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The Vision & Future of the NEW OXFORD REVIEW
Sometimes I think the New Oxford Review, as a serious journal of ideas, is lost in the slick, razzle-dazzle world of the media, and there is no safe niche for us to fit into. I say this for several reasons. With...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: September 1985
We, five activists from the West German Christian peace movement, affiliated with Prolifers for Survival, feel a deep commitment to our fellows in the East German independent peace movement, who have to...
READ MORELast Things
As I write this, our eldest child is home from east Africa for a visit. She works for a Catholic relief agency in one of the poorest countries on the continent. It’s one of those that has never had a...
READ MORELetters to the Editor: March 1986
With this issue, Greg Erlandson steps down from the post of Book Review Editor (see his farewell Letter in this issue). Greg has done a first-rate job, and the Editors in the main NOR office have been...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: July-August 1987
Since one of your ads states that the NEW OXFORD REVIEW takes its name from the 19th-century Oxford Movement, I feel compelled to subscribe. I am a great-great-grandson of one of the founders of the Oxford...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: June 1989
Christopher Lasch’s “The Obsolescence of Left & Right” (Apribpis one of the most stimulating things I’ve read in years. This letter concerns Robert Coles’s April column...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: June 1990
To paraphrase John Cort, there have been few times in my life when I have been more ashamed of being a Catholic than when I read your April issue. Cort’s knee-jerk America-bashing piece on Panama...
READ MOREPsychological Fundamentalism
There can be no doubt but that Philip Rieff (The Triumph of the Therapeutic) was correct when he announced that we Americans have entered upon a new age — the age of psychological men and women,...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: January-February 1991
Fr. Thomas Weinandy’s “Toward Overcoming the Spirit of Resentment in a Polarized Church” (Nov.) makes a very eloquent and obviously heartfelt plea for healing the division between...
READ MOREWould Wojtyla & Ratzinger Have Been "Weeded Out" of Sacred Heart Seminary?
Our July-August issue carried a letter from Michael S. Rose about a new book he’s working on. The book is about how certain dioceses block orthodox candidates from entering seminary and how certain...
READ MOREIslamic Anti-Semitism & the Culture of Hate
Anti-Semitism. We don’t hear much about it these days. So you could be forgiven if you’re surprised to find that it’s been steadily rising in recent years, especially in Europe. This...
READ MOREFaint Praise
In late May we received a direct-mail piece from Crisis, an orthodox Catholic magazine, asking us to subscribe (we already do, but never mind that). As is normal for such pieces, it contains “puffs”...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: March 2011
Ryan Chegwin (letter, Dec.) identifies himself as a democratic socialist and a traditional Catholic. Forgive me if I don’t see how that can be possible. Socialism as a political system is rooted...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: February 2007
I’m in southern Iraq, about two kilometers across from the Ziggurat of Ur, the home of Abraham. I’ve been able to get over there twice. Enclosed is my check for $100 for a renewal of my three-year...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: January 2007
In answer to Barbara Baur’s letter about confession (Sept. 2006): Efficacious confession requires that five actions be performed: examination of conscience, true sorrow for offending God, sacramental...
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