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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 […]
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Good stories tell the whole story
No canon of the 1983 Code bans parents from sacramental celebrations involving their children and no canon authorizes priests to exclude parents from such sacred […]
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On “conservative Catholics” and the papacy
Orthodox, conservative Catholics are both ecclesial monarchists and are ecclesial collegialists […]
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The Fossilization of Martin Luther
G.K. Chesterton acknowledged that there were Lutherans who were still strong and sincere Christians, but he argued that the original theology itself did not hold, only […]