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Volume 14, Number 2
   February 2003   



 
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Cover Story

   

Gazing on the Beauty of the Lord

You can’t be a convincing apologist if you’re not close to your subject—which, in this case, is God. Here are some suggestions, made by an expert on the subject of prayer, on getting your interior life right so that your exterior efforts to further the faith may be more effective.

   
By Fr. Thomas Dubay
 

Feature Article

   

Come with Me and See Jesus

Every Catholic has the duty to evangelize—and to be obedient. In an interview, James Francis Cardinal Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, takes stock in the state of the laity’s involvement in today’s Church and looks to the future.

   

Feature Article

   

Salvation for Non-Christians Explained Sola Scriptura

Many Protestants think that anyone who does not hold to the Christian faith holds a one-way ticket to hell. Appealing to Catholic sources doesn’t help, since they think also that the Church is in grave error. Here’s how to convince them of the truth and on their grounds: using only Scripture.

   
By Joan Summers
 

Feature Article

   

Yelling at Leslie

There isn’t an evangelization expert in the world who would advocate yelling at someone as an effective means of bringing him—or in this case her—into the fullness of truth. In fact, most would have a rule against it. But sometimes rules are made to be broken—and with good effect.

   
By Bonnie Landry
 

 Departments

Frontispiece

   

Typo of Truth
By Karl Keating

Letters

The Apologist’s Eye

Step by Step

   

Why Is Communion for Catholics Only?
By Kenneth J. Howell

Brass Tacks

   

Burial Box of St. James Found?
By Jimmy Akin

The Fathers Know Best

   

Trinitarian Baptism

Damascus Road

   

Our Prisons Can Be Instruments of Grace
By Jens Söring

Classic Apologetics

   

The Disasters of "By Faith Alone"
By Fr. Leslie Rumble

Review

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