Glancing to the Past, Bracing for the Future

EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: July-August 2013

This Is Somewhere... Cardinal Mahony: The Video... Suffering & Death... Faith in the Face of Baleful Forces... Curtailing the Courts... Applause for a Grand Project... Don't Die on Us!... Is Pope Francis Flouting Tradition?

The News You May Have Missed

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Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse... Paging Doctor Dolphin... Company Loyalty: Only Skin Deep?... Is a Kiss Still Just a Kiss?... Broomstick Ban... Lesbian Asylum... BC's Betrayal... Purchase a Piece of History

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2013

The French Revolution, Part Deux... Big Sister Is Listening to You

Same-Sex "Marriage" & the Totalitarian Notion of Civil Authority

MAKING PUBLIC WHAT IS PRIVATE

William Newton

Freedom-of-conscience clauses are an implicit admission that the law might be unjust, and if a law might be unjust, it ought not to be passed at all.

On Shakespeare's Supposed Catholicity

WHAT HAS HISTORY REVEALED?

Keith Hopkins

What can we say, if anything, about the Bard's religious and political views and how, if at all, are they woven into the plays themselves?

The Trials of Following One's Conscience

A CO TELLS HIS TALE

Thom Nickels

The law of the land in 1969 provided little hope for pacifists who did not belong to religious denominations with a marked anti-war theology.

Where Religion Went Wrong in America

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Christian orthodoxy became a "minority persuasion, easily dismissed as sectarian by the press and the wider public alike."

Briefly: July-August 2013

Trent: What Happened at the Council