New Oxford Notes: April 2007

If God's love is unconditional for everyone, then God is "the Nice Guy Upstairs," and you can do anything you want (fill in the blank).

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Neither the Corporal Works of Mercy nor the Spiritual Works of Mercy include soliciting prostitutes for disabled men.

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Dick Cheney might be callous and impervious when it comes to war, but he's thin-skinned when it comes to his lesbian daughter.

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How far has marriage sunk? Married couples in 2005, as a proportion of U.S. households, "have finally slipped into a minority."

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In Africa, every year six million Muslims convert to Christianity, and very few Christians convert to Islam. In Europe it's a different story.

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The Church as the Context for the Family

Ed. Note: In our March issue, we published a symposium on Roman Catholicism and “American…

Born in the U.S.A.

Let us not love America inordinately or unrealistically. It is enough to be Americans without also being vainglorious Americanists.

In the 2,000 years of Christianity, its internal dangers have been twofold (it is in…