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Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine

September 6, 2017 James Kalb 15

The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood […]

Features

Why Fr. Spadaro owes an apology to half of all American Christians

August 27, 2017 Thomas R. Ascik 22

Antonio Spadaro, S.J., has pioneered a new kind of ecumenism: denouncing the content and quality of other Christians’ faith and slamming the Church doors in […]

The Dispatch

Ecumenism, religious liberty, and Spadaro’s straw man

August 4, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 19

Antonio Spadaro S.J. on Wednesday retweeted The New York Times‘ article on the recent essay under his and Marcelo Figueroa’s by-line in La Civiltà Cattolica, quoting this line: “The main point of the article was the […]

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 […]

The Dispatch

Anti-American projections and trendy scapegoating

July 21, 2017 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 6

From 1989 until roughly 1996, I was formally involved in the ecumenical movement, jetting off to regional and World Council of Churches meetings on five different continents. By 1991 in Canberra, Australia, I came to […]

Analysis

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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