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March 6, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Catholic Church Opposes the Death Penalty. Why Don't White Catholics?
September 4, 2014
Hilary Levey Friedman
Catholic Schools Are Brazenly Firing Pregnant Lesbian Teachers
And they're using morality as a defense
March 8, 2014
Saul Friedlander
How a Pope Helped Mussolini Rise to Power
And tried to stop him before it was too late
January 7, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
Ross Douthat is Wrong About Me (and God)
August 26, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Worst Imaginable Case FOR Gay Marriage
June 12, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Gays Storming Vatican!
February 13, 2013
Philip Jenkins
Euro Skepticism
Why Benedict XVI tried, and failed, to evangelize Europe
April 9, 2008
Michael Sean Winters
Family Values
What the pope can teach Democrats about immigration
November 14, 2005
Franklin Foer
Brain Trust
April 21, 2003
Richard Jenkyns
Poor Cricket
October 30, 1995
Jennifer Bradley
Indulgences
A dispatch from Pope John Paul II's spectacle-filled visit to Camden Yards in 1995
September 6, 1993
Robin Chotzinoff
John Denver
A papal postcard from Denver, Colorado
October 5, 1987
Andrew Sullivan
Papa Do Preach
Andrew Sullivan goes to see Pope John Paul II in San Antonio, Texas
March 17, 1982
Czeslaw Milosz
On Catholicism
October 20, 1979
Thomas Geoghegan
Popestock in Chicago
John Paul's winning battle in a losing war
September 2, 1978
William F. Buckley
The Pope I Want
A consumer speaks out.
October 16, 1965
Murray Kempton
The Pope Among Us
September 21, 1965
Murray Kempton
The Pope Among Us
Pope Paul VI visits New York City's United Nations offices and Yankee Stadium in 1965

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