Letter to the Editor: October 1997

Good for Laughs... David Slays Goliath, Again... Meeting L. Brent Bozell...

There's No Priest Shortage

AN EXCESS OF DISGRUNTLED LAITY

James E. Tynen

Almost every institution in the world is suffocating under its bureaucracy. Surely, anything that keeps down the number of bureaucrats should be applauded, not rued.

You're an "Unborn Baby" if She Wants You, a "Terminated Fetus" if She Doesn't

DOUBLE TALK & DOUBLE STANDARDS

Brian Kurzhal

A semantic waltz beguiles society into countenancing the ultimate child abuse.

Is Economic Justice Possible in This World? (Is Chastity?)

ON THE PERSEVERANCE OF AUTHENTIC CATHOLICS

Thomas Storck

Whatever obstacles there are to achieving worldwide economic justice, the obstacles to achieving worldwide chastity are just as great.

Our Opponents in the Culture of Death

TO DEMONIZE OR NOT TO DEMONIZE?

David R. Carlin

The ideology of the "culture of death" is promoted by a virtually atheistic sector of American society, a sector that has little use for the Stoic-biblical image of humanity.

Hitler: A Pioneer for the "Politically Correct"

A CHAT WITH ADOLF

Jude McCabeus

For more than half a century, Adolph Hitler has provided many people with a kind of universal standard of evil -- invoked by both Right and Left.

Discovering the Catholic Church's Eastern Rite

A BIG BLAST OF 'SMELLS & BELLS'

Patrick Madrid

An increasing number of Catholics are discovering the riches of the East not by leaving the Church for Orthodoxy but by experiencing an Eastern Rite of the Church.

Is the Washington Cathedral Really "Our Nation's Cathedral"?

GUEST COLUMN

Lawrence Petrus

Many Episcopalians still feel that theirs is a genuinely American church with some sort of preferential status conferred on it by history.

Remembering Van

David Hartman

Thousands were moved by the story of love, grief, and God's abiding grace in his memoir A Severe Mercy, and many were tugged to Rome by its sequel.

Briefly: October 1997

Review of Arianism and Other Heresies