Interview

A Window on the transcendent

May 11, 2011 George Neumayr 0

On November 29, the record label Geffen/Universal will release “Alma Mater (Music from the Vatican),” which features the voice of Pope Benedict XVI “reciting and singing passages and prayers, accompanied by the Choir of the […]

Special Report

More “Access” Means Less Care

May 11, 2011 Matt Bowman 0

A thought experiment: Imagine you are an operating room nurse. You have built an excellent career and are skilled in a variety of challenging procedures. You work in an outpatient clinic with a cooperative, effective […]

Special Report

They’re Back

May 11, 2011 Anne Hendershott 0

Claiming that they are attempting to address the “serious deterioration of the US Church today,” organizers of a new Catholic reform organization are planning a national conclave in 2011 called the American Catholic Council. In […]

Special Report

Standing Together Against Secularism

May 11, 2011 Edward Pentin 0

Catholic-Orthodox relations, which had already been advancing since Pope Benedict XVI’s election in 2005, have accelerated sharply this year. But after a thousand years of division, is unity really in sight? Debate about the real […]

Special Report

God-Centered Medicine

May 11, 2011 Jim Graves 0

Long-term care centers often have a negative stigma attached to them. They are seen by many as sad places where the elderly are neglected. Not so at the Carmelite Sisters’ Santa Teresita Medical Center in […]

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Editorial

A Prophetic Force or Echo Chamber?

May 11, 2011 George Neumayr 0

“Bishop decries ‘combative tactics’ of a minority of US bishops,” ran a headline in the National Catholic Reporter, a newspaper known for its own combative tactics. A bishop who gives an interview to the proudly […]

Books

Inside the Mind of Pope Benedict

May 11, 2011 Jeremy Lott 0

If he had not assumed active duties that took him away from his scholarship, would Joseph Ratzinger have ended up as a Doctor of the Church? The case for this proposition is not explicitly made […]

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Essay

Is Islam Too Big To Fail?

May 10, 2011 William Kilpatrick 0

In many occasions over the last two years we have heard that various giant companies had to be bailed out by the federal government because they were “too big to fail.” AIG, Fannie Mae, Merrill […]

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Special Report

A Progress Report

May 10, 2011 Michael J. Miller 0

It was a busy week for Msgr. Guido Pozzo, secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. Friday, October 23: Grant interview to the weblog “Messa in Latino.” Saturday and Sunday: Greet members of the Priestly […]

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Analysis

The Great Realignment

May 10, 2011 Freddy Gray 0

In 1997, William Oddie, a former Anglican priest who had converted to Catholicism, published a little book called The Roman Option. In it, he predicted that the Anglican Communion— then still reeling from the 1992 […]