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Above: French President Emmanuel Macron with His Holiness. Photo credit. A fascinating takeaway from last week’s European parliamentary elections is the extent to which French Catholic voters have not so much drifted but hurled themselves to the right. According to an exclusive survey by French pollster IFOP for news site La Croix, 42 percent of…

Those of us of a certain age remember the illustration in the Baltimore Catechism when it came to talking about how three sacraments—Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders—imprint a spiritual “character” on the soul that cannot be effaced and which, therefore, renders those three sacraments unrepeatable. The picture was usually of two little kids with Jesus…