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Demos II: An Open Letter to the Cardinals and the Church
Readers may recall Demos, from two years ago, a clarion call for reform in the Church, from an anonymous cardinal - likely George Pell.
Now, we have Demos, Part II, also penned anonymously, for reasons...
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Gall pechod mawr ddyfod trwy ddrws bychan - A great sin can enter through a small door (Welsh proverb)
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Benedict’s Resignation, Eleven Years On
Hard to believe that it was eleven years ago on this February 28th that Pope Benedict XVI resigned the papacy, the first Pope to do so since Gregory XII, who voluntarily stepped down at...
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Is Free and Open Debate Still Possible?
I was pleasantly surprised that this essay came out of Harvard - a professor encouraging open dialogue on a number of 'sensitive' issues. That is what university is meant to do, a tradition all...
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Saint Porphyrius
Saint Porphyrius was an early 5th century bishop of Gaza, from 395 to 420, which makes him an a propos patron for that troubled region. That was back before Islam got its grip on...
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Cardinals Müller and Sarah Speak Out
You know it's bad, and the jig may well be up, when both the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF, now the DDF), Cardinal Gerhard Müller, and the...
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Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I...
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John Barros, Pro-Life Hero, Requiescat in Pace
What one man, forty feed of sidewalk, and constant daily fidelity can do, and they can do wonders, as Jonathan van Maren so eloquently describes the life of faithful pro-life hero John Barros. Much...
