Letter to the Editor: January-February 2014

The Hermeneutic of Deletion... The Mystery of God's "Blood Lust"... The Pilgrim Church & Pluralism... Understanding Francis... Why I Weep... Astounding Faith... More Top Tens... The Revival of Religion & Manners... How Do I Love Thee?

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A Work of Fiction?... Festive No More... And then There Were Five... It Pays to Be Polite... Competence: Only Skin Deep?... Behind the Swoosh... Rome under Siege... Crimestop in Portland... No More Monkey Business... and more

New Oxford Notes: January-February 2014

Bringing the Gospels Back to the Big Screen

Has the Church in the U.S. Succumbed to the Charms of Islam?

THE CATHOLIC-MUSLIM FAITH ALLIANCE

William Kilpatrick

Cardinal Dolan told his Islamic audience, "You love God, we love God, and he is the same God," and he thanked them "for making me feel like a friend and a member of a family."

The Modern-Day Little Shop of Horrors

DEHUMANIZATION AT A PROFIT

Judie Brown

In the "reproductive health industry," moral questions are rarely considered when there is money to be made.

St. Francis de Sales: His Life & Work

THE ANTIDOTE TO METAPHYSICAL DERANGEMENT

William C. Zehringer

What gives the saint's enduring devotional works their unfading charm is the way he presents his readers with blessed assurance that has nothing in it of bitter polemic.

The Failure of Liberty

Christopher Zehnder

Ferrara shows how public recognition of the true religion is essential to a Christian order; thus, this order requires a certain intolerance of false religion.

Briefly Reviewed: January-February 2014

Francis: Man of Prayer... A Call to Serve: Pope Francis and the Catholic Future... Pope Francis: The Pope from the End of the Earth