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The Dispatch

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 […]

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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. […]

The Dispatch

Spadaro, Figueroa, and questions of competence

August 2, 2017 George Weigel 30

It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a journal founded in 1850 by the Jesuits of Rome to combat the evils […]

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On that strange, disturbing, and anti-American “Civiltà Cattolica” article

July 14, 2017 Dr. Samuel Gregg 148

Anti-Americanism is as old (if not older) as the American Revolution itself. Like all nations, America has its flaws. But these defects attract disproportionate attention from the rest of the world. This is partly because […]

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