Homiletic & Pastoral Review

November 2001

Editor
Kenneth Baker, S.J.
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Donna Marie Fong
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Msgr. Wm. B. Smith
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Volume CII, No. 2
November, 2001

  

Worth noting

Letters from our readers

What’s in a name?
By Michael P. Foley
Names are more than just tags.

Alone with God
By Lee Edwards
Listening to God is worth the effort.

Open or closed religion?
By David R. Carlin
Only the Church can check societal decay.

Maritain: On The Church of Christ 
By Jude P. Dougherty
The Church is holy in spite of her member.

Homilies on the liturgy of the Sundays and feasts
By Jeffrey Lawrence   

The betrothal and marriage of Mary to Joseph
By Bernard Orchard
Did Mary and Joseph plan a traditional marriage? (Part 2)

Was Dom Gueranger right after all?
By Hugh S. Thwaites
It doesn’t take much to change people’s religion.

The popes’ obsession
By Joseph Krastel
Dominus Iesus does not degrade other religions.

Mater Ecclesia: An ecclesiology for the 21st century
By Donald Calloway
The idea of the Church as “Mother” must not be lost.

My Favorite Priest—
A legend in his own time

Questions answered
by Wm. B. Smith

Book reviews

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