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Is Vatican II’s Religious Freedom Just Tolerance by Another Name?

Rory Fox July 10, AD2026 5 Comments

In 1965 Vatican II promulgated Dignitatis Humanae, which declared in favor of the idea of religious freedom. Ever since then, the language of religious tolerance

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Could It Be a Sin to Be a Christian?

Rory Fox December 7, AD2020 5 Comments

In churches where abuse has occurred, a question arises for worshippers. Am I sinfully complicit, just by being a lay member and thus sustaining the

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Standing in the Cesspool: The Complicity of the Commentariat

Anthony S. Layne August 22, AD2018 1 Comment

  Like you, Dear Reader, I was angered and sickened by the Pennsylvania grand jury report. But the lynch-mob mentality that quickly formed among the

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