Volume 18 Number 5

Issue Date: 
May, 2007

Features

Peasant Girl to Battlefield Commander
By: Christopher Check
Most Catholics know the story of the Maid of Orléans. Few, however, have all the facts about the remarkable role she played in the history of civilization. Behind the myth is a true story of extraordinary piety and courage.
The Church Militant or the Church Belligerent?
By: Fr. Paul Scalia
We live in difficult times—times that require us to be joyful warriors in God’s army. But it’s easy to allow ourselves to become battle-weary and to succumb to anger, bitterness, and rancor. But it is especially difficult times that call for saints of serenity and joy who can rebuild the Church and the culture.
Love and the Skeptic
By: Carl Olson
How can an atheist explain love? After all, if there is no God and no spiritual realm, then all that exists is the material world. Biology may be able to explain sexual impulses, but it cannot adequately explain love. So an atheist who genuinely loves another person isn’t as far from God as he may think. Love inevitably leads to God.
How Do We Know It’s the True Church?
By: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
When it comes to the tough questions, we want to go to a reliable authority for answers, but how do we know if the authority is reliable? One sign that the Catholic Church’s authority is genuine is that its teachings are intellectually challenging yet accessible to the simplest people; its adherents include the greatest minds in history and simple peasants.

Departments

Reasons for Hope
The Gospel in Full Color
By: Cherie Peacock
Letters
Unwilling
Damascus Road
Drug Dealer to Catechist
By: Russell L. Ford
By the Book
How Do We Explain the Passover "Discrepancy"?
By: Tim Staples
Eyes to See
What Has Art to Do with Apologetics?
By: Michael Schrauzer
Truth be Told
The Five Most Influential Anti-Catholic Books
By: Robert P. Lockwood
Last Writes
Did Peter Have a Wife?
By: Karl Keating

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