Catholic Church

February 6, 2019

Trump Administration Moves to Protect Religious Adoption, Foster-Care Providers, by Lauretta Brown

By Lauretta Brown, The Stream - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently made a move that could be significant for religious child-welfare providers who face federal and state regulations that conflict with their deeply held beliefs when it comes to placing children with same-sex couples. HHS granted a religious exemption to a non-discrimination regulation for faith-based foster-care agencies in South Carolina.

February 6, 2019

OPINION: The Church and the Abortion Capital, by Ross Douthat

By Ross Douthat, New York Times - In a sense it’s not surprising that a renewed debate about abortion would begin in New York State, which passed a law last week — since imitated, to more controversy, by Virginia Democrats — ratifying the right to kill human beings in utero in the third trimester... Almost 50 years ago, in 1970, New York passed the nation’s most liberal abortion law, a template for the Roe v. Wade decision two years later. And the state has a justifiable reputation as (to quote a 2005 New York magazine story) “the abortion capital of America” — with a strong pro-choice consensus and high abortion rates.

February 5, 2019

Fr. Dwight Longenecker: Satan Always Overplays His Hand

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Blog - Those videos of Planned Parenthood people selling baby body parts? You thought they did not have enough impact. They did have impact. They were part of a larger plan of exposure orchestrated not by individuals, but by a greater power. The virulent, violent and bloodthirsty campaign of the Democrat politicians to legalize partial birth abortion and the slide into infanticide?... The devil has overplayed his hand. The Democrat party has blood on their hands and this is not going to go away. They are now the infanticide party, and America and the world has finally seen the crime of abortion for what it is.

February 5, 2019

The Catholic Thing: Two (writers) on Abortion

Michael Pakaluk and Tony Francois, The Catholic Thing - When I teach about abortion, I start with a poll. “How many of you believe that abortion is legal only for the first three months of pregnancy?” All the students raise their hands – naturally enough, because this is what the media has repeatedly told them... I then go to my computer, connected to an overhead projector, and search on “late-term abortion near me.” The search comes up with clinics in one’s own neighborhood offering abortions up to 24 or even 36 weeks...