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      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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John P. Slattery

John P. Slattery is a recent doctoral graduate in Systematic Theology and the History & Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame.

History/TheologyAugust 22, 2018

Author Responds to Criticism of Teilhard Eugenics Essay

By John P. Slattery

There is a way forward for Teilhardian research, but let us not make the mistake of turning Teilhard into a mystical anti-racist theologian.

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History/TheologyMay 21, 2018

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

Teilhard’s insistence on a super-human, of not just spiritual but physical existence, dominated his thought over the last decade of his life—well after the death camps permeated the public consciousness.

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(A)theologies, Archive, CultureMay 21, 2018

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan…

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