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The Latin Liturgy and the Jews: What the pope's letter means for the church's 'elders in the faith'
Anthony J. CerneraEugene Korn
What does the motu proprio mean for our elders in the faith?
Faith in Focus
A Dinosaur Ponders The Latin Mass
Emil A. Wcela
We are fast becoming extinct, we dinosaur Catholics who passed through childhood, adolescence and into adult years with the Latin Mass. Now men and women in the generations after us are talking a lot about the Latin Mass. Perhaps my personal recollections of the journey from Latin to English, surely
News
Signs of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Indian Bishop Requests Tree Saplings as GiftA newly installed archbishop in a central Indian state made an unusual demand of those wanting to congratulate him on his appointment. He said he welcomed gifts, but they had to be tree saplings. Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal told UCA News, an Asian ch
The Word
Thanksgiving as Public Witness to Gods Action
Daniel J. Harrington
We hear and say the word thanks fairly often though perhaps not often enough and usually without much thought Thanksgiving Day is our most popular national holiday yet few of us recognize and acknowledge the religious dimension of that day Last Sunday rsquo s master-servant parable reminded us t
The Good Word
The Church and Slavery
Richard Leonard
27th Sunday Today s Gospel highlights what a different world Jesus and the earliest Christians lived in by comparison with us today Jesus and Luke s community unquestionably believed in slavery In all the Gospels Jesus regularly draws on the image of a slave to make points about duty respect
The Good Word
Blogging from Rome
John W. Martens
I am blogging from Rome for the next four months I arrived with my family on September 21 in order to spend a semester teaching University of St Thomas St Paul Minnesota students at the Angelicum Is there an easier place to be a Catholic biblical scholar than in Rome the city of Peter and
Columns
Godforsakenness: 'Finding one's heart's desire'
John F. Kavanaugh
My days with Mother Teresa
Faith in Focus
A Righteous Gentile: Marcel Dubois (1920-2007)
David Mark Neuhaus
Philosopher, theologian, teacher, spiritual director, custodian of souls, man of God— Marcel Dubois, O.P., was all of these. Of the Christians living in the State of Israel, he was one of those best known to Jews. By the time of his death last June, Father Dubois had taught philosophy to gener
Arts & CultureBooks
Of War and Forgiveness
Tom Deignan
Late in Joseph O 8217 Connor 8217 s sprawling dazzling new novel Redemption Falls an elderly Columbia University professor watches a procession of aged Civil War veterans march down New York 8217 s Fifth Avenue seven decades after the War Between the States For all the rich history gathered d
Editorials
Iraqs Abandoned Refugees
The Editors
Addressing a humanitarian crisis
Arts & CultureBooks
Become the Change We Seek!
Carol Nackenoff
With books and documentary films on environmental degradation appearing at a fast pace what particular niche does Taking Action Saving Lives designed to reach a broad audience fill Shrader-Frechette O 8217 Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and professor of biological sciences at the Univer
Template for a Post-Treaty Darfur?: Southern Sudan may show the way.
Barbara E. Joe
South-central Sudan is the last place on earth I would have envisioned spending an Easter Sunday. Skirting the equator, the region is accessible only by cargo flight under U.N. or other auspices and is closed to outsiders except as authorized by the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement and Sudan People
Letters
Letters

Clarifying the Council

In The Church of Christ and the Churches (8/27), Richard Gaillardetz correctly summarizes the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as teaching that the church of Christ continues to exist fully in the Catholic Church, and only incompletely in other churches and ecclesial communities. But he seems not to agree that there is only one subsistence of the church of Christthe Catholic Church. His article gives the impression that subsistit in was introduced to weaken the statement in a previous draft that the Catholic Church is the church of Christ.

But he omits a crucial intermediate draft, which stated simply that the church of Christ is present (adest) in the Catholic Church.

The doctrinal commission, rejecting adest, wanted to safeguard the doctrine that Christs church is completely present in the Catholic Church and nowhere else. Such was the well-known position of Sebastian Tromp, S.J., who proposed the term subsistit in. He and the members of the doctrinal Commission were well aware that the verb subsist in classical metaphysics meant full and substantial existence. The C.D.F. is therefore correct in its interpretation of the term.

Mr. Gaillardetz also assures his readers that the council was content to confine its reflections to the objective institutional integrity of the church. I do not know the basis for that interpretation. Far from being concerned only with means of sanctification, the council insisted that the church is a spiritual community vivified by the Holy Spirit, and that only the Catholic Church is in full communion with the body of Christ. To be out of communion, even partially, is no small matter.

(Cardinal) Avery Dulles, S.J.

Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Patricia A. Kossmann
Caring for all God's creatures
The Word
Two Dimensions of Faith
Daniel J. Harrington
Perhaps the most obvious component of Christian spirituality is faith In general the virtue of faith refers to considering something to be true and therefore worthy of trust In the Christian tradition faith is a theological virtue because it has its origin and object in God We believe and trust
Arts & CultureBooks
Going Home Again
Sally Cunneen
As its title suggests The Florist 8217 s Daughter the fifth memoir by Patricia Hampl centers on her own life In her earlier books personal revelations were filtered through experiences of Prague Assisi and the paintings of Matisse But this is hardly a tell-all autobiography Hampl is seeking
News
Signs of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Dutch Proposal for Priestless Masses The general curia of the Dominicans expressed surprise over a booklet published by members of the order in the Netherlands recommending that laypeople be allowed to celebrate Mass when no ordained priests are available. In a written statement released by the Vati
Arts & CultureBooks
'Dramatic Confrontations' Unveiled
John A. Coleman
This book is sure to garner much attention from professional sociologists of religion and probably historians of the Second Vatican Council as well In fact a blue-ribbon panel already responded and critiqued Melissa Wilde rsquo s volume at the annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology
Searching for Bernard Lonergan: The man behind 'Insight'
Mary Ann Glendon
Learning to appreciate a great theologian