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Conveying the Message of Humanae Vitae to the People of Today

IN AN ABSENCE OF UNIVERSAL MORAL STANDARDS

Willem Jacobus Eijk

Church doctrine regarding contraception is one of the least understood and accepted parts of her conjugal and sexual ethics.

The Communist Era: Golden Age of Catholicism in Poland?

ISOLATION HELPED TO PRESERVE IDENTITY & FIDELITY

Michael Wisniewski

While the Church across Western Europe suffered reform gone wild, Poland was isolated enough to preserve her identity and fidelity.

Kindred Spirits, Fellow Victors

Christopher Beiting

A review of A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century

Is the Pope Looking to Lambeth?

Why would Pope Francis form a group to study the composition of the 1968 encyclical if the intent is not to fundamentally change its message?

The Last Secret of Fatima

Arthur C. Sippo

For anyone who still harbors doubts about the authenticity of the third Fatima secret as revealed by the Vatican, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone's book is a must read.

The Pope as Playwright

Lucy Mazareski

Karol Wojtyla cofounded a theater in which scenery, costumes, technical and visual effects, even acting, were kept to a minimum: a “theater of the word.”

Cafeteria Catholicism & the Pope's Encyclical

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

John Paul II's encyclical repeatedly stresses the fact that "the Church's social doctrine adopts a critical attitude towards both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism."

Neither East nor West: On the Pope's Radical New Encyclical

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Reflections on Marriage After Vatican II

Marshall Fightlin

It is because of this intimate connection between the Eucharist and the remarried person’s prior marriage, that reception of the Eucharist must be refused.

God Is Mercy

DEEPER INTO THE HEART OF DOGMA

L. Brent Bozell

In February 1931, Jesus appeared to Faustina with a message that launched the mission for which he had been preparing her from the beginning.

The Pope’s Troubles with America

Robert Coles

Are we only drive-bound or are we at the constant call of drives yet able to be their sovereign: moral and spiritual masters of our particular lives?

Journalism, Theology, & History

EDITORIAL

George William Rutler

Newspapers, confined to messages in black and white, often think in black and white and do not perceive true, profound traditionalism.

Impressions of Nicaragua — Part II

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In the well-to-do sections of Managua, the Pope’s picture may be seen displayed proudly on the doors of houses, in any number of windows.

A Christian View of Economic Virtue

PRIVATE PROPERTY, SÍ; THE FREE MARKET, NO

Stuart Gudowitz

Let us consider the free-market principle that competition should be the governing factor of the economic or­der.

A Coming “Crackdown” in the U.S.?

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

Any serious effort to free American Roman Catholicism from the influence of neo-modernism will involve a confrontation with some of the bishops.

Bishops as Signs of Compassion, Fidelity & Contradiction

THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN & OTHER MATTERS

Pope John Paul II

The bishop must announce to the rich and poor, to the powerful and weak the fullness of truth, which sometimes irritates and of­fends, even if it always liberates.

A Clear Line

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

And Such a Pope!

Stuart Gudowitz

The papacy brought John Paul II to worldwide attention, but the qualities of the man and his thought have impressed many even outside the faith.