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Francis in Full
By common consensus, Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio won the papacy by means of an intervention he made at one of the General Congregations preceding the conclave of 2013...
It’s Always Open Season on Christianity
As surely as the swallows return each spring to Capistrano, so the elite media can be counted on to write pieces debunking Christianity precisely at the holiest time in...
Nature Is Our Sister, Not Our Mother
Just a few weeks ago, I spoke at the annual convention of the G. K. Chesterton Society. The theme of the conference was St. Francis, since this year marks...
Evangelizing the Nones
By far the fastest-growing “religious” group in the United States is the “nones,” that is, those who claim no religious affiliation. In the latest Pew Research Center survey, fully...
Forgiving Dylann Roof
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, twenty-one at the time, casually joined a group of African Americans gathered peacefully at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church...
Bridging a False Divide
Two years ago, a colleague of mine, a specialist in the Old Testament, sidled over to me at a faculty party and asked, “What are you working on?” I...
