New Oxford Notes: March 2009
Strange Spirits & Alien Gods
The changing of the presidential guard was accomplished this past January with a measure of political bluster and a mess of religious blather.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Pope Benedict's Tightrope Act
The Pope's recent decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops has sent shockwaves reaching far beyond Christendom.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Avery Cardinal Dulles & Fr. Richard John Neuhaus: In Memoriam
Within a span of 30 days, the Catholic Church in the United states lost two of her most prominent and respected thinkers.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.You May Also Enjoy
Will's conservatism is one that works at "dusting off old ideas, not generating new ones." It does this out of the conviction that "after all, most new knowledge is false."
The "most efficacious exorcism," asserts Fr. Fanzaga, "is mortification" -- the subduing of the lusts of the flesh through ascetic practices such as fasting.
Is Deal Hudson's career ruined because of sexual debauchery? Apparently not.