Letters to the Editor: January-February 2024

Integral Parts of Parochial Life... Trinitarian Implications... An Act of Positive Defense... A Modern Warrior Pope... Ecumenism in the Trenches... Genuine Development vs. Inauthentic “Reform”... and more

The News You May Have Missed: January-February 2024

Hindu Hoodwinkers... A Cure Worse than the Disease... Thanking the Gods... Nana’s National Treasure... and more

Are We Living in the Last Days?

A TIME OF TESTING

James Patrick

Scripture and Tradition testify that the order of this world ends in the chaos from which it was formed when the hand of God withdraws its providential order.

Reply from an American to a “Letter from an American”

DOES THE LADY KNOW WHAT SHE’S TALKING ABOUT?

D.D. Desjardins

Abortion was a crime in the extant states in 1868 and in the territories that became states after 1868 and the District of Columbia. Yet later, Roe was called “settled law”?

America’s Deposit of Faith

FOUR LITERARY EVANGELISTS

Will Hoyt

Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, and Dickinson together comprise a reliable foundation for realist biases that are fully in line with the Platonic-Augustinian tradition.

From the Narthex

In this special section, which runs as an occasional feature, we present samples of the offerings in the Narthex, the NOR’s online blog.

Transanity Is Taking Over. How Will the Church Respond?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Gender ideologues are at work in the Church -- no surprise. That they occupy positions of power and speak with authority is, however, cause for great concern.

The Fifth Last Word

'I THIRST'

Casey Chalk

We followers of Christ are likewise called to thirst for souls, to burn with desire to see others saved — not only our family and friends but everyone we meet.

Candles & Candlemas

REMINDERS OF OUR LORD

John M. Grondelski

The humble candle is a sacramental of the Church; it reminds us of Our Lord and our call to illumine this world with His light, and it is an assurance of His protection.

Briefly Reviewed: January-February 2024

The Springtime That Never Came... Everywhen: God, Symmetry, and Time... Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life