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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.

The October 2025 issue is now online! Highlights include:∙ "The Second Vatican Council: What’s the Big Deal?" by Eric Ja...
10/01/2025

The October 2025 issue is now online! Highlights include:
∙ "The Second Vatican Council: What’s the Big Deal?" by Eric Jackson
∙ "The Danger of Equating the Church with the Mass" by Victor Bruno
∙ "The Moonies in Japan: Religious Cult or Political Inconvenience?" by Jason M. Morgan
∙ "Teaching Men to Die to Teach Them to Live" by Alexander Riley..and much more! Check out our latest thought-provoking issue:

No Longer Just Your Neighborhood Weirdos... Man’s Deliverer from Deadly Isolation... The First Firm Foundation... Volleys in the Liturgy Wars... and more

From the Archives by Mark J. Kelly: The ever-living and developing Church directly connected to Christ through the Tradi...
10/01/2025

From the Archives by Mark J. Kelly: The ever-living and developing Church directly connected to Christ through the Tradition of the Fathers is the only hope out of the dark forest of individual opinion.

Tolkien’s The Hobbit or There and Back Again is the quintessential quest story. Familiar places are left and returned to, new and variable phenomena are observed and considered. Yet always, on the way home, there is further realization of certain truths and consequences.

From the October 2025 issue by Eric Jackson: The Church was already in a state of turmoil in the years prior to Vatican ...
10/01/2025

From the October 2025 issue by Eric Jackson: The Church was already in a state of turmoil in the years prior to Vatican II, even if much of the turbulence was not obvious at the time.

It seems outlandish to say, but we are probably too close in time to the Second Vatican Council to view it with anything approaching objectivity. This is almost a rule of history: Only with time and emotional distance can we make sense of an event. Though no event can really be lived secondhand, at....

New from the Narthex by John Grondelski: Have we worked out the time spread between Masses (including parking lot egress...
09/30/2025

New from the Narthex by John Grondelski: Have we worked out the time spread between Masses (including parking lot egress) so finely that throwing in a baptism halts our finely tuned machines?

Sixty years have passed since Vatican II. Sixty-one years have passed since Lumen gentium, which reminded us that the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life around which all the sacraments revolve (no. 11). Sixty-two years have passed since Sacrosanctum Concilium taught that “the...

New from the Narthex by John Grondelski: A God who treats moral responsibility seriously exercises His omnipotence by pa...
09/29/2025

New from the Narthex by John Grondelski: A God who treats moral responsibility seriously exercises His omnipotence by pardoning evil when man truly takes responsibility for it.

One of God’s attributes — omnipotence — generates all sorts of ideas, many of them mistaken. That’s why the Collect from last Sunday’s Mass (26th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C) provides an eye-opening perspective: O God, who manifest your almighty power above all by pardoning and showing...

New from the Narthex by John M. Grondelski: Ancient Israel broke away from the “eternal return" mythology of other cultu...
09/28/2025

New from the Narthex by John M. Grondelski: Ancient Israel broke away from the “eternal return" mythology of other cultures to see time not as circular but linear, a river -- to borrow Heraclitus -- into which no man steps twice.

Fall arrived this week, precisely on Monday at 2:19 p.m. Another year is slowly bending towards its end. I’ll admit fall is my favorite season. For me, the year goes downhill from May until about early October. (I used to say September in my native New Jersey, but I’m currently stuck in Virginia...

From the Archives by Sr. Winifred Mary Lyons, S.C.: Permit me to share a very special outpouring of grace that recently ...
09/27/2025

From the Archives by Sr. Winifred Mary Lyons, S.C.: Permit me to share a very special outpouring of grace that recently occurred in my life: my reacquaintance with the long-abandoned habit.

On the eve of August 15, 1964, as I sat on my bed preparing for the marvelous day of my First Vows, I gazed down at the crucifix on my new profession beads, which I would don for the first time in the morning. Our Mother General had told us that evening, as she presented the rosaries and professed s...

This weekend's feature from the September 2025 by Pieter Vree: The archbishop of Toulouse worries about a convicted prie...
09/26/2025

This weekend's feature from the September 2025 by Pieter Vree: The archbishop of Toulouse worries about a convicted priest’s “social death.” What about the child whose life and faith the priest most assuredly destroyed?

The philosopher George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” One wonders if Guy de Kerimel, archbishop of Toulouse, remembers the past, for he seems committed to repeating it.

From the Archives by Patrick G.D. Riley: The Greek polytheists and their Hellenizing allies in Jerusalem tried to woo th...
09/25/2025

From the Archives by Patrick G.D. Riley: The Greek polytheists and their Hellenizing allies in Jerusalem tried to woo the Jewish upper classes away from Yahwism with homosexuality.

It’s a commonplace to say that homosexuality has metamorphosed within the memory of most from a furtive perversion to an ostentatious “preference,” from the love that dare not speak its name to the love that can’t stop talking about itself. Homosexuals are no longer a scarcely visible presen...

From the Archives by Robert M. Byrn: In the ultimate act of compassion, charity, and inclusiveness, Christ died for us s...
09/24/2025

From the Archives by Robert M. Byrn: In the ultimate act of compassion, charity, and inclusiveness, Christ died for us sinners, but sin is still sin, very ungodly, and much to be avoided.

This is a tale of two sermons. I heard about one. I was present at the other. Although both confuse the sin with the sinner, they are at war with each other, and both are wrong.

New from the Narthex by John M. Grondelski: In attacking those who "fix scales for cheating," the prophet Amos foretold ...
09/23/2025

New from the Narthex by John M. Grondelski: In attacking those who "fix scales for cheating," the prophet Amos foretold "shrinkflation." Companies today might not "diminish the ephah," as in the Israel of Amos's day; they reduce the size of Milky Way candy bars and McDonald’s hamburgers.

Last Sunday’s First Reading was the prophet Amos decrying the religious hypocrisy and wage injustice rife in the Israel of his day. His indictment reads: “When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish t...

From the Archives by Annie Moritz: A couple I know chose not to have children — more her active choice and his acquiesce...
09/23/2025

From the Archives by Annie Moritz: A couple I know chose not to have children — more her active choice and his acquiescence. As mid-life approached they realized their marriage was dry, sterile.

This year the garden patch I pass by daily lies deserted. For years I have admired that garden: tulips and herbs and tender young salad greens in the spring; peppers and tomatoes, basil and beans, bright zinnias and nasturtiums in July; and in autumn, heavy-headed sunflowers nodding over squash and....

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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.