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Matthew Schmitz
Matthew Schmitz: The avuncular archbishop
theodore mccarrick did not want to be known as a father. he encouraged young men and boys to call him “uncle”, and called them his nephews i...
A Picnic that’s gone stale
joan lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel picnic at hanging rock , adapted for film by peter weir in 1975, is now a mini-series playing on amazon vi...
Why Cardinal Sarah terrifies his critics
Cardinal Sarah's opponents have attacked his views and called for his sacking. His response has been a gracious silence
A man beaten but unbowed
a growing crowd wants cardinal robert sarah’s head on a platter. open a liberal catholic periodical and you are likely to find a call for th...
A beautiful Church for the poor
Post-Vatican II ugliness coincided with a collapse in the Church’s ministry to the marginalised. When beauty returns, so will Catholicism’s universal appeal
A beautiful Church for the poor
it is no secret that catholic worship has become less beautiful. jf powers, the impish catholic writer, counted as dear friends many artists...
Donald Trump has shaken the liberal order. Where does that leave Christians?
Should Christians regard the Trump presidency with hope or trepidation?
The enemy of my enemy
on the night of barack obama’s election in 2008, the princeton campus erupted in ecstatic shrieks and sighs. i had not voted for obama, and ...
Memories of an anti-Catholic boyhood
it is embarrassing to recall that i didn’t think my grandparents were christians. they were catholics, you see, and so i believed that they ...
Tim Kaine: yesterday’s Catholic leftist
at the centre of the china cabinet in my grandparents’ farmhouse, amid porcelain, crystal, and family portraits, stands a plate painted with...
The Church must give women a bigger role, but ordaining them as deacons isn’t the answer
Catholic women used to wield colossal power. The Pope's commission alone can't bring back those days
Liberal Catholicism’s unexpected crisis
You might think that progressives would be rejoicing under the current pontificate. Instead, they are fretting about the future
Liberal Catholicism’s unexpected crisis
even as pope francis wins the applause of the world for giving catholicism a friendlier face, critics have started to grumble. on social med...
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