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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The night the sauerkraut
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The awful…
The extraordinary form has a depth of imagery that the post-Vatican II revisers of the Mass simply eschewed, especially as regards the eucharistic sacrifice.
One goes to a New Order Mass to receive the Eucharist, since it is a valid rite, but one does not go for its beauty or splendor.