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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. Inspired 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 October 2026 issue by Thomas Storck: There is ample reason to question the usefulness of the Hermetic writings ...
10/09/2026

From our October 2026 issue by Thomas Storck: There is ample reason to question the usefulness of the Hermetic writings for a renewal of Catholic thought and life.

Sebastian Morello’s Mysticism, Magic, & Monasteries is extremely wide-ranging but focuses on a few major and related themes: that modern man, including modern Catholic man, has lost a sense of the mystery, or enchantment, of reality; that an important way of recovering this lost sense is through w...

From our October 2026 issue by Patrick Madrid: Wilfred, who was in his mid-80s, seemed ancient to me. He was more or les...
10/08/2026

From our October 2026 issue by Patrick Madrid: Wilfred, who was in his mid-80s, seemed ancient to me. He was more or less comatose. He never woke up, never spoke, or showed any sign of being aware of his surroundings. Until one day...

When I was 19 years old, I never could have imagined that I would form a true friendship with a woman in her mid-80s. But it happened in the most astonishing and unexpected way and still evokes a happy memory in me all these years later. Her name was Maude Parker, a sweet, gracious, petite woman who...

From our October 2026 issue by Andrew M. Seddon: Perhaps we ourselves are vampire-like, separated from God by sin, belie...
10/07/2026

From our October 2026 issue by Andrew M. Seddon: Perhaps we ourselves are vampire-like, separated from God by sin, believing the ancient lie that “you shall be as gods,” harming ourselves and others.

Evil creatures of darkness. Bloodthirsty denizens of the night, prowling the shadows in search of victims. The undead. Vampires.

From our October 2026 issue by Ron Rychlak: Fulton Sheen admired Pope Pius XII’s leadership, calling him a “dry martyr,”...
10/06/2026

From our October 2026 issue by Ron Rychlak: Fulton Sheen admired Pope Pius XII’s leadership, calling him a “dry martyr,” meaning he suffered for the Church in times of persecution without shedding his own blood.

As the Church celebrates last month’s beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), it is worth reviewing some of the insights he shared publicly. Many remember him as a vehement anti-communist. He warned against the destructive nature of that atheistic system and spoke of exposing its ...

From our October 2026 issue by Marcus Peter: Free speech must be cherished, not assumed. It must be practiced even when ...
10/05/2026

From our October 2026 issue by Marcus Peter: Free speech must be cherished, not assumed. It must be practiced even when uncomfortable, and defended even when unpopular.

On October 14, 1855, a carpenter stood atop a soapbox in Hyde Park and complained about the price of bread. His speech was unremarkable but his setting revolutionary. That makeshift pulpit became the first act of what would later be known as Speakers’ Corner, the one spot in London where a man cou...

New from the Narthex by Sabino Paciolla: The little girl was passed hand to hand through the crowd. A Vatican gendarme p...
10/03/2026

New from the Narthex by Sabino Paciolla: The little girl was passed hand to hand through the crowd. A Vatican gendarme picked her up and carried her to Leo.

Pope Leo’s trip to France could have been considered just another trip that takes place according to the usual protocols. Instead, it proved disruptive, both spiritually and, perhaps above all, culturally. The trip was to one of the most secularized countries on the continent, where the secularity...

From our October 2026 issue by Jason M. Morgan: In a few years the world has changed dramatically, but the only thing th...
10/02/2026

From our October 2026 issue by Jason M. Morgan: In a few years the world has changed dramatically, but the only thing that has changed in Palestine is the suffering of the innocent has multiplied, as has the death toll.

It is August 6, 2026 — 81 years to the day since an atomic bomb exploded over the city of Hiroshima. I am walking up four flights of stone stairs in a building in the Minami-Azabu area of Tokyo. Minami-Azabu is home to many embassies, but the building I am in is not technically an embassy. Its chi...

Our October 2026 issue is now online! Highlights include:∙ "Waking Wilfred Parker" by Patrick Madrid ∙ "'We Have Forgott...
10/01/2026

Our October 2026 issue is now online! Highlights include:

∙ "Waking Wilfred Parker" by Patrick Madrid
∙ "'We Have Forgotten God': A Conversation with Waleed Siam" by Jason M. Morgan
∙ "Soapboxes & Sedition: The Long, Uneasy History of Free Speech" by Marcus Peter
∙ "Recovering Reality: Étienne Gilson & the Metaphysics of Evangelization" by James Iovino
..and so much more! Check out our latest thought-provoking issue:

Laborers for the Vineyard... (Turn Off) the Light of the World... Diversity Deficiency... Baby-Buyers’ Remorse... Cash for Trash... Divided Nations... and more

From our October 2026 issue by James Iovino: Any credible evangelization today must stand on the ground Gilson recovered...
10/01/2026

From our October 2026 issue by James Iovino: Any credible evangelization today must stand on the ground Gilson recovered: the primacy of being, without which neither truth nor grace can be received.

It should be obvious to anyone paying attention that we live in an age that doubts reality, that trusts perception over being, and emotion over truth. Unlike disagreements of the past, when arguments were over what is true, we now disagree about whether truth even exists. Within what philosopher Cha...

From the Archives by Celia Wolf-Devine: Getting people to care about children is closely con­nected with getting them to...
09/30/2026

From the Archives by Celia Wolf-Devine: Getting people to care about children is closely con­nected with getting them to care about the future of our society.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist, here sounds a time­ly alarm about America’s in­creasing neglect of its children and the costs of this neglect. She begins by documenting the magnitude of the problem, providing both individual case histories (usually told in the child’s own words) and an impre...

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