Letter to the Editor: December 2007

Print Edition Only, Please... Personal Compassion, Not Public Policy... The Sect-like Traditionalist Mentality... Investigative Reporting?... Anything But Dull... Fatima: Rumors, Speculation & Doubtful Inferences... Liturgical Dog & Pony Show... Women Have a Superior Capacity to Love...

New Oxford Notes: December 2007

Archbishop Niederauer's Eucharistic Moment... The Dutch Are At It Again... Clandestine "Communion"... Do Not Make Me a Gentile... An Unknown Hero Has Been Beatified... Fox TV Is Violent, Profane & Obscene... The Department of Defense -- Porn Trafficker... Once a Prima Donna, Always a Prima Donna?...

The Christmas Addresses of Pope Pius XII

SQUARELY AGAINST HITLERISM

Charles J. Gangi

Starting at Christmas 1939, Pius XII issued a Christmas Eve broadcast in which he attacked the ideologies of those who had brought the war to mankind.

Against a Paganized Christmas Pageant

WHY IS IT O.K. TO OFFEND CHRIST ON HIS BIRTHDAY?

Gabriel Espinosa

The documents of Vatican II, which indicate that we should respect other religions, do not in any way encourage Catholics to celebrate them.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

The Great Pretender... "They Grope in the Darkness With No Light"... Invasion of the Gentle People... Norwegian Romper Room... Artificial Partners... Buttocks Art... Priest, Prophet & King... Repro Man

The New Technology Is for Amateurs

LAST THINGS

Tom Bethell

As newsrooms begin to resemble ghost towns, flotillas of amateurs are taking up the slack.

The Apologia of an Atheist Mammal

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

A review of atheist Christopher Hitchens's god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Anne Barbeau Gardiner.