New Oxford Notes: May 2000
Coming to Your Parish Soon…
There's a lot of debate about the music in Catholic parishes, including the words of hymns.
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Who's Teaching the Bishops?
...now that the moral theologian Richard A. McCormick, S.J., died.
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Why Do Those Angry, Embittered Sisters Stay in the Church?
"We are stuck…in a kind of bitterness, angry with the church for not changing as we had hoped."
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Where "Ecumenical" Does Not Mean "Nice" & "Bland"
Touchstone magazine doesn't mess around or pull its punches.
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If only a Catholic could run as a Catholic and be elected as a Catholic (and not deny his Catholicism as John Kennedy did in 1960), then Al Smith might stand redeemed.
Charges of Americanism aside, his glorious buildings remain as monuments to the faith he tried to keep and the Church he did his best to serve.