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Matt writes about faith how it is lived, how it intersects with society and how current trends affect religious practice. He returned to reporting and writing after more than 12 years as an editor, most recently a more ..
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Vatican II freed up the Church hierarchy in the U.S. to act as liberal reformers as many of them did. They in turn played a role in the elevation to the papacy of the first non-Italian in over four centuries. John Paul II in turn paradoxically became More..