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Opinion: What Dr. Johnson can teach Pope Francis

July 31, 2022 Edward Short 44

Reading a Catholic paper yesterday, I must say I was rather startled to see the pope charging the Catholic priests who taught in the elementary schools of Canada with genocide. Returning from his trip to […]

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Joseph de Maistre, revolution, and tradition

July 5, 2019 Chilton Williamson, Jr. 3

Émile Faguet, the French author and literary critic of the second half of the 19th century, described Joseph de Maistre as “a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, and intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity […]

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St. Peter Damian’s battle against clerical homosexuality offers useful lessons for today

February 21, 2019 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 23

When the eremitic monk and reformer Peter Damian cast his critical gaze upon the Catholic Church of the mid-eleventh century, he encountered a panorama of corruption that would have appeared daunting even to the most […]

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