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Volume 16, Number 4
   April 2005   



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Cover Story

   

What Is Biblical Criticism—and Should We Trust It?

The religion section of your local bookstore is filled with books purporting to offer new "scientific" evidence about what Jesus "really" said or did. Such "scholars" have done a lot of damage to people’s faith, but reading the Bible critically does not mean reading it skeptically. Here’s what Catholics need to know.

   
By Fr. Peter Funk, O.S.B.
 

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Questions Biblical Criticism Strives to Answer

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Using the Four Senses of Scripture to Interpret the Exoduc

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What Is the Documentary Hypothesis?

Feature Article

   

Do You Have a Vocation?

Of Course You Do. We All Do.

Unfortunately, many Catholics think only priests and nuns have vocations. The truth is that God calls each of us by name, asking us to fulfill a unique role in the Church. What we need, then, is vocation discernment, not vocation recruitment.

   
By Russell Shaw
 

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That Rock

Caesarea Philippi, the Towering Backdrop to Peter’s Profession

When Jesus gives Simon the name Rock, the backdrop is the enormous rock bluff of Caesarea Philippi, a cultural and religious center known for its pagan worship.

   
By John Pacheco
 

Feature Article

   

Evangelizing Your Library

If someone looks for a book on Catholicism in your local public library, what will he find?

People looking to learn more about Catholicism at your local public library are more likely to find The Da Vinci Code than they are to find good Catholic information. Here’s what you can do to change that.

   
By Nancy Carpentier Brown
 

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Shhhh! Insider Tips

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Does Your Library Have These?

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Who Was Nicholas V?

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Rough Sundays.
By Karl Keating

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Does Christ’s Church have apostolic succession?
By Kenneth J. Howell

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Why I am not Eastern Orthodox.
By Jimmy Akin

The Fathers Know Best

   

Peter’s successors.

Damascus Road

   

An Islamic story.
By Aghi Clovis with Joanna Bogle

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