Letter to the Editor: November 2012

The Natural Law in the Postmodern Milieu... Standing Firm... Anti-Franciscan Bias?... In Defense of "On This Day"... Sir Isaac the Heretic... A Shrewd Trade-Off... The Anchor of Hope

The News You May Have Missed

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Holy Tomato!... But Everyone Has a Father... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof... Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman... Beyond Overdue... Renoir's Gift... Sore Losers... All That Glitters

New Oxford Notes: November 2012

The "Big" Little Papyrus Fragment... There Goes the Village... More Valuable Than Money

Monasticism Meets the Twenty-First Century

THE COMMODIFICATION OF QUIET

Daniel J. Heisey

Men and women who are knocking on the doors of novitiates bring with them the expectations of their postmodern culture of affluence, but they also seek God.

Misreading a Masterpiece

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #31

Kenneth Colston

Critical approaches to Cervantes ignore that substantially documented biographical facts of his life do establish that he was a practicing and ardent Catholic.

God & Man in Kyiv

RELIGIOUS SUPPRESSION ON YOUTUBE

Thomas Basil

Monastery of the Caves was founded on the Dnieper River in A.D. 1015, when Kyiv was capital of the Russian state. The monastery is one of Orthodoxy's greatest.

Why Liberals Love Satire

ACCIDENTS & ESSENCE

James Tillman

Satire plucks a bone from the body of meaning and tradition, and laughs at how ridiculous and useless the bone looks by itself.

The Orientalism of Barack Obama

GUEST COLUMN

Terry Scambray

Modern-day American "anti-colonialism" is composed mostly of neo-Marxism mixed with a smidgen of post-Victorian disillusionment.

Feminists: The Worst Misogynists?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Feminists have brought a tsunami of misery upon members of their own sex with their in­human mantra, "blessed are the barren."

Understanding the Biblical Basis of the Mass

Rosemary Lunardini

What could be more Bible-based than the Mass, already saturated with Scripture, following a liturgical year of readings that corresponds to the life of Jesus?

Briefly: November 2012

What We Can't Not Know: A Guide... The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change... Stages on the Road... Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition