New to the Mix in 2026

EDITORIAL

Pieter Vree

With this issue we've entered our 49th year of publication. At this time next year, God willing, we will be able to celebrate the NOR’s 50th anniversary.

A New Beginning

EDITORIAL

Casey Chalk

Longtime NOR readers will be familiar with Michael’s story, which first appeared in these pages nearly ten years ago. Here is an update.

Letters to the Editor: January-February 2026

Massacre of the Innocents in Minneapolis... Icons of Christ in the Sensible World... Keep Quiet, Will Ya?... Sex Differences & the Divine Plan... and more

The News You May Have Missed: January-February 2026

Big Time in the Big Apple... Blood Sport... Beef Everlasting... Adding Insult to Injury... Loot Dispute... Your 2025 Word of the Year... and more

The Meaning of Feminine Submission

NUPTIAL & LITURGICAL AUTHORITY

Monica Migliorino Miller

Eve, though derived from Adam, completes him. She is his body, “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” Eve provides Adam his masculine self-identification.

From the Narthex

Selections from the NOR blog: The Tragic End of the Kessler Twins... Everything Rises, Nothing Converges... Fifty Years of Grace

Motives of Credibility: Prophecies

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

If the messianic prophecies confirm Jesus as our Lord, they also confirm the institution that protects the revelation in which the fulfillment of them is described.

Mater Populi Fidelis & Titles Proper to Mary

COVENANT & CIVILIZATION

Marcus Peter

The Church has long taught that Mary’s “yes” at the Annunciation and her steadfast presence at Calvary represent a singular participation in Christ’s saving work.

Every Life a Mass

GUEST COLUMN

C.J. Thompson

Unlike any other transcendent experience, the Mass contains the whole breadth and depth of life. It is birth and death and resurrection, again and again.

Is AI the Anti-Christ?

Will Hoyt

We now know exactly what this Machine is. It is disincarnational logic, realized. It is exactly what Christ, as defined by the Council of Nicaea, is not.

Briefly Reviewed: January-February 2026

From Silence to Silence: A Benedictine Pilgrimage to God’s Sanctuary... When the Clock Broke... All Ye That Pass By. Book 1: Gone for a Soldier