Letters to the Editor: June 2023

The Empty Vanity of Science... Chrism Correction... The Pursuit of Raw Power... Where Is Heaven? Why Would I Want to Go There?... An Investment in the Betterment of Souls

The News You May Have Missed: June 2023

Perceiving the Ptolemaic Past... Wed by a Weiner... Counterfeit Champagne?... Getting Ramen Right... Adding a Cubit to One’s Stature... and more

The Native American Martyrs of Syracuse

A WITNESS THAT SHOULD NOT BE LOST

Ann O’Connor† & Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

Jesuit missionaries left reports on the martyrdoms of many Native American converts to Catholicism. Not one has been canonized.

Will There Be Sex in Heaven?

THE SEVEN-HUSBANDS QUESTION REVISITED

Randall B. Smith

Christ’s answer to the Sadducees does not indulge the misunderstandings that underlie their question but points us back to what is fundamental.

Liturgical Unity & the Crisis of Incongruity

OUT WITH THE OLD?

Paul Malocha

Contrary to Francis’s vision, cutting off the old liturgy does not promote unity in the Church. Vatican II did not envision excising the old branch from the tree.

Does Good Liturgy Beget Moral Virtue?

A BOOK CRITIC’S IMPRESSIONS OF A LIVING CLASSIC

Kenneth Colston

Good liturgy involves good taste, and, as Burke said, taste depends on rational judgment, emotional maturity, and education — that is to say, the virtues.

A Terrible Forgetting

ECONOMIC STRIVING CARRIES A GRAVE RISK

Pieter Vree

The greatest factors for maximizing religious commitment seem to be poverty and persecution, and for minimizing religious commitment: wealth and security.

Perspicuity: Protestantism’s Achilles’ Heel

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

Within the Reformed tradition, the most famous articulation of perspicuity, or clarity, is found in the 17th-century Westminster Confession of Faith.

A Systematic Framework for Understanding the Human Person

Deborah Savage

'A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person' resituates the person in his proper context as a composite creature who is a profound union of body and soul.

Briefly Reviewed: June 2023

Forbidden by his superiors from publishing under his own name, Fr. Paul Mankowski wrote pseudonymously as “Diogenes.”