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Progressives and Church history

March 24, 2022 Amy Welborn 16

I gave a talk recently on Catholic Church history – an overview, a quick hits kind of tour. Instead of trying to actually go through a lot of dates and events, I focused on the […]

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Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill

March 24, 2022 Russell Shaw 16

So there will be no meeting, at least for now, between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Kirill’s support for President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine has put […]

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Why Theology Matters

March 24, 2022 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 8

Theology gets a bad rap, often seen as a bunch of eggheads asking questions that no one really cares about. In the Middle Ages, it revolved around how many angels could dance on the head […]

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An Orthodox awakening

March 23, 2022 George Weigel 21

For years, the two leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church with whom Pope Francis met by videoconference on March 16 — Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, and Metropolitan Hilarion, the Church’s chief ecumenical […]