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No, homosexuality is not a risk factor for the sexual abuse of children
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October 22, 2:49 pm
Synod fathers: Young people must be welcomed—but also challenged
By Gerard O’Connell
October 22, 2:29 pm
Review: The Troubles bring trouble to a farm family in Northern Ireland
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October 22, 11:41 am
Can the church be both holy and sinful?
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News and Analysis
Legal immigrants leery in wake of proposed green card restrictions
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Feds open clergy abuse probe in Pennsylvania
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Graveyard Mass honors Mexican women who pursued truth about drug war victims
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Why can’t women vote at the Synod on Young People?
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Pope Francis

In third letter Viganò repeats accusations but offers no new evidence on McCarrick case

In this third letter Archbishop Viganò no longer insists, as he did so forcefully in his first letter, that the restrictions that he claimed Benedict XVI had imposed on Archbishop McCarrick—one he alleges that Pope Francis later lifted—can be understood as “sanctions.”
By Gerard O’Connell

Pope Francis expresses willingness to visit North Korea

The pope said he would visit North Korea “if an official invitation arrives.”
By Gerard O’Connell
The Catholic literary vision of Dean Koontz
Two questions arise: First, is Dean Koontz to be listed among serious novelists at all? Second, what makes him a Catholic novelist?
Richard M. DoerflingerOctober 22, 2018

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Learning to be Quiet with Tomie dePaola

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In Review

Review: “The Wolf House” explores the traumas of childhood abuse

"The Wolf House" is a Chilean political horror film that explores the traumas of childhood abuse.
By Eve Tushnet

Review: “First Man” is an apolitical look into one of history’s biggest moments

Damien Chazelle’s "First Man" is a remarkably idiosyncratic movie, given the usual heroic/fantastic presentation on screen of space travel—or anything involving the heavens.
By John Anderson

Review: The famous Weegee, up close and personal

“People who have never heard of Weegee can describe him,” Bonanos writes, because he created Hollywood’s idea of the newspaper photographer.”
By Eve Tushnet