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A voice for the dead

Jonathan Luxmoore writes about a priest who continues his crusade to have the deaths of countrymen recognized by Russian leaders.

Adult catechism makes faith accessible to average

Various Church groups and laypeople can use the new text to better understand the Faith. By Carlos Briceno.

Becoming a saint

A guest column by Rev. Donald P. Richmond. Being a 'good Catholic' is okay, if this is all God has for us, but there is much more to it.

Double-Edged Sword: Outsmarting the wicked

Marcellino D'Ambrosio's column: Jesus predicts he will be tortured to death at the instigation of the day's spiritual leaders.

Editorial: Time on our side

This week's editorial focuses on the least-read book of the Bible: Revelation, and its implications for today.

Four ways of approaching the Apocalypse

There are four generally recognized methods of interpreting the Book of Revelation: the idealist, the futurist, the historicist and the preterist.

In Focus Sidebar: Outline of Revelation

Additional information to our In Focus section on The Apocalypse. The Book of Revelation is described.

In Focus Sidebar: Revelation by the numbers

The book of Revelation makes prolific use of numbers that had symbolic meanings in the Hebrew world. Here are some of them.

In Focus Sidebar: The Catholic Interpretation?

This sidebar to the methods of interpreting Revelation highlights the freedom of the "Catholic" interpretation.

Inclination to play God with fertility

Trudy Thomas writes: New contraception methods and unnatural use of treatments encourage woman to use their bodies as machines.

Letters to the Editor

This weeks' subjects include prayer; FDR and communism; holding hands at Mass; designing churches; immigration; foreign priests; and a correction.

Masons story sidebar: Points of divergence

There are several points on which Masonic teaching is irreconcilable with the Catholic faith.

Movie Review: Faith and football

Gerald Korson reviews 'Facing the Giants,' a small-budget Christian film worthy of its advance hype.

Pastoral Answers: Relics of the true cross

Msgr. M. Francis Mannion's column. The story of what occurred to the remnant wood that bore Jesus is both confusing and complex. Also, receiving Communion and sinning.

Plan B will bring increase in unprotected sex

Log in or register to read for free: FDA-approved emergency contraception an excuse to avoid other birth-control methods -- by Mary DeTurris Poust.

Sidebar: A look inside the adult catechism

This sidebar details what's found in the new adult catechism, and changes that occurred during the draft process.

Sidebar: Best defense is a good offense

A sidebar to our fertility article about teaching young people about chastity.

Sidebar: Male pressure sways women's decisions

A sidebar to our fertility story. How men figure into the emergency contraception equation.

Spectator: The death of an abbot

Greg Erlandson's column on a Trappist friar who lived a life close to God and helped a southern monastery grow in service.

There's plenty to decipher in Bible's final book

By Carl E. Olsen. Here are some of the major symbols and images for Revelation.

Update: Sister Prejean clarifies abortion stand

An update to our August 20, 2006, commentary aobut a full-page New York Times advertisement that criticized Bush administration policies.

Why Catholics can't be Masons

by Sandra Meisel. Since Freemasonry teaches a rival religion of naturalism and denies absolute truth, Catholicism and the Lodge can never be reconciled.

You say you want a . . . Revelation

In Focus section by Carl E. Olsen. Modern readers often miss the context in which the last book of the Bible was written, puzzling them as to its true meaning.