Vital Works, Revivified

EDITORIAL

Engaging the great ideas as part of a broader discussion of topics relating to the faith is a vital resource in the evangelization of our culture.

Frank W. Creel (1942-2010)

EDITORIAL

A dedicated and tireless orthodox Catholic, he gave freely of his time and talents to further the work of the NOR, even into the last weeks of his life.

Letter to the Editor: July-August 2010

Best Read on an Empty Stomach... Almsgiving According to the Didache... Rational Animals, Sentient Persons... Tools & Their Uses... Destroying the Devil's Playground... What About Mary?... Out of Evil, Good... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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The Mosque Underwear Riot... Naked, and Ye Caused an Accident... Roadway Radiation Repair... My Two Wives... June Is So Gay... Ending Gender-Bending... Return Then, Most Gracious Advocate - Redux... Scum of the Eart, the Church... Conversions of Convenience

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2010

The Devil's Fingerprints... City of Confusion - Part II... It Can't Happen Here, Can It?... In Turkey, the Church Officially Does Not Exist

The 2010 Easter Offensive

OBJECTIVE: BENEDICT

Kenneth D. Whitehead

The fantasy notion that the Pope was complicit in abuse cover-ups was considered nearly everywhere in the media to be a solidly established fact.

Two Dubious Anniversaries

C.S. LEWIS & T.S. ELIOT ON CONTRACEPTION

Gregory K. Laughlin

Neither Lewis nor Eliot was willing to condemn all uses of artificial contraception, yet both had obvious concerns about the moral implications of its use.

Three Victorian Morality Tales

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #19-21

Matthew Anger

See how three authors — in varying degrees of sympathy with, or hostility toward, Christianity — expressed their conception of the basic struggle between good and evil.

Four Sins that Cry to Heaven

TRANSGRESSIONS PERSONAL & SOCIAL

Thomas Storck

They are: willful murder, unnatural sexual acts (sodomy), oppression of the poor -- often widows and orphans -- and defrauding the laborer of his wages.

Catholic Education for Children of Same-Sex Couples?

GUEST COLUMN

Gail Besse

Archbishop Chaput says if parents "live in a manner that openly rejects" Catholic beliefs, "then partnering with those parents becomes very difficult, if not impossible."

A Married Priesthood: Why Not?

GUEST COLUMN

George Buddleighton

One reason is marriage would expose the priest to an extra burden in that his duty to family could only compromise his vow of obedience.

Islamic Contradictions

Philip Blosser

Review of Cracks in the Crescent by Hussein Hajji Wario