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The Election of Pope Francis is informative and captivating—and raises many questions

January 10, 2020 Conor Dugan 45

Gerard O’Connell is one of the top Vaticanistas working today. An associate editor and Vatican correspondent for America magazine, he has rightly earned a reputation for his fair and in-depth reporting. While his sympathies skew […]

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Douthat’s lament: Francis “must have known that it did not have to be this way”

March 22, 2018 Gerald J. Russello 45

To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism seeks to make sense of a pontificate that began with great promise but has […]

Books

A Papacy of Contradictions

March 2, 2018 Dr. Samuel Gregg 36

Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]

Books

“The Dictator Pope” is sometimes frustrating, but filled with valuable insights and information

December 13, 2017 Philip F. Lawler 34

The most valuable service provided by the author of The Dictator Pope is the psychological portrait of Pope Francis: manipulative, hypersensitive, and often downright vindictive—certainly […]

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“Filling the Churches”

November 6, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 26

While some bishops talk a lot about their concern for our Hispanic brothers and sisters, that talk tends to ring hollow because it is not […]

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What a Pallium—and Why Should We Care?

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Several years ago, while giving a lecture on demystifying the papacy and Vatican, I came up with a graph that I humbly called “DeVille’s Law of Papal Media Coverage”. I reproduce the masterpiece below:   […]

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