Down the Old Schism Trail

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

While talk of divisions in the U.S. Church has often been sketchy or anecdotal, here we have 40-plus bishops who have joined together and put their views in writing.

Letter to the Editor: September 1995

Newman Celebration... Lighten Up!... As the World Turns... Cheap Laughs... Cream-Puff Religiosity?... You Catholics Have the Best Writers... Reformation or Deformation?... Reactionary... Not Error, but Sin... Fewer Rules, Fewer Priests... Intellectual Homework Must Be Done First...

Karl Rahner's Baneful Impact on Theology

FROM MYSTERY TO OBSCURITY

Charles W. James

For Rahner, mystery serves as a criterion of truth, a backdrop to all our finite thought. In short, he replaces the Thomistic analogy of being with an analogy of mystery.

Why the Physical Resurrection of Christ Is So Believable

HISTORY, LITERATURE & LOGIC

Lauren A. King

Jesus' empty tomb and repeated appearances eventually convinced the at first incredulous disciples and sent them forth to boldly proclaim the Gospel.

The Priesthood Is Not Just a Job

THE CHURCH IS NOT JUST AN ORGANIZATION

Larry Silva

The priest is a living reminder that it is Christ, made visible sacramentally in the "icon" of the priest, who calls the Church into being in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Anger

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Anger isn't necessarily a sin; think of Jeremiah's anger, Isaiah's, and of course, that of Jesus in the temple and elsewhere in the course of His brief, dangerous, demanding ministry.

Building a Fine Fire in the Fireplace

Dale Vree

The fireplace without the fire is empty ritual and mere churchianity. The fire without the fireplace is chaos and hairsplitting and division.

Briefly: September 1995

Reviews of Essentials of the Faith: A Guide to the Catechism of the Catholic Church... A History of Christianity in Asia... Heidegger and Christianity... Jonah... What's Wrong With the World... Letters to Love By... C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium...