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McGuire is a Senior Fellow with The Catholic Association, and author of ‘Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female.’ She also co-hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, ‘Conversations with Consequences’ airing on EWTN radio. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and five children.
Clarity is an essential role of the papacy, and when dimmed, it puts the Church and souls in danger.
The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular — first caught my attention when I was a semi-lapsed Protestant attending a quintessentially secular, Marxist-leaning university in Boston.
Reading The New York Times in the dining hall, I stopped at the story about Pope Benedict’s so-called “Regensburg Address.”
“What had this elderly and strangely dressed figurehead said that had people fire-torching convents?” I wondered to myself. I went back to my dorm room and printed it out and read it in one sitting.
It pierced my mind with its depth and clarity. After four years of moral relativism with an intellectual veneer, I was not accustomed to reading anything so strikingly … bold. A total takedown of relativism, it was written on a moral and intellectual plane I had never encountered. …
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