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Msgr. Robert J. Batule,The Catholic Thing - When I was ordained a priest in 1985, my first pastor was about to turn 50 years old; he was a member of the Ordination Class of 1962. He saw himself and others saw him too as a “Vatican II” priest. There were meetings galore, a lot of “co-ministry” with women Religious, and, in discussions, frequent references to the marginalized and minorities of various kinds. But I don’t recall that we had a single Holy Hour in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament in my five-year assignment there, nor do I remember hearing a word against co-habitation in the parish Pre-Cana program.

Fr David Howell, Catholic Herald - Pope Benedict XVI was once asked by a child making their First Holy Communion why he could not see Jesus. The Pope replied that we can only see some things by their effects, like invisible electricity that makes visible light — and so too with Jesus in the Eucharist, we see him by the effect Holy Communion has on those who receive him: they live like Jesus.

By Dr. Edward Feser, Catholic World Report - In contemporary debates in Catholic moral theology, a distinction is often drawn between actions that are flatly ruled out in principle and those whose permissibility or impermissibility is a matter of prudential judgment. For example, it is often noted that abortion is wrong always and, in principle, whereas how many immigrants a country ought to allow in and under what conditions are matters of prudential judgment. ...