New Oxford Notes: September 2002
If It's Good for the Goose…
If it’s OK for an out-of-the-closet “gay friar” to live in an all-male environment, then why can’t red-blooded heterosexual men live in nunneries?
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Killing Michael Rose
Why were moderate Catholic papers such as Our Sunday Visitor so desperate to discredit Michael Rose’s book Goodbye, Good Men?
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The Register Steps Into the Ring
Why is David Pearson "hopping mad" at Michael Rose and the NOR?
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Burn, Baby, Burn!
No theologian, however much revered, is beyond fraternal correction. So when Scott Hahn argued that we must see the Holy Spirit as "mother," we weighed in.
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Pride Precedes a Great Fall
The Washington Redskins must now also contend with PC Indian activists.
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From "Rembert the Reconciler" To "Rembert the Unperson"?
Archbishop Weakland empties Church coffers for his...uh, young male lover.
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