The Catholic World articles from March 1995

The Catholic World archives from March 1995

Miracles and modern minds, part one.
March 1, 1995... Can miracles happen? Do miracles happen? The problem of the possibility and actual occurrence of miracles is logically the first question any inquirer would raise in a discussion of the miracles of Jesus. I fear then that I will be disappointing...

Saints and angels: our companions on life's journey.
March 1, 1995... Where do we meet saints and angels? Television and other media would have us believe that supernatural figures are contacted only through telepathy, spiritism, ESP or close encounters with aliens. The fact is that for Christians and other...

Where Angels Walk: True Stories of Heavenly Visitors.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Joan Wester Anderson New York: Ballantine Books 242 pp., 1992, $10.00 This is an enjoyable book, for a number of reasons. Anderson articulates her thoughts well, being an accomplished writer as well as a teacher of writing. She is also able...

There's an Angel on Your Shoulder: Angel Encounters in Everyday Life.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Kelsey Tyler New York: Berkley Books 155 pp., 1994, $10.00 This book is similar in format to Anderson's (i.e., a chapter-by-chapter recounting of others' angel stories), but it relates only twenty-two encounters. I think it's safe to say...

Messengers of Light: The Angels' Guide to Spiritual Growth.
March 1, 1995... By Terry Lynn Taylor Tiburon, CA: H J Kramer Inc. 213 pp., 1990, $9.95 Messengers of Light is intelligently and consistently laid out, with thirty-six chapters divided into five parts: I. The Nature Origin of Angels; II. Classifications of...

Guardians of Hope: The Angels Guide to Personal Growth.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Terry Lynn Taylor Tiburon, CA: H J Kramer Inc 185 pp., 1992, $9.95 Published two years after her guide to spiritual growth, this book has the same basic message as the first--to love, lighten up, etc.--but in an even more pervasive "how to"...

Do You Have a Guardian Angel? And Other Questions Answered About Angels.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By John Ronner Indialantic, FL: Mamre Press Inc. 187 pp., 1994, $10.95 This book (first printed in 1985) is laid out in question-and-answer format, with over thirty angel pictures by Dore, Durer and others. You get a sense that Ronner is...

Angels: their importance in our lives.
March 1, 1995... 1994 has certainly been the year of the angel. Television specials, scores of full color art books and at least three Hollywood movies have brought angels back from oblivion and into the world of what's important to Americans. What's behind this...

The interaction between heaven and earth. (Brother Donald Mansir)(Interview)
March 1, 1995... Q: Brother Donald, you have studied the question of "spirits" and "angels" in a number of the diverse cultures in which you have lived, Would you comment on how various world religions account for these special beings and the widespread belief in...

Did I live with a saint without knowing it? (Solanus Casey)
March 1, 1995... What was there about this man they called "Father Solanus?" He was not much to look at--thin and lanky, nearly bald, with a scraggly gray beard, and a high-pitched voice you could barely hear. I listened to a couple of his sermons when I was a...

Being Christian Today: An American Conversation.
March 1, 1995... In 1991 a group gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss the current state of ecumenical Christian social ethics. The occasion for this gathering, according to the editors of the volume, was the hundredth anniversary of Leo XIII's landmark...

Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church.
March 1, 1995... Letty M. Russell Louisville: Westminster/ John Knox Press 253 pp., 1993 Letty Russell, professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School, has been a perennial favorite with churchgoing feminists and social activists for many years. Here she sets...

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World.
March 1, 1995... By Henri J.M. Nouwen New York: Crossroad 1992. 119 pp., $12.95 Nouwen wrote Life of the Beloved for a close friend, Fred, whom he had met at Yale Divinity School. They have remained friends for ten years and have shared their life's journey...

Miracles and modern minds, part two.
March 1, 1995... Granted the severe limitations of our data, I would suggest that we must be careful to keep both our historical questions and our historical conclusions [concerning the miracles of Jesus] modest. What may we reasonably ask in such a restricted...