New Oxford Notes: October 2013
Is Francis Flogging Conservative Catholics?
Left-leaning journalists trumpet Pope Francis's "new direction," using thinly-veiled triumphalist language to show that the pontifical tables have finally turned.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Obama the Great & Powerful
The American public has greeted the ascent of Barack Obama with quasi-religious zeal, as exemplified in his 2008 campaign slogan, "Faith, Hope, Obama."
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
You May Also Enjoy
Christian Ethics in a Secular Arena... Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood... The Recovery of Political Theory: Limits and Possibilities... Architects of Fear... Gospel Radicalism: The Hard Sayings of Jesus
The principle of subsidiarity, central to Catholic social thought, makes interesting contact with the associational tradition of American life as elaborated by Tocqueville.
Sr. Joan Chittister says that "nuns should not be discouraged by their falling number" despite the fact they're going extinct.