Volume 22 Number 3

Issue Date: 
May, 2011

Features

Love Means Not Withholding the Truth
By: Fr. Frank Pavone
Jesus said “love your neighbor as yourself”—right after he said to love God with your whole being. But does love involve keeping mum about sin to spare your neighbor’s feelings? No: Those we love deserve the truth.
Before Sin
By: Melinda Selmys
The Christian account of Creation is so deeply woven into our culture that we may scarcely think of it at all. But as fallen creatures we must understand man in his unfallen state, and the gifts that were lost when the apple was eaten—as well as the restorative fruit of the Tree of Life, borne on Calvary.
Paganism, Prophecies, and Propaganda
By: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
"Catholics are idolaters." "Catholic feasts have pagan origins." For 21 centuries, a variety of camps have slapped the “pagan” label on the Church. Today those accusers include secularists and criptural revisionists as well as Bible Christians. It’s simple enough to rebut the accusations of paganism, but we have to do our homework.
Social Justice Isn’t Left or Right
By: Leon J. Suprenant
Ever heard someone called a “a social-justice Catholic”? Misnomer or not, the term implies an adherence to political ideology over Christian precepts. It’s true that some Catholics use the phrase social justice ambiguously. It’s also true that ignoring (or distorting) social justice isn’t an option for any Catholic.
Meet the Ordinariate's Ordinary
By: Joanna Bogle
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI announced a new bridge across the Tiber, an opportunity for Anglicans who wished to retain aspects of their liturgy and cultural heritage as members of the Catholic Church. Msgr. Keith Newton of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham—the very first of its kind—shares his hopes and his challenges.

Departments

Reasons for Hope
The Catholic Hell of Fame
By: Cherie Peacock
Letters
What Is Art For?
Damascus Road
How a Protestant Became a Canon Lawyer
By: Jacqueline Rapp
By the Book
The Truth Will Make You Free
By: Jim Blackburn
Eyes to See
Everyday Wine
By: Michael Schrauzer
Last Writes
The Fif Factor
By: Karl Keating

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~ Ambrose, Bishop, Father and Doctor of the Church, Saint; commenting in the 4th century on the "wise of the world" who look askance at Christianity, a conflict that has existed from the very birth of the Faith (see "Science and the Church").