Catholic Digest - New Orders

After reading the heavy, intense works of apologetics like Scott Hahn and Karl Keating, not to mention intelligent and theologically strong writers such as Patrick Madrid, "Catholic Digest" is a nice step to the lighter side. Yes, I'll admit that "Catholic Digest" doesn't have the hardest hitting articles nor does it always make the reader think much, but it's nice to read a warm, fuzzy story sometimes.

It is very similar to "Reader's Digest" in its content, humor, and article style. Naturally, it does have quite the Catholic edge to it that the other "Digest" lacks, but I wouldn't go into a theology fight with it tucked under my arm. It's reserved more for those times when we want to laugh a little bit or read about a young child making a difference in their community. In recent issues, there have been a number of nice articles on individuals who are Catholic and in prominent places in society, lay volunteers, Pope Benedict's life, and Lourdes, France. None of these articles were very thought-provoking but they did supply the reader with some nice general information. However, the magazine has also tackled tougher issues recently such as the existence of evil as secular society and Christians view it and the Real Presence in the Eucharist that most non-Catholics do not believe.

I converted to Catholicism in 2000. In the years before making my final decision, "Catholic Digest" was one of the resources that I picked up. It didn't offer too much in the way of solidifying my decision to join the Church, but it did make some of bumps along the way a little bit softer.

Not all Catholic literature has to be tough and academic. Every once in awhile we need a good laugh or just a nice story of human compassion. That is what I believe "Catholic Digest" excels in doing. I love reading the works of Hahn, Keating, Madrid, and others, but every now and then I like to pick my latest copy of "Catholic Digest," peruse the "Words For Quiet Moments" or leaf through a short article about a Catholic missionary's work in some arid little town in the middle of nowhere. In other words, it gives you a nice little break from the madness that is a Christian life.

Granted, it is called 'Catholic Digest' but it lacks in the way too many Catholic publications lack... it doesn't get often enough into what it means to live out a Catholic faith in an everyday world.

It is very well-written, and has a sharp "Guideposts" or "Reader's Digest" feel about the look and tone.

Some articles in Catholic Digest can be poignant, but I want my faith challenged. I want to know how I can serve Christ Monday-Friday. Explain to me the Liturgy... why are various aspects of it important? What about what the Bible says about alcohol, or daily prayer? How about defining Mary's official role, dispelling the mistaken belief than she is equal to Christ (the question of veneration versus worship)?

The Protestant magazines are loaded with accounts about how God changed their lives. I'd like to see more of that. The Protestants have lots of Bible studies and that sort of thing in their magazines. Do I have to buy a Protestant magazine like "Discipleship Journal" "Moody Monthly" to learn how to be a better Christian? They're fine, but it seems with the long history of great theologians, someone could get a Catholic variation on all of that.

I think Catholic Digest is the best publication offered for Catholics. But I'd like more meat.

Anthony Trendl

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Having just subscribed to 12 issues of Catholic Digest, and having just browsed through a free copy, I am truly disappointed. This magazine is not the same magazine that I had subscribed to years ago and that it is not a truly Catholic magazine. As a number of other reviewers have pointed out here, and as some writers to the Editor have pointed out, the Catholic Digest has changed! The articles in this magazine have strayed away from the official doctrines of the church. Dissident writers like Andrew Greeley, sj, who have openly disagreed with the Holy See, have columns there. Although Pope JPII died on 3 April this year, the May issue of Catholic Digest made not a single mention about the pope. (Only the June issue started having articles on JPII.) Instead, the cover story in the May issue is about parishes that are being run by women but "women can't be ordained" and "lay people were complaining that clergy in the Church are all-powerful" (?!).

Truly, if the editors have any honesty left, they should either change its title or focus, and not dupe faithful Catholics into subscribing to a pseudo-Catholic magazine.

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If you are looking for Catholic news, culture, spirituality, history, apologetics, liturgical updates, or DOCTRINE, THIS is certainly NOT the magazine for you.

The articles featured in Cath.Dig. are HETERODOX (not orthodox), and stray -in tendency or in explicit terms -from the Magisterium of the Church.

Anti-Christian Feminism, Homosexual Activism, and general Modernist Revisionism and a rebellious "anti-Dogmalism" pervade the pages of "Catholic" Digest, though often (but not always) with veiled language.

For Catholics trying to get their faith straight, or Protestants and non-Catholics trying to find out more about what the Christian Faith is all about, STAY AWAY from this publication!!

As a cleric and a pastor of the Flock of God, I strongly urge you NOT to purchase this magazine.

The Rev. Enzo G. Selvaggi

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The Digest's cartoon in the December issue would be inappropriate in any magazine but in a Catholic magazine it borders on disgusting and blasphemous!!!

L. Giarratano

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