Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: July-August 2014

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2014

A Manufactured Controversy

Those raising the most vocal objections to new diocesan teacher contracts -- which stipulate that teachers conduct themselves according to basic Catholic principles in their public lives -- are those who do not agree with many of the Church's teachings.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

The Secular Mind IV: Relativism

My student was a stand-in for millions of us who have been hearing in schools and reading in newspapers that "values vary, depending on the person."

The New Atheism: All the Rage

It takes faith to believe that atheism provides the optimal milieu for humanity to thrive and progress, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

The Shot Heard 'Round the World

When, on March 19, 1996, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, announced that Catholics in…