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New Oxford Notes: May 2016

The New Double Standard

Media pundits and cultural elites who routinely excoriate the Church with false charges are oddly silent when it comes to flagrant transgressions by Muslims against gays, women, and non-Muslims.

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All Aboard the Suicide Train

In the Netherlands an increasing number of patients now seek assisted dying because of dementia, psychiatric illnesses, and age-related complaints — in other words, non-terminal medical conditions.

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Letter to the Editor: May 2012

Revisiting Versailles... Vatican II Fault Lines... Abortion, Ethics & Double-Effect... The Burr in the Blanket... Farewell to the Reaper