Letter to the Editor: January-February 2012

The Latest Heresy... Comprehending the Liturgy... Idiosyncratic & Amateurish... Women's Work?... Guess What? You're Fired!... Unrestrained by Received Truth... Leisure Under Attack... Opening Old Wounds... A Political "No-Brainer"... Manifesto of the Mundane... Interpreting Fatima... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Here, Kitty Kitty... Failure to Launch, Parte Seconda... Jesus Banned in Pakistan... Get on Your Toilet Trike & Ride... Holy Dumping Ground... Panda Poo Brew... Up to His Old Tricks... Sr. Marie's Black Habit... Awaiting the Corduroy Messiah... and more

New Oxford Notes: January-February 2012

Shameless Shepherding... Saints for a Secular Nation

The Perils of Promoting Personhood

DEEP-SIXED IN THE DEEP SOUTH

James T. McCafferty

Conspicuously absent from a coalition of pro-life advocates supporting a personhood amendment in Mississippi were the bishops of Jackson and Biloxi.

The Rush to Radical Informality

NOTES FROM A CULTURAL NO-MAN'S LAND

Frederick W. Marks

Some delight in radical informality because they see it as emblematic of the spirit of American democracy and the ‘virtue’ of tolerance.

Gurus of a Post-Human Age

GARRETT HARDIN & JAMES RACHELS

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The influence of post-humanist academics reveals how completely the secular academic world has embraced the culture of death.

A Continent of Contradictions

VISIONS OF DEATH, TALES OF MERCY

M.P. Summers

Africa is “at once beautiful and hideous, full of the most innocent love and the most unadulterated hatred, captivating at one moment and horrifying the next.”

Abortion & the Creed of Progress

GUEST COLUMN

Edmund B. Miller

The creed of progress has destroyed community, the family, and the bond between man and woman, as it has destroyed countless unborn babies.

Will the Real Padre Pio Please Stand Up?

Hurd Baruch

He lived in poverty in a remote monastery in an impoverished region of Italy, yet he guided spiritual children who came to him from all over the world.

Briefly: January-February 2012

Now I Walk on Death Row: A Wall Street Finance Lawyer Stumbles into the Arms of a Loving God