New Oxford Notes: March 2009

The changing of the presidential guard was accomplished this past January with a measure of political bluster and a mess of religious blather.

The Pope's recent decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops has sent shockwaves reaching far beyond Christendom.

Within a span of 30 days, the Catholic Church in the United states lost two of her most prominent and respected thinkers.

Fragments on the Death of a Muskrat

Ballpeened by a bumper,

Struck down by steel,

Bowled hard over pavement,

Done in with…

The Third Man & the Third Millennium

Graham Greene sees the most dangerous thing of all: ordinary human beings unwilling to distinguish between the dollar and the cross.

The Extraordinary Witness of Marthe Robin

Ed. Note: During the 1985-1986 academic year, Henri J.M. Nouwen was a priest-in-residence at the…