New Oxford Notes: November 2008
Did the NOR Change the Course of the 2008 Presidential Race?
Did you know that, before John McCain tapped Sarah Palin, the GOP presidential nominee was considering an exorcist as his running mate?
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
An Exorcism Available to Everyone
The "most efficacious exorcism," asserts Fr. Fanzaga, "is mortification" -- the subduing of the lusts of the flesh through ascetic practices such as fasting.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Life, Precious & Precarious
Cardinal Gracias of Bombay condemned all abortions and promised a poor couple that the Church would raise their baby if he were allowed to live.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
A Lesson From the Past
Will Archbishop Niederauer exert the supremacy of the Catholic Church over Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi?
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
You May Also Enjoy
An enormous irony shadows us throughout life: our capacity, our willingness even, to talk one line and live another — like the policeman caught stealing, the lawyer who breaks the law.
When man reflects on his mortality, when he suffers hunger, thirst, sickness, or danger, he naturally turns to God, the source of all life, for assistance.
While Kasper makes a fair point that reform of the annulment process may be due, his proposal for how this could be done seems at best counterproductive.