New Oxford Notes: September 2017
A Pontificate of Mercy — or a Merciless Pontificate?
The time has come to offer an unvarnished look at the fruits of this papacy: Four-and-a-half years of evidence shows that Francis has fomented division and preached politics over the Gospel.
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A Dicastery of Papal Efficiency? Make It So!
Bergoglio was elected as a “reformer pope” with a commission from the College of Cardinals to clean up Vatican finances, which were something of a mess.
Are All Human Beings Persons?
"'Person' is not a generic term," writes Robert Spaemann, "it is the way in which individuals of the human genus exist." One's neighbor is unique and non-fungible.
Archbishop Levada: Advancing on the Chessboard
Levada behaved as though he had been parachuted into a minefield and his job was to emerge without setting off any mines.