Letter to the Editor: July-August 2017

No Deliverance... Cosmic Misfits... How to Put Men Back to Work... Blatty & Me... A Model for Russian Union with Rome... The Details Don't Add Up... What St. Cyprian Says to This Age... We Can Do Much Better... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Domo Arigato, Fr. Roboto... Self-Boycott... Huaraches of Victory... A New Era for Cuba... Bunker Mentality... Primate Update... Rocking the Hairy Chest... Free-Speech Breach... Screaming for Peace... Love Train... and more

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2017

The Song Remains the Same... Silence of the Shepherds

On the Waterfront in Ranong

A FIRE CAST UPON THE EARTH

Casey Chalk

I am struck by the passion of the Marists who evangelize the far reaches of the Pacific. One of their perduring mottoes is "Unknown and partially hidden in this world."

Is the Future "Female"?

DOES THE CHURCH OPPRESS WOMEN ?

Frederick W. Marks

It's simply untrue that women were suppressed across Christendom and through the so-called Dark Ages and Middle Ages until religion lost its grip on the West.

Why Was Christ a Male & Why Did He Ordain Only Men?

ON NATURE & THE ECONOMY OF GRACE

Raymond T. Gawronski

The priest symbolizes the Bridegroom, but he is not the Bridegroom; rather he lends his male body and soul to Jesus to re-enact the symbolic nuptials.

Why the Murray Project Failed

THE AMERICAN WAR AGAINST VESTIGIAL MEDIEVALISM

Will Hoyt

Freedom in its fullest sense isn't the absence of constraints. Rather, it is orientation toward the good and embedment in a community of mutually dependent selves.

Briefly: July-August 2017

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City... A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within... Conclave