Dr. David Allen White

Introducing Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited to the seminarians at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary (March 9-11, 2001), Dr. White discusses in this conference all the implications of the image (TV, cinema, computers) replacing the word (books). In its February issue The Angelus will publish some solutions to resuscitate dying language.

I arrived late last night in

Rev. Fr. Peter R. Scott

A. Does a Saturday evening "vigil" Mass satisfy the Sunday obligation? It is of the divine law, prescribed by the third commandment of God, that a day of rest be set aside in honor of God. The theologians teach that the precept that this be observed on the Sunday and no longer on the Saturday is of ecclesiastical law, since at the beginning of the Church the apostles

Religious Liberty or Simple Tolerance?

H.E. Bernard Tissier De Mallerais

The year 1998 marks 400 years since the signing and implementation of the Edict of Nantes by King Henry IV (an ex-leader of the Huguenots, who later [1593] abjured Protestantism in order to secure the throne). The media will pull out all the stops in order to weary and befuddle the people of France and

20
th
Century Mexico’s Catholic Uprising

Olivier Lelibre

The 20th century was the bloodiest century in history, the "century of massacres,"1 "hell's century,"2the century of martyrs-just like all the others? No, not just like all the others; it was the great century of martyrs, infinitely more than the others....Never had there been so many martyrs in the space of 100 years,

These quotes appeared in the article “Verbicide” by David W. Orr in American Educator magazine (Winter 2000-2001). David W. Orr is director of the Department of  Environmental Studies at Oberlin College and editor of Conservation Biology, where this article first appeared.

In terms of the sheer volume of words and data of all kinds, this is surely an information age. But in terms of understaind,

The following exchange of letters was prompted by discussion between one of the faithful from St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Chancellor of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph concerning the doctrine "Outside the Church there is no salvation." Society