Letters to the Editor: July-August 2015

The Liberal Catholic/Conservative Protestant Alliance... The SSPX & Selective Excommunication... An Accurate Connection... Context Shades Interpretations... Reasonable Doubts About Abolishing the Death Penalty... Satan's Greatest Victory?... Judging Francis... Are Christians Really Marginalized?... and more

The News You May Have Missed

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Tenth Anniversary "Top Ten": New txtament... Soul for Sale... Nixing the "X"... Inflatable Church... Banned in Birmingham... and more

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2015

Catechesis & the Average Catholic... Acquiescing to Alternative Voices... Barbarians at the Gates of Civilization

Dying Without Dignity & Other End-of-Life Scares

UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Elizabeth Hanink

Disability advocates like those at Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts find their own lives well worth living and filled with dignity.

The Theological Treachery of Partial Scientific Truths

GOOD TEILHARD ! BAD TEILHARD !

Mark McMenamin

Partial truths are treacherous when applied to theology. By its very nature, scientific knowledge is incomplete.

Making Sense of the "Sense of the Faith"

TRUTH TRUMPS NUMBERS

F. Douglas Kneibert

The ITC states that "in the history of the people of God, it has often been not the majority but rather a minority which has truly lived and witnessed to the faith."

A Dialogue of Forms

MUTUAL ENRICHMENT ?

W. Patrick Cunningham

The Extraordinary Form and Ordinary Form sat down to discuss the first eight years of their formal co-existence, and invited me to record and moderate the conversation.

The Crypto-Catholic & the Jansenist

SHAKESPEARE, RACINE & CATHOLIC DRAMA

Keith Hopkins

Is there such a thing as "Catholic drama"? William Shakespeare and Jean Racine, compared and contrasted, provide two fascinating case studies.

Briefly: July-August 2015

My Battle Against Hitler: Faith, Truth, and Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich... The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber: A Guide to Notable American Converts to the Catholic Church