Barry Michaels
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Recently in print
I've written these articles that have appeared recently in print:
"Pope Pius XII: What is his place in history?" in The Catholic Answer, September/October 2008
"Breakthrough" in The Writer, May 2008
"Who Is St. Anthony Claret?" in The Catholic Answer, March/April 2008
"For Pope Benedict, it's only natural -- law, that is" in Our Sunday Visitor, January 20, 2008
"When Mormons Come Calling" in The Catholic Answer, January/February 2008 issue
"Priest whose works were condemned is now a blessed" (on Blessed Antonio Rosmini), in Our Sunday Visitor, November 11, 2007
"Transcending Divisions that Drag Us Down," in Catholic Men's Quarterly, Fall 2007
"5 Years of Illumination" (on the fifth anniversary of Pope John Paul II's new luminous mysteries of the Rosary), in Our Sunday Visitor, September 23, 2007)
"Modernism Condemned as 'Synthesis of All Heresies," (for the 100th anniversary of the encyclical Pascendi Domini Gregis), in Our Sunday Visitor, September 9, 2007
"I Am God's Wheat" (on St. Ignatius of Antioch), in the September/October 2007 issue of The Catholic Answer
"Center and Summit of the Mass" (on the Eucharistic prayer) in the August 12, 2007 issue of Our Sunday Visitor
"Edith Stein: A Saint for Our Times" in the August 5, 2007 issue of OSV
A 4-page collection of articles on St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for the "In Focus" insert of the July 29, 2007 OSV
Coming Soon:
An article on human rights in The Catholic Answer
An article on St. Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life in The Catholic Answer
An article on the diaires of Dorothy Day in St. Anthony Messenger
I've written these articles that have appeared recently in print:
"Pope Pius XII: What is his place in history?" in The Catholic Answer, September/October 2008
"Breakthrough" in The Writer, May 2008
"Who Is St. Anthony Claret?" in The Catholic Answer, March/April 2008
"For Pope Benedict, it's only natural -- law, that is" in Our Sunday Visitor, January 20, 2008
"When Mormons Come Calling" in The Catholic Answer, January/February 2008 issue
"Priest whose works were condemned is now a blessed" (on Blessed Antonio Rosmini), in Our Sunday Visitor, November 11, 2007
"Transcending Divisions that Drag Us Down," in Catholic Men's Quarterly, Fall 2007
"5 Years of Illumination" (on the fifth anniversary of Pope John Paul II's new luminous mysteries of the Rosary), in Our Sunday Visitor, September 23, 2007)
"Modernism Condemned as 'Synthesis of All Heresies," (for the 100th anniversary of the encyclical Pascendi Domini Gregis), in Our Sunday Visitor, September 9, 2007
"I Am God's Wheat" (on St. Ignatius of Antioch), in the September/October 2007 issue of The Catholic Answer
"Center and Summit of the Mass" (on the Eucharistic prayer) in the August 12, 2007 issue of Our Sunday Visitor
"Edith Stein: A Saint for Our Times" in the August 5, 2007 issue of OSV
A 4-page collection of articles on St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for the "In Focus" insert of the July 29, 2007 OSV
Coming Soon:
An article on human rights in The Catholic Answer
An article on St. Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life in The Catholic Answer
An article on the diaires of Dorothy Day in St. Anthony Messenger
Articles on the Internet
NEW: "Pope Pius XII: What is his place in history?" (from the September/October 2008 issue of The Catholic Answer)
"Samantha Shrugged"
This essay appeared in the September 2006 issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity (and now appears on their online archives). It proved to be a very popular piece, and was reprinted at the Catholic Educator's Resource Center, in the monthly newsletter of New York State Nurses for Life, and in the monthly newsletter of LifeCanada.
"5 Years of Illumination"
This article, at Catholic Online, marked the fifth anniversary of JP2's five new mysteries of the Rosary (Sept. 2007)
"St. Dominic and His Champions of Faith"
This series of articles, which originally appeared in Our Sunday Visitor, is reprinted by The Dominican friars in Washington, DC, on their website.
The following articles have appeared at CatholicExchange.com :
"Mother Cabrini: A Saint for Immigrants"
"Why Should Laws Be Pro-Life?"
"An Abortion that Even Pro-choicers Abhor"
"The Center and Summit of the Mass"
on the Eucharistic Prayer of Mass
"The Encyclical that Packed a Punch"
on Pope St. Pius X's Pascendi Dominici Gregis
"What Do You Say to a Latter-Day Saint?"
"A Feast on the Fourth of July"
on Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
"Cause, Effect, and the Council"
This review of Philip Trower's book, Turmoil and Truth: The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Catholic Church (originally appeared in the National Catholic Register) is reprinted at Christendom-Awake.org.
NEW: "Pope Pius XII: What is his place in history?" (from the September/October 2008 issue of The Catholic Answer)
"Samantha Shrugged"
This essay appeared in the September 2006 issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity (and now appears on their online archives). It proved to be a very popular piece, and was reprinted at the Catholic Educator's Resource Center, in the monthly newsletter of New York State Nurses for Life, and in the monthly newsletter of LifeCanada.
"5 Years of Illumination"
This article, at Catholic Online, marked the fifth anniversary of JP2's five new mysteries of the Rosary (Sept. 2007)
"St. Dominic and His Champions of Faith"
This series of articles, which originally appeared in Our Sunday Visitor, is reprinted by The Dominican friars in Washington, DC, on their website.
The following articles have appeared at CatholicExchange.com :
"Mother Cabrini: A Saint for Immigrants"
"Why Should Laws Be Pro-Life?"
"An Abortion that Even Pro-choicers Abhor"
"The Center and Summit of the Mass"
on the Eucharistic Prayer of Mass
"The Encyclical that Packed a Punch"
on Pope St. Pius X's Pascendi Dominici Gregis
"What Do You Say to a Latter-Day Saint?"
"A Feast on the Fourth of July"
on Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
"Cause, Effect, and the Council"
This review of Philip Trower's book, Turmoil and Truth: The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Catholic Church (originally appeared in the National Catholic Register) is reprinted at Christendom-Awake.org.
My work has appeared in
- The National Catholic Register
- Our Sunday Visitor
- Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity
- The Catholic Answer
- My Daily Visitor
- The Priest
- St. Anthony Messenger
- Catholic Men's Quarterly
- The Writer
- CatholicExchange.com
- Pittsburgh Catholic
- Harrisburgh Patriot-News
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- New York State Nurses for Life Newsletter
- Catholic Educator's Resource Center (catholiceducation.org)
- Suite101.com
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