Archbishop Chaput's Defense

Archbishop Chaput's Defense

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Ken Briggs  |  Jul. 8, 2016

Nothing in memory signals the depths to which official Catholic fortunes have sunk than the mayor of Philadelphia calling the action of the city's archbishop "un-Christian." This is Philadelphia, after all, seat of one of the original dioceses in the nation long considered an absolute bastion of Catholicism. The local papers took pains not to alienate it.