Letter to the Editor: January-February 2010

Bitten By Marian Theology... Topsy-Turvy Townsend... A Mature Church Requires Resplendent Architecture... The Wrecking Ball Destroys More Than Buildings... In Wine, Truth... No Moral Equivalence... Fistfighting for Life... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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First National bank of Mary... Not Homosexual, Just Confused... Doing It for the Kids... Transsexual Jesus... Jesus Among the Druids... Make Way for Lesbian Bishops... Make Way for Married Gay Priests... All Dogs Go to Covenant Presbyterian...

New Oxford Notes: January-February 2010

Which Side Are You On?... It's Always the Family... The Kennedy Legacy Continues...

The Proof of God's Existence

EPISTLE 1

Douglass H. Bartley

If doubt grip ye yet, as a last resort,/ Agnosticks consult this, our last exhort:/ Look well at your odds, muse Pascal's advice;/ His wager take; risk not the rolling dice.

To Penetrate, to See

...OR MERELY TO STARE AT A SCREEN

Edmund B. Miller

How often do we act toward the other person so as to affirm his call by God and his role in God's plan of salvation?

The Heretical Mind Finds a Home

FR. THOMAS REESE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Tom Bethell

The heretic is almost always a more dangerous adversary of the Church than the outright atheist. The heretic is interested in Church doctrine and wants to change it.

Two Theologians on the Development of Doctrine

LOISY & NEWMAN

David J. Harrison

For Newman, the truth exists in perpetuity; doctrine springs forth in reaction to the culture, that the culture might better understand the truths of Christianity.

Is It Time to Dump the Term 'Pro-life'?

FOR THE SAKE OF PREBORN CHILDREN

Leo Hunt

The Personhood Movement would jettison the term "pro-life." Pro-personhood, pro-human child, and pro-child are credible options.

The Church's Warfare of Exorcism

LIBERA NOS A MALO

Thomas J. Euteneuer

No priest ever has to fear losing this battle as long as he stays safely behind the protective shield of the Church.

Manchester, Disunited

GUEST COLUMN

Gail Besse

To avoid problems in Catholic-secular hospital mergers, parties would be wise to specify in writing the actual terms of ethical practice required.

Briefly: January-February 2010

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