New Oxford Notes: January-February 2010
Which Side Are You On?
The practical effect of the Pope's Anglicanorum Coetibus has been to crystallize the significant differences between modern Anglicanism and Holy Mother Church.
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It's Always the Family
Whoever said that pornography is a victimless crime? The family is usually the first to suffer.
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The Kennedy Legacy Continues
Senator Ted Kennedy may be dead and buried, but the family legacy lives on in the person of his son Patrick.
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There is something undeniably bittersweet about the sublimation of a distinct culture into the flat, American consumerist anti-culture touted as an improvement.
Vatican II's vaunted reforms couldn't keep Catholics from being swept away from the Church. There wasn't much Pope Benedict XVI could do to stop this, and surely he can't be blamed for it.