I was recently reading through a blog honoring Abortion Provider Appreciation Day ... The organizers describe their rationale for such a dark and strange observance as being a response against crisis pregnancy centers... “The most st … [Read more...]
Combating the Contraceptive Understanding of Celibacy
August 22, 2013 by Dr. Eric M. Johnston, PhD
On the one hand, we must appreciate how sex is holy. It might be good to say “holy” instead of “good.” Ironically, the idea that celibacy is a sacrifice treats sex as a good in the same way that a candy bar is a good. But this view belongs t … [Read more...]
Questions Answered
July 2, 2013 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
Has the church changed her teaching on condom use to prevent the spread of HIV? Can you tell me the origin of celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood and why the Western Church puts so much emphasis on it? Question: In the d … [Read more...]
Attacking the Roots of Abortion
April 23, 2013 by Don Murray
What is really required ... is to address the thought processes and motivations that prompt people to seek abortion as a solution to a personal problem that should not have occurred in the first place. Catholics, and our counterparts in … [Read more...]
Questions Answered
March 5, 2013 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
How should we deal with dissenting Catholic politicians? Is there a moral obligation to reverse a vasectomy? Dissenting Politicians Question: Recently many politicians have claimed that though they are Catholic they are in favor of … [Read more...]
Sent Forth to Father a People: Christ’s Priesthood in our Time
February 22, 2013 by Fr. Robert E. Markovitch, MD
In our faithfulness to God, it falls to the Church, as the announcer of the Good News concerning mankind, and more especially to her priests, to begin re-establishing a civilization of truth and love, and the life that springs forth from … [Read more...]
A Dialogue with the HHS Mandate
February 19, 2013 by Sean M. Connolly
Editor’s Note: The so-called HHS Mandate, enacted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in January 2012, has been the subject of growing controversy and pending lawsuits. It requires nearly all private health i … [Read more...]
Making sense of another ambiguous “compromise”
February 19, 2013 by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap, DD
Bishop's Corner The scholar, Yuval Levin, has stressed that the new HHS mandate proposal, “like the versions that have preceded it, betrays a complete lack of understanding of both religious liberty and religious conscience.” To live w … [Read more...]
Revisiting Humanae Vitae
January 25, 2013 by Rob Agnelli
What has been summarized as his most profound theological contribution, Theology of the Body, John Paul II labeled the entire work a “rereading of Humanae Vitae.” Two days after the publication of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI remarked dur … [Read more...]
Are doctrine and morals too controversial?
January 2013 Editorial
January 16, 2013 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
What happens to a parish, and to its parishioners, when the pastor refuses to preach Catholic doctrine and morals on the grounds that they are now “too controversial”? Cardinal Francis George and Cardinal Timothy Dolan are well known fo … [Read more...]
Contraception and Public Policy
August 8, 2012 by Rob Agnelli
One can readily see why there is an insistence against “artificial” methods of birth control, while something like Natural Family Planning is in accord with the natural law. It is not because they are artificial, per se, but because they ar … [Read more...]
The HHS Mandate: Is it a Religious Liberty Issue?
April 24, 2012 by Fr. Dylan Schrader
Some Catholics (and others) have couched their objection to the recent HHS mandate in terms of religious liberty. Their focus has been on the unreasonably narrow definition of what constitutes a religious organization, and on the lack of a … [Read more...]
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