New Oxford Notes: July-August 2013
The French Revolution, Part Deux
France is seeing its largest, most prolonged public demonstrations of the past several decades; millions are protesting same-sex marriage and adoption.
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States expend considerable effort rewriting statutes using "gender-neutral vocabulary" and manipulating our language in the service of a broad sociopolitical agenda.
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Enough aims have been realized in the course of various revolutionary movements that the revolutionary myth continues to kindle hopes in the discontented.
Daily we hear of intemperate students demanding this or that “right” drawn from a grab-bag of potential claims on others’ behavior.
Fr. Charles Curran says he now recognizes "the omnipresent reality of white privilege and how it has affected our understanding of and approach to theology."