
New Oxford Notes: September 2016

Charles Curran Makes a Confession
Fr. Charles Curran says he now recognizes "the omnipresent reality of white privilege and how it has affected our understanding of and approach to theology."
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Barbarians Inside the Temple
By killing a priest as he celebrated Mass, Islamic supremacists have framed their ongoing aggression as a religious war between Islam and Catholicism.
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French author Yves Chiron presents Paul as torn between mind and heart, with strong emotional reactions tempered at times by rational thought.
The Beautiful, when it is transcendent Beauty, is more properly spoken of as Glory, a distinction which renders earthly beauty a kind of metaphor of glory, yet which robs earthly beauty of none of its dignity.
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