New Oxford Notes: June 2001
More Sensitive Than Thou
Use of the word Pharisee is "an old Christian parody"?
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One More Caught in the Dragnet
Our Sunday Visitor charges that the NOR "vilified" Neuhaus.
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"Beauty": An Ugly Excuse for Copping Out
Gregory Wolfe says he came to discover that modernity is more "complex" than he had thought.
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"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.
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Going to India Without Really Leaving Kansas City
National Catholic Reporter publisher admits he doesn't believe in Hell.
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