Letter to the Editor: May 2016

Something Rotten... A Great Disservice... The Church's Proper Jurisdiction over Marriage... Christ's Vomitus... Our Need for Mercy... How Dare You!... In the Footsteps of the Master

The News You May Have Missed

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Marrying Me... Jihad Jokester... The Perils of Praying on a Plane... Six-Year-Old Activists... Mourning in America... Trump Supporters Need Not Apply... Chalk Intimidation... The Fall of Western Civ... A Blind Racist on the Bench?... and more

New Oxford Notes: May 2016

The New Double Standard... All Aboard the Suicide Train

Is the "New Evangelization" No More Than a Marketing Slogan?

THE ORIGIN & OBFUSCATION OF AN IDEA

Randall B. Smith

Asking a room full of Catholics what the new evangelization is garners either blank stares or a score of completely different answers.

A Surrender Total & Complete

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #44

F. Douglas Kneibert

In preparation to embrace God’s providence, Fr. Caussade has us renounce our self-love, our will, our efforts, our plans, and our fears, anxieties, and doubts.

The Canticles of Genderspirit

LADY GAGA, MACKLEMORE & THE SEXUAL SELF

Jason M. Morgan

The entire premise of gender theory is that the mind and the body needn't be in concert with each other at all. But hit pop songs say precisely the opposite thing.

'The Remnant' Crosses the Rubicon

GUEST COLUMN

John Médaille

Debate, dialogue, discuss, argue, or even shout, as your personal taste in such matters dictates. But schism is never the answer.

The Big Lie

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

From the first, Protestant historians gave a wildly implausible death toll of those murdered by Catholics in 1641.

The (Supposedly) Secret History of Esoteric Writing

Thomas Storck

Strauss and his heirs have in effect proposed an entirely new interpretation of Western intellectual history, with profound implications for Church and society.