The rise of confession in American Catholicism is a remarkable story of success. Then it fell apart.
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Confession Eclipsed
James F. Keating
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The rise of confession in American Catholicism is a remarkable story of success. Then it fell apart.
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The Church After Francis
Charles J. Chaput
An interregnum between papacies is a time for candor.
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The Jesuit Pope
R. R. Reno
Pope Francis’s leadership of the Church reflected the distinctive personality of the Society of Jesus.
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Pope Francis, My Worst Protestant Nightmare
Carl R. Trueman
Francis was an authoritarian Roman pope driving a liberal Protestant agenda.
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Defending Faith and Parental Rights in the Classroom
Grace Morrison
All parents should have the right to opt their children out of instruction that contradicts their faith.
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Who Died on the Cross?
Peter J. Leithart
Orthodoxy is the wild, whirling, graceful rider because the God it proclaims and reveals is the God dead and living.
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Vindicating John’s Gospel
Charlotte Allen
New botanical evidence corroborates John’s account of Jesus’s passion and death.
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