The 2016 Theology of the Body (TOB) Congress will be held Friday, September 23, through Sunday, September 25 (with a “Pre-Congress” Thursday, September 22) at the Ontario Convention Center in Southern California. The event will […]
Yesterday, the Catholic University of America hosted a press conference for the release of the document “Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality”, which was signed by over 500 Catholic scholars […]
Nearly 50 years after the “prophetic” papal document Humanae Vitae, the Catholic Church’s longstanding teaching against contraception continues to promote the human good, said a group of Catholic thinkers on Tuesday. “We hold that Catholic […]
This past Friday brought sad tidings, the news of the passing of yet another person of note in a year when there seems to have been a great preponderance of last breaths drawn by those […]
A group of Argentine bishops (ABs) recently published pastoral guidelines for implementing Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia (AL). The ABs tell their clergy that under certain circumstances divorced Catholics in sexually active second unions may […]
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 61, grew up in a Catholic home in the Kansas City area. His family was active in the Catholic community; his mother was a parish secretary and […]
“No other interpretation is possible.” — Pope Francis, Letter to Mons. Sergío Alfredo Fenoy, Delegate of the Buenos Aires Pastoral Region (Sept. 5, 2016) “This view is erroneous.” — Bishops of Alberta, “Guidelines for the Pastoral Accompaniment of […]
I’m here for the Formation for New Bishops’ program, more colloquially known as “Baby Bishop School.” My colleagues are about 150 other bishops from around the world who have been appointed in the last twelve […]
This past Saturday, September 19th, Pope Francis gave an address to Members of the European Confederation and of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni and Alumnae. The focus of the gathering and address was the […]
There’s emerging what some will call a new brouhaha and others will regard as a renewed rigorous discussion about capital punishment and the Catholic Church. The issue itself has been controversial in the last several […]
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