New Oxford Notes: November 2013
The Poor Misunderstood Pope?
While Pope Francis doesn't deny the truth or the faith, he implicitly calls some of it into question, not only by his call for a re-ordering of priorities, but through his uncertain and inexact language.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
You May Also Enjoy
The Way Jesuits Used to Be
A quarter century later, I shudder to think at the whiny, undisciplined, anarchic creature I could have become but for that gruff old priest.
Motives of Credibility: Holiness
Because the Church is the Body of Christ, the sins of the faithful are a deviation from her Christ-originating holiness. They obscure but cannot eliminate her holiness.
A New Look at the Old Testament
Short-selling the Old Testament is regrettable. The Church of Rome has always been clear that the New Testament doesn’t supersede the Old.