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Churches founded by married ex-priests pose dangers to faithful, African Catholic leaders warn

July 25, 2017 Fredrick Nzwili 14

Catholic leaders in Africa are becoming increasingly concerned about the establishment of new churches by former Catholic priests who left the Catholic Church in order to marry. While most Catholics on the continent strongly uphold […]

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Why the Death Penalty is Still Necessary

July 18, 2017 Joseph M. Bessette, Dr. Edward Feser 3

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part article on Catholicism and the death penalty originally published in June 2016. Part 1 was titled “Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment”. As […]

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Move over, Dan Brown; here come Spadaro and Figueroa!

July 17, 2017 Carl E. Olson 33

My good friend Sandra Miesel, with whom I co-authored The Da Vinci Hoax years ago, was fond of starting out her talks about the mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code by saying: “Dan Brown does […]

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On that strange, disturbing, and anti-American “Civiltà Cattolica” article

July 14, 2017 Dr. Samuel Gregg 148

Anti-Americanism is as old (if not older) as the American Revolution itself. Like all nations, America has its flaws. But these defects attract disproportionate attention from the rest of the world. This is partly because […]

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Fr. James Martin’s weak and wobbly bridge

July 13, 2017 Janet E. Smith 56

The need for better “rapport” between the Catholic Church and those who experience same-sex attraction, their friends and family, and the public at large is undeniable. Fr. James Martin, S.J. in his book Building A […]

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Re-Building a Bridge: The connection between contraception and the “LGBT community”

July 10, 2017 Jim Russell 26

Let’s build a bridge. No—not that bridge. Not a warm, fuzzy, attention-getting bridge between the Church and the ‘LGBT Community,’ whose architects are misguided masters of error, ambiguity, confusion, and dissent.  Don’t waste your time. […]

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The Fortnight for Freedom and the fight against leftist slander

June 29, 2017 BK O'Neel 4

Welcome to the fifth annual Fortnight for Freedom (F4F). In case you missed its start, we are actually in the middle of it. And even though an Administration friendly to the conscience rights of believers […]

Analysis

Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment

June 7, 2017 Joseph M. Bessette, Dr. Edward Feser 3

Editor’s note: This first part of a two-part article on Catholicism and the death penalty was originally posted on July 17, 2016. It is reposted now that By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense […]

Analysis

How Cardinal Husar’s death helps us understand the times we live in

June 5, 2017 Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency 4

Editor’s note: The following essay was originally posted on the MondayVatican (Vatican At a Glance) blog, which is the personal site of Andrea Gagliarducci, who is the Vatican analyst for Catholic News Agency (CNA); it is […]

Analysis

“The Meeting Point” Sex-Ed Program: Pernicious? Problematic? Promising?

May 21, 2017 John S. Hamlon, Veronica Pintor 1

The Meeting Point is a new online affective and sexual formation program for students, grades 9-12. Billed as an evolving project, the program is the brain-child of a group of married couples in Spain. To […]

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