Catholic Church

October 12, 2020

Abortion is ‘Pre-Eminent’ Human Rights Issue, St Augustine Bishop Says as Election Nears

By Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency - Abortion is a “fundamental threat to the beginning of life itself” and Catholics can't be passive on the “pre-eminent” human rights issue, the right to life, Bishop Felipe Estevez of St. Augustine has said in a pre-election letter to his diocese's Catholics about the importance of conscientious political participation... He rejected the claim of those who say, “as a matter of faith, I am against abortion, but I cannot impose my belief on others.”

October 12, 2020

Msgr. Charles Pope: Party or Perish A Homily for the 28th Sunday of the Year

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The past three Sundays have featured shocking parables about our readiness, fruitfulness, and decision as to whether to accept and enter the Kingdom of God. The Lord has used the image of a vineyard extensively: a vineyard into which workers are dispatched at different times of the day but who have different attitudes about what is due to them at the end of the day ...

October 12, 2020

COVID-19 Panic More Dangerous Than the Disease, Say Catholic Philosopher, Doctor, by Dorothy Cummings McLean

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - In their three-part paper, Dr. Casanova and Dr. Zabiega examine the coronavirus crisis as a medical phenomenon, a political disaster, and a grave danger for the future of humanity... A Catholic philosopher and a Catholic neurologist have written an essay laying out the medical and the political effects of the coronavirus. Their conclusion is that the manipulation of public panic is, in all but a few cases, more dangerous than the disease... Casanova and Zabiega stress that the lockdown is politically, not medically, motivated.

October 12, 2020

Is the Supreme Court Too Catholic? by Matthew J. Franck

By Matthew J. Franck, Wall Street Journal - From Antonin Scalia to Amy Coney Barrett, opposition to Catholic nominees has been mainly about the politics of abortion, not their religious faith... If the Catholicism of a nominee is considered a plus by Republicans hoping for the demise of Roe, it is understandable that it should send shudders of apprehension through the ranks of Democrats, for whom abortion rights are now a nonnegotiable plank of their party’s platform.