Karl Popper promoted an “open society.” We would be better served by a love society.
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The Love Society and Its Enemies
R. R. Reno
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Karl Popper promoted an “open society.” We would be better served by a love society.
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Francis in Full
Robert Barron
Of all of the popes in my lifetime, Francis is, by far, the one I knew the best.
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The Last Modern Pope
Dan Hitchens
The Francis years have the unmistakable sense of an ending, of a last hurrah.
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A Classical Insurgency
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
Classical Greek and Latin have been sacrificed on the altars of progress and technology.
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Letters from Rome—The Interregnum
Xavier Rynne II
The second letter from our continuing series of theological journalism.
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Pope Francis, Trad Icon
Sohrab Ahmari
Too often, the trads couldn’t glimpse Francis’s rebuke of post-Enlightenment modernity.
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Pope Francis and the Vatican Deep State
Mary Ann Glendon
The Holy See is in dire financial straits, with a deficit now estimated at $87 million.
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