New Oxford Notes: December 2011
Behind the Mask
The media hype a world population of seven billion, but growth is decelerating and we’ll face a new problem: under-population.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Incredible Shrinking Churches
Some mainline Protestant denominations are in rapid decline because they have no message that is discernibly different from the secular culture.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
The "Super Catholic" Syndrome
Catholic apostolates and institutions must practice transparency and overcome the pitfalls of secrecy and elitism in order to avoid cultishness or a polarized, us-vs.-them mentality.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
You May Also Enjoy
Michael O'Brien is an accomplished Catholic novelist. His strength is fiction.
“Don’t you fear dying?” a young woman asked me. I said I feared not dying. For her, death is the end of a life of pleasure. For me, it's the end of decline.
Augustine wrote his Expositions over a period of 20 years at the end of his life. After the fall of Rome, fragments were found in monasteries all over Europe.