A Deeper Dive

EDITORIAL

Readers praise NOR's ability to transcend the ideological categories of Left and Right, and to maintain an independent stance grounded in fidelity.

Letter to the Editor: September 2011

The Best Yet?... Long Live the New Media... Feeling the Pain of Notre Dame... Missing the Point on Predatory Acts... Why They Remain... A Bulwark Against Irreverence?... The Military Training Ground... Theophobia... At Mass, Christ Creates Community... A Unifying Spiritual Theme... Readers' Perspectives on the Social-Justice Question... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Girls Will Be Boys... Neither Girls Nor Boys... Nothing Covered Up... A Mickey Mouse Dispute... Fleecing the Trusting Lambs... Goodbye, Tweetheart... Straining Credibility... Islamic Idol... Bogarting the Grid... September Is Special... and more

New Oxford Notes: September 2011

Avoiding Guilt by Association... The Luxury of Religious Fanaticism... When Sectarian Violence Is Genocide... Unlearning Compassion in San Diego

The Hidden Heroism of Witold Urbanowicz

PILOT, PATRIOT, FAMILY MAN, NEIGHBOR

Clara Sarrocco

This Polish family lived in such an unpretentious way that no one ever suspected they had lived such remarkable lives.

Natural Family Planning & the New Evangelization

IT'S NOT 'CATHOLIC BIRTH CONTROL'

John F. Kippley

The right kind of NFP course offers a splendid opportunity both for a new Christ-centered evangelization and for teaching the "what" and the "why" of NFP.

Dialogue Without Compromise, Without Fear

RECONCILIATION, NOT CONDEMNATION

Randall B. Smith

Enforced silence is not the same as acceptance. Silence often breeds contempt; contempt, then, breeds anger; and anger can breed violence.

Melinda Selmys Replies

Respectful dialogue can't just tell the truth; it has to tell the truth in charity. This is a principle most everyone is familiar with but hardly implements effectively.

The Two Worlds of John Henry Newman

THE SEEN & THE UNSEEN

Robert A. O'Donnell

Newman rejects the notion that the "other" world does not exist at this present moment, but begins after death: "No: it exists now, though we see it not."

From the Thames to the Tiber

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Many eminent converts flocked to the Church precisely because she is an authoritative, unswerving guide on morality.

Travelogue of the Weird & Out of the Way

John Henry Crosby

The authors evenhandedly approach an array of famous mysteries, sticking up for the plausible when possible, never hesitating to call out bunk when they see it.

Briefly: September 2011

Review of The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism