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New Oxford Review The New Oxford Review is a Catholic magazine that explores ideas concerning faith and culture. Under the patronage of St. James V. Stanley L. George A.

The NEW OXFORD REVIEW is an orthodox Catholic magazine that explores ideas concerning faith and culture. Vincent Pallotti, the NOR publishes 10 issues a year (monthly except for combined January-February and July-August issues), both in print and online. The NOR was founded in 1977 as an Anglo-Catholic magazine in the Anglican tradition, taking its name from the 19th-century Oxford Movement. Inspi

red by the Movement’s leading luminary, St. John Henry Newman, and the dynamic papacy of St. John Paul II, the NOR converted to Roman Catholicism in 1983. The NOR addresses all the challenges facing Holy Mother Church in our time and does so with unswerving loyalty to her Magisterium. Over the years, some of the leading Christian thinkers have contributed to our effort to shine the light of faith in an increasingly hostile world, including Fr. Schall, Peter Kreeft, Germain Grisez, Fr. Jaki, Robert Coles, Russell Shaw, Stanley Hauerwas, Msgr. Kelly, Thomas Molnar, and many others. The NOR continues to present the brightest minds in Catholic journalism. Each issue is packed with intellectual vibrancy, a wide array of topics, and zeal for Christ. The NEW OXFORD REVIEW: At the nexus of faith and reason. The NOR is a nonprofit religious organization and has 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service.

From our July-August 2026 issue by Jason M. Morgan: The state has a monopoly on violence and uses it to line the pockets...
08/20/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue by Jason M. Morgan: The state has a monopoly on violence and uses it to line the pockets of those in power, while everyone else pays the price. This is precisely how it was designed to operate.

No sooner does the pentagram-themed U.S. Department of War start bombing some foreigners than do Catholics begin debating the finer points of just-war theory. The assault on Iran is another installment in the genre. A country negotiating with Washington in good faith was suddenly attacked (twice) by...

From our July-August 2026 issue by Marcus Peter: The men stand three paces apart, and they all know the same thing witho...
08/19/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue by Marcus Peter: The men stand three paces apart, and they all know the same thing without saying it: Death had ended the era of their speeches and begun their time of reckoning.

January 30 is a strange combination of historical anniversaries. It is the anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi’s assassination, when the Indian proponent of nonviolence fell to a bullet fired at point-blank range. It is the anniversary of Adolf Hi**er’s inauguration into power, when German political ...

From our July-August 2026 issue by Kaleb Hammond: Masculinity is good in itself, although as liable to corruption as fem...
08/17/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue by Kaleb Hammond: Masculinity is good in itself, although as liable to corruption as femininity, and chivalry is the true fulfillment and perfection — not “correction” — of masculinity.

What is a woman? People today find it difficult to answer this question. How many could answer the related question, What is a man? For modern psychologists and those influenced by them (which is practically everyone), “masculinity” and “femininity” are not directly equivalent or applicable ...

New from the Narthex by James Hanink: Aquinas teaches, “God’s omnipotence is particularly shown in sparing and having me...
08/12/2026

New from the Narthex by James Hanink: Aquinas teaches, “God’s omnipotence is particularly shown in sparing and having mercy, because in this is it made manifest that he has supreme power.”

Hear ye, hear ye! President Trump opines that he is the most powerful person to ever live (“The YOLO Presidency,” The Atlantic, April 29, 2026). There are compelling reasons to dispute his claim. Even so, many of our politicians insist that the United States is the greatest country on earth. Per...

From the Archives by the late, great Robert Coles: My interlocutor said, "God give us the strength to obey His commandme...
08/12/2026

From the Archives by the late, great Robert Coles: My interlocutor said, "God give us the strength to obey His commandments, that's what we need more than anything: the strength to obey God, and be good people."

For many years, with the help of two of my sons, now medical students, I talked with teenagers who were pregnant or already mothers, and with their boyfriends. We were interested in learning about the lives of these young women and men — their hopes and wishes, their worries and troubles. Not that...

From our July-August 2026 issue by Christopher Zehnder: Pope Leo seemingly affirms the late Pope Francis's teaching on t...
08/12/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue by Christopher Zehnder: Pope Leo seemingly affirms the late Pope Francis's teaching on the death penalty, which some argue is at the very least in error. But is this so?

Recalling the late Pope Francis’s reign, when the Catholic world convulsed with criticism of him, I have wondered, now that that period has passed, when Pope Leo XIV would be dragged onto the carpet. The tumult surrounding Francis was at times warranted, though on occasion gratuitous. Nevertheless...

From our July-August 2026 issue by Alexander R. Sich: The machine is our instrument, not our heir and not our image. The...
08/11/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue by Alexander R. Sich: The machine is our instrument, not our heir and not our image. The future depends less on what these systems become than on whether we still know what we are for.

Something shifted in the past year or two, and it is worth saying plainly what it was. For most of the current era of artificial intelligence, the conversation centered on language — whether these systems could generate plausible prose, pass a bar exam, mimic a therapist, etc. The surprise was flu...

New from the Narthex by Jason M. Morgan: Women have separate sports teams and separate leagues because women and men are...
08/10/2026

New from the Narthex by Jason M. Morgan: Women have separate sports teams and separate leagues because women and men are different. The only way women can safely and enjoyably shoot hoops is to bar men from their league. Period.

It would be great if women who wanted to play basketball had a league of their own. They don’t, though. Instead, they have the WNBA, which is a political action committee doing layups and free throws. The difference between a women’s basketball league and the WNBA is, well, difference. A women.....

From our July-August 2026 issue, a short story by Marcus Peter: The three men find themselves in a shadowy, lifeless pla...
08/08/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue, a short story by Marcus Peter: The three men find themselves in a shadowy, lifeless place — no sun, no stars, no comforting scenery. There is only a dark, neutral expanse...

January 30 is a strange combination of historical anniversaries. It is the anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi’s assassination, when the Indian proponent of nonviolence fell to a bullet fired at point-blank range. It is the anniversary of Adolf Hi**er’s inauguration into power, when German political ...

From our July-August 2026 issue by Daniel Sadasivan: Faith is a fully human act, not an algorithmic assessment. It perfe...
08/06/2026

From our July-August 2026 issue by Daniel Sadasivan: Faith is a fully human act, not an algorithmic assessment. It perfects the person in his entirety, including but not limited to the possession of correct beliefs.

The first part of Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece Brideshead Revisited (1945) centers around the relationship between protagonist Charles Ryder and his friend Sebastian Flyte, whom he met at Oxford. Sebastian rebels against his rigid Catholic upbringing by living a life of debauchery. Charles begins th...

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