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In Defense of Jonah
In the Reluctant Prophet we have the classic (and beautiful) case of God ‘choosing a crooked pencil to draw a straight line’, for Jonah is […]
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In the UK, has abortion become a “Catholic issue”?
Fifty years after the country’s Abortion Act, Catholics need to look beyond their churches to share the pro-life message with the wider public. […]
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My response to Boudway’s response on canon law and marriage norms
It’s usually a bad sign when someone who, despite his utter lack of credentials to debate a given technical issue professes to correct an expert […]
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Class and the marriage divide
A new study demonstrates that it comes to sharing in the advantages associated with marriage and two-parent family life, Americans are increasingly divided along the […]
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Sententia communis? Just ‘sententia communis’?
Many of the assertions hitherto listed by theologians with a surfeit of restraint as merely, say, “sententia communis” might, upon closer investigation in light of […]
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What Boudway gets wrong about indissoluble marriages
The Catholic Church does not teach that “all valid marriages are indissoluble”. She teaches, more precisely than Matthew Boudway grasps, that all valid marriages are […]
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“Mully”: A documentary with heart and soul
His was a rags-to-riches story. But when Charles Mully decided to devote his fortune to serving the poor, the real story began. […]
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Capital Punishment and the Papal Magisterium: A Response to Dr. Edward Feser
The issue is not so much whether prior popes were in error in their scriptural citations. The issue is whether their scriptural appeals qualify as […]
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The Least Religious Generation in U.S. History: A Reflection on Jean Twenge’s “iGen”
Whereas even twenty years ago, the overwhelming number of Americans, including youngsters, believed in God, now fully one third of 18 to 24 year olds […]
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Pity Saint Paul’s beleaguered island
The murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is a horrific reminder, for those of us who fled Malta during the 1970s and 1980s, of the […]