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Flesh Is Best

Babies require their parents to inhabit the real world, to occupy time and space and physicality. Babies destroy gnostic escape; they are the anti-video game.

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College of Cardinals in 2023 is diverse & unpredictable

Census: Proportion of Catholics in Poland falls to 71%

Meanwhile, 'nones' & those who won't specify tripled

DeSantis would support 15-week national abortion ban

Candidates Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, & Pence have said same

Vatican bank seeks $1M for reputational damage

In finance trial; due to Becciu's illegal & amateurish acts

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DDF gives French cardinal/abuser Ricard light penalty

He remains member of dicastery after admitting abuse

New Hong Kong cardinal: Goal is sharing love of God

'Without the agenda' of turning others into Catholics

72% of current cardinal electors were named by Francis

College of Cardinals in 2023 is diverse & unpredictable

Census: Proportion of Catholics in Poland falls to 71%

Meanwhile, 'nones' & those who won't specify tripled

DeSantis would support 15-week national abortion ban

Candidates Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, & Pence have said same

Vatican bank seeks $1M for reputational damage

In finance trial; due to Becciu's illegal & amateurish acts

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Crossing Red Lines

By Barbara Rose
September 26th 2023 2:49 PM

Last week Ukrainian President Zelensky visited the U.S. and Canada seeking more money and weapons. As reported by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos at Responsible Statecraft (Sept.…

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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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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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Front & Center

The Penitent Pigeon

Would a woman like Pelagia truly repent in public? Would she put aside her pride and status, all that she had lived for, to humble…

READ ARTICLE
Flesh Is Best

Babies require their parents to inhabit the real world, to occupy time and space and physicality. Babies destroy gnostic escape; they are the anti-video game.

READ ARTICLE
Checking Out of the Local Library

Today's librarians apparently believe the only way to get kids to read is to sucker them in with books about television characters, or worse.

READ ARTICLE

In The News

MORNING MUST-READS
DDF gives French cardinal/abuser Ricard light penalty

He remains member of dicastery after admitting abuse

New Hong Kong cardinal: Goal is sharing love of God

'Without the agenda' of turning others into Catholics

72% of current cardinal electors were named by Francis

College of Cardinals in 2023 is diverse & unpredictable

Census: Proportion of Catholics in Poland falls to 71%

Meanwhile, 'nones' & those who won't specify tripled

DeSantis would support 15-week national abortion ban

Candidates Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, & Pence have said same

Vatican bank seeks $1M for reputational damage

In finance trial; due to Becciu's illegal & amateurish acts

VIEW ARCHIVE
DDF gives French cardinal/abuser Ricard light penalty

He remains member of dicastery after admitting abuse

New Hong Kong cardinal: Goal is sharing love of God

'Without the agenda' of turning others into Catholics

72% of current cardinal electors were named by Francis

College of Cardinals in 2023 is diverse & unpredictable

Census: Proportion of Catholics in Poland falls to 71%

Meanwhile, 'nones' & those who won't specify tripled

DeSantis would support 15-week national abortion ban

Candidates Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, & Pence have said same

Vatican bank seeks $1M for reputational damage

In finance trial; due to Becciu's illegal & amateurish acts

VIEW ARCHIVE

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Crossing Red Lines

September 26th 2023 2:49 PM

Last week Ukrainian President Zelensky visited the U.S. and Canada seeking more money and weapons. As reported by Kelley Beaucar…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

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

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…

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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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