Volume 21 Number 3

Issue Date: 
May, 2010

Features

How to Change the Culture
By: Jeffrey A. Mirus
Culture is like the air we breathe: It permeates our lives. And just like polluted air, a toxic culture can devastate everything, from the institution to the family. Can we reshape a whole culture to resemble the Kingdom of God on earth? We must first infuse the spheres of culture we ourselves inhabit with Christian principle and practice.
Joy Delights in the Beloved
By: Anthony Esolen
On the Mount of Purgatory, Dante sees for the first time the unveiled face of Beatrice. His response is joy surpassing even his ability to convey in words. For joy—unlike mere contentment—delights in the other’s being. All human existence is a quest for joy eternal: the discovery of the Beloved’s unveiled, sublime Face.
Augustine’s Confessions and the Harmony of Faith and Reason
By: Carl Olson
Conventional wisdom now holds that faith is unreasonable. The fashionable thinker dismisses faith to the purview of the superstitious, the irrational—even the psychotic. One of history’s most reasonable thinkers would disagree: For Augustine, to believe that reason and faith are at odds is to misunderstand the nature of both.
Peter’s Authority
By: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Does the Church base the papacy on a single Bible verse? Hardly. The successor of Peter is more than just the rock upon whom Christ founded his Church: He’s rock, steward, and shepherd, three images that resonate throughout the Old Testament as well as the New.
The Wartime Birth of a Spiritual Classic
By: Russell Shaw
Spain, 1936: War rages between Republicans and Nationalists. Bishops, priests, and religious are slaughtered by the thousands. And a young priest living in a makeshift refuge begins to make notes of his sermons and talks about Christian life in the midst of everyday challenges. A new book about the writing of St. Josemaria’s The Way recounts its turbulent beginnings.

Departments

Reasons for Hope
Highways and Byways
By: Cherie Peacock
Letters
Un-Appealing Homilies
Damascus Road
I Became a Catholic When I Realized I Wasn’t One
By: Fr. Ernest P. Davis III
By the Book
What "No Salvation Outside the Church" Means
By: Jim Blackburn
Eyes to See
Not as Man Sees Does God See
By: Michael Schrauzer
Last Writes
Because He Said So
By: Karl Keating

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