Faith and Culture

Ordination Demands Deaconal Commitment: Bishop Flores Invites Deacons in Galveston-Houston Archdiocese to Live Matthew 25 The Cardinal Flies South: Immigrants from the South and North Bring Cardinal to Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Reaction to Benedict XVI in Brazil: Our Lady of Guadalupe Bridges the Gap Deliver Us, Lord, From the Fear of the Enemy Into the Dark with God: A Christmas Meditation on the Incarnation, for a Troubled World Pope Benedict XVI and Islam Benedict's Deus Caritas Est - God is Love: The Way of Love in the Church's Mission to the World - by David L. Schindler Pope Benedict XVI's Matthew 25 Encyclical, God is Love: Charity and Justice Must Meet - by Mark and Louise Zwick Pope Benedict XVI Interprets Vatican Council II: Holy Father Unwittingly Completes Zwick Article on "What Happened To the tremendous Renewal Possibilities After Vatican II?" Pope Benedict XVI Sets the Themes for his Papacy: Rulers Must Help the Poor; Respect of Persons Prohibits Some Economic Practices;Lectio Divina Will Bring a New Spiritual Springtime Pastoral Letter of Arizona Bishops on Migration Crisis Punitive Legislation Which Will Hurt Many People Passed in the U. S. House of Representatives The Magi Changed Ideas of Power: Kneeling Before the Child of Poor People, They Discovered God A Theory of Personalism (New York: Lexington Books, 2005, by Thomas and Rosita Rourke The Drawbacks of Pure Secular Reason, especially in the midst of Hurricane Katrina Pope Benedict: All Are Called to Solidarity with Poor and Refugees Our Dear Sweet Christ on Earth, John Paul II, Has Died How Can We Reform the Church? Personalist Revolution Starts with "I," not "They" Fraudulent Scholarship, Whether Archaeological or Neo-Gnostic, Misleads Christians Pope John Paul II Speaks on the Psalms New Lay Monasticism: Schools for Conversion The Passion of the Christ What Happened to the Tremendous Renewal Possibilities after the Second Vatican Council? WITNESS TO HOPE: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel Falls Short Ananias and Sapphira, an Original Sin in the Church: the Eschatological Dimension of Money Why Saint Juan Diego, a Saint for Nobodies, means so much to the Houston Catholic Worker Some Notes on Pedophilia: Catholic Church in Serious Crisis Crisis in the Catholic Church versus New SpringtimeCrisis in the Catholic Church versus New Springtime A Letter on the Priesthood: the Crisis in the Catholic Church Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda on Edith Stein, Book Review Religion--Ally or Enemy of Socio-Economic Change Do We Need the Eucharist or the Church? Clericalism Hurts Lay People The Politics of Free Obedience - What is a Lay Catholic To Do? Anti-Judaism in Religious Feminist Writing Massive Cover-up Heart of the World, Center of the Church/Can CEO's and Stockholders be Saved? Is Dorothy Day's Laetare Medal in Jeopardy? Why Argue about Father Michael J. Baxter and Notre Dame? How to be a Christian in a Non-Christian World No Federal Funds--What Now? Sharing the Gospel with the Poorest; A Retreat: Beatitudes must Change our Lives Is Marriage Un-American? Secret of Good Sexuality How can Husband and Wife work Together--How Dare you talk about Complementarity? Sunday Liturgy Call to Self-Giving: Dies Domini, John Paul II and Virgil Michel, O.S.B. In Incarnation Mary's Spiritual Rapture joined to Option for the Poor Young People of the World Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose Except your Chains: Call to Destiny and Mystery of the Gospel A Time of Desert For Theology: Ressourcement versus Models of the Church Christian Asceticism: Breaking Consumerism's Destructive Hold Madeleine Delbrel--a French Dorothy Day writes We, the Ordinary People of the Streets