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New Oxford Notes: July-August 2003

Catholicism for Dummies in Pleasant Monthly Installments

The "new" Crisis magazine says its dumbing down its message to help idiots "clarify their thinking."

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What Is It About the American College of Louvain?

The seminary's Vice Rector for Recruitment is being investigated for - you guessed it - buggering teenage boys.

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Devious "Gay" Priests

An (anonymous) homosexual priest "speaks out" in Commonweal.

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OSV's Spirituality for Sensitive Guys

The sensitive guys at e5 are totally in line with our mainstream feminist culture.

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A Lecture on Treating Prelates "Respectfully"

ALL's Judie Brown urges bishops to 'respectfully' deny Communion to those whose presence 'defiles the Mass and the Body of Christ.'

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