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Our Future Foretold

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Twice as many Hispanic Catholics do not attend Mass after the pandemic as before. Weren’t they the ones who were supposed to revive American Catholicism?

A Pandemic Retrospective: Did We Pass the Test?

IMPRUDENT PROHIBITION & PANIC

Eric Jackson

The faults of the past few years were not small, and they require much contrition and conversion, above all from our leaders.

Subsidiarity of the Body

PERCEIVING THE FACE OF THE OTHER

Jason M. Morgan

The subsidiarity of the body is a testament to the theology of the body; it says that the human body is a marvel fit to host the human soul.

The Year of Living Fearfully

Barbara E. Rose

The mark of Christians is to stay recollected in faith, hope, and charity, and in the knowledge that there are things worse than death, such as sin.

Better Is One Day in Your Courts

TRANSFIGURING THE WEEKEND

Kent J. Lasnoski

A renewal of the Lord’s Day would have us finding so many things worth doing for their own sake that we couldn’t be bothered to do ordinary, non-spiritual work.

On Feeling Safe

PLAGUE, WAR & VIOLENCE MOVE US TOWARD GOD

Jeffrey Essmann

The last time we were safe was in Eden, and, post-Fall, it’s the humility of feeling unsafe that’s been at the core of covenant from Adam to Christ.

A Manifesto for 2021

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

As always, when contemplating the political order, we should keep in mind the psalmist’s exhortation: “Put not your trust in princes.”

On Nurturing Man’s Spiritual Relationship with Technology

SEARCHING FOR WARMTH IN A COLD, MECHANICAL WORLD

Christopher M. Reilly

Technology cannot erase our humanity. We will find a way to live and even flourish in a world saturated with technology.

The Constant Gardener. By John le Carré.

LITERATURE MATTERS

Michael S. Rose

Does the international pharmaceutical industry indeed use destitute black Africans as guinea pigs for its clinical trials?

Dying Alone During the Pandemic: The Example of St. Augustine

GUEST COLUMN

Stuart Squires

Dying alone offers us an occasion for honest introspection and heartfelt contrition for the sins we have committed.

Will the Coronavirus Lockdowns Usher in a Mustard-Seed Church?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The willful suppression of the sacraments by Catholic leaders could portend the diminution of the Church in both numbers and influence.

Quackery Reducks: A Discussion of Spiritual Consumerism in Post-Christian America

FRIENDLY GHOSTS, KARMIC REVENGE FANTASIES & COSMIC HAMSTER WHEELS

Pieter Vree & Jason M. Morgan

People today are perhaps more gullible than at any time in history and likely to believe just about anything.

Zélie Martin & Thérèse of Lisieux on Confronting the Fear of Death

SAINTLY EXAMPLES FOR A TIME OF PANDEMIC

Louise Carroll Keeley

Thérèse understood that God’s love is not earned, that there is no merit in her that could compel God’s love or attention.

Terrible Tenderness

Alex Taylor

For humanists, the religious impulse is redirected from traditional religions toward a secularized system of values such as egalitarianism and bodily health.

Countering the COVID-19 'Expert' Narrative

INDUCED PANIC HAS CRUSHED LIVELIHOODS & LIBERTIES

Michael S. Rose

Shuttered churches, depression-level unemployment, tracking devices, drone surveillance, civilian snitching— is this really how we want to live?