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The battle for life in ten states this election cycle

August 30, 2024 Mary Jo Anderson 15

Pundits have framed this election as the “end of democracy” or the last chance to “save our republic.” It may be known to historians as the abortion election. Both parties quickly carved out an abortion […]

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What place does AI have in ministry or the lay apostolate? Part 2

August 22, 2024 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 22

Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The Dangers of AI in Ministry AI’s development potentially has profound implications for various fields of ministry, where it could serve as a powerful […]

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Secularism and Catholic higher education in America

August 21, 2024 Rodney Howsare 18

In spite of the important work of philosophers including Alisdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, the average American still harbors a mistaken notion of the secular and its relation to classical Liberalism. While this was excusable […]

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What place does AI have in ministry or the lay apostolate? Part One

August 17, 2024 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 56

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought this computing technology into popular awareness in a dramatic way. Its astounding, creative abilities in natural language processing and computer vision have contributed to a wider awareness […]

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Synodality: The Old, the New, and the A-Polling

August 11, 2024 Carl E. Olson 36

Polls, as a rule of thumb, should be taken with a grain of salt. Or even, at times, with a salt shaker. That said, the recent online poll by @Synod.va—the official X (formerly Twitter) account […]

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Massachusetts Bill will eliminate “mother” and “father” from parenting laws

August 6, 2024 Charles J. Russo 21

In the early morning hours of August 1, 2024, after a conference committee from the two chambers of the Massachusetts legislature reconciled the differing versions of the forty-two-page House Bill 4750, both the House (156-0) and Senate […]

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Eroticism and the Paris Olympics: A reflection in the light of Augusto Del Noce

August 5, 2024 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 37

Eroticism is a fundamental feature of contemporary Western civilization. This is not clearly recognized by the majority and is thoroughly rejected by elite opinion.1 To attempt a serious discussion of the matter in the media […]

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The tyranny of in vitro fertilization

July 19, 2024 Sister Renée Mirkes 10

Dr. René Frydman is best known by French citizens as the “medical father” of their first in vitro fertilization baby (1982). Medical researchers, on the other hand, laud him for his quadruple decades of pioneering […]

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How the Gill Foundation funds the undermining of Church moral teaching

July 11, 2024 Anne Hendershott 19

George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations—like the now-defunct Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—in an effort to marginalize Catholic teachings on moral […]

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Two recent, notable pieces of Vatican news not to be overlooked

July 2, 2024 Christopher R. Altieri 34

In all the rightly indignant ferment over appalling developments in the Rupnik Affair and the soap opera stramash over Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s richly deserved comeuppance, two news items worth everyone’s attention skated under the radar. The first […]

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