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Preserving our Patrimony, Protecting our Faith

By Michael S. Rose
There is a connection between the Church’s patrimony and the Catholic faith.


The following is a lecture delivered to the Christifidelis Colloquium at the Yale Club in New York City on May 12, 2001.

Last Fall, the liberal journal US Catholic, published a review of my book The Renovation Manipulation, incidentally without ever mentioning either my name or the name of the book—I’m sure U.S. Catholic was not keen on giving me free advertising. In that review, journalist Robert McClory had this to say:

“There are many issues about which Catholics disagree these days—birth control, divorce and remarriage, sex education in schools, the ordination of women, the rights of homosexuals, the silencing of theologians, to name a few. Yet all these hot buttons cool to relative insignificance compared with one issue capable of generating white...

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