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July 2017

July 04, 2017

President Trump and Pope Francis agree

The courts do not have a right to force parents to kill their children. That's...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

The letter from the four Cardinals

Released. There was quite a brouhaha when this came out. First that there was a...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Pope Donald Francis Trump

One and the same. Heh. Tis true. If their conclusions and premises are different, there...

May 16, 2017

Pope Francis responds to the collapse of Catholic moral principles in Portugal

And makes me think of this: Clericalism is bad. I got that part. But...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Pope Francis suggests listening

When it comes to dialogue with Muslims. I'm OK with that, as long as they...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Pope Francis and populism

When populism is good and when it's bad. The gist, according to Samuel Gregg at The...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

Pope Francis to Donald Trump

Really, the actual message that he sent. Not some old message Pope Francis gave that...

December 2016

December 03, 2016

The end of Catholic Marriage

According to Ross Douthat. When you see this being said, as pope you respond and...

December 01, 2016

Rethinking Pope Francis

By Scott Eric Alt. This is no anti-pope Francis hater. This is a writer who...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

In defense of the Four Cardinals

As I said, if you are in ministry and people have questions, you answer them....

November 12, 2016

Comrade Francis?

This ought to be good. So reports are trickling in that Pope Francis has, for...

October 2016

October 03, 2016

Pope Francis stuns the press

By reiterating Catholic teaching as well as the basic assumption most societies have embraced for...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Francis and those Fundamentalists

Carl Olson unpacks some problems with the statement Pope Francis made about religion and violence...

August 10, 2016

Was Pope Francis correct about Gender Theory?

Some pediatricians say so. We'll see where this goes. I expect people who disagree...

August 05, 2016

The NYT does Pope Francis

Get Religion unpacks the NYT piece on Pope Francis for speaking the obvious. Nobody denies...

August 02, 2016

Yes it’s another Papal interview

So coming back from Poland, Pope Francis reiterated his belief in a global war. This...