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Ross Douthat and the case for the Catholic lay intellectual

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Ross Douthat and the case for the Catholic lay intellectual

Ross Douthat’s greatest contribution has not been to conservative politics or even to Catholic debates. It has been to demonstrate that Catholicism remains an intellectually serious way of understanding the world.

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The lesson of the Ceuta migrant crisis isn’t about liberal border policy.

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The lesson of the Ceuta migrant crisis isn’t about liberal border policy.

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The Ohio art teacher leading the Catholic response to the Haitian immigrant crisis

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The Ohio art teacher leading the Catholic response to the Haitian immigrant crisis

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Jesuit, Zen Master and Hiroshima bomb survivor: The legacy of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle

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Catholic schools and childhood vaccines: A showdown between Florida’s attorney general and bishops

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Pope Leo will make 12-day trip to Peru, Argentina and Uruguay, Vatican announces

Pope Leo will make 12-day trip to Peru, Argentina and Uruguay, Vatican announces

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A.I. should be free at public libraries

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What watching the World Cup from Argentina taught me about unity

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How Catholics have defended free elections—and why they must do so again

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James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan trilogy in the 1930s set him up as an enemy of a church that was aghast at his portrayal of human nature and, frankly, of the Catholic Church itself.

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