1999 April
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Letter to the Editor: April 1999
Why Bother to Convert?... A Prisoner Calls for Real Discipline in the Church... Common Ground, Episcopalian-Style... In the Silk (for Now)... Silly Ads, Senile Cause... Many Sacrifices... Gentle Rebukes Don't Cut It...
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"Tolerating" Christianity Into Irrelevance
The choice between liberalism and religious orthodoxy is not a choice between reason and dogma; it is a choice between competing dogmas.
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Sweet Land of Liberty (Or of 'Intimate Relationships'?)
Federal and state courts are asked to spin rights from apparently endless spools of jurisprudential thread labeled “liberty” and “equality.”
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"Grandpa! Grandpa!"
Harold Cybulski was to be taken off life support. When his two-year-old grandson ran in, Cybulski opened his eyes, sat up, and reached for the boy.
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Why Is It O.K. to Insult a Pregnant Lady?
Unsolicited conversations often turn into sermonettes, confrontations, or inquisitions if this is not the “blessed” first child.
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Was Our Lord a Fundamentalist?
Jesus confidently cites the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and refers to Jonah’s three days and nights in the belly of the whale.
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What's Your Score on the S.A.T. (Salvation Aptitude Test)?
If this exam seems easy, you might want to try it out on your local Catholic-school eighth-grader or high-schooler.
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A Glimpse of Catholic Culture
An attraction of the Catholic Church is her frankly populist atmosphere, her maternal ingathering of diverse nationalities, colors, and tongues.
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Can Catholic Orthodoxy Transcend Political Ideology?
Rather than mustering the courage to stand alone, Catholics find it easier to follow popular American political opinion.
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Capitalism Is Squandering Its Inheritance
Free enterprise in its earlier stage was the unwitting and ungrateful beneficiary of generations of hardworking, God-fearing people.
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Briefly: April 1999
Reviews of Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947... What Went Wrong With Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis Explained... How Far to Follow?: The Martyrs of Atlas... A Thread of History... Parochial and Plain Sermons...
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