Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: December 2016

New Oxford Notes: December 2016

To Kill in the Name of God Is Satanic

The Pope plainly stated, "To kill in the name of God is satanic," but again he studiously avoided identifying Muslim terrorists as perpetrators of this.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
A Sign of Self-Contradiction

Today, transgenderism is firmly established in the cultural landscape. Who will cut through the cant, expose the cultural masquerade, and proclaim the truth? Our religious leaders?

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

With the Down & Out in Waterbury

Wendell Berry has writ­ten of "the real work of planet saving," that it will be "small, humble and humbling." Dorothy Day faced the problem "one small life at a time."

Briefly Reviewed

A review by Brian Welter of In the Beauty of Holiness

Zhivago’s Women & the Moral Vice of Our Time

Self-interest is often recast as “love.” The facile slogan “love is love” blocks any moral critique that could reveal that “love” isn’t always love.