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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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Fencing with bigots

October 4, 2017 George Weigel 9

…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once imagined itself […]