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Volume 13, Number 5
   May-June 2002   



 
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A Crisis of Saints

Scandals are rocking Catholics in this country. Anti-Catholic rhetoric is at a fever pitch – indeed, maybe your own faith has been shaken. How should we respond to the horrific headlines? There's only one authentic Catholic response.

   
By Fr. Roger Landry
 

Feature Article

   

The Ironies of Grace

Self-proclaimed "chubby suburbanite" Mark Shea, a dangerous man? Robert M. Zins thinks so – all because Shea said in this magazine that Catholics and Protestants essentially agree on the idea of merit. The Dangerous Suburbanite responds.

   
By Mark P. Shea
 

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Through the Intercession of Saints

One Man's Story of Healing and Reconversion

Crisis often brings us back to the faith in an urgent manner, and nothing is more critical than the grave illness of a baby. How such a crisis brought one man to truly understand an essential doctrine of the Church.

   
By John Allen
 

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A Gospel in Stone

Notre Dame de Paris and the Three Natural Laws of Church Architecture

The landscape is littered with Catholic churches that look more like office buildings than places of worship. How to get back to a sense of the transcendent? Follow the three natural laws of church architecture.

   
By Michael S. Rose
 

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What I Learned from U.S. Catholic Magazine

The author picks up a slick, mainstream Catholic magazine and shows how it betrays its biases against some of the teachings of the Church it professes to be part of.

   
By Philip Blosser
 

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'Another' God? 'Another' Christ?
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