New Oxford Notes: January-February 2013
Dispatch from the Lunatic Fringe
Idolizers of Vatican II hold an 'anti-spirit' of the Council, according to which everything that is 'new' is always better than what has been or what is.
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Hollow Theology
While Catholic colleges have stronger core requirements than their secular counterparts, most have abolished requirements for students to take Catholic theology courses.
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Sexual Sanity on the Dark Continent
Two tribes in remote areas of the Central African Republic demonstrate sexual ethics that dovetail well with Church teaching and do not include homosexual acts and masturbation.
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I left the Unification Church two-and-a-half months after I entered it, fighting with myself, relieved and unhappy at the same time.
Is the now-undisputed loss of prosperity a harbinger of another kind of seeking, one to which the hedonist playground our parents set up cannot lend itself?