Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion
Sometimes it’s as necessary as a bowel movement to point out how some very smart…
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The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster
If you’re a progressive American who strives to keep up with the world of news…
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Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before
In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized…
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The Most Ridiculous Responses to the Vatican’s Call-out of the Catho–Christian Right
It’s not surprising that the apparently Vatican-approved denouncement of the conservative Catholic-Christian alliance that has…
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Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today
Massimo Faggioli’s new book, Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century,…
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The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men
You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough…
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Do the Arguments Against Bathroom Equality Hold Water?
Let the backlash begin. The arguments against President Obama’s historic directive that public schools allow…
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You’re Right, Ross Douthat: Donald Trump Is Kind of Like Islam
Last summer I shopped around a satire about where Candidate Trump was leading America. Nowhere…
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Pope Francis Gets Real
What seems to be bothering conservatives most about Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia (“The…
Read MoreJoined at the Hip: White Nationalist Christianity and Donald Trump
Why can’t Douthat admit that the apostasy he deplores is at the center of white Christianity and not at the margins?
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