
New Oxford Notes: April 2012

The Future of Marriage in America
Perhaps the Church in America could take a lesson from Mexico, where the government does not recognize ecclesiastical marriages and Catholics must get married .
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Occasions of Truth
Sustained national discussion of taboo topics like contraception and Planned Parenthood have yielded valuable 'teaching moments' and surprisingly countercultural essays in some mainstream venues.
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Will Orthodox Catholics Go to Hell?
Sounds like it, given what Bishop Thomas Gumbleton says.
Sterilization & An Unformed Conscience
To tamper with the generative function, as I did, is to make myself a god, or to tell God, in effect, “I know better than You do.”
Perspicuity: Protestantism’s Achilles’ Heel
Within the Reformed tradition, the most famous articulation of perspicuity, or clarity, is found in the 17th-century Westminster Confession of Faith.