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Volume 8, Number 9
   September 1997   



 
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Cover Story

   

LET THE CRITICS RAVE

There are lots of reasons not to be Catholic-most of them contradictory and all of them bad. The possibilities for satire are almost endless. . . .

   
By MARK P. SHEA
 

Feature Article

   

THE TROUBLE WITH CATHOLICISM

You want to understand Catholicism? Then don't bother with Fr. Richard McBrien's Catholicism.

   
By ADRIAN J. REIMERS
 

Feature Article

   

THE RED HERRING OF USURY

Nearly everybody thinks usury is the taking of too much interest, and nearly everybody is wrong.

   
By DAVID J. PALM
 

Feature Article

   

NEITHER COLD NOR HOT

Cold? Hot? Either one's okay-but around here we don't stand for lukewarmness. Neither does Christ.

   
By NICHOLAS HALLIGAN, O.P.
 

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On The Air
By Karl Keating

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Catholics and the Bible
By Catholic Evidence Guild

The Fathers Know Best

   

The Divinity of Christ

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Who Will Crush the Serpent's Head?
By James Akin

On the Road

   

Marketing Catholicism
By Terrye Newkirk

Dispatches

   

Explaining Tradition
By James J. Harris

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