Does U.S. Border Policy Violate Catholic Teaching?
I recently read an article in the Jesuit magazine America titled “Biden, Benedict and Immigration: How U.S. Border Policy Violates [...]
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01, 2023
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06, 2022
The Catholic Hierarchy’s Embrace of Homosexuality
On the matter of homosexuality or, LBGTI+ as it is fashionably known, the Catholic hierarchy have been at least disingenuous [...]
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04, 2022
A New Catholic View on Homosexuality?
In the past, Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx has given his blessing to same-sex couples. Now he is going a step [...]
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02, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 4
Part 1 explained that Catholic teaching on contraception, and its larger teaching on marriage, were based on St. Augustine of Hippo’s [...]
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01, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 1
At a time when relativism has undermined the idea of objective truth, both philosophy and religion are challenged more than [...]
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05, 2021
Anatomy of a Pastoral Letter
On May 1, 2021 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone issued a pastoral letter on Catholic teaching concerning abortion. Soon afterward, [...]
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10, 2020
Pope Francis and Same-Sex Unions
Background Note: I recently explained how popes have strived to preserve doctrinal continuity by supporting their predecessors’ pronouncements. I noted, as well, [...]