On July 25, the Church marks the fiftieth anniversary of the most reviled and rejected magisterial document of all time. Many papal encyclicals remain unread, others are perused and ignored, but Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae was...
Read MoreThis coming July, we will mark the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s deeply controversial encyclical letter Humanae vitae. I won’t bore you with the details of the innumerable battles, disagreements, and ecclesial crises that...
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Forget parachuting or haunted houses for chills. If you want scary, try walking into a pro-choice...
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Some pro-lifers that will arrive in Washington D.C. on January 22 for the March for Life, don’t...
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It is impossible to ignore the ongoing and hotly contested debate in our country about the...
Read More“Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first...
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I was in high school when the advent of the birth-control pill was announced to the world, and it...
Read MoreOne of the stupidest and most dispiriting expressions of the media culture that I have ever encountered is the “coverage” of Pope Benedict’s recently-published interview entitled Light of the World. I can’t really say that I was...
Read MoreLast weekend, headlines focused on how Pope Benedict was apparently changing the Church’s teachings about the immorality of the use of condoms. The comments, excerpted from a book length interview of the Pope with journalist...
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