Volume 20 Number 7

Issue Date: 
September, 2009

Features

Want to Evangelize?
By: Fr. William Dillard
The Lord speaks to us through Scripture in the ancient Christian practice of lectio divina. The measure of this contemplation is our response: Our heart, stirred by God’s word contemplated in silence, moves our will. In seeking to know God in this way, we are moved to go out and share the Good News.
The Language of Prayer Is the Language of Poetry
By: Anthony Esolen
Poetic language shakes us out of the everyday, so we see familiar things in new and surprising ways. In the same manner, vocal prayer should jolt us out of rote and banal repetition, lifting our minds and hearts to that which transcends language: God. A new translation of the English prayers we use at Mass, faithful to the original Latin, may bring us closer to the ineffable.
A New Fisher of Men
By: Christopher Check
In a compromised age, rulers whose public policies align with their cherished beliefs are regarded with contempt. But nine centuries ago, one such ruler inspired a nation with his dedication to the cross of Christ. Though he failed to reclaim the Holy Lands for Christendom, King Louis IX’s efforts to instill sanctity in the hearts of France’s people won for him eternal glory.
Justification Sola Fide
By: Christopher J. Malloy
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI raised a few eyebrows when he seemed to agree with Luther’s doctrine that we are saved by faith alone. But the pope was far from reversing centuries-old Catholic teaching on the subject. So how are we to understand his statement? By recognizing that charity—a free gift from God the Father—is an expression of living faith.

Departments

Reasons for Hope
In the Beginning Was the Word
By: Cherie Peacock
Letters
Don’t Dismiss Miracles
Damascus Road
There and Back Again
By: Sebastian R. Fama
By the Book
Health and Wealth—or the Cross?
By: Jim Blackburn
Eyes to See
Beauty beyond Price
By: Michael Schrauzer
Truth be Told
America’s Catholic Colony
By: Matthew E. Bunson
Last Writes
A Truth He Did Not Understand
By: Karl Keating

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~ Leo XIII in his encyclical Immortale Dei (November 1, 1885) quoting Augustine of Hippo, as detailed in the article Religious Toleration