Letter to the Editor: March 2012

A Portrait of False Bravado... He Deserves Better... Debating "Catholic Science"... There's No Success Like Failure... On the "Byzantinization" of the Latin Church... Encyclicals for Inmates... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Is the Pope Catholic?... Sacred (Body) Art... Rain, Rain, Go Away... Audience Participation... The Dictator's Derriere... Concrete Solution... Toylet Training... Ordinary Australian Discourse... and more

New Oxford Notes: March 2012

Where Have All the Students Gone?... Liturgical Winners & Losers

The Death of a Man & the Hope of Mankind

ENTER INTO LIFE

Terence J. Hughes

Today it appears that Western civilization is dying just as I am. But I know that resurrection awaits our Lord's faithful.

On the Ethical Treatment of Rape Victims

THE PROBLEMS WITH PLAN B

Joseph E. Kincaid

Some hospitals use Plan B as routine treatment for victims of sexual assault, and some bishops have reluctantly agreed to it after coercion by state legislatures.

Are All Human Beings Persons?

SOMEONE, SOMETHING, OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN ?

James G. Hanink

"'Person' is not a generic term," writes Robert Spaemann, "it is the way in which individuals of the human genus exist." One's neighbor is unique and non-fungible.

An Unwasted Life

GUEST COLUMN

George J. Collins

Normally, when a resident dies, only the staff and members of that cottage show up for the funeral. At her funeral, however, the 500-seat chapel was overflowing.

A Wall Between Science & State?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

We need to protect people from the worldview that put Ota Benga in a cage, forcibly sterilized Carrie Buck, and shut the door to Jewish refugees in the 1930s.

Briefly: March 2012

The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Oba­ma's America