Letter to the Editor: June 2011

Silence, Dissent & Humanae Vitae... Catholic Social Teaching: Nonsensical & Naive... the Real Conservative Outcry Against Caritas in Veritate... The Glass Is Half empty... Suprised by Quality... A Myopic Skirmish... The Folly of Debating Absolutes... A History of Homosexuality in U.S. Military.... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Games Bishops Play... Cream-Pie Intimidation... Banning the Blade... Piss Christ, the Admontion... Barney Rubble's Twin Brother? Longevity & the Loss of Religion... Gaga for Judas... and more ... and more

New Oxford Notes: June 2011

Irony & the Obama Catholic... How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Internet... Is Your Job on the Endangered-Species List?

Vatican II's Call to Communicate the Gospel

READING THE DOCUMENTS - PART II

Christopher Zehnder

The Church as "sacrament" is not an optional means to salvation; she is the necessary "instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of all mankind."

The Disease of Irreverence

A CULTURAL CANCER

Alice von Hildebrand

True culture elevates; it does not drag down. True culture calls one to look upward, triggering gratitude in our souls, and to love what is lovable.

Slaves of a Cold, Heartless Universe

THE RED HAND OF ATHEISM

Andrew M. Seddon

Atheists don't have an absence of belief. They believe very strongly. They believe in naturalism — the assumption that nothing exists beyond the material cosmos.

Advice to Hell Raisers

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED #24 & #25

Carl Sundell

Lies are easier to spread than in the old days, when there were many more farmers than there were scholars, and farmers were harder to fool.

Conscience: When Ignorance Is Not Bliss

GUEST COLUMN

W. Michael Westbrook

We can train the conscience to become a better instrument by exposing ourselves to the principles of moral reasoning as taught by the Church and the natural law.

Apostatizing in Place

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Feminists found "a way to leave and stay at the same time." They created Women-Church, opting for part identification with and part struggle against Catholicism.

Blaming the Renaissance Is Just Plain Wrong

Christopher Beiting

Renaissance-era humanists were entranced by the possibility of human development, but to depict them as a collection of prome­thean proto-Jacobins is just false.

Briefly: June 2011

Review of The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II — The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy...