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St. Peter Damian’s battle against clerical homosexuality offers useful lessons for today

February 21, 2019 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 23

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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