Longevity & Faithfulness

EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: December 2013

A Chilling Contrast... A Ludicrous Double Standard... The Relentlessness of Tested Love... Seven Years or Seven Days?... Readers Recommend Their Top Tens... The Twigs of Pride... Waiting for a Renaissance... Undoing the Soviet Smear Job

The News You May Have Missed

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The Name that Is Above Every Name... Ecumenical Dialogue through Cricket... The Gospel According to Britney... SpongeBob GraveSite... New Tribal Rituals... Where Sex Doesn't Sell... No Room in the "Hall of Honor"... Grace Under Pressure

New Oxford Notes: December 2013

Pope Francis & the Primacy of Conscience... Pope Francis: Delight of the World

Finding the Christ in His Apostles

THE CULMINATION OF THE QUEST

Maria Hsia Chang

Only the risen Christ could have caused so quick and complete a transformation of sane, rational men into men they were not.

On Science sans Context

A NEW RELIGION, A NEW PRIESTHOOD

D.Q. McInerny

Scientism is an attitude that fosters and promotes a seriously exaggerated — and hence distorted — estimation of the nature and the scope of science.

The Devil in Our Midst

A LESSON FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Paul J. Utterback

Satan is present when we calumniate, when we destroy, when we break the commandments, when we act in hate, and yes, when we dabble in black magic.

On "Politicizing" the Eucharist

GUEST COLUMN

Regis Scanlon

Giving Holy Communion to a politician who is well known for sponsoring immoral legislation is how the Eucharist truly becomes politicized.

Garry Wills's Assault on Christian Faith

Lawrence B. Porter

A review of Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition

Briefly: December 2013

Killing Jesus: A History