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The “Anba Dlo” water symposium held last weekend in New Orleans featured an unexpected alliance:…
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Honestly, after a good bit of Googling I’m surprised to find just a single mention…
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Try to make sense of this puzzle: white evangelicals, as a percentage of the American…
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How you view the no-consensus outcome of the just-concluded Extraordinary Synod on the Family very…
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On bloggingheads, I spoke with our own Patti Miller about the recently concluded Extraordinary Synod…
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The big story this week is the ideological warfare and spin-control struggles that broke into…
Read MoreHouston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News
The conservative media world is today aflame over subpoenas served on pastors, by the City…
Read MoreBishops More Welcoming To LGBT, But Not to Women
The surprisingly conciliatory tone regarding gay Catholics in the working document for the family synod…
Read MoreWhy Faithy Rhetoric Won’t Help Democrats
On my bloggingheads show last week, I spoke with Lydia Bean, author of The Politics…
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