September-December 2007
Volume 12, Number 2 - Contents


 

 Liturgy is a given (Editorial)

The stunning implications of Summorum Pontificum.

 

 What Pope Benedict said

By Gary Scarrabelotti

Detailed textual analysis of the papal motu proprio and its covering explanatory letter to bishops.

 

 The fate of unbaptised infants

By John Young

What has the Church traditionally taught about limbo, and how does it square with recent pronouncements on the subject?

 

Anthropologist of the sacred

An obituary, originally published in the London Times, of Dame Mary Douglas, whose insights on ritual purity were deeply connected to her Catholic faith.

 

  Melting pot meltdown

By Martin Sheehan

Reviewing State of Emergency , by Patrick J. Buchanan.

 

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