Letter to the Editor: April 2016

Fighting Against God... What Is & What Should Have Been... The Timidity of Peter... Unpredictable & Pontifically Zany... Sick of Silicon Valley "Innovations"... A Needed Corrective... Christianity Made Your Day-to-Day Life Possible... The Eye of a Craftsman... Worth the Loss of Sleep... Grossly Inaccurate... more

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Transsexual Jesus, the Play... Facebook Offenders... The Price of Prayer... The Cost of Clean Air... Word War on Women... Brotherhood of the Beard... Paging Doogie Howser... Bacon Break-in... Zodiac Candidate

New Oxford Notes: April 2016

Looking Beyond Malalapalooza... A New Springtime for Liberal Catholicism?

A Virus, a Crisis

EXAMINING THE FALLOUT FROM ZIKAGATE

Monica Migliorino Miller

Why didn't Pope Francis immediately promote natural family planning as soon as he heard the reporter ask about the licitness of "avoiding pregnancy"?

A Radical Recalibration of the Moral Economy

WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF LABOR?

Kenneth Colston

A more receptive attitude toward creation, with less getting and spending and having, and more being and waiting and watching, is a way of cooperating with grace.

Traditionalist & Progressive Totalitarians in the Church

INDOCILE ABSOLUTISTS

Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

Laudato Si' has galvanized both groups: Progressives claim it espouses a radical ecological position; traditionalists counter that capitalism is the best hope for the poor.

Tyranny of the Perverse Will

EVIL FOR EVIL'S SAKE

Mitchell Kalpakgian

Evil offers a glamour or appeal that tempts a person to exercise his will and ignore all the laws, inhibitions, and consequences that warn of danger or tragedy.

Presumption: A Pathetic Self-Deception

GUEST COLUMN

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

How can one disobey God's laws with impunity, redefine rights at will, call sin a virtue, regard self-interest as "conscience," and yet "hope" to be saved by God's mercy?

The Civil War as a Proving Ground for the Church

Christopher Gawley

One might say that the heights the U.S. Church would reach in the first half of the 20th century would not have been possible but for the Civil War.

Briefly: April 2016

From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond: The Long, Jagged Trail to a Postmodern Void... Five Anti-Catholic Myths: Slavery, Crusades, Inquisition, Galileo, Holocaust