New Oxford Notes: November 2001
The Chittister Creed
Pope Joan is in the headlines again — big time this time.
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Immigrants: America's Hope?
Now the white man is — or is becoming — the burden.
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"The New Evangelization"
Fr. Owen Kearns announces that his National Catholic Register is "not conservative."
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No-Man's Land
Catholic "centrists" risk committing "the fallacy of false symmetry."
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Jesus Found Guilty of Hate Speech
America magazine bellyaches about how Catholicism has historically expelled "heretical Christians" from its midst.
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