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Confession Eclipsed

James F. Keating

From the print edition: 
The rise of confession in American Catholicism is a remarkable story of success. Then it fell apart. More

The Church After Francis

Charles J. Chaput

An interregnum between papacies is a time for candor. More

The Jesuit Pope

R. R. Reno

Pope Francis’s leadership of the Church reflected the distinctive personality of the Society of Jesus. More

Pope Francis, My Worst Protestant Nightmare

Carl R. Trueman

 
 

Francis was an authoritarian Roman pope driving a liberal Protestant agenda. More

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. More

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. More

Vindicating John’s Gospel

Charlotte Allen


New botanical evidence corroborates John’s account of Jesus’s passion and death. More

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