articles by Leon J. Podles
33.2 — March/April 2020
Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America Since Vatican II, 2nd ed.
by Stephen Bullivant
30.4 — July/Aug 2017
American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution by Stephen Cox
28.2 — March/April 2015
Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
by Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill, and Kari Christoffersen
28.1 — January/February 2015
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
by George Weigel
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat
23.2 — March/April 2010
But There Are No Shortcuts on the Road to Reconciliation
16.1 — January/February 2003
A Question of Numbers,
The Death of the West,
The New Christendom,
& World Population Prospects
15.7 — September 2002
The Dynamics of Celibacy & Homosexuality in the Catholic Church
15.3 — April 2002
The Real Story Behind Clerical “Pedophilia” & What It Means for Clerical Celibacy
15.1 — January/February 2002
J. R. R. Tolkien & the Marks of Christian Heroism
14.1 — January/February 2001
The Feminization of the Church & the Need for Christian Fatherhood
8.3 — Summer 1995
All That Separates Must Converge
The Fragmentation of Christianity & the Unity of the Faith
7.4 — Fall 1994
A Personal Look at the Education of Children: Public, Private & Domestic
7.2 — Spring 1994
Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism edited by Alvin F. Kimel, Jr.
22.4 — May 2009
Before Abraham Was: The Unity of Genesis 1–11 by Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn
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