There is considerable overlap between French conservatives and French Catholics.
Short Take
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Why Pope Francis’ approach to Islam breaks the mold of Benedict and previous popes
Francis has made it his business to try to build bridges with the Muslim world with the energy of a missionary. Benedict also delivered his message to Islam from afar.
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As gay men are detained and killed in Chechnya, the Kremlin is slow to respond
The violence is brutal, the cruelty extreme and the anti-gay hostility extremely virulent.
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The United Airlines debacle isn’t about customer service. It’s about the morality of capitalism.
Is this a “first-world problem”? Yes, of course. But it is very much a “world problem.”
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To fight climate change, we need to improve capitalism, not get rid of it
It is time for a reorientation toward socially conscious investing.
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Father James Martin: No, celibacy does not make priests more likely to watch porn
Why do so many people think that celibacy leads to porn use?
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It’s tax season. What do religious leaders owe to God and Caesar?
Donating to “God” is encouraged through the carrot of an income tax deduction; donating to “Caesar” is tax neutral.
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How Ferguson and Michael Brown helped me understand my baptismal vows
“Where might you expect to find the baptized?” asks Rowan Williams in Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer. “In the neighbourhood of chaos,” he replies.
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Guantánamo lawyer: Military tribunals are built on American apartheid
The Guantánamo tribunals create a precedent that endangers us all.
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Trump’s cuts to the arts are threatening this Jesuit priest’s documentary on Flannery O’Connor
How unfortunate that the arts are caught in the cross-hairs of a ruptured and increasingly misguided political system.