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A bishop reflects on 45 years of priestly ministry
“I like to say that I was not ordained to be irrelevant,” says Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island. “The Church, and bishops […]
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The surprising message of “Downsizing”
I thought that Downsizing would be a propaganda piece for left-wing causes, but I was surprised that the film amounts, I will argue, to a […]
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What’s changed since “Humanae Vitae”?
Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures on the 50th anniversary of Paul VI’s landmark encyclical, but some of the speakers aren’t […]
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Without Christian witness and culture, the West cannot resist Islam
Back in 1991, while visiting a Roman museum, I got into a conversation with an employee, who expressed dismay that Pope John Paul II had called for support for the massive migration into Italy of […]