“Reasonable Catholicism is reasoned loyalty, or sometimes even loyalty with gritted teeth ,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square,” The Reasoned Loyalty of Catholicism . That kind of loyalty brings insight. She begins with John Henry Newman as the great example of this, and illustrates its value from a vexing comment of St. Paul’s.
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