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Distinction Without Exclusion: What the Church Teaches About Secularity When the Pope Comes to Paris
About 800,000 came to a papal Mass on the Republic’s own square. What the Church means by secularity, and why it can’t shut faith out of the law.
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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.