Letter to the Editor: September 2017

Did They Know Christ? Do We?... Narcissism: the Anti-Tradition... Twain's Intense Sorrow... Overkill... The Heresy of This Age... Who Can Judge the State of a Soul?... Too Calm... The Wrong Genre... The Cult of Muhammad... more

The News You May Have Missed

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The Church of Casual... Jesus Christ, Extremist... He Doesn't Want to Hear It... Purging the Puritans... If War Is Hell… Republican Transenator... Pooh-Poohing Winnie... Prostration of the Press... Sun, Fun & Fascism... and more

New Oxford Notes: September 2017

A Pontificate of Mercy — or a Merciless Pontificate?

The New Tower of Babel

SOLDIERS FOR THE BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER

John Martin

Washington let it be known that if the states would but ask to be enrolled in the Common Core plan, billions of dollars in stimulus money would be theirs.

How Literature Helps Us Grow in Virtue

LOVING & HATING ARIGHT

David Arias

Aristotle, like Plato, recognizes just how sovereign music and literature are in a man's life. "Virtue consists in rejoicing and loving and hating aright," he writes.

To Die from Having Lived

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #46

Mitchell Kalpakgian

It is to have performed the obligations of one's vocation, to have used one's gifts and opportunities to give glory to God and serve others.

The Bishops' Pastoral on the Economy & the Scandal of Catholicism

"RUM, ROMANISM & REBELLION" — REVISITED

Dale Vree

What Catholicism offers is a consistent vision of Love, which is sacrifice, while the world offers dreams of money, power, and fast pleasure.

"Critical Thinking" in the Postmodern University

GUEST COLUMN

Clifford Staples

Thinking is aimed at truth and leads one to draw conclusions and develop convictions. Insofar as truth is denied, however, all we can ever have or hold are opinions.

Intentional Communities for Moral Crusaders

Thomas Storck

Rod Dreher’s "Benedict Option" offers an essentially moral or even political, rather than theological, understanding of the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Briefly: September 2017

Peter: Keys to Following Jesus... Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death from the Sidewalk to the Supreme Court