New Oxford Notes: March 2004
Berkeley's Linguistic Outlaws
Phony language is reprehensible, but language has a way of exacting its own revenge.
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"No One Ever Goes to Hell Who Has Been Truly Loved by Another"
Msgr. M. Francis Mannion is still at it, giving bum answers to good questions.
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A Whitewash
From OSV's lovely obit of Bishop Ferrario, you'd never know he was a sex abuser.
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"A Very Negative Witness Is Being Given"
It would seem that the Dominican Fr. Radcliffe knows more than we do about homosexual priests.
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The history of liturgical reform that led to the promulgation of the New Mass predated Vatican II by several decades.