Letter to the Editor: July-August 2012

Tuning in to the Elemental Vibrations of Existence... Parsing Out Pleasure & Pain... Power Trippers... A Return to Barbarism... The Trouble With Double Agency... Connecting Christians... Anglican Anxieties, Roman Rewards... Why Overlook Revelation 7?... When Is Kneeling Appropriate?... Revisiting Trianon... The Anscombe Legacy... The Terminology that Leads to Termination... The Future Belongs to the Fertile... The Death & Rebirth of a Man... Better Than Rice Cakes

The News You May Have Missed

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Lust for Learning... Cross-Dressing Crooks... Baby's Long Way... An Adequately Advertised Establishment... Digital Dismissal... Dull & Boring... Vacation Donation... Punishing Perilous Pedestrianism... Little Hero

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2012

Sister Act... Is America Becoming More Pro-Life?... The Numbers Game... How to Change a Culture

"Gay Marriage" Is Not Marriage. Here's Why.

AN INVITATION TO INSANITY

Monica Migliorino Miller

The needed healing of our sexual ethic is primarily the work of the Church — a Church that contributed to the moral degeneration of the culture by remaining silent on contraception.

Ancient Perspective on the Postmodern Condition

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #30

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.

The classics could teach what virtue is, but they could not figure out a way to practice it. The Christian would argue for the help of grace. But even with grace things go wrong.

A True Turnaround, A Real Revolution

A COPERNICAN RE-VISION OF SEX

Mary Rosera Joyce

This view is the beginning of a true sexual revolution: That the person is basically spiritual and has a soul that receives physical causes and expresses itself physically.

The New Atheism: All the Rage

GUEST COLUMN

Andrew M. Seddon

It takes faith to believe that atheism provides the optimal milieu for humanity to thrive and progress, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

In Danger of Death

GUEST COLUMN

Kenneth Baker

When man reflects on his mortality, when he suffers hunger, thirst, sickness, or danger, he naturally turns to God, the source of all life, for assistance.

The Bioethics of Fertility & Gender

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The Church stands as a bulwark against sexual madness, insisting that sexual identity is a permanent “biological reality informed by a rational soul in each person.”

Briefly: July-August 2012

Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics... The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God: The Story of Ruth Pakaluk, Convert, Mother, and Pro-Life Activist