After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination
Pope Francis told a reporter the Catholic Church’s ban on female priests was forever.
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Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield
An interview with the author of “Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith”
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Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back
We will either learn to walk with one another, or we will be forced by dogma to condemn one another.
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They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era
A new survey crushes whatever hope was left about luring Nones back into the fold.
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Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic
On March 14 of this year, the Boston Globe announced it would be pulling the plug…
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American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy
In The Name of God Is Mercy , Pope Francis’ new book, the pontiff does more riffing…
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#OpenTheseDoors: A Movement to Turn New York’s Closed Churches into Shelters
When the archdiocese of New York announced in 2014 that it would begin closing parishes…
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“Own Your Heresy”: The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn
The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,”…
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It doesn’t take more than a glance at the recent Reuters report to see that…
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Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics
A new survey from Catholics for Choice on the opinions of Catholic millennials as regards doctrinal issues…
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