http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/06/17/pope-says-abortion-is-white-glove-equivalent-of-nazi-eugenics/ “Last century, the whole world was scandalised by what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today, we do the same thing but with white gloves,” Francis said. Argentina, the Pope’s homeland, is on the verge of relaxing laws on abortion. Last month Ireland voted by an overwhelming majority to introduce abortion up to […]
https://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/dads-are-dispensable-5-myths-about-fathers-and-families/21430 In the coming years, we will need more tough-minded and honest journalism like the kind offered by Shellenberger, Shrier, and Anderson. This is particularly true because of the cultural and economic storms of late have been eroding the marital foundations of family life in America—especially for poor and working-class families. Given the social scientific […]
http://www.usccb.org/news/2018/18-098.cfm Families are the foundational element of our society and they must be able to stay together. While protecting our borders is important, we can and must do better as a government, and as a society, to find other ways to ensure that safety. Separating babies from their mothers is not the answer and is […]
https://www.catholicjournal.us/2018/06/07/the-key-to-the-new-evangelization-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus/ Since then atoning to the Sacred Heart of Jesus places the focus rightly on Christ, allowing us to evangelize constantly without growing weary, conforms us to Christ by conforming our heart to His, and protects us against the great sin of spiritual pride, [14] it deserves to be accounted as the greatest and most sacred […]
‘Anti-This and That-Phobic’ That thinking has led to vicious attacks against Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation mainly due to his stance on protecting traditional marriage and, in his new book When Harry Became Sally, taking on transgenderism. “I’ve been called everything under the sun: anti-this and that-phobic,” Anderson said. His reaction? “I just don’t let […]
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/bishops-kazakhstan-reaffirm-humanae-vitae May the Virgin Mary, who is the Mother of the Church, also be the Mother of “the Church of the home.” Thanks to her motherly aid, may each Christian family really become a “little Church” in which the mystery of the Church of Christ is mirrored and given new life. May she, the Handmaid […]
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2018/05/24/pope-doesnt-want-practicing-gays-in-seminaries-reports-say/ In a document he gave to the Chilean bishops mid-May, when 34 bishops came to Rome to talk with Francis about the crisis of the local church, a product among others of decades of clerical sexual abuse cover-up, abuses of power and conscience, the pope said that gay priests shouldn’t be forming other clerics […]
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/opinions/pro-life-feminism-alvare-opinion/index.html [Helen Alvaré’s] work at WomenSpeakforThemselves.com, for example, includes women sharing information and stories about the harms women suffer from uncommitted sex and synthetic contraceptive hormones. They also report the richness of sex within a committed versus merely “consensual” sex framework. We hope to influence the next generation of women to understand that women deserve […]
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/05/18/how-following-humanae-vitae-can-lead-to-a-happier-more-fulfilled-life/ This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae. It caused immediate shock waves in the Catholic world, followed by outright rebellion from millions of Church members, unfortunately abetted by many priests. In retrospect it was a watershed moment in the Church’s history in the 20th Century; the occasion that split […]
http://avemarialaw-international-law-journal.avemarialaw.edu/Content/ILJ/articles/Vacca.pdf Therefore, all heterologous ART is contrary to international human rights law, especially the anonymous sort. Thus, states have a legal duty to prohibit all techniques used to achieve this procedure, including in vitro fertilization using donor sperm or donor eggs.