Letter to the Editor: July-August 2014

A Dull Plodder... Plowing the Sea... Clarifying the "Clarification"... On the Origin of Virtues... Reasonable Grounds... Freighted with Meaning... A Farce of Monumental Proportions... The Endgame... Not Above Informed Criticism... Social Justice: A Trojan Horse

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New Oxford Notes: July-August 2014

A Manufactured Controversy

The Davidic Typological Basis for the Dogma of the Assumption

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN MOTHER

Marcelo A. D'Asero

This Marian dogma is integrally related to the notion of our Lady as the Queen of Heaven or, rather, the queen mother of the Messiah, the Son of David.

Otto von Habsburg, the Kaiser Who Never Was

GO FROM YOUR COUNTRY

Stanley T. Grip Jr.

Some men are born noble by name, others noble by nature. It's a rare and blessed gift when those characteristics combine in a single life, well lived.

The Fourfold Problems of Facebook

THE PRESCIENT POSTMAN

J. Jacob Tawney

Neil Postman's ideas about media are timeless, and many of his observations about television can be applied to social media.

Redeeming Foucault

POWER-KNOWLEDGE FOUNDED IN AUTHENTIC LOVE

Melinda Selmys

Our culture's current crisis of faith has been traced, in part, to Foucault's philosophy, which is understood as an attack on the foundations of truth itself.

The Church: God Writing Straight with Crooked Lines

Howard P. Kainz

Vatican II ended up with ambiguities, like Vatican I, Trent, and other councils, but it was, by and large, orthodox.

Briefly: July-August 2014

The True Believer: Faith, Reason, and the Truth in the Light of the Analogy of Being: A Catholic Perspective on the World's Great Religions, Philosophies and Ideologies... Bakhita: From Slave to Saint