New Oxford Notes: April 2003
Hitting Below the Belt
Crisis magazine responds to Michael Rose by banning NOR's ads from their pages.
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It's Time for Another Free Speech Movement
She required that we ban, Those damned suffixes, "man."
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The Plight of the Diocesan Catholic Journalist
A former editor of a California diocesan paper says "it's a mistake to refer to us as 'journalists'... We're publicists or PR men for the bishops."
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If Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, Would Three?
Amy Welborn says she is, after an annulment, in her "second marriage" - to a former priest.
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Liberal Catholic theologians cannot brook dissent from their own way of thinking. They won't debate subjects they consider long settled, and will resort to censorship to silence dissent.
The path of explaining -- let alone implementing -- Catholic wisdom as applied to societal matters is a long and complicated one. It helps to have authentic lay Catholics in high offices.