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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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