Letter to the Editor: July-August 2004

God Bless Sean Salai... You Smart Alecks... "They Will Expel You from Their Synagogues"... The Principal of Central Catholic Replies... A Fundamental Lack of Integrity...

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2004

The Ax Falls... A Dirty Little Secret... Glass Houses... So Transparent... Charity Case... and more

The Broad & Comfortable Road to Lukewarm Christianity & Destruction

THE DEADLY PERIL OF IGNORING "THE NARROW GATE"

Frederick W. Marks

If our Lord could use "narrow gate" imagery to spur His listeners to repentance, then so can we.

The Disappearing Sanctus Bells

LAME EXCUSES

Donald D. Hook

Bells are used to warn or to summon. Bells express just about every mood and exigency; they are joyful, somber, pragmatic, ceremonial.

The Second Vatican Council: Why Pope John XXIII Would Weep

HOW DID WE GET OFF COURSE?

Alice von Hildebrand

Innumerable Catholics have lost sight of the privilege they have received and shy away from proclaiming the glory of the one true Church.

Effeminacy in the Service Of Capitalism

METROSEXUAL GOES AMERICA

Michael S. Rose

The intentionally effeminate metrosexual is another fruit of the postmodern sexual assault, specifically the assault on masculine integrity.

The Siege of Western Civilization

GUEST COLUMN

Charles A. Coulombe

Herb Meyer argues that Western Civilization is the best (earthly) thing to have happened to humanity, and is well worth defending.

Debate, Not Dialogue

Thomas Storck

Even such founders of Protestantism as Martin Luther practiced veneration of our Lady and called her Immaculate Conception a "sweet and pious belief."

Briefly: July-August 2004

Reviews of Earthen Vessels: The Practice of Personal Prayer According to the Patristic Tradition... The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America by David Carlin... 'Cha' by Raymond A. Devlin, S.J.