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St. Thomas More: No Common Grounder
James Monti does not subscribe to the Robert Bolt school of Thomas More appreciation. For Monti, More was not a humanist martyr for conscience’s sake (as Bolt portrayed him in A Man for All Seasons)...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: September 1996
Ouch. The author of the June editorial (“Hell, Air-Conditioned”) is obviously not a big fan of Christianity Today (CT), which he describes as “bland, tepid, and intellectually breezy,”...
READ MORE"Why Is a Good Priest So Hard to Find?"
We don’t run contests, but if we did, and if we were picking the most significant article in the national Catholic press for 1995, we’d probably give First Place to Archbishop Elden Curtiss...
READ MORENeeded: Formidable Bishops
How many good Catholics are there in the average parish today? Does the pastor know? How would he decide? Would he dare to say to anyone: “You’re a bad Catholic, you know”? Forty years...
READ MOREWas Our Lord a Fundamentalist?
“Fundamentalism” is a term of reproach among modern Scripture scholars, including those who call themselves Catholic. What is fundamentalism? Fundamentalism seems to mean being too literal...
READ MORETV, Computers, & the Gnostic Grail
Nobody really contests, deep down, that TV probably isn’t very good for us. How can wiring our eyes to a glowing box for an entire evening instead of attending to our neighbor be okay? People say...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: January 1999
I appreciate Jack Hitchcock’s advice (“Please Lighten Up, Marian,” letters, Nov.) on how to cure my Catholic blues, as reported in my article “One Humdrum Catholic & Apostolic...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: September 1997
I feel compelled to remonstrate with recent letter-writers who say they are canceling or not renewing their subscriptions because of the NOR’s message or the way in which it is delivered. It is not...
READ MOREDoing Well & Doing the Work of the Lord
You are a U.S. taxpayer. Let’s assume you have a rental, or maybe some stock, that has increased in value to several times your original cost or depreciated value for tax purposes. If you could give...
READ MOREEngaging a Secularist Regiment
Back in the days when Stalin was at the height of his power, murdering millions, there was in America a certain curious kind of liberal who was sympathetic to Stalin and Soviet Communism. What was so curious...
READ MORECaelum et Terra Readers: Welcome!
It is with sadness that we announce that there’s been a death in the family of orthodox Catholic periodicals: Caelum et Terra (Heaven & Earth) has, after over five years of publication, folded....
READ MORELetter to the Editor: April 1997
Over the last year or so, the tone of the material in your magazine on questions of orthodoxy, conversion, and ecumenism has become mean. Your editorial “The Common Ground Project at the End of an...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: April 1995
I am always saddened when I read a letter in the NOR like that from Joyce Mullan (Dec.). She canceled her subscription because she finds the “smug tone” of many articles “very disturbing,”...
READ MOREQuackery Reducks: A Discussion of Spiritual Consumerism in Post-Christian America
COVID-19 has the whole world debating how much the “experts” really know, and whether we should trust the talking heads or our gut instinct in dealing with the pandemic and everything falling apart...
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