Letter to the Editor: March 2018

The Code of the Warrior... Fifty Years After the Fact... Trump: Looking Past the Sound & Fury... Don't Discount Those "Obscure Figures"... Quitting Time... Bile & Lies... Don't Believe the Narrative... An Ignoble Cast of Mind... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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What Osama Watched... Red Devil... Getting Over the Hump... Drunk Droning... Leaving the Left Coast... Pizza Antidote... Instrument of Torture, Object of Desire... Mutually Assured Cybercide... and more

New Oxford Notes: March 2018

Are We Winning?... Falling into the Darkness of Error

A Journey to the Threshold of Eternal Life

ON THE PAINFUL ROAD OF SPIRITUAL PURIFICATION

Alvaro Delgado

My mother's frailty and slowness as she maneuvered her walker showed me how to dwell in the present, not giving in to stress and the pressure of the clock.

Do Historical Norms Alter Church Teachings? Should They?

ON "DOING" CATHOLIC THEOLOGY

James V. Schall

Revelation was not designed primarily to explain how to make this world perfect, but to reveal how men in any time or place are to reach eternal life.

What If Pope Francis Were to Rescind Summorum Pontificum?

UPON THE DEATH OF BENEDICT XVI

W. Patrick Cunningham

What options does a parish that currently offers celebrations of the Mass in the extraordinary form have if it finds itself unable to continue doing so?

The Most Important Things in Life Are Obligatory

GUEST COLUMN

James F. O'Callaghan

Regarding religious observance, obligation is a large part of the act itself, and the benefit. Both having the obligation and meeting it form us.

Peter Against the Saracens

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Peter's treatise can be summed up thus: Put away your swords and "prove," whether "from an authority or by reason," that Muhammad was indeed a prophet.

Is a Gender War Woven into the Fabric of Creation?

Anthony Giambrone

Prum's study advances the claim that much extraordinary avian morphology and behavior is best explained as a factor of female desire and mate selection.

Briefly: March 2018

American Law from a Catholic Perspective... The Soul's Upward Yearning... God So Loved the World... The Light Shines on in the Darkness... Aquinas and the Theology of the Body