New Oxford Notes: January-February 2012
Shameless Shepherding
Bishops in Germany have taken an embarrassingly long time to learn that: "We cannot earn money during the week with what we preach against on Sundays."
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Saints for a Secular Nation
Secularism could be said to be our national religion, with its own pantheon of "saints," including the newly "canonized" Steve Jobs, founder of Apple and perfecter of the glowing handheld idol.
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This Faith has three basic dogmas: the primacy of desire, the creative energy of competition, and “nonjudgmentalism.”
Murray consistently located himself in the Natural Law tradition and claimed that the constitutionalism he defended had its roots in the writing of Thomas Aquinas.
Public discourse remains limited to material concerns, but what really differentiates human beings is culture, which is founded on religion.