Catholic Church

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Athanasius Schneider along with other bishops and ordinaries of the Catholic Church in Kazakhstan have released a pastoral letter to honor the “enduring importance” of Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae... This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the famous pro-life, pro-family document. Pope Paul VI released Humanae vitae  in 1968. He taught unequivocally that “each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of human life” and called the use of contraception “intrinsically wrong.”

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register - First of all, Pope Francis would have hated it. There’s a good reason there were no official Vatican representatives sent to the gala… Pope Francis is not eager for the company of the super-affluent in general, so a gathering where the rich and the richer gather to literally marvel at themselves would not be his preferred night out.

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - As the old Catholic Encyclopedia puts it in the article on “Cremation”: “[The Church] holds it unseemly that the human body, once the living temple of God, the instrument of heavenly virtue, sanctified so often by the sacraments, should finally be subjected to a treatment that filial piety, conjugal and fraternal love, or even mere friendship seems to revolt against as inhuman.”