Letter to the Editor: May 2017

Unspeakable Horrors... Feminist Culture? What Feminist Culture?... A Difficult Sell... The Pro-Life Movement's Major Blunder... Intelligent Design: Stuck in an Intellectual Corner... A Letter to the President of Providence College... God's Poor in Pathar & Bhoodanam... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Trial by Fire... White, Like Me?... Her Name Is Allah... Masculinity Confession Booth... Comma Sense... Propaganda Rangers... From Toilet to Tap... Pee-Wee Pumps... Deep Discount... A Bunch of Geniuses... and more

New Oxford Notes: May 2017

Return to the Message of Fatima

Dawah, Dislocation & the Hijacking of Catholic-Muslim Dialogue

THE CIVILIZATION-JIHADIST PROCESS

Timothy D. Lusch

The USCCB must recognize the threat that dialogue with ISNA and ICNA presents, and either seek partners without Islamist motives or end the dialogue altogether.

Why the West Abandoned Standard Rules of Conduct

THE DEATH OF PUBLIC & PRIVATE MORALITY

A. James Gregor

Professors tell us that any and all claims — empirical, logical, or normative — are nothing other than race-, culture-, class-, or gender-based expressions of preference.

"No Enemies to the Left" — Still!

THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION

Kenneth D. Whitehead

Enough aims have been realized in the course of various revolutionary movements that the revolutionary myth continues to kindle hopes in the discontented.

On Pilgrimage with Shakespeare in Protestant England

AMASSING CREDIT IN THE TREASURE HOUSE OF MERIT

Kenneth Colston

Shakes­peare bravely used suspect words like 'pilgrimage' and 'pilgrim,' or variants of these words, at least thirty-one times throughout his corpus.

St. Cyprian on Schism: A Patristic Reality Check

GUEST COLUMN

David D. Jividen

Those who read "On the Unity of the Church" today can profit from it, as the saint's reflections are as valid now as they were when he first inked them.

A New Age of Faith, Even for Atheists

Christopher Beiting

God is not dead, nor doth He sleep. For the first time in human history, four out of every five people belong to one of the great world faiths.

Briefly: May 2017

The Arts and the Christian Imagination: Essays on Art, Literature, and Aesthetics... Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis