(While I am going to clear Desmond Birch’s scholarly response on St. Ambrose when he has finished it, this discussion on the validity or lack thereof of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s resignation and Pope Francis’ Papacy is now finished. I know it is earlier than I originally said, but it is clear to me that most […]

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By Charlie Johnston “If Francis had been Pope when you came into the Church, would you have still come in?” It was a clever question posed to me a few months ago by a shrewd friend. I had been a great admirer of St. John Paul the Great for over a decade before I was […]

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