Marriage & Family
October 31, 2024
By Paul Senz, Catholic World Report - “I had no idea,” says Kevin Wells, “the story I/we had intended to write of a self-emptying priest during the pandemic would actually become a memoir about marriage—and the manner in which matrimonial graces work to dissolve the dark night.”... Priests are indispensable in the life of the Church... We may not always recognize the profound role priests play in our lives, but in some cases, the role is so dramatic that it cannot be ignored.
October 25, 2024
By Janet E. Smith, Ph.D., Crisis Magazine - We are on the brink of the 2024 presidential election—which, perhaps more than ever, has us on the brink of preserving this wonderful nation or losing it... Is it true that some Catholics still don’t know for whom they are going to vote, or if they are going to vote? What more do they need to know than they know already? Maybe a lot... A good case can be made for not voting or voting for a third-party candidate in “non-swing” states, but I believe it imperative for Catholics to vote for Trump in swing states. Indeed, somewhat indirectly, Cardinal Burke makes a strong case for this perspective... The only hope we have for changing the laws on abortion (and saving this country!) is to elect those who will work to defend free speech and freedom of religion, who will deport illegal immigrants, who will ensure that elections are fair.
October 23, 2024
By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - In 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, in a Declaration of Sentiments, a group of feminists made the following statement: “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having as direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over her.”... Women decided to fight back. But their platform was defective. Their narrow view of history was a travesty of justice. ...
October 22, 2024
By Kate Quiñones, CNA - The Biden administration announced on Monday that it will require insurance companies to cover over-the-counter contraception in what the White House called the “most significant expansion ... in more than a decade” of access to birth control under federal law... The new rule requires insurance companies to remove the prescription requirement for coverage of contraception. The administration seeks to expand contraception in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a White House press conference.
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