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I am tempted to address at length Austen Ivereigh’s commentary on Fr. Raymond de Souza’s observations on Cdl. Wuerl’s statement on Francis’ document Amoris laetitia, but at a certain point the law of diminishing returns sets in leaving such an exercise tedious. So let […]

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Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, talks with Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, founder and editor of Ignatius Press, about the election of Pope Francis, the first Latin American–and the first Jesuit–to be made pope:

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