Letter to the Editor: September 2012

The Glorious & the Grotesque... Riders on the Storm... Stranger Than Fiction... Theater of the Absurd... The Mother of Madness... Natural Law Appeals... Antidote to Anti-Logic... A Prison Scholar's Special Thanks... A Time to Speak or a Time to Keep Silence?

The News You May Have Missed

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Stink Bomb... Redemption Through Reading... No Laughing Matter... Remains of the Day... For Greater (GastrointestinabpGlory... Feminine Excellence... Appetite for Destruction... Now, About Those Leprechauns... Look Who's Talking Now

New Oxford Notes: September 2012

Guaranteed Controversy... Man-Child in the Promised Land

Can Nice Guys Finish First?

TIM TEBOW: A FLUKE ?

Frederick W. Marks

One must assume that men and women will be most creative when they are closest to a Creator who is the source of all truth, goodness, and beauty.

Why Support Catholic Schools?

A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ASKS…

W. Patrick Cunningham

Catholic schools embrace a mission that is illegal in public schools: the embodiment of Jesus Christ in the faculty, staff, students, and their parents.

Is the Natural Law Still Natural?

PERMANENCE IN AN ERA OF CHANGE

Donald DeMarco

The natural law is a kind of moral blueprint that points us in the direction of our full flourishing as human beings.

Is Postmodern Man Irrational?

MELINDA SELMYS REPLIES:

Melinda Selmys

The Gospel was spread in the first centuries through an appeal to the wondrous mystery of the cross, the paradox of the redemption of man through the murder of God.

The Ass of Burden & the Lion of Conquest

A HIDDEN PROPHECY

Edmund B. Miller

The presence of the lion implies victory. The ass's presence, however, means that the victory will not be easy, but will result from the bearing of heavy burdens.

Too Late Have I Loved You

GUEST COLUMN

John Ballentine

Though I didn’t suffer the physiological consequences of abortion, I couldn’t escape the psychological ones.

The Optimistic Pessimism of G.K. Chesterton

Chene Richard Heady

GKC did believe creation and its Creator are good, but not that the majority of people would always choose rightly or that any merely human structure would endure.

Briefly: September 2012

The Church and Abortion: A Catholic Dissent... Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile (Revised and Updated)