2001 February
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Letter to the Editor: February 2001
Bishop O'Donnell Responds... St. Trash?... A Response From Sacred Heart Seminary... Let's Have a National Debate... The Mission of CUF...
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New Oxford Notes: February 2001
Why No Call for Dialogue With "Homophobes"?... Let's Have More Loneliness!... "Gay" Priests Set the Tone... Bow Down and Worship Me!
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Confessions of a Patchwork Catholic
I'm an Eastern Catholic but I’ve attended the Maronite, Armenian, and even the rare Mozarabic liturgy, and I sometimes attend the “regular,” Roman Catholic Mass.
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A Tale of Two St. Mary's Churches
The Byzantine liturgy elevated my soul to a higher plane of worship. My soul was indeed magnifying the Lord.
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The New New Funeral Rite: Let's Eulogize! Let's Emote!
The modern Catholic funeral liturgy has taken on a life of its own, independent of any of the Church’s stifling rules and traditions.
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Hospitality
The cultivation of leisure, friendship, good cooking, and delightful storytelling are never learned if everyone is too busy or too lazy to be host or guest.
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"Knowing Catholic"
Catholics need to be educated as Catholics, bishops need to be leaders, and priests need to catechize those entrusted to them.
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The Bileworm Memorandum
The devil shares his business plan to destroy "orthodox fools" through schism, revolution, division, and other tactics.
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Remodel the Cathedral: What a Boondoggle!
A problem with today’s Catholic clergy, who squander money on “renovating” churches, is they often seem to spend other people's money with abandon.
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A Baptist Meets a Mutant Mass
The way most Baptists (and evangelicals) normally celebrate Communion -- a practice that Christ commanded us to repeat to evoke His sacrifice -- is a scandal.
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A Great Gift Book — But Give It Anonymously
"Cuss Control" suggests that some people who swear have an underlying problem of excessive anger and a bad disposition.
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Adventure Stories
A history of British “literary converts” is a story of spiritual inspiration over the course of the “age of unbelief” that constitutes the full run of the 20th century.
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Catholic History, Misconstrued
A problem arises when someone unfamiliar with Catholic history composes a study of eminent Catholics who lived under persecution.
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"The Church's Best Kept Secret"
Although the Church’s social doctrine is an integral part of her patrimony, it has elicited little interest, even from Catholics.
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Briefly: February 2001
Reviews of The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism... Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues... In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity... The Silence of St. Thomas
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Bookmark: February 2001
Reviews of A Student's Guide to the Study of History... Alphonsus de Ligouri: Selected Writings... Knowledge and Faith (The Collected Works of Edith Stein: Volume Eight)... Scripture Alone? Twenty-One Reasons to Reject Sola Scriptura... The Conversion of Ratisbonne... A Student's Guide to Literature
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