Letter to the Editor: February 2004

Women feeling one another on the way to Holy Communion... Evangelization: Where's the action?... Observation skills -- and other classes for men... Why kneelers when nobody kneels?... In the footsteps of Arius...

New Oxford Notes: February 2004

O.K., SUVs Aren't Rice Rockets, but... The One-World Church... Evangelization as if It Doesn't Matter... Is Same-Sex "Marriage" Inevitable?

A Loose Cannon on the Barque of St. Peter

THREE ADVENTUROUS DAYS IN ROME

Tom Bethell

A loose cannon is not the worst thing that can happen on board the Barque of St. Peter. False pilots are more dangerous.

Previewing Mel Gibson's Passion

CHRIST'S PASSION & GIBSON'S LYNCHING

Michael Morris

In the homogenized world of contemporary political and religious thought, a film like this strikes some as dangerously paleo-Christian.

Wittgenstein Makes a Confession

GENERAL ABSOLUTION VS. PRIVATE CONFESSION

William C. Dowling

Augustine asks, "Was it then said to no purpose, 'What you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed in heaven'? Was it for nothing that the keys were given to the Church?"

Bible-Burners

GUEST COLUMN

Dwight Longenecker

The Protestant Reformers' revolution was extremist, not unlike that of the Taliban, as exemplified by their zeal for destruction.

Down, Down We Go

Patrick Rooney

We have replaced the notion of evil with "sickness." We've medicalized almost every social problem imaginable, thereby providing a ready excuse for the wrongdoer.

The Lure of Beauty

Dale Vree

Catholicism isn’t the only beautiful religion. There is also Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Hinduism, and so forth. Why pick Catholicism over them?

Briefly: February 2004

Reviews of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice by Sol Stern... One Hundred Years of Philosophy edited by Brian Shanley, O.P... Redemptive Change: Atonement and the Christian Cure of the Soul by R.R. Reno... The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur by Elisabeth Leseur