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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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This morning the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meeting in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly, elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky as the conference’s new president. He will begin his three-year term […]

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