Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: June 2001

New Oxford Notes: June 2001

More Sensitive Than Thou

Use of the word Pharisee is "an old Christian parody"?

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
One More Caught in the Dragnet

Our Sunday Visitor charges that the NOR "vilified" Neuhaus.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
"Beauty": An Ugly Excuse for Copping Out

Gregory Wolfe says he came to discover that modernity is more "complex" than he had thought.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
"Barbaric," They Say

We don't see how any employer with a conscience could hire a woman who's killed her unborn baby to advance her career.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Going to India Without Really Leaving Kansas City

National Catholic Reporter publisher admits he doesn't believe in Hell.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

Checking Out of the Local Library

Today's librarians apparently believe the only way to get kids to read is to sucker them in with books about television characters, or worse.

Chivalry Scorned Is Love Denatured

Gentlemanliness flourishes when women hold men to high standards, expecting them to be magnanimous, civilized, and chaste.

Pope Pius XII

Riebling's use of archival material to write "heart-pounding" history makes for an outstanding vindication of Pope Pius XII.