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Because there is no Christianity without Judaism, we should first stand in solidarity with those who, as Vatican II taught, were the first to receive God’s promises: promises of which God has never repented.
It is a privilege to read each day online and each month in print the compelling, orderly prose of some of the sharpest critics of the state of religion and public life today.
Pope Francis is still the Vicar of Christ—even if he appears to have collapsed in on himself.
The purpose of Mere Natural Law was to bring natural law down out of the clouds, to show how it bears in very precise and concrete ways on such matters as the regulation of speech.
Benedict XVI chose both faith in God and in man and the harmony between faith and reason.