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Taking Second Look at Sinead O’Connor

August 1, 2023
"[S]he was truly a prophet figure, justly angry at the abuses that had and were occurring in the Roman Catholic Church. May she rest in peace — probably a true lover of what the church could and ought to be," said Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
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Pondering Benedict XVI, Retired Pontiff

December 31, 2022
Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., ponders what he has learned or worried about, when thinking of the example of Benedict as a Catholic intellectual.
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The Women Who Want to Be Priests

June 24, 2021
“I’m going to stay and fix my church somehow," says Kori Pacyniak, MDiv '11, who was eight when they told their grandmother they wanted to become a priest.
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The Catholic Church, Pope Francis, and the Penalty of Death

August 2, 2018

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,’ and [the Church] works with determination for its abolition worldwide.”... Read more about The Catholic Church, Pope Francis, and the Penalty of Death

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