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New Oxford Notes: July-August 2003

Catholicism for Dummies in Pleasant Monthly Installments

The "new" Crisis magazine says its dumbing down its message to help idiots "clarify their thinking."

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What Is It About the American College of Louvain?

The seminary's Vice Rector for Recruitment is being investigated for - you guessed it - buggering teenage boys.

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Devious "Gay" Priests

An (anonymous) homosexual priest "speaks out" in Commonweal.

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OSV's Spirituality for Sensitive Guys

The sensitive guys at e5 are totally in line with our mainstream feminist culture.

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A Lecture on Treating Prelates "Respectfully"

ALL's Judie Brown urges bishops to 'respectfully' deny Communion to those whose presence 'defiles the Mass and the Body of Christ.'

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Briefly: October 2004

Reviews of The New Encyclopedia of Islam by Cyril Glassé, The Remnant Spirit: Conservative Reform in Mainline Protestantism by Douglas E. Cowan, Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom by Thomas Dubay, G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense by Dale Alquist

St. Vincent Pallotti: A Man for Our Time

Vincent was conservative toward God and Church but liberal toward his neighbor. In this he is surely our exemplar.

Open Season on Catholic History in the U.K.?

An attempt to "construct" martyrs as rhetorical ploys does not work. Nothing is more real and solid than their immortal victory and unfading glory.