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The National Catholic Reporter is simply right
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Signs of Hope
Reader (and soon to be author) Stephanie Thomas writes: I live my faith by working...
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A reader offers some kindly words of disagreement
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September 10, 2018
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August 25, 2018
On Awful Bishops and the Retention of Faith
So the other day I posted this on the Book of Face: "I didn't come...
August 10, 2018
A reader has a question about purgatory
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July 2018
July 26, 2018
Echoes of a Previous Panic du Jour
About a month and a half ago, a reader wrote me, but I've only had...
July 23, 2018
A reader ponders the article on the Cake Controversy
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July 12, 2018
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A sweet reader is struggling with her faith and writes me…
...to say: I am a committed Christian. Glad to hear it! I wasn't brought up...
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A reader asks about predestination
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May 23, 2018
Australian Conservatives are Catching the American Party of Trump Dementia
A sane conservative Catholic writes from Oz: I have seen, of course, a great deal....
May 11, 2018
A reader asks for my take on a passage by Calvin
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May 03, 2018
Mailbag: On Judging
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The Alleged Intelligence of Trump
As a result of Trump loudly acclaiming himself a "stable genius" last week, I wound...
January 09, 2018
A discouraged reader writes asking for prayer
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January 08, 2018
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Talking about hatred with a reader
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December 04, 2017
Question on Racism
A reader writes: You've spoken eloquently on the Church's opposition to racism. One thing I'm...
December 02, 2017
A reader has a question about the primacy of the Roman Church
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November 29, 2017
A reader asks me a stumper about relics and cremains
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October 17, 2017
Jimmy Akin, Fount of Amazing Arcana, writes me…
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A reader writes with some questions…
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Had an Interesting Conversation with an Old Friend from High School
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August 01, 2017
Bono Has Class
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Trump’s Transgender Ban
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