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2011 October

Letter to the Editor: October 2011

Like a Hot Meal... Insulting to Jews & Catholics... On the Proximity of the Apocalypse... Do We Have a "Choice" to Worship Goddesses?... Affirmative Reaction... An Incomplete Experience... Polish Piety, Freeze-Framed... Capitalists Can Be Generous Too... On Shoehorning Evolution... Don't Be Duped by Values Talk... Prison Pen-Pals... and more

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The News You May Have Missed

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Desperate for Stamina... Sterile Raffle... The Killer Joke... The Lazy Convert... Inflatable Parish... Bishop Bobblehead... Simple Simony... My Own Private Chernobyl... Twenty-First-Century Iconoclast... and more

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New Oxford Notes: October 2011

The New Islamophobia... The Fall of an American Idol, Season 2

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The Role of 'Ramparts' Magazine in the Campaign Against Pius XII

A CATHOLIC FRONT FOR COMMUNIST AGITATION

Ronald J. Rychlak

The change in Pius XII's reputation was not an organic result of honest inquiry. Something else was at play.

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What Yad Vashem Reveals About the Jewish Sense of History

SELECTIVE MEMORY, COLLECTIVE GUILT

Paul Michael Ferguson

To honor Pius XII would be to honor the Catholic Church. Doing so would render nonsensical the placement of the Church among the Complicit.

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Sheldon Vanauken Remembered

FROM OUT OF C.S. LEWIS'S LONG SHADOW

Chene Richard Heady

The full depth of his literary case for faith cannot be gathered from 'A Severe Mercy' alone, which deliberately narrates only the first half of his life.

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Recalling the Glories of the Faith

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #26

F. Douglas Kneibert

Karl Adam's great achievement is to remind us of the inexhaustible resources the Church possesses to carry out her task.

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No Catholic Church, No Scientific Method

GUEST COLUMN

Scott Locklin

Modern atheists like to think of the Church and religious people as the forces of darkness; in reality, the Catholic Church was the birth of the light of reason.

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The Christocentric Shift

Arthur C. Sippo

Ratzinger found Jesus not only in Tradition and Scripture but also in the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and most directly in the Real Presence.

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Briefly: October 2011

Review of Whose Church? A Concise Guide to Progressive Catholicism

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