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

Briefly: May 2001

Reviews of The Idea of Culture... The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest... Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China... The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth... Voices of the Saints... The Montessori Method

Attack of the Bots!

Last year, the NOR came under attack. Who was responsible remains a mystery, but truth be told, we’ve yanked a lot of chains over the years.

The Development of Social Doctrine

A Chris­tian’s concern for the material well-being of his neighbors springs, properly, not from a flat secular­ist social-welfare mentality but from an authentic interior spirituality.