Published in The Pittsburgh Catholic December 10, 1993 Imagine—bishops of the Catholic Church thinking they can speak for Catholics.Syndicated columnist Anna Quindlen took the American bishops to task for doing this, and… Read More »The Teaching Authority of Anna Quindlen
Published in Our Sunday Visitor October 9, 1994 By Rosemary Fielding Christianity ignites truth with love in a great fireball that radiates warmth and light to the most lost and abandoned… Read More »A Missionary to the “Least of Men”
A version of this was published in the Pittsburgh-Catholic on March 11, 1994 This summer at a talk I was startled by a comment made by the speaker, Fr. George Rutler, Anglican… Read More »Beginning to Understand the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Published in Our Sunday Visitor, February 20, 1994 By Rosemary Fielding A beautifully composed movie on C.S. Lewis, Christian apologist, and his wife, Joy Davidman Geshem, a Jewish convert to… Read More »Faith Gets Two Thumbs Down in Another Major Movie
Published in The Pittsburgh-Catholic February 1995 By Rosemary Hugo Fielding Christ is often found in suffering for He shows its meaning in the glory of redemption. But I have found… Read More »Following Beauty—to Happiness That’s Out of this World
Published in The Pittsburgh Catholic June 23, 1995 Students who attend Catholic schools for all eight years of their primary education will repeatedly hear the message that abortion is always… Read More »Abortion and the Bubble of Unreality
Published in New Covenant magazine November 1997 In November, the 100th year birthday of a late, great Catholic will be noted and commemorated by many who consider her a modern apostle… Read More »It’s Comfy, but It Is Not Christian
A version of this story was published in Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the ChurchIgnatius Press, 1999In this book, created and edited by Donna Steichen, 17 women told their… Read More »The Pied Piper of Lies
Published November 12, 2000 in Our Sunday Visitor Catholic author E. Michael Jones, former professor of literature and current editor of the magazine Culture Wars, argued in previous books that modernity is… Read More »Sexual Liberation and the Culture War Book Review of Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control
Published in New Covenant May 1999 By Rosemary Hugo FieldingYears ago, when my mother was a robust and hardworking 60-something, I said, “Mom, you’ll never be middle-aged. You’re going to go directly… Read More »Growing Old