
New Oxford Notes: November 2014

Is Adulthood in America Dead?
Consumerism smothers culture and production is a thing of the past. Is it any wonder that men of today are alienated from the very concept of manhood, and are retreating into the cocoon of childhood?
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The Birth-Control Box in the Living Room
Research has uncovered a link between soap operas and lower fertility rates in Brazil, Mexico, and Kenya. In fact, some countries have "a history of using soap operas to cut fertility."
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Enter the American Bergoglio
The National Catholic Reporter, the anti-Catholic Huffington Post, New Ways Ministry, and Call to Action are thrilled with Archbishop-elect Blase Cupich, Chicago's shepherd since 2014.
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As a member of a panel at the University of San Francisco’s 1991 Rerum Novarum…
The norm among the men who wear miters — men who are supposed to possess powers of discernment — appears to be gaffes, ill judgment, and an apparent blindness to reason.
Revelation was not designed primarily to explain how to make this world perfect, but to reveal how men in any time or place are to reach eternal life.