Concerning Fr. Edmund Campion

July 30th, 2025 | 12 min read

The pastor, a man just past 40, stood in the dock as the judge read the sentence against him and his fellow defendants:

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Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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