New Oxford Notes: March 2012
Where Have All the Students Gone?
Media coverage of Catholic school closings in city after city raises a certain question that isn't asked, and that few can even imagine asking.
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Liturgical Winners & Losers
The successful implementation of the third edition of the Roman Missal represents a stinging defeat for the progressive faction of the Church, and a resounding victory for the "reform of the reform" party.
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Given an absence of time for imagining alternatives, our humanity is defined in terms of consumption. We lack the peace needed to cultivate ourselves as unique persons.
Once the principle is adopted that you can ignore the Universal Moral Law for pragmatic reasons, the door is wide open for all types of evils to enter.