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That’s how Elizabeth Scalia succinctly describes Newsweek’s latest screed about women and the church. Scalia notes: The fact is, for all of the talk about how oppressive the church has been for women, there has been no other institution in history which has given women such free reign to create, explore, discover, serve, manage, build,…

Buried inside his characteristically insightful piece about the man who will soon be leading Los Angeles, NCR’s John Allen offers this nugget: As things stand today, there are seven archdioceses in America where the archbishop is almost certain to become a cardinal: New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and now Houston. By this…

A woman I know is grieving the death of her beloved cat after a long and difficult illness. The cat was 17. The woman is deeply religious, and she arranged for her pet to be sent off with a prayer service and funeral.   Which brings me to a topic people love to debate.  At…

“From the beginning and throughout history, Peter has often been a wobbly rock, a source of scandal, corrupt, and yet this is the one – and his successors – whose task is to hold us together so that we may witness to Christ’s defeat on Easter Day of sin’s power to divide. And so the…
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