“Opposition to abortion is the signpost at the intersection of Catholicism and American public life”

My essay on Notre Dame in the new issue of the Weekly Standard . The thesis—that this is a fight  about Catholic culture, not Catholic politics—is developed at greater length in the next issue of First Things . The office copies just arrived, and so that issue of First Things should be on newsstands and in mailboxes shortly.

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