New Oxford Notes: November 2011
Into the Void
One would think that retooling, remarketing, and simplifying the bishops' voting guide would be a priority aimed at enlarging its readership. Unfortunately, it is not.
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Combating Cultural Vandalism: The Scottish Example
It's hard not to be impressed by the Scottish bishops' consistent, powerful salvos fired at the Scottish government over same-sex marriage legislation.
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Fr. Hugh Kennedy, the narrator and protagonist, lacks glamor, jets to no international colloquia on Third World grievances, and worries not a whit over his sexuality.
Good fiction uses the events and tensions of everyday life on one level to draw us deeper and deeper into the writer’s perception of truth or reality on another.
In the midst of the starkness, the ribald laughter, and the dormant figures wrapped in their headphones, I thought, "But for the grace of God, this is the world."