"Why Is a Good Priest So Hard to Find?"

EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: January-February 1996

"Gang of 40" Revisited... Who Is Offending Whom?... Elevator-Music Catholicism... Forget Notre Dame!... If It's Really Murder... The "Deadbeat Dads" Fetish... One Candle Then, Many Now... Not Exactly Bedtime Reading...

Why Was Christ a Male & Why Did He Ordain Only Men?

ON NATURE & THE ECONOMY OF GRACE

Raymond T. Gawronski

It is no surprise to discover that built into the very nature of things, as revealed in Genesis, is a way of salvation for the male and for the female.

Our Children, the Public Schools & Our Toxic Culture

IT'S WORSE THAN YOU IMAGINE!

Clare McGrath Merkle

It will take tremendous willpower and sacrifice to turn things around. It will also take being brutally honest with ourselves about our own choices and how we have failed.

The Catholic Home School

AN IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS

Francis Crotty

The 'paterfamilias' is re-emerging in modern form in the home school. This promises something great for American families.

The First & the Last

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

We must remind ourselves how compatible a high academic record can be with smugness, hypocrisy, even collusion with out-and-out (political, social) evil.

A Humble Proposal

GUEST COLUMN

Sheldon Vanauken

Football & Mass in South Bend

GUEST COLUMN

George S. Mitrovich

Until you've been to a Notre Dame game in South Bend, you don't understand fully what it means to be an American.

Green Politics & Catholic Vision

James G. Hanink

Wendell Berry argues that without a critical mass of people who have a tactile covenant with the land, things fall apart.

Briefly: January-February 1996

Reviews of The Right Way to Live: Plato's Republic for Catholic Students... Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem... Families at the Crossroads... John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration...