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The "Biggest Nothing" in History
There has been virtually no commentary in traditionalist conservative quarters concerning the dialogue around the dinner table in the French plantation scene in Apocalypse Now Redux (2001), the “extended...
READ MOREBetraying the Fort
This past spring, several Catholic universities awarded honorary degrees or gave special awards to persons of doubtful Catholic bona fides. The University of Notre Dame, for example, bestowed its highest...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: July-August 2016
Jason M. Morgan’s article “The Canticles of Genderspirit” (May) is Exhibit A in why my wife and I will eventually cease to subscribe to the NOR. While I have no particular problem with...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: April 2016
Your New Oxford Note “Francis & the Lutherans: Intercommunion Confusion” (Jan.-Feb.) proves the axiom that “those who think they know it all irritate those of us who do.” The...
READ MOREThe Truth About the Homosexual Rights Movement
Ed. Note: Throughout 2017, in commemoration of our 40th year of publication, we are featuring one article per issue from the NOR’s past. This article originally appeared in our February 2006 issue...
READ MOREA Pontificate of Mercy — or a Merciless Pontificate?
For the past four-plus years, faithful Catholics have bent over backwards to give Pope Francis the benefit of the doubt, telling themselves that the Argentine Jesuit means well, that he is a faithful son...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: April 2017
I am profoundly grateful to Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., for his considered article discussing my book The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (Jan.-Feb.). Few are better suited to reflect...
READ MOREBriefly: February 2007
A title as provocative as Saints Behaving Badly might suggest a down-and-dirty exposé of the secret lives of deceased Catholics whom the Church has long presented as lofty and luminous models of holiness....
READ MORELiturgical Majesty & Solemnity
This Editorial must be written in the first person. When your Editor was a Protestant at the rough-and-tumble Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, I happened to walk into a Catholic church for the first...
READ MOREBriefly: May 2000
Kreeft presents an imaginary account of a feminist-relativist’s conversation with a moral absolutist. Kreeft, via the moral absolutist, covers all the major arguments for moral relativism and refutes...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: May 2005
Your magazine is worth double its price, considering the hilarious letters you allow to be printed as well as your entertaining replies. An “absolute gas,” as we used to say in high school. And...
READ MOREDarwinism, Dawkinism & Christian Accommodationism
At a large public university a group of Christian faculty has sponsored lectures by a visiting scientist. The scientist’s lectures call into question the Darwinian theory of evolution. The audience,...
READ MOREAlas, We've Been Naive
In 1998 the Catholic Press Association (CPA) published a book innocuously titled The Mission and Future of the Catholic Press, edited by John F. Fink. We have seen no ads for, or reviews of, the book....
READ MORELetter to the Editor: November 2001
I happened to pick up a copy of C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity to read as soon as I had consumed the July-August NOR, for I, a Lutheran, was quite startled by Thomas Storck’s article on Lewis...
READ MORELetter to the Editor: September 2001
Loved your piece about Stratford Caldicott and his “goofy” mentor, Hans Urs von Balthasar (“Folks, Here Are Your Orders,” New Oxford Notes, Aprib~ Hammer away at the Enemy’s...
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