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Do Historical Norms Alter Church Teachings? Should They?

Revelation was not designed primarily to explain how to make this world perfect, but to reveal how men in any time or place are to…

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Reading as a Spiritual Discipline

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Merchants of Casual Sin

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Iraqi bishops’ standoff is sent to higher authority

Either the Dicastery for Eastern Churches or the pope

HHS punishes Oklahoma for state's pro-life policies

Denies it Title X fam-planning funds, sends $ to PP instead

Cdl. Schönborn: ‘We must accept the decline of Europe’

But emphasizes, 'Catholics should return to the Church'

Rebel TX Carmelites disregard bishop’s peace offer

He'd assign them an FSSP priest, but with conditions

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East Timor Catholics enthusiastically welcome Pope

Almost 98% of the country’s 1.4M people are Catholic

Supreme Court to review child-safeguarding cases

On trans treatment & age-verification for online porn

Iraqi bishops’ standoff is sent to higher authority

Either the Dicastery for Eastern Churches or the pope

HHS punishes Oklahoma for state's pro-life policies

Denies it Title X fam-planning funds, sends $ to PP instead

Cdl. Schönborn: ‘We must accept the decline of Europe’

But emphasizes, 'Catholics should return to the Church'

Rebel TX Carmelites disregard bishop’s peace offer

He'd assign them an FSSP priest, but with conditions

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A New Kind of Chaplain

By John M. Grondelski
September 10th 2024 11:36 AM

Bentley is a private university in Waltham, just outside Boston, Massachusetts. It started life as a business school but a cursory look at its webpage…

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If I Ran the Zoo(s)

By James Hanink
September 8th 2024 9:36 PM

If I were to run the Big City Standard Zoo, it would become a whole lot smaller. Snakes and turtles, birds and bugs would stay.…

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Is Retirement 'Unproductive'?

By John M. Grondelski
September 6th 2024 11:41 AM

We need to change the subject in discussions about retirement from the economic (in)solvency of Social Security to the meaning and significance of retirement. My…

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Front & Center

Do Historical Norms Alter Church Teachings? Should They?

Revelation was not designed primarily to explain how to make this world perfect, but to reveal how men in any time or place are to…

READ ARTICLE
Reading as a Spiritual Discipline

Whether it is a good or a bad reader who opens every new book with the prayer to be challenged and improved by it, it…

READ ARTICLE
Merchants of Casual Sin

Oprah and the age of casual sinning she embodied, coupled with therapeutic celebrations of the same, must be met with a heavy dose of hard…

READ ARTICLE

In The News

MORNING MUST-READS
East Timor Catholics enthusiastically welcome Pope

Almost 98% of the country’s 1.4M people are Catholic

Supreme Court to review child-safeguarding cases

On trans treatment & age-verification for online porn

Iraqi bishops’ standoff is sent to higher authority

Either the Dicastery for Eastern Churches or the pope

HHS punishes Oklahoma for state's pro-life policies

Denies it Title X fam-planning funds, sends $ to PP instead

Cdl. Schönborn: ‘We must accept the decline of Europe’

But emphasizes, 'Catholics should return to the Church'

Rebel TX Carmelites disregard bishop’s peace offer

He'd assign them an FSSP priest, but with conditions

VIEW ARCHIVE
East Timor Catholics enthusiastically welcome Pope

Almost 98% of the country’s 1.4M people are Catholic

Supreme Court to review child-safeguarding cases

On trans treatment & age-verification for online porn

Iraqi bishops’ standoff is sent to higher authority

Either the Dicastery for Eastern Churches or the pope

HHS punishes Oklahoma for state's pro-life policies

Denies it Title X fam-planning funds, sends $ to PP instead

Cdl. Schönborn: ‘We must accept the decline of Europe’

But emphasizes, 'Catholics should return to the Church'

Rebel TX Carmelites disregard bishop’s peace offer

He'd assign them an FSSP priest, but with conditions

VIEW ARCHIVE

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A New Kind of Chaplain

September 10th 2024 11:36 AM

Bentley is a private university in Waltham, just outside Boston, Massachusetts. It started life as a business school but a…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

If I Ran the Zoo(s)

September 8th 2024 9:36 PM

If I were to run the Big City Standard Zoo, it would become a whole lot smaller. Snakes and turtles,…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

Is Retirement 'Unproductive'?

September 6th 2024 11:41 AM

We need to change the subject in discussions about retirement from the economic (in)solvency of Social Security to the meaning…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST
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America: History, Culture & Politics

Losing Our Religion… American Libidocracy… Twilight of the Idols… The Most Segregated Hour… This Land is Not Our Land… and more

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Communism & Marxism

The Soviets’ Doomed Battle with Byt... Kindred Spirits, Fellow Victors... Croatia: “The Ramparts of Christendom”... If Not Communism or Capitalism, What?... The Crumbling of Communism: Good for the Catholic Church?... and more

VIEW DOSSIER
Travelogues

Freak Bus Across Afghanistan... The Divine Life of St. Nazianz... Postcards from the Ruins of a Christian Civilization... 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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