Letter to the Editor: January-February 2016

The Wilson Question at Princeton... The Problem with Asking "What If?"... The Failure of Safety-First Arguments... A Devilish Dervish... The Supposed Success of Surrogacy... Adding to the List of the Obscure... Francis: Equal-Opportunity Critic... In Defense of the SSPX...

The News You May Have Missed

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The Bishop Has No Clothes... Six-Year-Old Man-Child... Saggy Pants Ban... Getting Lit Up... Boy Toys for Girly Girls... Building a More Genuine You... Snap Judgment... In Pasta They Trust... Zombie Christmas... Star Wars Christmas... Stressed Out by White Jesus... DaVinci's Landing Pad... Mystery Makeover... Your 2015 Word of the Year

New Oxford Notes: January-February 2016

Francis & the Lutherans: Intercommunion Confusion... Giving an Appearance of Solidity to Pure Wind

The Other Side of Mercy

CHRIST'S MISSION OF TOUGH LOVE

Frederick W. Marks

Meditation on divine mercy is counterproductive if it crowds out our fear of Hell, along with our recognition that God can and will allow souls to go there.

The Consuming Fire

HILL COUNTRY EAST OF BETHEL — PART II

Will Hoyt

We as a people perpetuate a bias against the same sacramental sensibilities and incarnational anthropologies upon which the original city-on-a-hill idea was founded.

Freedom, But to What End?

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #43

Christopher Gawley

'Torrents of Spring' appears almost intentional in its diminishment of patriarchy. Turgenev does not seem to connect the tragedy of his characters to the absence of their fathers.

Briefly: January-February 2016

In the Maelstrom of Secularization, Collaboration and Persecution: Roman Catholicism in Modern Czech Society and the State... The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times