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May 23, 2018

Learning to Live with Same-Sex Marriage?

By  Gerard V. Bradley, The Witherspoon Institute - But all of us have to face—and will face for the rest of our days—the challenge of what to do about the two married guys who apply to live in your co-op, or who want you to take their family portrait, or who will soon join your school’s PTA, or who will eventually come to you for marital counselling.
May 22, 2018

New Vatican Document on Finance Doesn’t Read Like a Bernie Sanders Pamphlet

By John Zmirak, a Senior Editor, The Stream - This week we received a new Vatican document on the economy… “Considerations for an Ethical Discernment Regarding Some Aspects of the Present Economic-Financial System.”… So pardon me for having low expectations. But the new Vatican document mostly exceeds them. Or so Acton Institute scholar Sam Gregg reports. It still has problems (as we’ll see). Still, the latest document from Rome shows a surprising grasp of detail, according to Gregg….
May 22, 2018

Humanae Vitae: Countering Sexual Revolution’s Harm

By Fr. Shenan Boquet, Human Life International - We may not always understand. But as St. Pope John Paul II assured us, God never commands the impossible: “As the Tradition of the Church has constantly taught, God does not command the impossible, but every commandment also entails a gift of grace which helps human freedom to fulfill it.” “Yet,” he added, in order to follow the Church’s teachings on sexuality, “constant prayer, frequent recourse to the sacraments and the exercise of conjugal chastity are needed.”
May 19, 2018

A Canon Lawyer Speaks: Chile’s Bishops Have Offered to Resign. That’s Still Not Enough

By Ed Condon, The Catholic Herald - the Vatican released a letter from Pope Francis to the Chilean bishops. In it, the Pope referred to the need for “short, medium and long term” actions to “restore justice”. On Friday morning a document was leaked to Chilean media in which the Pope used much stronger language. He stated, according to the leaked document, that people needed to be removed from office but that this alone would be “not enough”.

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