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New Oxford Review

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Editor Pieter Vree
Former editors Dale Vree
Categories Catholicism
Formerly
Anglo-Catholicism
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 12,000
Founded 1977
Company New Oxford Review Inc.
Country United States
Based in Berkeley, California
Language English
Website newoxfordreview.org
ISSN 0149-4244

The New Oxford Review (NOR) is a magazine of traditionalist Catholic cultural and theological commentary.[1][2] It was founded in 1977 by the American Church Union as an Anglo-Catholic magazine in the Anglican tradition to replace American Church News.[3][1] It was named for the Oxford Movement of the 1830s and 1840s.[1] In 1983, it officially "converted" to Catholicism.[3]

Originally headquartered in Oakland, California, it is now headquartered in Berkeley, California.[3][1] It had a paid circulation of 12,000 as of 2020.[3] It has published writing by Walker Percy, Sheldon Vanauken, Thomas Howard, George A. Kelly, Bobby Jindal, Stanley L. Jaki, Peter Kreeft, Avery Dulles, Germain Grisez, James V. Schall, and John Lukacs.[3] Contributing editors have included Robert N. Bellah, L. Brent Bozell Jr., Robert Coles, and Christopher Lasch.[2]

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During its earlier history, the magazine championed Pope John Paul II's condemnation of the dissenting Catholic theologian Hans Küng. It supported Bernard Francis Law in his condemnation of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative.[4]

In 2006, George A. Kendall, writing in the conservative Catholic newspaper The Wanderer, questioned the Catholicity of the NOR based on what he viewed as its strident Calvinist tendencies.[5]

References

  1. Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Back to citation occurrence 1.2 Back to citation occurrence 1.3 Ronald Lora, William Henry Longton, The conservative press in twentieth-century America, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, p. 209
  2. Back to citation occurrence 2.0 Back to citation occurrence 2.1 Mary Jo Weaver, Being right: conservative Catholics in America, Indiana University Press, 1995, p. 341
  3. Back to citation occurrence 3.0 Back to citation occurrence 3.1 Back to citation occurrence 3.2 Back to citation occurrence 3.3 Back to citation occurrence 3.4 "About Us". New Oxford Review. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2026.
  4. Back to citation Chester Gillis, Roman Catholicism in America, Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 43
  5. Back to citation Kendall, George A., "Is New Oxford Review Becoming a Protestant Publication?", The Wanderer, August 24, 2006, p. 4