Letter to the Editor: November 2001

Merely C.S. Lewis?... Those Crybaby Letters... A False God... The Price of Taking a Stand... Deep-Cover Seminarian...

New Oxford Notes: November 2001

The Chittister Creed... Immigrants: America's Hope?... "The New Evangelization"... No-Man's Land... Jesus Found Guilty of Hate Speech

Newman: Myths & Facts

WAS HE 'ECUMENICAL' OR NOT ?

Stanley L. Jaki

The view that one can find encouragement in the writings of the Catholic Newman for the reunion of Churches is a mighty myth.

The Christian Gifts of J.R.R. Tolkien

NOT A HIPPIE CULT FIGURE

Bradley J. Birzer

Tolkien knew very well that God allowed him to understand the reason for the bloodletting of modernity: Man had fallen away from the Creator.

'Anglican Use' Catholic Parishes

A PLACE HAS BEEN PREPARED

Charles M. Wilson

We may see increasing numbers of Anglicans coming to recognize that what they are seeking can be found only in full communion with the Successor of Peter.

How Scientific Pride & Idolatry Blot Out the Perception of God

SCIENCE'S SIN OF THE EYES

Jonathan David Carson

Scientists dazzle with technological marvels: they ease your pain, replace your parts, unlock the secrets of the universe, and fly you to the moon.

Bring Back the Pictures

GUEST COLUMN

Barbara Kralis

Pictures of aborted babies depict a gruesome reality, and that's precisely why Americans need to see them — see them often.

Is the "Catholic Issue" Really Behind Us?

John C. Chalberg

If only a Catholic could run as a Catholic and be elected as a Catholic (and not deny his Catholicism as John Kennedy did in 1960), then Al Smith might stand redeemed.

Briefly: November 2001

Reviews of Characters in Search of Their Author (The Gifford Lectures, 1999-2000... Custody of the Heart: Selected Spiritual Writings of Abbot Martin Veth, O.S.B...