1998 December
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Letter to the Editor: December 1998
Why Attack Us?... Why Latin Is Hated Today... Brave German Clergy... Automatically Excommunicated?... Strong, But Not Ugly...
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A Season of Grace, a Season of Thieves
No seminars or programs can rival the spiritual potential of the month of December in the life of a family — or that of a pastor.
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Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas Today
Scrooge stated, “Let those poor go to the prisons and the Union workhouses. And if they’d rather die, they had better do it."
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The United Religions Initiative, A Bridge Back to Gnosticism
Episcopal Bishop Swing said the world needs “a global soul,” to be created by conferences, fundraising, and declarations.
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"Catholic Studies": The New Catholic Ghetto
A single program relieves the institution of the responsibility to give the entire curriculum a Catholic character.
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"Ed Speak" Invades Catholic Schools
State licensing and certification lend legitimacy to “experts” but, as the Teacher from Nazareth remarked, by their fruits ye shall know them.
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What Government Can Do for the Family: Just Leave It Alone!
The home “is older than the law and stands outside the state,” says Chesterton. This view is the common sense of Christendom.
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Why Keeping the Welsh Language Alive Is a Christian Concern
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The Common Cup & the Common Bug
By the seventh communicant, the chalice is circumplastered with lip prints and dotted with crumblets and sundry foreign minutiae.
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Chess Players Beware: Big Sister May Be Watching
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A Lump in the Throat
Review of Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry
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God’s Good Servant, but the King’s First?
Thomas Cranmer was one of the overseers of what Diarmaid MacCulloch calls “a religious revolution of ruthless thoroughness.”
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Briefly: December 1998
Reviews of Theological Lexicon of the New Testament... The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy... Mass Confusion: The Do's and Don'ts of Catholic Worship
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