Letter to the Editor: May 2013

Hungary: The Envy of Nations... A Small First Step... Ecclesial Weather Forecast... Changing Structures... Marginalized Pathologies... The Architectonic Paradigm for Thought & Action... The Limits of Satire... Not a Nutjob... From Criminalization to Medicalization... Praying With Prisoners

The News You May Have Missed

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Scola Wins!... Papal Prank Call?... A Sign from Heaven... Dogged by the Devil... The Dark Side of Politics... Small, Happy Messages... Student Evaluations... Endangered Punctuation

New Oxford Notes: May 2013

Will the Real Pope Francis Please Stand Up?... The Identity of the Family Is in Jeopardy

Mahony Unbound

EXILE ON SUNSET BOULEVARD

Charles A. Coulombe

The quarter century during which Los Angeles labored under his leadership saw Mahony play larger roles than just that of Archbishop of Canterbury to the local elites.

The Redemption of Man Requires the Redemption of Science

RECOVERING BY GROUNDING MODERN PHYSICS — PART II

Anthony Rizzi

We must truly learn the fact that man is a rational animal made for Truth and then integrate the consequences of this principle into our everyday thinking, feeling, and acting.

Armchair Heroes

PRAY THAT YOU MAY NOT UNDERGO THE TEST

Alice von Hildebrand

Who among us has the wherewithal to recognize evil for what it is, much less have the courage to combat it, when everyone else is in its thrall?

Wheat of Lions

A SHORT STORY

Andrew M. Seddon

Guards tied some of the condemned to posts, while others — presumably the fleetest — were left loose so the lions could chase them for added sport.

An Academic Undoes the Renaissance

Kenneth Colston

For the secularist to come to terms with the traditional (Catholic-leaning) Christian dramatist whom he loves, he must first confront the Bard as he is.

Briefly: May 2013

Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism... and The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers