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I am often asked: "How can you be Gay and Catholic?" Sometimes I want to respond by saying: "How can I be a philosopher and Catholic?" For me both of these questions are essentially related because at their heart they both ask how a thinking person can belong to a community of faith. To my questioner I most often...

Wikipedia, the Vatican, and GQ inform me that Benedict 16's Moroccan Red Leather Shoes were not made by Prada, as many have mistakenly claimed, but hand-made by a Peruvian artisan in Rome. (However, my niece did espy Benedict coming out of Prada on Madison Avenue in NYC as she was stuck in traffic because of his...

“Citizens actively participating in their governance.” This idea has been the core principle of citizenship in a democracy since Pericles first articulated it in fifth-century Athens B.C.E.”Citizens actively participating in their governance.”…
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