The Center Did Not Hold: Why Catholics lost on Election Day
This article is reprinted courtesy of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Yeats is on my mind, following last evening’s election returns. Remember the line? “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…”
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Examining the Phoenix case in light of church tradition
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Letters
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Thomas P. Gaunt, S.J., was named executive director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
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