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Pope Francis decries global ‘retreat from democracy’ in Athens speech

Pope Francis lamented a global “retreat from democracy” in a speech on Saturday in Athens, the cradle of Western civilization. The pope was speaking to political leaders, representatives of civil society, and members of the diplomatic corps at the Presidential Palace on Dec. 4, hours after arriving from Cyprus. “Here democracy was born. That cradle,

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Wojtyla’s Athenian catechesis: An antidote to the culture of veriphobia

Archbishop Karol Wojtyla’s newly discovered 1965 reflections on St. Paul’s discourse at the Areopagus (Acts 17: 16-32), Mars Hill, is the starting point for Wojtyla’s cycle of catecheses in this book, Teachings for an Unbelieving […]

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Patriotism in the Fourth Commandment

Brad Miner: Civil, civilization, civic: each has its root in the Latin for citizen. We should honor our country. And honoring it menas learning about it.

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