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Keeping Catholic schools Catholic in a “love is love” culture
It is unjust to expect children to fight a battle for the truth when they are properly still in a period of formation. […]
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Analysis: With new appointments, Pope Francis puts his mark on the College of Cardinals
This is the first time in the five years of this pontificate, writes Andrea Gagliarducci, that in a possible future conclave the number of cardinals created […]
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Catholic lessons from an Anglican royal wedding
In Cardinal Newman’s nineteenth century, the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church were much closer to each other, both doctrinally and morally, than in the […]
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The Chilean bishops’ offer to resign is surprising, yet also traditional. But more is needed.
The unity of the episcopate in particular, and of the body of Christ in general, can only be maintained when bishops are trusted as life-giving […]
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Can Catholics be Buddhist? New book compares Jesus and Buddha
Saying that Buddhism and Christianity lead to the same place,” ways Dr. Anthony E. Clark, author of Catholicism and Buddhism: The Contrasting Lives and Teachings of […]
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Lay Evangelization and the “smell of the sheep”
Is there anything new under the sun? Or is there anything even real? What if the Evangelists for the incarnate Son of God are actually […]
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The Holy See, China, and evangelization
The only real power the Holy See can deploy in 21st-century world politics is the power of moral witness and argument. […]
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Tom Wolfe, human dignity, and “the right stuff”
A consideration of The Right Stuff is an especially fitting way to remember Wolfe: it is a portrayal of Stoic manliness, reasserting human dignity in the […]
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I believe the Church because I believe in God
Heaven is indeed our final goal – the Church Triumphant. We need to keep our eyes fixed on that goal. […]
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Chastity is a boy’s best friend
On lessons learned from a long-ago Spring break. […]