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2014 June

Letter to the Editor: June 2014

Read the Book, Don't Watch the Movie... Grace not Politics... A Gesture of No Small Significance... Liberalism's Triumph: A Disaster... A Confusion of Terms... Many Monotheisms... Democracy: Tyranny of the Many... Like a Good Father...

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The News You May Have Missed

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The Company We Keep... Alienation Nation... The Army's Humanist Victory... Fixing God's Mistakes?... America's Own Bling Bishop... Swearing Off... Awful but Lawful... Asian Malaise

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New Oxford Notes: June 2014

The High Cost of Free Speech

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Why the Popes Failed to Act

THE NEW SAINTS & THE LEGION OF CHRIST

Jay Dunlap

A central part of the Legion's response-- that "charges had already been thoroughly examined and found baseless"-- explains why three popes ignored the allegations.

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Who Are the Millennial Catholics?

IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE 'NEW FAITHFUL'

Jeffrey R. Jackson

Is the now-undisputed loss of prosperity a harbinger of another kind of seeking, one to which the hedonist playground our parents set up cannot lend itself?

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A Call to Arms

QUO VADIS, ECCLESIA MILITANS?

F. Douglas Kneibert

The first battle the Church militant must fight is against ourselves, for unless the appetites of the flesh are subdued, we will be unprepared for further combat.

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In Defense of Jacob

A MARTYR OF POLYGAMY

Alice von Hildebrand

We know that Jacob ardently loves Rachel, and that Rachel requested that he fecundate her maid. What do we not know? His feelings about such a request.

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The Virtue of Anger & the Sin of Wrath

LESSONS FROM LITERATURE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

Righteous anger is a fire that inflames the heart to take action, enkindles the conscience to call evil by its true name, and purifies the mind to speak the truth.

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My Catholic Hospital's Cooperation with Evil

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph E. Kincaid

As more and more institutions offer abortion, sterilization, and contraception, will we just accept them as part of everyday life?

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The Many Identities of GKC

Chene Richard Heady

Chesterton believed that the purpose of literature was to engage and change its readers, and that the masses had fundamentally good taste.

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Intimate Friends of Jesus Christ

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The priest's sublime fatherhood closely images "the virginal generation of the Eternal Son" by the Father and "the virginal generation of the Church" by the Son.

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Briefly: June 2014

Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity... Do No Harm: A Novel

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