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The Sins of the Fathers

From things for which Roman Catholic popes have apologized. Colonialism Complicity in the slave trade Passivity during the Holocaust The Inquisition Systemic sexual abuse Missionaries in China Sins against the…

Diary of a Country’s Priest

by Vincent Mongaillard , Translated by Max Norman ,

From Je vous pardonne tous vos péchés, a collection of French priests’ observations about the sacrament of confession. The book was published in March by Éditions de l’Opportun. The following…

Pulpit Bullies

by Tim Hazelwood ,

From a statement made via Zoom by Father Tim Hazelwood, a spokesman for the Association of Catholic Priests, which is based in Ireland, during the organization’s annual meeting last October.…

Bad Faith Arguments

From explanations given by priests as to why sexual abuse was acceptable, as described in Pennsylvania’s “Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report.” The report, which was released in August, examines…

Only a Game

by Karl Ove Knausgaard ,

From a letter written by Karl Ove Knausgaard to Fredrik Ekelund, a novelist, in 2014. The letter was included in Home and Away, a collection of their letters about the…

Escape from The Caliphate

by Jennifer Percy ,

Rescuing and ransoming Christian hostages in Iraq

Innocents

by Rachel Nolan ,

Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs ,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

Church Going

by Garry Wills ,

From The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis, by Garry Wills, out this month from Viking. Wills holds the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory and is…

Francis and the Nuns

by Mary Gordon ,

Is the new Vatican all talk?

Thy Kingdom Plumb

From “Holy Springs and Holy Water: Underestimated Sources of Illness?” published last year in the Journal of Water and Health.