Letter to the Editor: July-August 2018

Ire-Land... Are Catholic Colleges Becoming Left-Wing Seminaries?... The West's Refusal to Acknowledge Brutalities... Two of Seven... Attack of the Unelected Agnostics... Staying "in Touch"... A Complex Enmeshing... Irreconcilable Differences... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Info Dump... Ring of Masculine Purity... TV Is Such a Drag... The Avenging Angel's Anomaly... The Gospel According to MAGA... Rain of Error... Robo Creep of Terminal B... A Dressing Down... Date Night with the Dine-&-Dasher... Critical Error... Waxing about Dignity... No Horsing Around... and more

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2018

Off with His Head!... A Crisis of the Four Last Things

The Triumph & Tragedy of the Most Misunderstood Document in Modern Church History

HUMANAE VITAE AT 50

Karl A. Schultz

The encyclical is a profound reflection on marital love that was later deepened and contextualized in more pastoral and juridical (canon law) forums.

Why Humanae Vitae Got It Right

WHAT GOD HAS PUT TOGETHER…

John F. Kippley

In these times, the idea of self-giving love is squeezed out by the identification of love with sexual attraction and pleasure.

Forgetting & Remembering

CAPE BRETON DIARY — PART I

Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

The three historic peoples of Cape Breton -- the aboriginal Mi’kmaq, the French Acadians, and the Scottish Highlanders -- are now recollecting their pasts.

Infinity War: A Call to Action

GUEST COLUMN

Alexandra Wilson

The final scene of Infinity War is particularly haunting for millennials; a whole third of our generation has been destroyed by abortion.

The Politics of Suicide in Post-Christian America

GUEST COLUMN

Amir Azarvan

There's a direct link between changes in theistic belief and suicide rates. "Disbelief can be deadly" is one way to put it.

Who Determines Scripture's "Plain Meaning"?

Casey Chalk

The "I'm too catholic to be Catholic" line of argumentation falls to a subjectivity or "lowest common denominator" critique.

Briefly: July-August 2018

Faith of the Early Church: An Ancient Apologetic for the New Evangelization