New Oxford Notes: November 2016
Big Brother North of the Border
Canada is writing laws based on gender defined as a sense, an experience, and the result of expression: dress, hair, make-up, body language, voice, name, and personal pronoun use.
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Return of an Imaginary Menace
Dire warnings of the impending overthrow of American institutions by Christian theocrats -- remember the term 'American Taliban'? -- never came close to coming to pass.
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Here, selected from a large collection, are snippets from recent homilies heard at Catholic Masses. To each I have given a response.
As a human being and a Jew, I frequently feel real fear living in a post-Christian country. A Christian country? Barely, and not for long, unless we do something about it.
The path of explaining -- let alone implementing -- Catholic wisdom as applied to societal matters is a long and complicated one. It helps to have authentic lay Catholics in high offices.