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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

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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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