Julia Meloni
Theodore McCarrick the ex-cardinal has now been defrocked—just in time
for the media coverage swirling around Pope Francis’s sex abuse summit
this week. But McCarrick the kingmaker, McCarrick the narrative-spinner
still lives on, a spirit too towering to retire. In 2002, McCarrick
worked the media as the “attractive public face” of the sexual abuse
crisis. […]
Joseph Woodard
How many tax collectors might have worked in first century Palestine?
Every time Jesus of Nazareth associated with sinners, his pariahs of
choice were tax collectors. He uttered the phrase “tax collectors and
sinners” over a dozen times in the Synoptic Gospels and paired tax
collectors and prostitutes—notably smacking the Pharisees with, “Truly I
tell […]
Emily Linz
Pride and Prejudice: the book that tends to make ladies giggle with glee
and gentlemen roll their eyes in annoyance. But beyond the tea-time
social drama and the range of reaction from the sexes, there lies in
this novel a vision of humanity and society. The more I see of the
world, the more am […]
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