New Oxford Notes: March 2009

The changing of the presidential guard was accomplished this past January with a measure of political bluster and a mess of religious blather.

The Pope's recent decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops has sent shockwaves reaching far beyond Christendom.

Recently, within a span of 30 days, the Catholic Church in the United states lost two of her most prominent and respected thinkers.

Conspiracy of Silence

Fear masked as "prudence" silences those intended by Almighty God to guide the faithful from delivering courageous moral counsel.

Portals to Apostasy?

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., offers us a choice regarding "which images of the divine" — Christian or Hindu — are "most theologically cogent today."

The “New Spirituality” & the Ghost of Catholicism

The “new spirituality” is an ugly caricature of the truths of union with God set forth by the Church, her saints, and her Doctors.