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Religion Dispatches
An interview with theologian Fr. John Chryssavgis
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Religion Dispatches
The recent flurry of headlines over the possibility of women deacons in the Catholic church may be good for news, but it’s also good for a question: what does women’s ordination really mean today, at…
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Religion Dispatches
Three years, two synods, dozens of bishop attendees, hundreds of pages of documents, innumerous small committee meetings, and endless amounts of angst went into Pope Francis’ decision to more or less…
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Religion Dispatches
For all the ink that has been spilled in the last few years over the historic family synods convened by Pope Francis—as well as general prognosticating over the direction he will take Catholic…
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Religion Dispatches
A closer reading of Pope Francis’ Exhortation on love in the family
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Religion Dispatches
What seems to be bothering conservatives most about Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation A moris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) isn’t that he suggests a poorly lit, somewhat twisting, buried-in-the…
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Religion Dispatches
Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family, leaves much to be desired—pun intended. If you are heterosexual, married, divorced, and remarried with an understanding…
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