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"Getting to the bottom of things" is what philosophy is all about. So argues Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, in an essay collection…

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Symposium on the Greatest Threats to the Church

Pope Leo must contend with difficult internal Church dynamics and the demands of a polarized world and an increasingly unlearned yet hypercritical world population.

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Motives of Credibility: The Miracles of the Saints

Since the apostolic age, the Church’s growth has been accompanied by an incredible diversity of miracles.

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Order of Malta aims to help reconstruction of Gaza

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At popular celebrations for Feast of the Santo Niño

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SCOTUS appears likely to uphold trans athlete bans

Can't look past the harm done to girls by woke madness

NY state senator pushes for more church security

After multiple crimes at parishes on Staten Island

Cdl. Czerny on consistory: An excellent experience

Says College of Cardinals worked together as a college

Order of Malta aims to help reconstruction of Gaza

Its Bethlehem hospital, clinics face restrictions, violence

Philippines archbishop forbids gambling advertising

At popular celebrations for Feast of the Santo Niño

Author C. Gress: Feminism 'decapitated the family'

And drove 'much of the decay of the Christian West'

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Fitting the Punishment to the Crime

By James Hanink
January 13th 2026 12:59 PM

There’s no shortage of true crime, and there hasn’t been since Cain murdered Abel. Fast forward and, turning from fratricide to parricide, we have the…

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Three Liturgical Calendar Reforms

By John M. Grondelski
January 12th 2026 12:53 PM

Almost fifty years out from the 1969 Roman Calendar reform seems a fitting distance to assess what works and what hasn’t. By and large, I…

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The Hollow Oath

By Marcus Peter
January 8th 2026 1:04 PM

The recent swearing in of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani on the Quran has reignited a conversation that America prefers to keep comfortably superficial. Thus,…

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Nero Fiddled & We Watch Television

"Getting to the bottom of things" is what philosophy is all about. So argues Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, in an essay collection…

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Symposium on the Greatest Threats to the Church

Pope Leo must contend with difficult internal Church dynamics and the demands of a polarized world and an increasingly unlearned yet hypercritical world population.

READ ARTICLE
Motives of Credibility: The Miracles of the Saints

Since the apostolic age, the Church’s growth has been accompanied by an incredible diversity of miracles.

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In The News

MORNING MUST-READS
SCOTUS appears likely to uphold trans athlete bans

Can't look past the harm done to girls by woke madness

NY state senator pushes for more church security

After multiple crimes at parishes on Staten Island

Cdl. Czerny on consistory: An excellent experience

Says College of Cardinals worked together as a college

Order of Malta aims to help reconstruction of Gaza

Its Bethlehem hospital, clinics face restrictions, violence

Philippines archbishop forbids gambling advertising

At popular celebrations for Feast of the Santo Niño

Author C. Gress: Feminism 'decapitated the family'

And drove 'much of the decay of the Christian West'

VIEW ARCHIVE
SCOTUS appears likely to uphold trans athlete bans

Can't look past the harm done to girls by woke madness

NY state senator pushes for more church security

After multiple crimes at parishes on Staten Island

Cdl. Czerny on consistory: An excellent experience

Says College of Cardinals worked together as a college

Order of Malta aims to help reconstruction of Gaza

Its Bethlehem hospital, clinics face restrictions, violence

Philippines archbishop forbids gambling advertising

At popular celebrations for Feast of the Santo Niño

Author C. Gress: Feminism 'decapitated the family'

And drove 'much of the decay of the Christian West'

VIEW ARCHIVE

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Fitting the Punishment to the Crime

January 13th 2026 12:59 PM

There’s no shortage of true crime, and there hasn’t been since Cain murdered Abel. Fast forward and, turning from fratricide…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

Three Liturgical Calendar Reforms

January 12th 2026 12:53 PM

Almost fifty years out from the 1969 Roman Calendar reform seems a fitting distance to assess what works and what…

READ MORE ON THIS BLOG POST

The Hollow Oath

January 8th 2026 1:04 PM

The recent swearing in of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani on the Quran has reignited a conversation that America prefers…

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Is Modern Man Too Healthy for Literature?... Flannery O'Connor & the Representation of Mystery... Reading as Sacrament... more

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Sacred Music

Rising from the Mire... In Praise of Honest Sentiment... Why the Music Is So Bad... Offering Our Musical Best at Mass... and more

VIEW DOSSIER
Vital Works Reconsidered

When No Man Was His Own... A Thomistic Vision of Man’s Final End... Purgatory on Earth... What Is Free Time For?... 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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