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** RICHARD REX
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From the January issue: The analysis of Lutheranism as a system founded on the two basic doctrines of “faith alone” and “Scripture alone” is still a commonplace of textbooks, and Bishop John Fisher was one of the first to present it.
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** The Smiling Archbishop of New York ([link removed])
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** RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA
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Cardinal Dolan never stopped smiling, laughing, and radiating joy. It was part of his personality, to be sure, but also a lesson he took from the confusions of the seventies and the new confidence of the 1980s.
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** GLENN C. LOURY
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From the January issue: Tucker Carlson’s skepticism of U.S. foreign policy, his warnings about demographic change, and his view that elites betray ordinary Americans place him in a tradition that prioritizes civilizational cohesion over universalist doctrine.
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** R. R. RENO
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From the January issue: The term “liberal” refers to the conditions under which a Christian intellectual operates. Liberals in theology sought freedom from official oversight. Research and reflection were to answer to academic standards, not to governmental or ecclesiastical norms.
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** The Wealthy Chinese Buying Babies and American Citizenship ([link removed])
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** EMMA WATERS
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An unsettling investigation found that a growing number of ultra-wealthy Chinese nationals are using American surrogates to have as many children as possible—sometimes dozens at a time, and in extreme cases, more than a hundred.
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