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Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher has served as the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states and international organizations, often referred to as the Vatican’s foreign minister, for 10 years. In this exclusive interview with America on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 22, before news of the pope’s respiratory crisis was known, he discussed the...
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Signs of the times. As Trumpism distorts truth and history, Catholics face a critical choice. The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institution amid rising authoritarianism....
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The priest stood transfixed, his jaw slack. Mrs. McIntyre wondered where she had ever seen such an idiotic old man. “Christ will come like that,” he said in a loud gay voice and stood there, gaping. Mrs. McIntyre’s face assumed a set puritanical expression and she reddened. Christ...
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Mr. Vance tries to use Aquinas’s order of love to support his political ideology, but is the ethical order he proposes actually consistent with the ethic of Aquinas or, more broadly, with the principles of Catholic social teaching?...
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Trump has also ordered the U.S.’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and has issued an order denying citizenship to certain U.S.-born children whose parents are not U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents....
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No one who serves those in need has any interest in getting into a back and forth with public figures who make demonstrably false statements about why the church serves....