Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: May 2015

New Oxford Notes: May 2015

The Beginning of the End?

A recently installed pastor's decision to allow only boys to serve at the altar has made headlines throughout the San Francisco area and across the nation. Salvatore Cordileone is his archbishop.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
The Theological Blurriness of Cardinal Marx

German Cardinals Marx and Kasper have implied by their words and actions that national episcopal conferences can form their own doctrinal and pastoral policies apart from Rome and contrary to the Church's universal teaching.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

“Do This In Memory of Me”

Composure (being "really present -- with body, mind, and soul, with attention, reverence and love") must be willed and practiced. It is "attitude necessary" at Mass.

Teaching Sexual Abstinence to Teenagers

Recently, I went to a center for teen­age girls where the teacher asked what they…

The Last Rhetorical Refuge of an Intellectual Scoundrel

A writer in the outrageously compares the Church's refusal to ordain women with a Muslim mob's murder of a young woman.