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The World, um, Created by Contraception

April 25, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

From a Catholic News Agency piece about a recent online debate between Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, and Slate magazine author William Saletan: Douthat also urged Saletan, and others who dismiss the […]

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The real shock…

April 24, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

… in the CDF vs. LCWR saga is not, George Weigel notes, the faux shock of the LCWR leadership, but that the Vatican had finally acted, decisively, after three decades of half-hearted (and failed) attempts […]

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Two options for the LCWR

April 23, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

From a CNA/EWTN News piece, quoting Ann Carey: Carey said that after Vatican II, members of many religious orders began to live in apartments and find their own jobs, separate from a corporate apostolate such […]

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On Fifteen Years a Catholic

April 20, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

“How can you join a church that tells you how to think?” The question, uttered with equal parts puzzlement and anger, surprised me. In hindsight, it should have been about as surprising as an afternoon […]