Letter to the Editor: May 2015

Highlighting the Abyss... How the West Was Wonderful... Not a Formal Schism... Don't Participate in the Lies... A Needless Effort... Stung by Francis... A Prophet of Contradictions... Diverting the Debate

The News You May Have Missed

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Woman Gives Birth to Her Own Grandson... All that Glitters... Feeding the Shepherd... The Almighty Dollar... A Nation of Atheists?... Back to Preschool... Games People Play... Pass the Foie Gras... Killing the Messenger

New Oxford Notes: May 2015

The Beginning of the End?... The Theological Blurriness of Cardinal Marx

True & False Possessions, Revisited

IN A STRANGE & CONFUSING REALM

Richard E. Gallagher

A number of medical conditions over the centuries have been confused with demonic assaults, but the Church has not ceased to recognize the exceptions.

The Perils of Ecumenical Straight-Talk

IN THE SERVICE OF TRUTH

David Mills

The apostolate of ecumenical clarification requires a willingness to see friends make themselves into enemies.

On the Deconstruction of Language

UNLIMITED INTERPRETATIONS, UNLIMITED DIVISIONS

Cecilia Huckestein

All our institutions are infested with corrupt language, whose impetus is to tear down all present realities and replace them with vain and avaricious desires.

The Revivification of Sound Christian Philosophy

THE RISE & FALL OF THE THOMISTIC RENEWAL — PART I

D.Q. McInerny

With astonishing suddenness Thomism ceased to be the governing and guiding philosophy in Catholic higher education. How to explain this?

What a Christian Father Is Supposed to Be

Christopher Beiting

Barbeau reminds fathers of their duty as religious leaders of their families, and presses for the restoration of some quasi-sacerdotal fatherly practices.

Taking Sides with the South

Christopher Gawley

Even though I agree with Lincoln on the question of free soil (at least as of 1860), I cannot help but fault him and the North for savaging the South in a total war.

Briefly: May 2015

Welcome to the Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity