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This Paul VI Encyclical Really Deserves a Birthday Party

On March 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI published an encyclical entitled Populorum Progressio. It is...

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April 24, 2018

Fr. Peter West, You Must Leave Banished by Mark Shea

Here is how it works. George Soros has planted one, three, six, forty-seven moles in...

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But Is It the Government’s Job to Ensure a Just Wage?

But Alt!" a reader asks. "Isn't the just wage a private contract between employer and...

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September 07, 2016

Yes, Virginia, Catholics Can Say Abortion Should Be Legal

Or that is what Fr. Matt Malone, S.J., claims, in an article at America. It...

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May 19, 2015

Before You Get Outraged and Share That Post on Your Social Media Profile…

Only two things mat­ter: the sal­va­tion of the soul, and truth. That is why it...

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October 18, 2013

The Apologist’s Anathema Against Twitter & Other Quick Takes: 7QT II Seriatim

"The medium is the mes­sage,” Mar­shall McLuhan said. The mes­sage that comes across on Twit­ter...

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