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The Double Scandal of the ‘DEI Means God’ Essay, by Phil Lawler – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Double Scandal of the ‘DEI Means God’ Essay, by Phil Lawler

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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Sep 17, 2025 

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.  See full bio.

After Catholic World News reported that astonishing little essay entitled “DEI Means God” had appeared on the web site of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Chieko Noguchi, the USCCB director of public affairs, told The Pillar: “It was mistakenly posted to the website, and has been taken down.”

That is reassuring, I suppose—although I wonder how something could appear by mistake on a site representing the bishops of the United States.

But in an important sense the brief appearance of the essay (which is now hard— but not impossible—to find online) is only the second of two mistakes. The first and more serious mistake was made by Bishop Campbell when he wrote this puerile piece. …

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