Letter to the Editor: January 2005

A Republic, Not an Empire... Stick With the Republican Party... The New Totalitarianism... Follow the Money... Sidestepping the Issue... A Wholesale Abrogation By Men of Their Leadership Role... more

New Oxford Notes: January 2006

"But What About Socialization?"... A Princely Salary... "A Deeper Ground"?... Kill 'Em!... Hit Men for Opus Dei...

Archbishop Levada: Advancing on the Chessboard

"THE EXACT MIDDLE OF THE ROAD"

Tom Bethell

Levada behaved as though he had been parachuted into a minefield and his job was to emerge without setting off any mines.

A Mockery of Catholicism

ABSOLUTELY NULL & UTTERLY VOID

Theresa Marie Moreau

Aboard a tour boat, a group of sandal-clad, middle-aged women thought they were being "ordained" into the Holy Roman Catholic priesthood.

Your Final Destination

CHOOSE YOUR GATE

Abbot Joseph

In our "fallen" world it is often easier to commit sin than to practice virtue, and self-indulgence is more attractive than self-denial.

Parent Is a Noun, Not a Verb

RE-ENGINEERING CULTURE

Cliff Price

When we firmly reject using the language crafted by the ideologues of modernity, we strike a blow for sanity.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

High School Terminates "Freshmen"... Coming Out Poly... Condom Club... Prisoner Sues God... Pagan Prison Rites... Donkeys in the Aisle... Tax-Deductible Witchcraft... Which One Is the Queen?... Too Hetero for Queer Tastes...

Where Have All the Protestants Gone?

GUEST COLUMN

Thomas Storck

About 30 years ago, Protestants, especially evangelicals, began to drop the term Protestant and call themselves simply Christians.

Rhetorical Witchcraft

Dale Vree

Bush called America "the hope of all mankind" and "the light" that "shines in the darkness," in a clear allusion to John 1:4-5. The remark is very close to blasphemy.

The Liberal as Graceless Pharisee

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Flannery O'Connor admired Henry James, Hawthorne, and Poe for understanding evil better than most Americans.

Briefly: January 2006

Reviews of Camaldolese... Margaret Clitherow: Saint of York... The Blessed Sacrament and the Mass...