New Oxford Notes: September 2008
Enforcing Tolerance
Public schools are thumbing their nose at parents, saying: "We can teach your kids whatever we please, and there's nothing anybody can do about it."
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Marriage on the Fringes -- For Now
Will the slippery slope lead us to a society that no longer looks askance at a woman who decides to marry herself, her mother, her sister, or the Statue of Liberty?
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A Question of Conviction
When sacrilegious art -- like a painting depicting the Virgin Mary wearing a G-string -- appears on a Catholic campus, what should be the proper response?
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Modern man, reserved and calculating, must restore true heroism, true spontaneity to his life, Brandsma taught, so that love, sacrifice, and courage may be allowed to perfect our human nature.
Answer: when he is a Messianic Jew. According to Israeli law, a Jew ceases to be a Jew for purposes of immigration to Israel when he embraces another religion, in particular Christianity.
Borne up by priestly hands beyond the dark
The clean oblation of the harvest moon
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