Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: July-August 2014

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2014

A Manufactured Controversy

Those raising the most vocal objections to new diocesan teacher contracts -- which stipulate that teachers conduct themselves according to basic Catholic principles in their public lives -- are those who do not agree with many of the Church's teachings.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

On Grace

What ev­er our motives, problems, conflicts, our secret and not so secret passions, the real moral test of our worth has to be what we do with ourselves in the course of our everyday lives.

The New Tower of Babel

Washington let it be known that if the states would but ask to be enrolled in the Common Core plan, billions of dollars in stimulus money would be theirs.

The Futility of Trying to Derive a Religion from a Book

"Scripture Alone" fails both Muslims and Protestants, as living by one text leads to problems of authority and fundamentalism.