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The Fraying Fabric of the Church of England
St. Paul’s Cathedral has come up with a novel way to fill the pews: It is becoming a concert venue. Under a newly inked agreement, London nightclub Fabric will...
Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass?
In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the vinyl collection. The parting of ways between the Catholic Church and the...
Leo’s Theology of Migration
Every pope has his defining mission, a papal charism of sorts that characterizes and in time becomes a shorthand for his pontificate. Paul VI was the reformer of the...
Trump, Leo, and the Death of Integralism
There is a Yiddish witticism, Der Mensch tracht, un Gott lacht (“Man plans, and God laughs”), and recent events suggest the divine has a particularly puckish sense of humor....
Jeffrey Epstein’s Critique of Catholicism
At risk of being controversial, I must take issue with Jeffrey Epstein. Buried in the latest tranche of files released by the U.S. Department of Justice is a 2013...
