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Cardinal Dolan: By No Means Finished Yet

GEORGE WEIGEL

For the past seventeen years, the people of New York have known that they had an archbishop, and in the same sense in which John Paul II made them know they had a pope.

Nuns Don’t Want to Be Priests

ANNA KENNEDY

Women embody the weakness in which God’s power is made perfect. This paradox is precisely why none of my sisters envied priests. We were building the interior cloister, like Teresa of Ávila instructs us.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Critique of Catholicism

STEPHEN DAISLEY

Epstein disdained Catholic doctrine on the universal validity of human life. He is far from alone in recognizing Catholicism as the xxxxxx against barbarism.

Goodbye, Childless Elites

FRANK DEVITO

When our leaders (from statesmen to idolized celebrities) do not marry and have children, there is a message coming from the top that avoiding children is a behavior to be imitated.

Cancer and the Cure of Souls

CHARLES MARIE ROONEY

From the February issue: Considered in the light of divine revelation, cancer may well be the most primordial lethal curse consequent on Adam’s sin. Though cancer does not figure much in the Scriptures, death figures from the outset: “You shall not eat of the fruit . . . neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”