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A pox on both the racist Right and the violent antifa Left
The two movements are lawless, bullying, violent, hateful, anarchist, destructive, ideologically-insane sides of the same secular, godless coin. […]
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A History Seminar, Anno Domini 2117
Overheard in a sane classroom, a century in the future… […]
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Pope Francis’ ‘Buenos Aires’ letter posted on the Vatican website. Now what?
Acta Apostolicae Sedis is not a synonym for “Vatican Website” and it has not been designated as the vehicle for promulgating canon law or equivalent provisions. […]
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Archbishop Fernández’s apparent confusion over excommunication and canon law
The 1983 Code does not, and the 1917 Code did not, deprive divorced-and-remarried Catholics per se of ecclesiastical funeral rites. […]
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It’s a culture war, stupid
To reduce a human being to an object whose value is measured by “utility” is to destroy one of the building blocks of the democratic […]
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Charlottesville and America’s Original Sin
Jefferson the morally upright sage; Jefferson the merciless slave-owner. Splendid Monticello; its sordid slave-quarters underground. […]
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One of the world’s least religious countries eyes hosting World Youth Day
World Youth Day has been credited with sparking Catholic revival in many places. Undoubtedly, the Czech Republic is a country that desperately needs such revival. […]
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Enlightened urbanites and the violent sport of statue tipping
The exultation of self that the urbanites experience from tearing down the honor paid to others is like a drug, and like any narcotic it […]
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On Fr. Nichols’ recent remarks on the papacy and canon law
A key check against papal freedom turning into license, albeit a check harder to pin down than are neatly drafted canons, is “Tradition”. […]
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The Creative Catholic: Joanna Bogle
“Nothing is more important than writing truthfully.” […]