Not Over the Hump Yet

EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: May 2010

A Masterpiece of Precision... Baffled by Rebellion... A Breath of Fresh, Pennsylvanian Air... From Blavatsky to Buffy... Prisons: Satan's Property... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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To Confess, Press Two... Tweeting Abortion... Extra-Small Hotshot... 'This Is My Body... Supersize Me!'... A Remedy for Humanity... Cushy Wife... Bottled Spirits... Burning Bush... Meet the New God

New Oxford Notes: May 2010

The Smoke of Satan in the Vatican?... The Timing Is Just Too Perfect

On the Plausibility of God

IS ATHEISM RATIONAL? IS RELIGION?

Carl Sundell

In the end, atheism cannot overcome the God who has proven through twenty long centuries that He can be killed — but that He will not stay buried.

Welcome to the Relativism Factory

TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A TEACHER-SPY

R. Kenton Craven

Insidious purposes underlie Dewey's methodology: destruction of character, morality, authority, tradition, virtue, and truth, and the steady inculcation of automatic doubt.

The Realm of Reason

EPISTLE 2

Douglass H. Bartley

The aim below, 'tis my wish and my hope:/ Comply with the decree of Master Pope,/ And squander not words, nor waste precious time,/ And blight not Doctrine put to verse and rhyme.

The Energy of the Universe Flows Around the Bishops' Blockage

REIKI BY ANY OTHER NAME?

Hurd Baruch with Moira Noonan

After the U.S. bishops deemed Reiki inappropriate for Catholic healthcare institutions, another almost identical therapy began to be offered.

The Originating Judgment of the Culture of Death

IS THE HUMAN PERSON A 'RATIONAL ANIMAL'?

Mary Rosera Joyce

The absence in our culture of a person-based definition of human nature has had devastating consequences. Our treatment of life before birth is one example.

Seven Degrees of Demonic Persecution

LIBERA NOS A MALO

Thomas J. Euteneuer

The Church has one weapon that the Devil will never — under any circumstances — be able to imitate: the charity of Christ.

Up From Aquarius

GUEST COLUMN

Kimberly Marie Roth

The nuns at my school claimed to have great love for women, especially those who are less fortunate and in trying circumstances, but I never experienced it.

Quest to Topple the Patriarchal Idol

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Sr. Elizabeth Johnson warns that if we take literally the "naming" of God in the "image of powerful men," we turn God into an "idol."

Briefly: May 2010

Review of The Fourth Secret of Fatima... A Postcard From the Volcano... The New Ecumenism: How the Catholic Church After Vatican II Took Over the Leadership of the World Ecumenical Movement...