Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored
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The Top Five Pope Francis Quotes of 2015
Pope Francis had another banner year in 2015, from his historic climate encyclical Laudato si’…
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The U.S. Catholic bishops have now gathered four times for their semi-annual meeting since Pope…
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Deifying Pope Francis Obscures Where He’s So So Right, So So Wrong
We are compulsive god-makers. And this penchant was in florid display this past week as…
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The narrative going into Pope Francis’ historic speech to Congress was that it wouldn’t be…
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One of the first posts I wrote for RD was whether or not there was…
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Conservative Catholics Try to Domesticate Laudato Si
Conservative Catholics are working overtime to downplay the radical nature of Laudato si, the pope’s encyclical…
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Ahead of the release of Pope Francis’ first major encyclical Laudato si, dealing with global…
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