Catholic Church

May 12, 2018

Exporting the Revolution To Africa

By Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing -The point that (Nigerian born author Obianuju Ekeocha) accentuates more pointedly than her predecessors is the sizeable ideological dimension built into the foreign aid agenda… Ekeocha sensibly writes that if her neighbors lost their home in a fire, she wouldn’t be foisting contraceptives upon them, along with the food and blankets. That would be regarded as offensive. So why should be this happening en masse in the form of Western “aid” to Africa?

May 12, 2018

What Catholics Have Sacrificed by Allying With Republican Evangelicals

By Matthew Walther, The Week - The most cited example is their supposedly mutual opposition to abortion. For a Catholic there is rigorously defined teaching about what it means to affirm that human beings are made in God's image and possessed of an inherent metaphysical dignity; this is why we reject not only abortion but artificial birth control and eugenics and in-vitro fertilization and cloning....

May 12, 2018

The Great Power of Prayer

By Fr. Lawrence G. Lovasik - As prayer is a necessary means of obtaining every need, so it is also sufficient for everything... The power of prayer comes from the promise that Jesus made concerning prayer, as He so beautifully shows: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.”

May 12, 2018

Is Curranism Finally Dead at the Catholic University of America?

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine - Charles Curran is long gone, 32 years now, from CUA and is almost but not quite forgotten. His ghost can still be seen flitting among the halls and in this debate… Curran was the theology professor at Catholic University who waged war on Church teaching and who, after losing a legal battle with CUA, decamped to Southern Methodist University…