New Oxford Notes: April 2009

What happens to a religious order based on the charism of its founder when that founder is discovered to have led a life of sexual abuse?

Nancy Pelosi's insolent braying awoke the sleeping giant: Some 30 bishops issued correctives to her erroneous comment about when life begins.

Why have the U.S. bishops seemed none too keen on drawing attention to the Vatican report on the moral and intellectual life of U.S. seminaries?

"It's a Dog's Life"?

Surely the murder of one of God's furry creatures is cause for outcry.

Schillebeeckx

Since 1966 Edward Schillebeeckx promoted a heterodox (the so-called “new Dutch”) Christology, which excludes the divinity of Jesus.

Is the Papacy in Need of Structural Reform?

To advance unity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, their leaders discuss how papal primacy could be exercised in a mutually acceptable way.