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Sex and the subject of religion
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good example of what Elizabeth Povinelli, writing here on December 13 (“Can Sex...
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Schillebeeckx passes
In The New York Times, Peter Steinfels eulogizes Edward Schillebeeckx—(pronounced SKIL-uh-bakes)—one of the architects of the Second Vatican Council, which transformed the Catholic Church in the 1960s:...
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Religious freedom between truth and tactic
In the last issue of First Things, a self-described coalition of “Catholics and Evangelicals together” defends religious freedom. The coalition includes a number of notable Americans, like Charles...
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From Christ to Confucius
In 1924, the influential German missionary Carl Johannes Voskamp composed a series of lengthy reflections on the relationship between Christianity and culture in China, a land in which he had...
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Catholic Modern: An introduction
The Catholic Church is one of the most powerful organizations in the world. No other institution has access to such a rich network of schools, universities, hospitals, and churches; no other...
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