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By Cardinal Willem Eijk, National Catholic Register - By elevating such testimonies without doctrinal commentary, the report effectively normalizes homosexual relationships within a Church context... The recently published report from Synod Study Group 9 represents a troubling departure from the Catholic Church's consistent moral teaching. While the authors claim they lack "the expertise or, above all, the necessary ecclesiastical authorization" to address individual moral issues definitively, the report's methodology and framework systematically undermine the Church's ability to proclaim and apply her moral doctrine. ...

By Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture - Secularist politicians, primarily state and federal elected Democrats, seem personally and constitutionally driven to turn what Christian Ethics previously held to be private vices into public virtues, if not actual legal obligations, which are to be funded with public money... Here I will analyze these efforts which have occupied public discussion in the last several years as both ordinary legislation and voter-passed amendments to State Constitutions.

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register - The Vatican has authorized an investigation of Baton Rouge Bishop Michael Duca over the way he handled a complaint against a pastor accused of soliciting sex from an adult parishioner and reminiscing over purported past sex acts with boys, according to an official Church communication to a whistleblower.