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Justice Anthony Kennedy’s conflicted and confusing legacy
As attention shifts to the succession fight, it’s important not to lose sight of the role Kennedy played for the light it can shed on […]
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“Evangelism always follows from relationships”: Daniel Mattson on same-sex attraction and witnessing to the Faith
The author of Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay says evangelizing the LGBT community starts the same way all evangelization starts: with building relationships. […]
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Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago punts on one problem, fixes a second, but greatly worsens a third
Now, according to the plain terms of ESI, the Blessed Virgin Mary would not be eligible for admission to the order of virgins, but Mary Magdalene would be eligible. […]
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The Summer Reading List
These books will help make your summer enjoyable, instructive, or both. […]
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The Catholic roots of the New Socialism
The “patron saint” of today’s Democratic Socialists of America got his start with Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement. But for Day, prayer and the sacraments […]
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Will the Amazon synod open the door to women deacons?
Cardinal Luis Ladaria, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said recently that the Study Commission on the Women’s Diaconate job is […]
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Loome Theological Booksellers launches campaign to keep brick and mortar location open
After a series of crises and setbacks, proprietor Christopher Hagen and his family are working to keep the doors open of one of the world’s […]
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Anthony Kennedy: Reagan’s Worst Mistake
The price we paid for the borking of Robert Bork. […]
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Acts and us
The readings from Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during the Easter season were particularly apt this year, for three reasons. […]
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What “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” gets right and wrong
What is bothersome in the latest film is the emergence of a new and much more problematic motif—namely, the moral equivalence of human beings and […]