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 Siege of Western Civilization
Herb Meyer argues that Western Civilization is the best (earthly) thing to have happened to humanity, and is well worth defending.
On the Frontier
That frontier of innovation, it turns out, is the frontier of oblivion.
History Never Happened
By the time the future comes, the present has bled into the past. The mind makes a story later about some of the scraps and calls it “history,” but no such story exists.