Catholic Church

November 13, 2017

Attacking the Ties That Bind

By Wesley J. Smith, First Things - Like everyone else, I have been pondering the recent “senseless” slaughters in places as disparate as Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and Sutherland Springs… As merciless as those despicable assaults are, there is a certain human heat behind the carnage, a twisted ideological motive that we can discern, understand, and perhaps combat.

November 13, 2017

Why Millennial Women Are Rejecting the Pill

By Calah Alexander, Aleteia - (Y)ounger women are turning away from the pill in droves — an NHS study found that the number of women in contact with sexual and reproductive health services who used user-dependent contraception, including the pill, had dropped by more than 13 per cent between 2005 and 2015... The World Health Organization classifies birth control pills as a Group 1 carcinogen, along with things like asbestos and tobacco...

November 13, 2017

Looking at Laudato Si’ in Theory and Practice

By John Horvat II, Crisis Magazine - The new book, Pope Francis and the Caring Society, appears like a team of economists forced to study the encyclical Laudato Si’ in theory and then wonder if it might work in practice. Most of the team members answer the question with a qualified no... the work was written as a sincere effort to heed the pontiff’s call for “dialogue” on the economic and ecological issues underlying the controversial encyclical.

November 13, 2017

Jesus and Historical Revisionism

By Casey Chalk, The Catholic Thing - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, “If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.” Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.