Letter to the Editor: January 2009

Spiritual Freeloaders... Ensoulment & Material Fusion... A Dinner Date With Death... Catholic Schoolteachers for Obama... A Chicken in Every Pot?... Word & Deed... Penalties for Legislative Crimes... Priests, Not Politicians... Divorce & Culpability... Calumnies Against the Charasmatic Movement... Juvenile Exhibitionism... A Third Economic System?... Covenant or Contract?... and more

New Oxford Notes: January 2009

What Is That Thing?... What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate (Catholic Teaching)... Where Do We Go From Here?... Louder Than Words... The Woeful Plights of Indian Christians

Quo Vadis, Catholic Higher Education?

A CONVERSATION RENEWED

Anne Hendershott

Students, a new cohort of faithful faculty members, and orthodox bishops are beginning to pay more attention to what is happening on Catholic campuses.

Phenomenological Soup for the Catholic Soul

RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Richard & Elizabeth Gerbracht

We sent six children to Catholic grade schools and high schools, and then off to Catholic colleges. Four years later, the Catholic colleges sent us back six heathens.

The Case of Vanini

PRIEST, ATHEIST, HOMOSEXUAL

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

He seems to have been the precursor of those homosexual and infidel priests who have in recent years caused great suffering to the Catholic Church.

I Believe in the Life of the World to Come

DO YOU?

Abbot Joseph

Today's enlightened and "free" unbelievers are nothing more than "the loose-jointed marionettes of contemporaneity."

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

Smell as Catholic as the Pope... Cross-Dresser Blesser... Chickens for Christians... New Twist on polish Jokes... Could You Not Work Eight Hours?... Linguistic Ethnic Cleansing...Fr. Fisticuff & Sr. Sidekick... 'I Pledge Allegiance...' ... Disco-Dancing Nuns... Suburban Stonehenge

Christmas in Real Time

GUEST COLUMN

Thomas Lark

The sacred character of the holy season is diminished when its true dates are ignored. So remember the Reason for the season and the real time of that season.

God's Love Is Unrelenting

GUEST COLUMN

Vincent Droddy

God's love is unrelenting, and He will preserve our lives for all eternity. Do we wish to experience His love as endless comfort and joy, or as eternal torment?

Briefly: January 2009

Reviews of Third Ways... Family and Civilization... Our Father, Who Art in Bed