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Papal Sins Part II: The Four Papal “Sins”

Series: The Legacy of Pope Francis
Scott Appleby
August 25, 2025August 25, 2025

According to his detractors, Francis, in addition to “downplaying” the Church’s condemnation of abortion, failed sufficiently to condemn so-called sexual sins.

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Papal Sins Part I: Opposition to Pope Francis in the American Catholic Church

Series: The Legacy of Pope Francis
Scott Appleby
August 12, 2025August 12, 2025

The U.S. Catholic community—numbering 53 million self-identified Catholic adults, or roughly one-fifth of the U.S. population—is complex and layered (as is the phrase “opposition to Pope Francis”).

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A Good Apology? Pope Francis’s Acknowledgment of Abuse in Canadian Indian Residential Schools

Series: The Catholic Church and Indian Residential Schools
Meghan J. Clark
July 21, 2022July 24, 2022

The good apology must go beyond complicity by recognizing culpability in wrongdoing and harm.

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Faith-Based Education & Peacebuilding: A Teacher’s Call for Further Collaboration

Jenna Streich
December 21, 2021

In order to effectively counter any potential violence inflicted by religious schools, it is necessary that educator-peacebuilders in these institutions root themselves in the context of the school community and the lived experiences of the students and their families.

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Freedom: An Intercultural Definition

Series: Madrasa Discourses Peace Lab
Kirsten Hanlon
March 23, 2018March 23, 2018

Imagine you’re a young Christian woman from the United States. A veiled Pakistani woman tells you that she has more freedom than you. How would you react?

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