Christian Zionists: False Friends of Israel

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Christian Zionism is not concerned with giving the Jews a homeland. It is concerned with the Rapture.

Letter to the Editor: December 2006

Father Maciel: Scorned By His So-Called 'Leaders'... Once a Legionary... Divorce is Like Murder: The First One is the Hardest... Catholic Evangelization on EWTN... The New Infidels of Europe... A Korean War Veteran Speaks... The 'Faithful Remnant' Is Not a New Idea...

New Oxford Notes: December 2006

Our Churches Will Be Empty -- Part II... The Ridiculous Joan Chittister... An Update on Fr. Timothy Radcliffe... It's Good for Business... Mudslinging... The Theocons...

One Red Rose for Christmas

A CATHOLIC VISION OF LIFE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

God loves and cares for all human beings and manifests the same divine favors to a wayward child that He grants to a devout mother superior.

Restoring the Altar Rail & the Tabernacle

UPHOLDING THE SACRED

Lyn Frances Elledge

How do we renew our beloved Holy Mother Church? We must begin with how we worship -- on our knees, before God, who is really God.

The News You May Have Missed

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Michael S. Rose

A Male-God Causes Wife-Beating... All Good Dogs Go to Heaven... Sleazy-Chic... Five-Minute Converts... Just Another Animal... Suckers for Drunks... Elderly Anarchists... Underpaid CEO... From the Department of Corrections...

Hell and Other Destinations

LAST THINGS

Tom Bethell

The intelligentsia of the Western world has to a very large extent decided that death itself is the final end, and the response of the Church is practically inaudible.

Fr. Hanlon's Strong Hands

GUEST COLUMN

James C. Wiles

Father warned us about the men who hung around the bathrooms at the ballpark. He told us how to get away.

Black Is the Color

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph Klee

A black vestment helps induce a sense of penitential recollection -- remembering that "here we do not have a lasting city" (Heb. 13:14).

From the Grotesque to Love

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Violence and suffering are to be met not with some vague feeling of compassion, but with the "unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith."

Briefly: November 2006

Reviews of Last Things First: A Traditionalist Surveys the Wreckage of Vatican II... Christ, the Life of the Soul... Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society... Aquinas's Summa: Background, Structure & Reception... Beyond Vatican II: The Church at a New Crossroads...