New Oxford Notes: June 2015
The Fraudsters of Islamophobia
The slain editor of Charlie Hebdo has posthumously published a book on the subject of "Islamophobia," which he calls a "misplaced fight" spawned by "disgusting white, left-wing bourgeois paternalism."
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The Roar of the Lion
San Francisco Archbishop Cordileone faces a rebellion of the overclass — a rebellion led by the city's one-percenters, who registered their protest by taking out a full-page newpaper ad.
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Back in the 1920s Pope Pius XI said, “The great scandal of the nineteenth century was that the Church lost the working class.”
Perhaps we'll get concern for the poor, advocacy for peace, and a reaching out to believers on the margins along with a restoration of jettisoned elements of Catholic tradition.
The author sees no problem in his claim that "the kind of philosophical closure that Walker Percy desired — and that was still available in the 1940s — is no longer viable."