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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 Narthex, the NOR blog, by Richard M. Dell'Orfano: Too many of today's youth lack the valuable experience of dif...
06/11/2026

From the Narthex, the NOR blog, by Richard M. Dell'Orfano: Too many of today's youth lack the valuable experience of difficult physical labor.

At sixteen years old in 1958, I worked in an East Boston shipyard. It was an environment of high-stakes, industrial-grade labor. I stood on the deck of a new hull with multi-ton overhead steel plates swinging into place, dodging the blinding glare of arc welding and the constant hiss of torch sparks...

From our June 2026 issue by Casey Chalk: Because the Church is the Body of Christ, the sins of the faithful are a deviat...
06/10/2026

From our June 2026 issue by Casey Chalk: Because the Church is the Body of Christ, the sins of the faithful are a deviation from her Christ-originating holiness. They obscure but cannot eliminate her holiness.

Four thousand, three hundred and ninety-two. That’s how many Catholic priests and deacons in the United States were credibly accused of abusing 10,667 minors between 1950 and 2002, according to a 2004 report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In Ireland, a 2018 list reported more than 1,...

From our June 2026 issue by Ken Treece: The available research suggests a more complicated — and more hopeful — picture ...
06/08/2026

From our June 2026 issue by Ken Treece: The available research suggests a more complicated — and more hopeful — picture than the narrative of a collapsing priesthood implies.

Late last year, the National Catholic Register published an article asking why some priests leave ministry within the first few years of ordination. It pointed to loneliness, burnout, and shortcomings in formation as likely contributing causes (Dec. 3, 2025). That question deserves serious attention...

From our June 2026 issue by Pieter Vree: The Women’s Ordination Conference appears to cater to a dwindling cadre of whit...
06/05/2026

From our June 2026 issue by Pieter Vree: The Women’s Ordination Conference appears to cater to a dwindling cadre of white-haired septuagenarians. Its attempts to connect with young women haven’t met with resounding success. Where have all the would-be womenpriests gone?

Well, guess what? That was precisely the feeling they wanted to effect. The wheels of the Church, they were certain, would grind to a halt without their many hands to steer it. And things would never be the same again.

From our June 2026 issue by Edmund B. Miller: In almost all cases, isolation accompanies the Flytes’ charm. This being s...
06/03/2026

From our June 2026 issue by Edmund B. Miller: In almost all cases, isolation accompanies the Flytes’ charm. This being so, it’s no surprise Brideshead Revisited is not a happy book.

Last year, my wife and I drove to visit friends who had just moved to a town called Clarkston, northwest of Detroit. On our way, we drove through the town’s center, which Monica promptly described as a “charm attack.” I’m sure you know what that means: shaded streets, faithfully restored Vic...

Our June 2026 issue is now online! Highlights include:∙ "Quantum Mechanics, Transubstantiation & Why Aristotle Was Right...
06/01/2026

Our June 2026 issue is now online! Highlights include:
∙ "Quantum Mechanics, Transubstantiation & Why Aristotle Was Right After All" by Robert Kurland
∙ "The Pitfalls of Charm" by Edmund B. Miller
∙ "Does the Church Have a Stained-Glass Ceiling?" by Pieter Vree
∙ "Catholic Citizens & the Temptation of Hypernationalism" by Marcus Peter
∙ "More Dispatches from the Spiritual Battlefront" by Christopher Beiting..and so much more! Check out our latest thought-provoking issue:

Too Much of a Good Thing?... Do They Know Their Scripture?... Bypassing Empty Slogans... Time Out of Mind... Staying in Touch... and more

From our June 2026 issue by Robert Kurland: Quantum theory requires precisely the kinds of distinctions — between potent...
06/01/2026

From our June 2026 issue by Robert Kurland: Quantum theory requires precisely the kinds of distinctions — between potentiality and actuality, and between underlying being and observable properties — that Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy articulates. If Aristotelian categories resolve the paradoxes of quantum theory, they can also provide a coherent metaphysical context for understanding transubstantiation.

Is there a conflict between modern physics and the Aristotelian-Thomistic interpretation of Catholic doctrine? A contemporary Jesuit writer has dismissed transubstantiation as intellectually obsolete, claiming that its reliance on Aristotelian notions of substance and accidents belongs to a premoder...

From our May 2026 issue by Marcus Peter: The Christian’s duty is to refuse the lie, to speak truth even when the new com...
05/29/2026

From our May 2026 issue by Marcus Peter: The Christian’s duty is to refuse the lie, to speak truth even when the new commissars call it hate, and to remember that faith is not a private sentiment but a public allegiance.

When Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, fled the Soviet Union in 1967, it was more than a political defection. It was the collapse of a theology. The regime she left behind had been built on a single conviction — that man could order paradise without God. Her father had devoted his l...

From our May 2026 issue by Pieter Vree: What use is our righteous anger if in these United States, the ostensible land o...
05/28/2026

From our May 2026 issue by Pieter Vree: What use is our righteous anger if in these United States, the ostensible land of the free, we the people labor under a ruling class populated mostly by untouchable perverts, a Teflon cabal of pure evil?

“Your princes are rebels…. There is no end to their treasures…. Their land is filled with idols.” — Isaiah 1:23, 2:7-8

From the Archives by the late, great Dale Vree: At the heart of what angers Catholic-bashers is what the Church teaches,...
05/28/2026

From the Archives by the late, great Dale Vree: At the heart of what angers Catholic-bashers is what the Church teaches, especially the moral absolutes she affirms.

John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth) is the first encyclical to put forth the core elements of Catholic moral theology. The Church’s moral teaching, of course, is central to proclaiming the Gospel. So how did the encyclical play in the Peoria of MediaLand? What, for example,...

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