Letter to the Editor: July-August 2008

Transformation Through the Atmosphere... Prostrations in Eastern Orthodoxy... A Messenger From Heaven... The Angelic Doctor on Prostrations... Get Serious... Staying Put... Out of the Mouth of Babes... Sincerity or Pandering... Too Much Choice... Rubrics? What Rubrics?... and more

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2008

Interview With a Carmelite

Did Mary's Assumption Really Occur?

DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

Hurd Baruch

In the absence of a credible dormition narrative from the early Church, is there any other source to turn to for a plausible description?

Pilgrimage to Meryem Ana Evi

ON HOLY GROUND

Nan Rooksby Rohan

Mary's house remained essentially hidden from the world until 1950, when Pope Pius XII proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.

The Order of Justice & the Order of Charity

CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS & CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

James M. Jacobs

As members of society, we are bound to uphold the order of justice; as members of the Church, we are bound to uphold the order of charity.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Bare Necessities... Crackpots... Rock-Solid Marriage... Brother E.T... Holy Scrape... Up, Up & Away... Animal & Plant Dignity... Will the Real Lesbians Please Stand Up

The Perennial Crisis of Clerical Sexual Abuse

Paul Bower

An attitude found among much of the laity is that an abused child will simply "bounce back" from grave sexual abuse once he grows up.

Briefly: July-August 2008

Review of First Saturday Devotions... Some Catholic Writers... The Case Against Perfection