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The Right Ordering of Love in the Political Sphere

JOHN GRONDELSKI REPLIES

John M. Grondelski

When we move from the spiritual good of love to its material, concrete incarnation, we move into the realm of material goods that diminish by division.

Revisiting & Redefining Universal Salvation

PERFECT JUSTICE COUPLED WITH PERFECT MERCY

Hurd Baruch

Let us acknowledge that there is a Hell, and that there are souls in it. Is there a way to reconcile that reality with the concept of universal salvation?

It’s Time the Church Declared the Personhood of the Unborn

A DOCTRINE BEGGING TO BE DEVELOPED

Monica Migliorino Miller

With our advanced scientific knowledge of fertilization and fetal development, there is really nothing standing in the way of a definitive doctrinal affirmation.

Subsidiarity of the Body

PERCEIVING THE FACE OF THE OTHER

Jason M. Morgan

The subsidiarity of the body is a testament to the theology of the body; it says that the human body is a marvel fit to host the human soul.

The Pontifical Academy for What?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The Academy for Life’s horizons are so broad that it seems to have lost sight of its mission to promote and defend the Church’s pro-life teachings.

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

Paul Kengor is an accurate historian who recognizes all the atrocities the USSR committed and the blight it cast across 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?

Return to the Message of Fatima

All nine popes who have guided the Church since 1917 have had a personal devotion to Our Lady of Fatima.

Making Sense of Papal Economics

Christopher Beiting

Communism was founded on false anthropology, reminds John Paul, and that was its undoing. Consumerism can be undone the same way.

Why the Popes Failed to Act

THE NEW SAINTS & THE LEGION OF CHRIST

Jay Dunlap

A central part of the Legion's response-- that "charges had already been thoroughly examined and found baseless"-- explains why three popes ignored the allegations.

An Epilogue for the Disappointed

HOWARD P. KAINZ REPLIES

Howard P. Kainz

We can't wait on the conversion of Russia; we have to attend to our own personal conversion and work for the conversion of the Church and our own nation.

The Culture War & the Catholic Church

THE CONTRACEPTION MANDATE IN CONTEXT

Tom Bethell

In the face of rising opposition, will the Church blossom, as John Paul predicted, or will she contract, as Benedict expects?

On Fatima & the Private Interpretation of Private Revelations

ARE THE LAST FOUR POPES A BUNCH OF LIARS ?

Howard P. Kainz

Interpretation of the three ‘secrets’ entrusted to the children at Fatima has been subjected to the vagaries of private interpretation by otherwise faithful Catholics.

A Hero of History Is Beatified

In the final analysis, can any of the objections voiced against his beatification stand up to the proof that God Himself intervened in the temporal world in response to the heavenly intercession of Pope John Paul II?

From Guiding Lines to Institutional Reality

In the case of both the Latin Mass and the ordi­nariates, Pope Benedict's response was to revolutionize a policy put in place by his predecessor.

The Pope & the Laborer

GUEST COLUMN

Kevin Bezner

I saw John Paul II in prayer on television, then I saw a common laborer in prayer in a church. I knew that each was far richer than I could imagine.

John Paul II: A Character Study

OUT OF POLAND HE WAS CALLED

Raymond T. Gawronski

The heart of his greatness was beyond any culture, because it came from his union, in prayer, with his Lord and the Lord's Blessed Mother.

Is Divine Mercy Sunday Liturgically Correct?

GUEST COLUMN

Robert R. Allard

Not celebrating this feast has the effect of diminishing Easter by restricting the reception of the very gifts Christ offers us.

Business Ethics According to Pope John Paul II

ENTERPRISE AS AN ACT OF LOVE

Jim Wishloff

All our actions in enterprise must be, according to John Paul II, "in conformity with the dignity and integral vocation of the human person."

Intimate Memories of the Late Pope

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The Pope went boldly into the public square because he couldn't see the Church confined to the sacristy. He thought the Church should be wherever "man is."

Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body

A PRIMER

Brian Thomas Becket Mullady

The grace of marriage allows the parties to become one flesh and calls forth from them the same love Christ has for His Church.

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.

St. Faustina as a Doctor of the Church

GUEST COLUMN

Michael P. Riccards

Her huge diary is more than a memoir; it is a major corpus on one of the fundamental doctrines of Catholicism -- redemption.

Truth In Crisis?

GUEST COLUMN

Daniel J. Heisey

Arguments used to dissent from the Church's teaching on contraception could easily apply to other areas, such as her teaching on charity.

Understanding Divine Mercy Sunday

GUEST COLUMN

Robert R. Allard

Don't let any pastor say no to celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday at every Mass that day, just like any other feast day.

Another Outbreak of Mater, Si; Magistra, No

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

It's Time to Wake Up

GUEST COLUMN

Robert R. Allard

When people hear the priests talking about a Feast of Mercy that can give them total forgiveness of sins and punishment, they will perk up and respond.

A Case Study in the Theology of Apology

As for apologies to homosexuals, the saga of San Diego Bishop Robert Brom could be instructive.

The Man Who Was Ratzinger (Part II)

AD INTRA -- POPE BENEDICT XVI & THE CHURCH

Michael S. Rose

In answer to objections that two Roman rites are confusing and "disunifying," he explained that various Roman rites have always existed side-by-side.

The Man Who Was Ratzinger

AD EXTRA -- POPE BENEDICT XVI & THE WORLD

Michael S. Rose

It was not surprising that the election of Pope Benedict XVI met with much gnashing of teeth among liberal pundits (and much cheering elsewhere).

Reflections on Pope John Paul II's Legacy

THE INTERREGNUM

Tom Bethell

There is now a general assumption that because the pope gets so much attention, he must have global tasks commensurate with worldly publicity.

The Spiritual Hazards of Wealth

REFLECTIONS ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

Tom Bethell

Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, promulgated in 1891, remains closely in touch with the true mission of the Catholic Church: the salvation of souls.

Reflections on the Church Hierarchy

A LOOSE CANNON, ETC.

Tom Bethell

Has there ever before been a time in Church history when moral and disciplinary laxity in the hierarchy has had to contend with a free and active press?

Graffiti in Warsaw, Mormons in Krakow, & Basements in Auschwitz

TRAVELS IN POLAND

Thomas Basil

In Poland the presumption is that truth is one, and there is only the true Church. If it's not Catholic, it's not true. The spiritual maze is simple to navigate.

Catholic Confusion at the Very Top

OVERCOMING MY RESISTANCE TO FACE THE FACTS

David Palm

We do not trust in princes -- even sometimes the princes of the Church -- but in the solemn promises of Jesus Christ.

The "New Springtime" for the Church Is a Long Ways Off

A new book tells the story of the calamitous decline of the Catholic Church in America since 1965.

Is Vatican II Ancient History?

"What might have happened if, instead of Karol Wojtyla, the conclave had chosen a different man, someone who took the name Pius XIII?

The Meaning of Marital Love

Monica Migliorino Miller

Review of Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II's Anthropology

Would Wojtyla & Ratzinger Have Been "Weeded Out" of Sacred Heart Seminary?

The Archbishop of Detroit will ordain only two men next year. Quelle surprise!

Do the Pope & Cardinal Ratzinger "Have Their Backs to the Wall"?

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

'Power to the People' Can Only Mean Property to the People

A PRACTICAL RESPONSE TO CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

John C. Medaille

Capitalism and socialism begin with a practical materialism that elevates things over man or, worse, reduces man to a thing.

The Bark of Peter & The Barking of Dr. Laura

"My show has brought more people back to the Catholic Church than anything the Pope has ever said."

Surprise!

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Episcopal Authority: Use It or Lose It

AMBIGUITY IS NO SERVICE TO GOD'S PEOPLE

Fabian Bruskewitz

A certain sense of episcopal consensus means not only those who are here now but also those who have gone before us.

Why They Hate John Paul II

AN HONEST-TO-GOODNESS PATRIARCH

Raymond T. Gawronski

Rome Under Siege

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

The Shot Heard 'Round the World

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Who Is "Ideologically Schizophrenic," The Pope or Today's Liberals?

AN F.D.R.-STYLE LIBERAL LOOKS AT THE POPE

Wilton Wynn

Why the Frathouse Boy With the Adam Smith Tie Doesn't Look So Smart These Days

HEY, THE GO-GO 80S ARE REALLY OVER!

James K. Fitzpatrick

Champions of the global economy accepted a trade-off: a richer world but with a good many poorer Americans.

A Gathering Force

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

The Ministry of the Laity

WHAT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT

Mary F. Rousseau

Our baptismal grace calls us to evangelize, and our distinctively lay task is to restore to people their lost human dignity and hope by bringing Christ to them.

The Urgency of Timeless Questions

James G. Hanink

Review of At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla

Nero Fiddled & We Watch Television

James G. Hanink

A review of Person and Community

The Civilization of Love: the Pope's Call to the West

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

The Splendor of Truth & the Squalor of Sin

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Left, Right or Personalist?

ECONOMICS AND THE DIGNITY OF THE PERSON

James G. Hanink

The Muscular & Visionary Pope

VANQUISHING THE EAST — NEXT THE WEST?

Edward R.F. Sheehan

Poland's Solidarity: A Personalist Revolution

SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION VS. COMMON SENSIBILITY

Bohdan Pilacinski

On the "Greenness" of Catholicism & Its further "Greening"

HONORING NATURE, THE BODY, SEXUALITY & THE EARTH

Stratford Caldecott

We can make peace with nature only by restoring harmony within ourselves. It is holiness that manifests our true nature in the plan of God.

The Pope Confounds the Neoconservatives

Dale Vree

Review of Aspiring to Freedom: Commen­taries on John Paul II's Encycli­cal "The Social Concerns of the Church"

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

John Paul II's 'Sollicitudo Rei Socialis' equates Western capitalism with Eastern Communism, and condemns both even-handedly.

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.