The Narthex
Please, No More Documents from Rome!
Church teaching goes from fresh and radical to utterly boring
By Barbara Rose | October 15th 2018 7:58 PMDoes the Synod of Bishops on Young People, running this month in Rome, strike anyone else as same-old same-old? The Church continues to come across as bureaucratic and uninspiring. Aside from some free trips to Rome for some motivated young people, it's hard to see how a train of meetings…
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Nevermind the Creator's design for humankind
By Pieter Vree | October 15th 2018 6:27 PMStudent protests have become routine, such that nobody takes them seriously anymore. So now, the adults are getting involved — as they did with last April’s walkouts for gun control — approving and supporting their charges’ acts of “defiance” — which really don’t defy anything if everybody is on board…
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