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Interview with a Sex Robot

March 30, 2023 Nick Bottom 14

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego recently said: “The moral tradition that all sexual sins are grave matter springs from an abstract, deductivist and truncated notion of the Christian moral life that yields a definition […]

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Sunlight Priests

March 3, 2023 Nick Bottom 28

In a 2013 symposium entitled “What to Look for in a New Pope”—in a reference that Commonweal writer Paul Baumann won’t let die—former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan said, “The next pope should be a man […]

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The Secret Interview with Pope Francis

July 30, 2013 Nick Bottom 0

“You do advance your cunning more and more. When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!” — Helena, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Lost in all of the hoopla surrounding Pope Francis’s 80-minute-long interview with reporters, given while […]