Letters to the Editor: July-August 2023

Lex Canendi, Lex Credendi?... Pius XII’s Tireless Defender... A Morally Offensive Gap?... A Person Is a Person & Nothing Else... and more

The News You May Have Missed: July-August 2023

International Health Leader?... Black-Market Body Shop... Backpacking Heat... Phone Drain... Serial Fatherhood... and more

Are “White Lies” Ever Permissible?

THE INTRINSIC TELEOLOGY OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION

Brian Besong

On its face, the debate seems insignificant to the point of banality: Can a lie be morally justified? Yet, the matter cuts to the heart of our moral heritage.

An Elegy for Bloom

A STAUNCH DEFENDER OF THE WESTERN CANON

Cicero Bruce

Bloom understands that literary study, in contradistinction to cultural studies, is, and ever will be, an elitist endeavor in the service of aesthetics.

Ecumenism: A Reassessment

TIME FOR SOME PLAIN-SPOKEN TRUTHS

Thomas Storck

The desire for Christian unity can assume such importance that insistence on points of doctrine comes to be regarded as inconvenient or divisive.

Honji Suijaku: Shell Game of the Gods

MIX AND MATCH DEITIES

Jason M. Morgan

When one set of gods merges with another, all that’s really needed is to make charts designating which god goes where. More gods? Bigger chart. Easy.

From the Narthex

In this special section, which runs as an occasional feature, we present samples of the offerings in the Narthex, the NOR’s online blog.

Why Won’t Parents Let Their Kids Be Parents?

GUEST COLUMN

David A. Wisemann

In the past, parents generally did not consent to non-therapeutic, experimental procedures on their minor children. We have reached a point where they do.

Checking Out of the Local Library

NOVELTY OVER GOODNESS

Eric Jackson

Today's librarians apparently believe the only way to get kids to read is to sucker them in with books about television characters, or worse.

Briefly Reviewed: July-August 2023

Here we review The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Aristotelian Meditations