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Pope Francis
December 1, 2023
Heather Souvaine Horn
Taylor Swift Has Nothing on Pope Francis
The pontiff still believes that pulpits can be used to shift political culture. The pop star mostly hasn’t used hers.
June 2, 2023
Liza Featherstone
The Vatican Is Way Ahead of the Democratic Party on Climate Change
Pope Francis’s recent draft text demands climate reparations and an immediate end to fossil fuel exploration. Why can’t the Biden administration do the same?
June 21, 2021
Patrick Whelan
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Conservative Bishops’ Attack on Biden Is an Attack on the Majority of U.S. Catholics
The bishops’ shameful resolution to deny communion to the president is hypocritical and out of step with Catholic public opinion.
April 15, 2021
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Matthew Sitman
Whither the Religious Left?
Left-leaning people of faith will never be reliable allies of the Democratic Party, nor will the party reliably offer them a comfortable home. But their fortunes are linked.
March 9, 2021
Katherine Stewart
How Big Money Is Dividing American Catholicism
A schism in the faith between liberals and conservatives is being exacerbated by a group of plutocrats.
February 3, 2021
Peter Hammond Schwartz
Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Catholic Natural Law.
On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts
November 14, 2019
Alexander Zaitchik
Can the Catholic Church Save the Amazon?
A dispatch from Pope Francis’s efforts to combat climate change—and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face
June 25, 2019
Andre Pagliarini
Can Married Priests Help Save the Amazon?
Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.
April 9, 2019
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Meehan Crist
Down to Earth
Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell?
October 8, 2018
Magazine
Kaya Oakes
The Conservative Resistance Inside the Vatican
Some Catholic leaders are using the sex abuse crisis to unseat Pope Francis.
August 28, 2018
Michael J. O'Loughlin
Papal Wrongdoing, or Palace Intrigue?
A former diplomat's letter alleges that Pope Francis tried to rehabilitate a cardinal who abused seminarians. But did the writer have an ulterior motive?
August 23, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Archdiocese of St. Louis breaks new ground with its handling of child sex abuse.
August 20, 2018
Sarah Jones
Pope Francis: Catholic Church “abandoned” child sex abuse victims.
August 2, 2018
Matt Ford
Pope Francis goes all-in against the death penalty.
June 20, 2018
Jeet Heer
Pope Francis blames family separation on ... populism?
April 5, 2018
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Linda Gordon
Body and Soul
How birth-control leaders found allies in American religious groups
February 27, 2018
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt vs. The Pope
The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism.
February 6, 2018
Sarah Jones
Pope Francis is embroiled in a major pedophile scandal.
December 5, 2017
Emily Atkin
Breitbart can’t decide if air pollution is bad.
November 28, 2017
Suzanne Monyak
Pope Francis doesn’t want to talk about the Rohingya either.
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