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Cardinal Cupich: How can we end clerical sex abuse and purify the church?
We should be fearless in making clear that tolerating clergy sexual abuse stands in total contradiction to the core of the Gospel message.
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How Ross Douthat is calling Catholic conservatives to humility
The recent writings of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat are calling political conservatives to a needed greater humility.
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Markets and global elites can’t fix the world’s problems
Anand Giridharadas comes to conclusions that are consonant with the works of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.
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What Dorothy Day can teach us about prudence and discernment
This interview first appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of In Our Time, the newsletter of the Dorothy Day Guild, edited by Carolyn Zablotny.
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What Lonergan (and Arrupe) can teach us about God, love and being human
Does the famous “Arrupe Prayer” owe a debt of gratitude to Bernard Lonergan, S.J.?
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The good theology in ‘Good Omens’
The central religious message of “Good Omens” is a lighthearted critique of Christians who claim faith in a providential God, a God with a plan, but whose plan is utterly incomprehensible.
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What Theodore Hesburgh missed about Catholic universities
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh’s somewhat idiosyncratic relation to St. John Henry Newman’s capacious mind on Catholic higher education.
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A dialogue on the ‘new nationalism’
Signatories of two recent open letters, one embracing a “new nationalism” and the other warning of its dangers, engage each other’s concerns and questions.
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What we owe refugees fleeing persecution around the globe
If solidarity extends only as far as national or cultural borders, refugees will not receive the support they need.