Catholic Church

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - There’s an old saying that goes, “You are what you eat.” The idea is simple: what you put into your body through your mouth is what becomes your body. A body fed on fast-food and potato chips is a body that, unsurprisingly, is one that will show signs of obesity and clogged arteries... As true as the saying is, however, it is much truer to say, as the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “You are what you think all day long.”

By Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing - It might have been sufficient and efficient simply to dwell on the Klaus Fuchs case. Fuchs (played by Christopher Denham), was hired by Oppenheimer to work on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and turned out to be a Soviet spy... Oppenheimer himself was never a member of the Party, but he was sympathetic to Marxism. Several of his recruits for the Manhattan Project were communist sympathizers. All were geniuses determined to defeat Hitler’s Germany.

Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, The Catholic Thing - To hear some people talk, one would get the impression that the Church’s prohibition against artificial contraception, as reaffirmed in Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968)  came out of the blue. In fact, there’s a strong and consistent ban on all such practices from the earliest days of the Church, right into the twentieth century, with statements to the same effect by Pope Paul VI’s three immediate predecessors, as well as Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes. ...

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report - The rejection of St. Paul VI’s encyclical—both 55 years ago and today—is at heart a failure of faith... The encyclical, Humanae Vitae, was promulgated 55 years ago, on July 25, 1968. The word often used to describe Pope Paul VI’s encyclical is “prophetic”. It is one of those rather rare cases in which such a daunting, loaded, and strong adjective is exactly on the mark. Being prophetic, in the biblical and apostolic tradition, involves far more than some sort of foretelling of future events.