Maybe the devil made me do it, but after reading Bishop (now Cardinal) Walter Kasper’s essay “On the Church” (reprinted in America, 4/23) for the second or third time, I went back through the text and conducted a little test.
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Facing the Crisis in the Priesthood
A generation has elapsed since the close of the Second Vatican Council, and the church has underscored the council’s extraordinary ecclesial and historical significance by beatifying, this Sept. 3, Pope John XXIII. At the same time, however, the beatification of Pope Pius IX highlighted the ti
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The challenges and gifts of the homosexual priest
Facing the challenges and accepting the gifts offered by homosexual priests in the Catholic Church
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Is Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice?
From 2000: In a “multicultural” society shouldn’t anti-Catholicism be a dead issue?
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John Tracy Ellis and Catholic Intellectual Life: From June 3, 1995
In These Pages: From June 3, 1995
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Opus Dei in the United States
From 1995: To its members, Opus Dei is nothing less than The Work of God. To its critics, it is a powerful, even dangerous organization.
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The New Breed: From May 23, 1964
There has risen up a New Breed that was all but invisible five years ago.
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American Catholic Panorama: From April 14, 1962
Some day you would like to write a book about Catholicism in America as you have known it. You keep putting it off, and the relentless years keep passing. The book will probably never be written.