Changing of the Guard

EDITORIAL

Pieter Vree

The New Oxford Review was under the tutelage of one Editor, Dale Vree, for over 30 years, until 2008.

Letter to the Editor: October 2008

Debt & Discernment... The 'Chauvanistic' Catholic Church... The Importance of a Well-Trained Lector... Some of the Victims Are to Blame... Real Sin & Real Guilt... Miracles at Medjugorje?... and more

New Oxford Notes: October 2008

Moving Beyond the 'Yellow Armadillo'... Classical Education in Southern California... A Loss of Nerve?

Peering Into the Abyss

EVIL TO HIM WHO THINKS EVIL

Maria Hsia Chang

Evil's baneful effects may be likened to the invisible, odorless, and deadly radiation emitted by uranium. One must 'put on the armor of God' to resist it.

Halloween Unmasked

DARKNESS INTO LIGHT

Ellen Emerson Brown

The ritual welcome of costumed revelers at Halloween is a drama that allows one to identify with the dead and yet enjoy the catharsis of knowing one is yet alive.

The Theology of Pleasure

THE FULLNESS OF HAPPINESS

Mitchell Kalpakgian

God-given pleasure is not limited to the delight of the five senses. The life of the mind and the desire for truth lead to the love of wisdom or knowledge.

Why the Music Is So Bad

AND WHY IT WILL PROBABLY STAY THAT WAY

Lucy E. Carroll

If music sounds like the background to a social dance or what one hears while sipping margaritas, it has not been subordinated to the sacred.

Alone At Last With My God

GUEST COLUMN

Richard D. Courtney

Remember when the Apostles fell asleep in the garden and Jesus asked, "Can you not watch for one hour with me?"

St. Faustina as a Doctor of the Church

GUEST COLUMN

Michael P. Riccards

Her huge diary is more than a memoir; it is a major corpus on one of the fundamental doctrines of Catholicism -- redemption.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Bishop Wife-Beaters... Blow-Away Church... No More Priestly Piggybacks... Miniskirt Protestors... Upstanding, Even After Death... Boogers Aplenty... Mirror Worship... Double Double... 'Come and Get Some!'

A Bad Bet

Christopher Beiting

Orthodox Catholic ideas are critical to understanding Blaise Pascal, and they are nowhere present in Connor’s biography.

Briefly: October 2008

Review of Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau... Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change... Embryo Culture: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century