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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 the Archives by the late, great Jean Bethke Elshtain: Lasch believed in the re­sponsibility of the intellectual to ...
11/16/2025

From the Archives by the late, great Jean Bethke Elshtain: Lasch believed in the re­sponsibility of the intellectual to and for his particular time and place. He reminded us of that, through his work and his life, again and again.

Ed. Note: In our April 1994 editorial we paid tribute to our Contributing Editor Christopher “Kit” Lasch, who died on February 14, 1994. Here we offer a eulogy by his fellow Contributing Editor Jean Bethke Elshtain, de­livered on February 27 in the Interfaith Chapel at the University of Rochest...

From the Narthex by Sabino Paciolla: What was presented as an essential commitment to saving the planet is proving to be...
11/15/2025

From the Narthex by Sabino Paciolla: What was presented as an essential commitment to saving the planet is proving to be a house of cards, undermined by political pressure.

COP30, the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, opens today. The meetings will begin in Belém, a Brazilian port city located on the edge of the Amazon, and will end on November 21. Expectations are high among large sectors of the establishment, lobbies, and environmental movements, but th...

From the November 2025 issue by Kaleb Hammond: Tolkien’s appreciation for what’s called the “feminine genius” is reflect...
11/14/2025

From the November 2025 issue by Kaleb Hammond: Tolkien’s appreciation for what’s called the “feminine genius” is reflected throughout his nonfiction writings, private correspondence, and works of fiction. He did not, however, idolize women.

Contrary to popular opinion and the portrayals in film adaptations of his The Lord of the Rings trilogy — including those by Peter Jackson, the recent Rings of Power Amazon Prime series, and The War of the Rohirrim animated movie — J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) had a great love for women. He was ne...

It's about time.
11/13/2025

It's about time.

U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-transition care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care.

From the November 2025 issue by Joseph Lewis Heil - Author : Could the eleven-dimensional universe postulated by M-theor...
11/13/2025

From the November 2025 issue by Joseph Lewis Heil - Author : Could the eleven-dimensional universe postulated by M-theory explain how the Blessed Virgin Mary moved in and out of the four-dimensional world of provincial France, such that she was visible only to Bernadette and not to the yearning crowds that surrounded her?

Two authors, somewhat similar in literary stature in Europe and the United States, wrote about the remarkable story of a mid-19th-century provincial French girl named Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879). The Czech-born Franz Werfel (1890-1945) recounted the true tale in novel form, while the French nov...

From the Archives by the Rev. Michael Albert Dubruiel: Seminaries attract all kinds of men, and Frank couldn't believe t...
11/13/2025

From the Archives by the Rev. Michael Albert Dubruiel: Seminaries attract all kinds of men, and Frank couldn't believe the lack of belief he encountered in some of them.

Frank showed up at the seminary wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and sandals. The first time I saw this fellow seminarian of mine, I asked him why he wasn’t dressed in the seminary’s required black pants and white shirt. He told me that what he had on was all he owned.

From deep in the Archives by the Rev. John Warwick Montgomery: The Gospel writers, like witnesses in court, are not obli...
11/12/2025

From deep in the Archives by the Rev. John Warwick Montgomery: The Gospel writers, like witnesses in court, are not obliged to tell everything every other witness tells; they are only required to be truthful as to what they do narrate.

Debate time again in London! A year ago, your humble servant reported on his public debate with Prof. G.A. Wells, who denies Jesus’ existence (NOR, May 1993). The sponsor of that confrontation, the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, provided a second op­portunity for classic Christianity and secula...

From the November 2025 issue by Barbara E. Rose: Whatever the number of students Fessio personally led to Christ, there ...
11/11/2025

From the November 2025 issue by Barbara E. Rose: Whatever the number of students Fessio personally led to Christ, there are many, many more he’s helped evangelize through Ignatius Press and related media.

An energetic, entrepreneurial American man decides to join a once venerable but now sluggish religious order. What ensues? The order provides him with a worthy education and space to evangelize. But its leaders often seem exasperated by this man of action and, consequently, are less than admiring of...

From our November 2025 issue by Monica Migliorino Miller: When Leo says "at the moment” or “not in the near future,” he ...
11/10/2025

From our November 2025 issue by Monica Migliorino Miller: When Leo says "at the moment” or “not in the near future,” he is saying Church doctrine could be altered. Yet based on the natural law and God’s revelation, neither the Church’s teaching regarding the meaning of human sexuality nor the essence of the sacraments can be altered — not now or ever.

“You are in the wrong church, you’re not A TRUE Shepherd, you’re one of many wolfs in sheep’s clothing. If you want to change the centuries of tradition and sound doctrine and sound magister of the HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, you’re a Protestant reformist modernist…. You believe in a god who a...

From our November 2025 issue by Thomas J. Kronholz: Magnificent structures, literary wonders, and masterpieces of music ...
11/07/2025

From our November 2025 issue by Thomas J. Kronholz: Magnificent structures, literary wonders, and masterpieces of music are the studied result of contemplation and learning, for which there is no shortcut.

Driven by His inestimable love for man, the Son of God assumed a mortal nature, which granted Him a threefold love for mankind. That is to say, Christ loved with a divine will, a human will, and true human affections. Ever engaged in the creative act of love, His powers were perfectly realized, orde...

From the November 2025 issue by Casey Chalk: Since the apostolic age, the Church’s growth has been accompanied by an inc...
11/06/2025

From the November 2025 issue by Casey Chalk: Since the apostolic age, the Church’s growth has been accompanied by an incredible diversity of miracles, though it's admittedly difficult, if not impossible, to disentangle centuries-old claims of the miraculous from historic reality.

Miracles can be a contentious topic in Protestant circles, even among those who do not attempt to explain away those of Jesus and the Apostles chronicled in the New Testament as having a purely natural explanation. The question for such Protestants is not whether God can perform a miracle but if He....

From the November 2025 issue by Pieter Vree: American “assassination culture” cuts across genders, races, creeds, party ...
11/05/2025

From the November 2025 issue by Pieter Vree: American “assassination culture” cuts across genders, races, creeds, party lines, and political persuasions. It is a legacy of the revolutionary, anti-authoritarian spirit by which we define ourselves as a people.

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.” ― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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At the nexus of faith and reason

The NEW OXFORD REVIEW is an orthodox Catholic magazine that explores ideas concerning faith and culture. The NOR is published 10 times a year (monthly except for combined January-February and July-August issues). Published under the patronage of St. Vincent Pallotti, the NOR is read on every continent in the world. The NOR was founded in 1977 as an Anglo-Catholic magazine in the Anglican tradition, taking its name from the 19th-century Oxford Movement. Like the Movement’s leading luminary, John Henry Newman, the NOR converted to Roman Catholicism in 1983, inspired by the dynamic, thoughtful papacy of St. John Paul II. The NOR has earned a reputation for addressing head-on the full range of issues confronting Holy Mother Church, and doing so with unswerving loyalty to her Pope and Magisterium. Over the years, some of the leading Christian thinkers of our times have contributed to our effort to shine the light of faith in an increasingly hostile secular world, including Walker Percy, Sheldon Vanauken, Thomas Howard, Msgr. George A. Kelly, Bobby Jindal, Fr. Stanley L. Jaki, Peter Kreeft, Avery Cardinal Dulles, Germain Grisez, Fr. James V. Schall, John Lukacs, and many others. The NOR continues to present the brightest minds in Catholic journalism today. Each issue is packed with intellectual vibrancy and zeal for Christ.

The NOR is a nonprofit religious organization and has 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service.