Crisis . Vol. 22. No. 1 . January 2004. www.CrisisMagazine.com Features: Killing Terri Schiavo Rev. Robert Johansen gives you the unreported facts of this heartbreaking dispute. The Case Against Gay Marriage Tim Leslie offers a compelling argument against same-sex marriage.and has the data to back it up. Why George Orwell Was Pro-Life Mark Stricherz explains why the great agnostic writer took a consistent stand against abortion.

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Books - Arts - Culture:

Poem

"Eucharistic Adoration" by Peter Kreeft

Book Reviews

Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals  by John C. Lyden

The End of Irish Catholicism?  by D. Vincent Twomey, SVD

Our Lady of the Forest  by David Guterson

The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World  by Russell Hittinger

St. Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes, edited by Allen Duston, O.P., and Roberto Zagnoli 

Secretary to the Invisible?
 
Robert Royal visits J. M. Coetzee's literary limbo.

Seeing Is Disbelieving

Terry Teachout says a film that can't be cast shouldn't be filmed.

Are You Listening?

Robert R. Reilly says that the enjoyment of classical music requires openness, not expertise.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Late Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann

Guest Column
F. H. Buckley

From the Hill
Rick Santorum

Cloud of Witnesses
George W. Rutler

Sense & Nonsense
James V. Schall