Catholic Writing Informed By The Mind Of The Church
Scripture and the Church’s social doctrine, worked through carefully and cited by paragraph number, so you can check every claim. Written by a permanent deacon.
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Who writes this
Deacon Dan DeLuca
A permanent deacon, ordained in 2023, completing a Master’s degree in theology and preparing to begin doctoral studies. His areas of study are Scripture, liturgy, and ecclesiology. Everything here is written by him — nothing syndicated, nothing reprinted from a publisher’s service — and every claim is cited to the document it comes from, by paragraph number.