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Like this,\u00a0I am reminded that the attitudes of the post-Christian Left are basically summed up by this. \u00a0As Ross Douthat has pointed out, there is no compromise with the secular Left. \u00a0Every Western faith tradition that has tried has died in the process. \u00a0So as the Catholic Church bumbles and stumbles its way to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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