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Voices Online Edition
Advent/Christmas 2002
Volume XVII, No. 4
Table of Contents
Departments
2. . . . .Letters [Note:
Letters column is not included in online edition of Voices.]
Sample Letter - Guardian Angels - is a reminder of the
lovely "Prayer to the Guardian Angel".
5 . . . . Inside Voices - Editorial
-- by Helen Hull Hitchcock
9. . . .Bioethics Watch
- Protecting Abortion,
Forbidding Grief - You might assume that between the
priest scandals and the new wave of child abductions, every effort
would be made to protect children against sexual abuse. But you
would be wrong. - by Nancy
Valko, RN
12. . . .Document - The
Liturgical Year and Popular Piety (excerpt in hardcopy
edition)
The Liturgical year is the temportal structure within which the
Church celebrates the holy mysteries of Christ. Learn more about
popular piety surrounding Advent and Christmas.
35. . . .Other Voices - News
Review of Recent Events - Cardinal assails granting marital
status to odd couples -- UK: gay adoption rejected -- Report
exposes condom ineffectiveness -- New book questions feminists'
motives -- Aussie women's group issues demands -- Priest refuses
marriage sacrament to Planned Parenthood employee -- Court rules
mother can protect unborn child -- After-abortion mistake may
result in lawsuit -- Vatican video-conference on women
43. . . .Affirmation for Catholic Women
Features
6. . . . .WFF
STATEMENT: "Faithful St. Louis"? - ... In St.
Louis, a meeting of "Faithful St. Louis" is explicitly
aimed at forming a chapter of the dissident "Voice of the
Faithful coalition ...
11. . . . .Sin, Salvation, and the Search for Meaning - ... Contemporary religion has all but abandoned the task of revealing the meaning of life ... -by James F. Hitchcock
18. . . . .What
Can We Hope to Accomplish? The Prospects for Evangelization in
Dangerous Times - ... We have all, to some measure, succumed
to the influence of the rapid social and cultural changes of
recent decades ... -by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
23. . . . .Developing
a Child-Safe Environment - ... Can we change our degenerate
culture? ... -by Rita Joseph
26. . . . .Where are the
Men? - ... Are our liturgies giving men and boys an excuse
to stay away? ... -by Joanna Bogle
28. . . . .Whose Voice? Which
Faith? - ... When reports of priestly sex scandals broke
last January this was -- and is -- a crisis of historic proportions....
by Sheila Gribben Liaugminas
39. . . . .Saint Nicholas Day
- ... History of the Feast, activities for the family...
42. . . . .The
Mysteries of Light - ... Rosarium Virginae Mariae,
reflections on the newest mysteries of the Rosary ... -by
Pope John Paul II
Special - Online Only! Come
Lord Jesus - Dominican Monastery of St. Jude celebrates Advent.
This issue's cover is on Hard copy only."Fuentidueña Chapel at Night" as it appears in the publication "A Walk Through the Cloisters", published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. PHOTO BY MALCOLM VARON, NYC ©1979,2002.
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