Jeanie Hannaman

By Catholic Culture - Catechism of the Catholic Church 478: "Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up for each one of us: "The Son of God. . . loved me and gave himself for me" (Gal 2:20). He has loved us all with a human heart. For this reason, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our salvation (Cf. Jn 19:34), "is quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that. . . love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings" without exception (Pius XII, Enc. Haurietis aquas (1956): DS 3924; cf. DS 3812).

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald - The latest reconfiguration of Catholic theology to emerge from Rome has come in the form of the document Dignitas Infinita, on human dignity and gender identity issues... Some of the background thinking to the document emerged when the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, mused at the press conference launching it that one of the reasons why freedom of will and original sin had been downplayed in the document was that the Pope still liked to ponder on the question of whether perhaps, hell might be empty.