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By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - Paglia goes on to state, “Between believers and non-believers there is a relationship of mutual learning.” When it comes to settled moral teachings, this is simply false. Catholics have nothing to learn from non-Catholics, for to suggest this is to suggest that Catholics should no longer learn from God Himself but instead from fallen man. Again, it is arrogance masquerading as humility... Of course, the great scandal here is that the anti-life, anti-Catholic Paglia is the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Every day he remains in office diminishes the moral authority of that academy as well as the moral authority of the pope who oversees it.

By Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - The late Pope Benedict XVI once reminded us of the dialogical nature of Christian prayer with the scriptures in these words: “Remember that prayer should accompany the reading of the Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may walk together; for we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying.”... God speaks to us when we prayerfully listen to the words of sacred scripture. He also listens to us as we speak to Him from our hearts filled with His words.

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - As has been the case before, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life often begins with the political situation and then sees where the Gospel and the Catholic Tradition can fit... when Abp. Paglia said last week that a potential Italian law removing criminal penalties for euthanasia and assisted suicide would be “feasible” and that “legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions we find ourselves in,” it struck many as contrary not only to Catholic teaching but the purpose of the PAL.

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - Atheistic humanism, I contend, is America’s secular or God-less religion, and it is rapidly becoming the nation’s dominant religion.  It’s the religion of those Americans who are economically, politically, and culturally the most influential individuals and groups in the country.  It’s the dominant religion in the entertainment industry (Hollywood, TV, popular music), in our high-prestige colleges and universities, in the journalistic profession (both print and electronic), and in one of our two great political parties, the Democratic Party.