Editor Pieter Vree Categories Catholicism Circulation 12,000 | Former editors Dale Vree Frequency Monthly Year founded 1977 | |
The New Oxford Review is a magazine of Roman Catholic cultural and theological commentary.
Overview
It was founded in 1977 by the American Church Union as an Anglo-Catholic magazine in the Anglican tradition to replace American Church News. It was named for the Oxford Movement of the 1830s and 1840s. In 1983, it officially "converted" to Roman Catholicism. It championed Pope John Paul II's condemnation of dissenting Catholic theologian Hans Küng. It supported Bernard Francis Law in his condemnation of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative.
It was originally headquartered in Oakland, California, and it is now headquartered in Berkeley, California. It has a paid circulation of 12,000. It has published writing by 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, etc. Contributing editors have included Robert N. Bellah, L. Brent Bozell, Jr., Robert Coles, and Christopher Lasch.