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Angry hypocrisy and convenient ultramontanism at Nat’l Catholic Reporter

November 17, 2022 Larry Chapp 52

The folks over at the National Catholic Reporter must think we have poor memories or no memory at all. For decades, the Reporter positioned itself as the loyal opposition to what it viewed as an […]

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