Let's Just Get Along?

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Liberal Christianity offers people cheap grace, which, said Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "means the justification of sin," and is merely "the grace we bestow upon ourselves."

That Shot Was Heard in Rome

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Don't think Rome doesn't depend on us orthodox laity. Don't ever say, "I'm just one person, what good can I do?"

Caelum et Terra Readers: Welcome!

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letter to the Editor: April 1997

Mean Haggling... Agony Absolves... Awaiting Self-Destruction... A Bum Rap For Britain... Removing the Claws From the Lion of Judah... A Doctor Wants a Diagnosis...

A Clear-Cut Case for Excommunication

ON TISSA BALASURIYA

Ronald Rychlak and Kevin Slattery

When someone doesn't believe even the most basic of the Church's doctrines, how can it be wrong to excommunicate him?

Can Ireland Be Saved?

EMERALD ISLE, EMBROWNED

Thomas Storck

If the culture is not concerned with God and the things of God, then the voters will not support real Christian political activity.

God Rolls the (Loaded) Dice

EVOLUTION & THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

James F. Tynen

God has created a cosmos in which we may move freely, but He has cleverly rigged the game, at a few key moments, to set up the result He wants.

Problems With Darwinism

CAN EFFECTS EXCEED CAUSES?

Francis Canavan

It is not so much that Darwinism confirms materialism, as that materialism leaves Darwinism as the only, or at least the best, explanation of evolution.

Briefly: April 1997

Reviews of Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom... The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution... "In the Beginning...": A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall... The Pluralist Game... God, Knowledge, and Mystery... Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States... English Prayers and Treatise on the Holy Eucharist... The Chain Gang: One Newspaper vs. The Gannett Empire...