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Ecumenism, influence-envy, and the real Manichean division

August 9, 2017 George Weigel 16

Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to defend the madcap analysis of America’s alleged “ecumenism of hate” that appeared last month […]

The Dispatch

How Spadaro and Figueroa misunderstand the motto “In God We Trust”

August 8, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 6

In my post last week, I focused on how Antonio Spadaro, S.J., and Marcelo Figueroa, in their much discussed essay “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism,” misread and even misrepresent the matter of religious liberty in the United States. […]

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Move over, Dan Brown; here come Spadaro and Figueroa!

July 17, 2017 Carl E. Olson 33

My good friend Sandra Miesel, with whom I co-authored The Da Vinci Hoax years ago, was fond of starting out her talks about the mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code by saying: “Dan Brown does […]

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It’s not news, sadly, that Christianity is dying in England. But the severity of the decline is worse, perhaps, than many have thought. From The Daily Mail: The study, Religion in Great Britain, concludes: ‘Between […]

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