A Light Shining in the Darkness

EDITORIAL

Independent Catholic magazines — especially those like the NOR that do not receive diocesan, foundational, or other institutional support — will always incur a deficit.

Letter to the Editor: January-February 2011

Invasion of the Baby Snatchers... The Greatest of Evils... Satire Sprinkled with Ageism... Recycle Those Rosaries... The Breaking of Bread... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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PETA's Papal Prophylaxis Ploy... The War on Christmas (cont.)... Bah, Litterbug!... 'Jesus' Kicked Out of Church... The Anty-Christ... Sunny With a Chance of -- Nazis!... Barbie Abuse... Nudely-Wed Photos... Queer in the Hereafter... and more

New Oxford Notes: January-February 2011

The Extraordinary Ordinariate... Words of Wisdom from the Walrus... Condom-mania, the Rerun... Soldiers for the Battle...

Call the Police, It's an Academic Lecture!

IS AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE POSSIBLE?

Randall B. Smith

Unless a speaker is actually advocating violence, we can't simply equate speaking with violence. Speech doesn't become violence simply because one disagrees with it.

The Rhone to the Thames to the Tiber

EVANGELICAL, EPISCOPALIAN, CATHOLIC

Taylor Marshall

I came to see that the Anglican schism of the sixteenth century, and the Protestant Reformation in general, did not reflect the original trajectory of the New Testament.

To Question Authority

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED #22

Christopher Gawley

Turgenev captures an authentic truth in his work: Boys who do not respect their fathers' authority will respect no authority at all.

At Mass, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

WHY LITURGICAL LESSONS AREN'T BEING LEARNED

Michael A. Beauregard

The rubrics, gestures, and symbols that are employed serve a fundamental and very useful purpose: they reveal and give witness to the faith we profess.

Who Can Judge the Quality of a Life?

GUEST COLUMN

Angela Manuel Camel

I thank the heavenly Father every day for sending such a priceless treasure as our daughter. He could have given her to any parents, but He blessed us.

To Visit the Sick

GUEST COLUMN

Donald D. Hook

During the entire period of my wife's ailment, we received not a single telephone call, e-mail, or note from our clergy, let alone a visit or Holy Communion.

Briefly: January-February 2011

Reviews of Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis... Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research...