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Synod-2023: Reversing Vatican II?

July 5, 2023 George Weigel 25

The first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church — one of the council’s two most important texts — signaled a decisive development in Catholic self-understanding. Rather than begin its reflection […]

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Moms at (Culture) War

July 3, 2023 Jesse Russell 29

“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.” — Aristotle While commenting on the long 1960s, the redoubtable Roger Kimball once observed: “The long march of the cultural revolution […]