Musings of a Pertinacious Papist

Joseph Martin, "On the Occasion of a Favorite Professor Turning the Pen on Himself," New Oxford Review (October 2025), pp. 18-22
Peter Kreeft is an anomaly. He calls himself a philosopher — without irony, apology, or hesitation. That alone makes him uncommon these days. He’s also unabashedly Catholic, a point of pride in some circles, where his books have become familiar markers...

Pieter Vree, "Assassination Nation," New Oxford Review (November 2025), pp. 34-37.
[Pieter Vree is Editor of the NOR.]
“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...

Fr. John Bustamante, in a weekly column in Assumption Grotto News (Sept. 21, 2025), wrote:
Some years ago at a major Ohio university, an elderly Jesuit priest who had long since retired from his formal teaching responsibilities used to spend his lunch hour in the main dining hall. He didn’t go there to eat; he went there to teach. He would...

Fr. John Bustamante, "A Vicarious Descant" (Assumption Grotto News, July 7, 2024)
[Advisory: I assume full responsibility for the article's title. -- P.B.]
The Pontifical Commission on Birth Control was established by Saint John XXIII in 1960 in response to the growing voice of dissent in the Church regarding a newly developed product on the world markets: oral contraceptives. This Commission consisted...