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Religion Dispatches
Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of Catholicism among the flagging faithful, a new large-scale survey of American Catholic women finds the flock…
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With Catholic commentators writing about the “threat” of Islam, it’s no surprise many U.S. Catholics have negative views of Muslims
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The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was founded in 2004 as part of an effort to cement ties between conservative Catholics, the Catholic…
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Massimo Faggioli’s new book, Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century, is based on a series of lectures and essays the Villanova professor began…
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As Steve Bannon has allied with the pope’s bitterest opponents, liberals have had all the more reason to rally behind Francis.
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There’s beauty in mythology, to be sure. But there is also grave danger in believing mythologies can save broken institutions.
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In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them.
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Backlash At UN & Elsewhere; Religious Leaders Rally Against Marriage Equality in Taiwan & El Salvador.
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An interview with theologian Fr. John Chryssavgis
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