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Church teaching and sexuality: What “no longer” holds?
For the past three years, the emphasis of Pope Francis and those close to him has been on “respect” and “listening”, with little or no […]
Opinion
Features
Whose bourgeois morality?
We have met the bourgeois lobby, and it consists of German-speaking bishops. […]
Opinion
As Title IX guidelines change, Catholic schools need to protect the rights of all students
Some of prestigious Catholic colleges have routinely violated the civil rights of students by withholding due process protections from those accused of sexual assault. […]
Features
Farewell to the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family
The JPII Institute I knew and have known was already “theological” and already “scientific”. So why the changes? […]
Features
“The Restoration of Man”: Cardinal Carlo Caffarra’s Final Testimony
The full text of a scheduled address by the late archbishop emeritus of Bologna, in which he provocatively states, “Everything that makes up what we call […]
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Cardinal Sarah, “terrorism of thought,” and the fight for faith
In certain key respects the struggle between predominantly urban revolutionaries and predominantly rural Christians during French Revolution foreshadows the Blue-Red divide of our own time […]
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An Evangelical theologian responds to Fr. James Martin, S.J.
A consideration of Fr. Martin’s “seven ways” of responding to the Nashville Statement underscore the truncated gospel (or even anti-gospel) with which Martin operates. […]
Features
Why Fr. Spadaro owes an apology to half of all American Christians
Antonio Spadaro, S.J., has pioneered a new kind of ecumenism: denouncing the content and quality of other Christians’ faith and slamming the Church doors in […]
Features
Without Christian witness and culture, the West cannot resist Islam
Back in 1991, while visiting a Roman museum, I got into a conversation with an employee, who expressed dismay that Pope John Paul II had called for support for the massive migration into Italy of […]
Features
The Church, Society, and Sex
One of the many bons mots of Archbishop Fulton Sheen was: “What the Church gives up the world takes up.” By that he meant the Church often (all too often) fails to appreciate the value […]