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Christian Realism & Democracy
April 18, 2024
Mark Tooley
Post-Liberalism Versus Catholicism’s ‘Green Branch’
April 17, 2024
Jeffrey Walton
The U.N. and the Advance of Gender Ideology in the Western Hemisphere
April 16, 2024
Rick Plasterer
Stories After Virtue: Reading As A Moral Enterprise
April 18, 2024
John Shelton
Two Jesuits and Israel: Robert Drinan and Daniel Berrigan
April 17, 2024
Paul Macrae
Forced Conversions of Christians in India
April 16, 2024
Antonio Graceffo
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