emperor has no clothes on.” The high, child-voice of truth rings out in this book. There is angst — anguish — in the author's confrontation with the post-Christian mind,... READ MORE
The Lesson of Brown Universityí
June 27 - July 03, 1999 Issue
The following is an editorial from the June 3 issue of The Providence Visitor, newspaper of the Diocese of Providence, R.I.
Recently, Brown University President E. Gordon Gee announced a three-year initiative to combine the study of values into the university's curriculum. It marks the first step... READ MORE
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
June 20-26, 1999 Issue
How Virtues Became ‘Interactive Skills’
THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 1—“The nation's public schools, which taught the Bible routinely for generations but retreated from explicitly moral education in the individual-rights boom of the 1960s, are under growing pressure to offer ethics instruction as a way... READ MORE
Could There Be Life on Other Planets?
BY Rich Rinaldi
June 20-26, 1999 Issue
During his recent trip to Poland, Pope John Paul II spoke at the University of Torun of the tension between faith and reason. Torun is the cradle of Nicholas Copernicus, one of the most important astronomers in history. What questions would Copernicus be asking today, and how would Christians... READ MORE
Man and Woman: Created for Love
BY Ellen Wilson Fielding
June 20-26, 1999 Issue
“Marriage in God's Plan”
by David Utsler
(Lay Witness, June 1999)
David Utsler writes: “In order to grasp the full meaning and power of marriage, it is necessary to understand why man was created. ... Man's deepest vocation as a person is to love God. This also entails loving one's neighbor, who is... READ MORE
The Pope’s Multitude of Saints
BY Gerry Rauch
June 20-26, 1999 Issue
John Paul II's Book of Saints
by Matthew Bunson, Margaret
Bunson and Stephen Bunson
(Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 1999, 368 pages, $19.95)
So many new saints! It seems like almost every month Pope John Paul is canonizing or beatifying someone whose name most of us have never heard before. During... READ MORE
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