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Hope and Homosexuality
An Orthodox friend has a T-shirt that says, “Wow, suppose it’s all true!” The “all” of course is the Christian Gospel and its ultimate promise of resurrection and everlasting...
What Can the Catholic Church Learn From Married Priests?
I might well have been one of the most available priests in the diocese that Saturday afternoon. After four hours of shoveling, my driveway was clear before the rectory...
Axis Mundi
I recently read an article in which a Methodist minister referred to the Eucharist as “revolutionary.” It would be easy to dismiss her use of a term used to...
Catholics in Exile
In โThe Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxyโ (Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes โNeuhausโ Lawโ concerning the life of religious institutions: โWhere orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner...
Catholicity and Protestant Survival
The Catholicity of the Reformation edited by carl e. braaten and robert w. jenson eerdmans, 112 pages, $12 Two visions of the Church struggle for dominance in contemporary American...
Lutherans in Sexual Commotion
By almost every standard for measuring such things the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America stands on the conservative side of mainline Protestantism. It maintains cordial relations and some measure...