Letters to the Editor: October 2022

The Devolution of Human Communication... Edifying & Salubrious... A Failure of Papal Responsibility... Regarding Ukraine, Francis Is Right... A Blessing Behind Bars

The News You May Have Missed: October 2022

A Diet with Worms... What’s in Your Water?... Feast Like a Feline... Piggie Pop... Worth Its Weight in Beer... Victims of the Algorithm... and more

Private Revelations: Authentic, Paranormal & Preternatural

THE ODD CASE OF ADRIENNE VON SPEYR -- PART I

Richard E. Gallagher

Pseudo-mystical phenomena have occurred in cases of seemingly pious individuals who are unwittingly tricked by demons, sometimes for years.

A New Look at the Old Testament

TWO TESTAMENTS, ONE WORD

Frederick W. Marks

Short-selling the Old Testament is regrettable. The Church of Rome has always been clear that the New Testament doesn’t supersede the Old.

Behemoth Goes Back to Bed

A SHORT STORY

Jeffrey Wald

An enormous fat cat, reminiscent of a miniature hippopotamus, strolled the sidewalk. It had been decades since he’d been out. Some things were different...

Is America Under Divine Interdict?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

John Paul II wrote of political superpowers that all-consuming pursuit of profit and power are “forms of modern imperialism” and “real forms of idolatry.”

When the Secular Saints Go Marxing In

REVOLUTION WITHOUT END

Jason M. Morgan

Some call on "the American way of life" as a bulwark. But the American way of life is whatever the latest and strongest revolutionary says it is.

Officers of the New Regime

'HARASSMENT SPECIALISTS' & 'CHIEF PURPOSE OFFICERS'

John A. Perricone

When ordinary folks like your son, your wife, or your grandmother agree with the Harassment Specialists and Chief Purpose Officers, then the political is personal.

Switching to Mission Mode

Christopher Beiting

What we need is a renewal of the mind through an appeal to the imagination; the morals will come later.

Briefly Reviewed: October 2022

How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss... Knowledge and Evolution... A Declaration of Dependence