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Same-Sex "Marriage" & the Totalitarian Notion of Civil Authority

Freedom-of-conscience clauses are an implicit admission that the law might be unjust, and if a law might be unjust, it ought not to be passed…

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Briefly Reviewed: September 2023

Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era... Educating for Eternity: A Teacher’s Companion for Making Every Class Catholic

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An Elegy for Bloom

Bloom understands that literary study, in contradistinction to cultural studies, is, and ever will be, an elitist endeavor in the service of aesthetics.

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Pope in Marseille: ‘Duty of humanity’ to save migrants

Made trip to attend 'Mediterranean Encounter' meetup

Top Swiss bishop: ‘Time is ripe to abolish celibacy’

Gmür, under fire to resign, trots out lefty buzzwords

Paris priest pens frank open letter to new cardinals

Says youth are eager for demanding and solid teaching

UN resolution keeps abortion 'right' amid pandemics

Part of attempt to create new international 'right' to kill

Aussie bishop ‘goes rogue’ amid abuse investigation

Openly flouts Vatican instruction to leave his diocese

Orgs aim to open euthanasia houses across Canada

One operates in Toronto; a funeral home offers same

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Pope in Marseille: ‘Duty of humanity’ to save migrants

Made trip to attend 'Mediterranean Encounter' meetup

Top Swiss bishop: ‘Time is ripe to abolish celibacy’

Gmür, under fire to resign, trots out lefty buzzwords

Paris priest pens frank open letter to new cardinals

Says youth are eager for demanding and solid teaching

UN resolution keeps abortion 'right' amid pandemics

Part of attempt to create new international 'right' to kill

Aussie bishop ‘goes rogue’ amid abuse investigation

Openly flouts Vatican instruction to leave his diocese

Orgs aim to open euthanasia houses across Canada

One operates in Toronto; a funeral home offers same

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Abortion

What Goes on Inside the Clinic… Consumed by Zeal for the Culture of Death… Eugenics in the USA… Graphic Images: An Apologia… Bumping Off Baby... Pro-Abortion & Anti-War?... Unwanted Children? Disposable as Last Sunday's Paper... and more

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Conversion Stories

Exotic Seed, Sown Deep in the Persian Dust... From Murderer to Monk… My (Crooked) Path to the Monastery… Why Attila the Hun Would Have Sacked a Protestant Rome…

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Ecumenism & Ecumania

A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas… The Catch-22 of Ecumenical Relations With Evangelicals… and more

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Newsom's Political Dissimulation

By John M. Grondelski
September 25th 2023 1:55 PM

In a surprise development, nominal Catholic California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed legislation that instructed California courts to take a parent’s “gender affirming” views into…

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Don’t Take Your Anger to Bed

By John M. Grondelski
September 21st 2023 1:06 PM

Last Sunday’s readings focused on the corrosive effect of unjust anger and its ability to choke off -- as in the case of the wicked…

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Macro-Matters & Wonder

By James Hanink
September 20th 2023 11:28 AM

“Philosophy begins in wonder.” So says Aristotle in his Metaphysics. Reflecting on this text, St. Thomas teaches that a goal of metaphysics is to establish…

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Flannery O'Connor

Fragmented Lives of Incomplete Reckoning... Tyranny of the Perverse Will... From the Grotesque to Love... Flannery O’Connor: And Her Own Received Her Not... and more

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Is Benedict to Blame?... Sex, Lies & Dossiers: The Vatican at the Crossroads... The Kasper-Ratzinger Debate... more

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The Two Worlds of John Henry Newman… Newman's Advice to Anglo-Catholics… Newman’s Prophetic Challenge to Clericalism…

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Front & Center

Same-Sex "Marriage" & the Totalitarian Notion of Civil Authority

Freedom-of-conscience clauses are an implicit admission that the law might be unjust, and if a law might be unjust, it ought not to be passed…

READ ARTICLE
Briefly Reviewed: September 2023

Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era... Educating for Eternity: A Teacher’s Companion for Making Every Class Catholic

READ ARTICLE
An Elegy for Bloom

Bloom understands that literary study, in contradistinction to cultural studies, is, and ever will be, an elitist endeavor in the service of aesthetics.

READ ARTICLE

In The News

MORNING MUST-READS
Pope in Marseille: ‘Duty of humanity’ to save migrants

Made trip to attend 'Mediterranean Encounter' meetup

Top Swiss bishop: ‘Time is ripe to abolish celibacy’

Gmür, under fire to resign, trots out lefty buzzwords

Paris priest pens frank open letter to new cardinals

Says youth are eager for demanding and solid teaching

UN resolution keeps abortion 'right' amid pandemics

Part of attempt to create new international 'right' to kill

Aussie bishop ‘goes rogue’ amid abuse investigation

Openly flouts Vatican instruction to leave his diocese

Orgs aim to open euthanasia houses across Canada

One operates in Toronto; a funeral home offers same

VIEW ARCHIVE
Pope in Marseille: ‘Duty of humanity’ to save migrants

Made trip to attend 'Mediterranean Encounter' meetup

Top Swiss bishop: ‘Time is ripe to abolish celibacy’

Gmür, under fire to resign, trots out lefty buzzwords

Paris priest pens frank open letter to new cardinals

Says youth are eager for demanding and solid teaching

UN resolution keeps abortion 'right' amid pandemics

Part of attempt to create new international 'right' to kill

Aussie bishop ‘goes rogue’ amid abuse investigation

Openly flouts Vatican instruction to leave his diocese

Orgs aim to open euthanasia houses across Canada

One operates in Toronto; a funeral home offers same

VIEW ARCHIVE

The Narthex

The New Oxford Blog

Newsom's Political Dissimulation

September 25th 2023 1:55 PM

In a surprise development, nominal Catholic California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed legislation that instructed California courts to take a…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

Don’t Take Your Anger to Bed

September 21st 2023 1:06 PM

Last Sunday’s readings focused on the corrosive effect of unjust anger and its ability to choke off -- as in…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

Macro-Matters & Wonder

September 20th 2023 11:28 AM

“Philosophy begins in wonder.” So says Aristotle in his Metaphysics. Reflecting on this text, St. Thomas teaches that a goal…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST
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Topics

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Abortion

What Goes on Inside the Clinic… Consumed by Zeal for the Culture of Death… Eugenics in the USA… Graphic Images: An Apologia… Bumping Off Baby... Pro-Abortion & Anti-War?... Unwanted Children? Disposable as Last Sunday's Paper... and more

VIEW DOSSIER
Conversion Stories

Exotic Seed, Sown Deep in the Persian Dust... From Murderer to Monk… My (Crooked) Path to the Monastery… Why Attila the Hun Would Have Sacked a Protestant Rome…

VIEW DOSSIER
Ecumenism & Ecumania

A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas… The Catch-22 of Ecumenical Relations With Evangelicals… and more

VIEW DOSSIER

Stand up and defend your faith.

Culture is shifting, but you can count on The New Oxford Review for an unwavering Catholic point of view. The message of the Church is easily muddled in today’s increasingly hostile, secular culture. We understand what’s coming at you, and we have articles and resources to help you defend your faith and grow in your understanding of Catholic teachings.

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