Letter to the Editor: September 2010

Behind the Masks... Adrenaline Rush... Not So Far Apart... What Rogers Wrought... The Bard on Bad Priests... Falacious Argumentation, Troubling Non-Sequiturs... Flannery O'Conner: Clown-College Cheerleader... Getting Better All the Time... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Hot Air... Flushed Away... Sister Bishop... Don't Sweat It... The Honeymooners... The Things Money Can Buy... A World of Pain... The Body Politic

New Oxford Notes: September 2010

Another Victim of Institutional Coddling... The Marketplace of Ideas -- Command-Economy Style

A Permanent Scandal to the World

BAD PRESS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE CHURCH

Chene Richard Heady

Because the Church, like Christ, is a sign of contradiction, she must remain a permanent scandal to the world. As long as she stays true to her identity, she will be under attack.

Roman Catholic Political Philosophy

THE CITY OF MAN & THE CITY OF GOD

James V. Schall

Our two sources of information about what we are, that contained in reason and that contained in revelation, are seen as a coherent and unified whole.

The Realm of Faith

EPISTLE 3

Douglass H. Bartley

Lo! reason dear: first passage to wisdom,/ The prelude to faith, soul's viaticum,/ For its long journey to eternity/ And to the ultimate Epiphany,/ The beatific, three-fold unity

Whither Goeth the Reform of the Reform?

JUMP-STARTING THE RESTORATION OF THE SACRED LITURGY

Ken Skuba

What measures should be taken to fast-forward the reform of the reform; to stop the nonsense and increase the sense of the sacred at Mass?

An Apologia for the Local Parish

ON NOT GIVING UP

Paul Koenen

We ought to pause before we abandon parish relationships, because our salvation might be enabled by the graces they contain rather than hindered by their stresses.

Forget Your 'Good Thoughts,' Send Us Your Prayers

GUEST COLUMN

F. Douglas Kneibert

From sacred Scripture and the rich Catholic school of prayer we know to pray to the Father in the name of the Son and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Voice of Dissent: Alive but Growing Weaker

GUEST COLUMN

E. Christian Brugger

Curran mobilized public opposition in an effort to pressure the Church to change her teachings but later admitted he failed in his aim.

True Medical Care or the Law of the Jungle?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

In "Incapacity and Care" we find a powerful and unanswerable defense of the dignity of the most helpless and vulnerable among us.

Briefly: September 2010

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