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The News You May Have Missed: October 2023
Legally Binding Emoji A Canadian judge ordered a Saskatchewan farmer to pay more than $61,785 in damages after he ruled that texting the thumbs-up emoji is enough to accept contractual terms (Reuters,...
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READ MORELetters to the Editor: November 2022
I agree with Pieter Vree’s observation that the new generation of neoconservatives is committed to its parents’ and grandparents’ goal of achieving “total hegemony in every corner of the world”...
READ MORE‘Tis Pity We’re All Whores
Among conservatives, the talk of many towns has centered around Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter. “Freedom of speech is restored!” the chatter runs. “After years of the Left’s throttling...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: June 2022
After reading Jason M. Morgan’s review of Ben Shapiro’s The Right Side of History (April), it became apparent that Dr. Morgan has serious issues with anything to do with Luther and the Reformation....
READ MORELetters to the Editor: May 2022
Jason M. Morgan is a superb writer, but I remain confused by his column “The Age of Thoth: Words vs. The Word” (Cultural Counterpoint, March). I hope he can set me straight. While relying on the written...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: December 2021
Pieter Vree’s column “Traditionis Custodes: Taking a Bulldozer to an Anthill” (New Oxford Notebook, Oct.) really set me off. I have heard his basic argument before: Those evil trads are just getting...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: June 2021
Reading Michael S. Rose’s interview with Richard Gallagher, M.D. (“Diagnosing the Spectrum of Diabolic Attacks,” April) from the perspective of a practicing Catholic who is also a practicing addiction...
READ MOREThe Crystallized Church & the Technological Society
In 1969, amid the wave of cultural conflagrations that upended longstanding norms in Western societies, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger delivered a message that was broadcast on German radio. Always a perceptive...
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There are heroes in the world. A friend and his wife have a severely handicapped daughter and love her at an extraordinary cost to themselves. They would say it’s not a sacrifice at all, but from the...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: October 2020
In the course of his fascinating conversation with Pieter Vree (“Quackery Reducks: A Discussion of Spiritual Consumerism in Post-Christian America,” Jul.-Aug.), Jason M. Morgan asks, “Who could forget...
READ MOREAgainst 20th-Century Prejudices
That moral judgments could be objectively grounded seemed obvious to Thomas Aquinas; that they cannot be so grounded often seems just as obvious from a vantage point seven centuries subsequent to his....
READ MOREHow Can I Recommend the Catholic Faith When My Fellow Catholics Censor Scripture?
I am a “completed Evangelical.” That is, I am a Catholic who sees my faith as the crown, glory, and consummation of everything I was taught to love about the Gospel when I was first nurtured...
READ MOREDid William Shakespeare Predict Donald Trump?
We Catholics like to read old books, starting with the Bible, usually continuing with the classics of Augustine and Aquinas, and often including those of Shakespeare and Chesterton. We look back to an...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: November 1985
I was intensely moved by Robert E. Langfelder’s letter on Ignazio Silone and Robert Coles (Sept.). Langfelder pointed to the importance of treating the individuals we meet, wherever we meet them, with...
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