Letter to the Editor: September 1997

That Pebble in Your Shoe... Coming to Terms with Poland... Desecration on Campus... The Idle Rich in the Vatican... Dominicans & The Reserved Sacrament

Hallowed or Hollow Marriage?

FRUITFUL OR DESERTED GARDEN?

Annie Moritz

A couple I know chose not to have children — more her active choice and his acquiescence. As mid-life approached they realized their marriage was dry, sterile.

Separating the Sin From the Sinner

A PLEA FROM THE PEW

Robert M. Byrn

In the ultimate act of compassion, charity, and inclusiveness, Christ died for us sinners, but sin is still sin, very ungodly, and much to be avoided.

Homosexuality & the Maccabean Revolt

SEXUAL POLITICS & THE BIRTH OF THE WEST

Patrick G.D. Riley

The Greek polytheists and their Hellenizing allies in Jerusalem tried to woo the Jewish upper classes away from Yahwism with homosexuality.

A Sister Puts on the Veil Again

A PUBLIC WITNESS, A PRIVATE TRANSFORMATION

Winifred Mary Lyons

Permit me to share a very special outpouring of grace that recently occurred in my life: my reacquaintance with the long-abandoned habit.

The Shaky Foundations of the Jesus Seminar

ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF ST. MATTHEW'S GOSPEL

William T. Galey

One of the key promoters of skepticism about the Bible was Rudolf Bultmann, who threw out of the New Testament all of what he called the "miracle tales."

In the Country

A PLACE FULL OF GRACE

James Schmitmeyer

At St. Maria's Farm my parishioners (as opposed to consumers) often stop by to chat, a rather inefficient activity from an economic point of view.

Common Ground? No, Swamp Water

Laura Garcia

In a typical instance of what Naomi Wolf has called feminist self-deception, Rudy affirms and denies the personhood of the unborn child in the same sentence.

Briefly: September 1997

Review of Therese and Lisieux... A Plea For Purity: Sex, Marriage and God... Founder of Hasidism: Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov... Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac: Rules, Conferences, and Writings... Revolution of the Heart... Those Misunderstood Puritans... Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle