US Bishops Meeting: Pope Who?
The U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry…
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“De-Ratzingerization” Continues as Pope Francis Removes Conservative Cardinal Burke
Pope Francis finally dropped the long-expected axe on Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the curia’s…
Read MoreThe Duck Dynastization of the Bishops’ “Religious Liberty” Meme
What, exactly, have the Catholic bishops wrought by inflaming the religious right with the idea…
Read MoreAre “Pro-Life” Hispanic Catholics the Democrats’ Future?
Michael Sean Winters is taking Wendy Davis’ “lackluster” gubernatorial campaign in Texas as evidence that…
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Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?
In a twist that shows just how absurd the entire debate over “religious freedom” and…
Read MoreDouthat: Conservatives Will Take Their Ball and Go Home if Francis Changes “Their” Church
In the New York Times, Ross Douthat cheers the conservative rebuff at the recently concluded…
Read MoreDid Pope Francis Win, Lose or Draw at the Family Synod?
How you view the no-consensus outcome of the just-concluded Extraordinary Synod on the Family very…
Read MoreConservative Bishops Get “Different Translation” Dialing Back Language on LGBT Acceptance
Will the Francis revolution be lost in translation?
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 MoreR.I.P. Pope John Paul’s “Contraceptive Mentality”: 1979–2014
The biggest news to come out of the bishops’ synod in Rome so far is…
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