Letter to the Editor: November 2011

The Ringing of Revolution... Latin Was the Vernacular... Freedom to Speak the Truth... Heroism & Humility... Evangelizing With NFP... An Overwhelming Read... A Prison Scholar's Special Plea ... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Mothers Are Expensive to Replace... The Doctor Is Out... Return of the Temple Prostitutes... Unloved Triangle... Is There a Waiver for That?... Cheaper Than Therapy... White House Home Brew... and more

New Oxford Notes: November 2011

Into the Void... Combating Cultural Vandalism: The Scottish Example

Does the Catholic Church Still Count?

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S HEALTHCARE MANDATE

Kenneth D. Whitehead

Since federal bureaucrats don't agree that contraception and abortion are evil, they don't think anybody's religious rights are violated by their mandates.

The Quest to Know

ON FINDING OUR CONTEXT IN THE COSMOS

Tom Martin

The purpose of being a teacher on the "playground" of the cosmos is to transmit the truth of disciplined thought to the next soul.

Altar Boys: The Problem or the Solution?

THE COST OF ECCLESIAL EQUALITY

Ken Skuba

We fixed what wasn't broken with a correction that wasn't necessary, and in the process created a real problem that seems impossible to repair.

On Fatima & the Private Interpretation of Private Revelations

ARE THE LAST FOUR POPES A BUNCH OF LIARS ?

Howard P. Kainz

Interpretation of the three ‘secrets’ entrusted to the children at Fatima has been subjected to the vagaries of private interpretation by otherwise faithful Catholics.

The Primetime Blues

GUEST COLUMN

Arland K. Nichols

The family's natural orientation toward becoming a school of virtue and love demands difficult decisions by parents on the media they and their children consume.

A Eulogy for "Selective Death"

Terry Scambray

How refreshing it is to hear two atheist scientists call Darwin’s pet theory “utterly implausible, empty, and internally, fatally and irredeemably flawed.”

We're All Socialists Now

Edwin Dyga

The traditional left and mainstream right are in the same camp, usually competing over the externals of governance, not the real substance of policy.

Feminists Are Wrong About Women's Ordination

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The reservation of the priesthood to men is not a matter of "discipline" or Church law that may be rescinded but is "theologically certain" and a "doctrine of faith."

Briefly: November 2011

Review of Time and Eternity: Uncollected Writings 1933-1983, by Malcolm Muggeridge... The Spirit of Father Damien: The Leper Priest — A Saint for Our Times