Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: May 2013

New Oxford Notes: May 2013

Will the Real Pope Francis Please Stand Up?

Aside from style, Francis gives every indication of carrying on the essential spiritual vision of Benedict XVI, particularly in battling the "tyranny of relativism."

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
The Identity of the Family Is in Jeopardy

In 2010 then-Cardinal Bergoglio sent a letter to the Carmelite nuns of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires asking them to pray that God spare their nation from the harm of same-sex marriage.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

Letters to the Editor: July-August 2026

Disgusting Junk... Denials, Omissions & Contradictions... Bitcoin: Failing the Fungibility & Morality Tests... Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?... and more

Briefly: September 1989

Review of The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II... The Spanish Civil War as a Reli­gious Tragedy... Pilgrim to the Russian Church... Letters to Marc About Jesus... The Melody of Theology: A Phi­losophical Dictionary... Lister Hill: Statesman from the South... The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History... Intellect and Spirit: The Life and Work of Robert Coles... Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky... Viper's Tangle

New Oxford Notes: March 2013

The Revolution That Wasn't... Forty Years After Roe: Have the Tables Finally Turned?