Letter to the Editor: November 2014

Just the Facts... Concubinage, Old & New... An "Open Letter to Michael Sam"... The Central Ailment of Modern Society... Whitewashing Foucault

The News You May Have Missed

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ISIS's Identity Crisis... Swing to the Lord... Marriage: For the Dogs... Cell-Phone Gridlock... FIBA Foul... Fight-Like-a-Girl Club... WTF Barbie... Take Up Your Mattress & Follow Me... Parisian Justice?

New Oxford Notes: November 2014

Is Adulthood in America Dead?... The Birth-Control Box in the Living Room... Enter the American Bergoglio

Will Modernity Mean the End of Catholicism?

THE "MOMENT" THAT NEVER AROSE

James V. Schall

The Church is now seen in the eyes of the modern world as a major impediment to the ascendancy of a culture completely based on human rights.

Orthodoxy & Orthopraxy in Right Relation

FIRST THINGS FIRST

Andrew M. Seddon

If we place a social ministry ahead of the salvation of souls (the Great Commission), then we fail not only those we are trying to help, but ourselves and God as well.

Paul VI's Other Neglected Document

DOGMAS ARE NOT ABSTRACTIONS

Thomas Storck

In June 1968 Pope Paul issued a motu proprio, arguably of greater importance than Humanae Vitae, called Solemni Hac Liturgia, a profession of faith.

A Thomistic Vision of Man's Final End

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #38

Rob Agnelli

Dante relied heavily on the philosophy of Aquinas to construct his epic. The Divine Comedy has been referred to as the “Summa in verse.”

A Chronicle of Christendom's Decline

Frederick W. Marks

Historian Warren Carroll is, first and foremost, an eloquent exponent of Judeo-Christian values who puts character delineation front and center.

Anarchists in Chicago

Terry Scambray

The dominant liberal-progressive historians of the past 100 years have "photoshopped" the Haymarket event into their picture of America as an intolerant plutocracy.

Briefly: November 2014

Last Call: Twelve Men Who Dared Answer... Walking with Mary: A Biblical Journey from Nazareth to the Cross... Living on Fire: The Life of L. Brent Bozell Jr... Mind, Matter & Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind... Dietrich von Hildebrand and Edith Stein: Husserl's Students