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** Readers’ Choice: Last Week’s Most Read Articles
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** GEORGE WEIGEL
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For a bishops’ commission to issue a text calling for a “differentiated” approach to Catholic teaching—in which the settled truths of Catholic faith are regarded as one option on a menu of possibilities—is bizarre.
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** Slamming the Door on Female Clergy ([link removed])
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** DAMIAN THOMPSON
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On December 4, a “Study Commission on the Female Diaconate” set up by Pope Francis in 2020 published its conclusion that women could not be ordained as deacons.
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** JOHN M. GRONDELSKI
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I understand why the bishops tiptoe around the issue: The Church has been a cheerleader of the EU project for decades; to change course would be to admit that it has failed.
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** In Praise of Translation ([link removed])
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** ERIK VARDEN
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From the January issue: To translate is not to domesticate the unknown in known terms. It is to renounce the certainty that I am the knowing insider while everyone else is outside.
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** Kathy Hochul, Champion of the Culture of Death ([link removed])
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** BRIAN A. GRAEBE
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The governor leaves those most vulnerable, at life’s beginning and end, without the legal protections that their God-given dignity demands. Kathy Hochul has made New York a colder, crueler, and more callous state.
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