
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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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., offers us a choice regarding "which images of the divine" — Christian or Hindu — are "most theologically cogent today."
Pro-abortion Catholic politicians are unlikely to experience problems with their new bishops in coming years.
The systematic protection of homosexual behavior is a consequence of an even greater lie: that there are no real differences between the sexes.