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More bad advice to young women from a Hollywood star

August 31, 2022 Kathy Schiffer 13

Moms and Dads: Are you looking for a great gift idea for that young single woman in your family? Comedian/actress Mindy Kaling has an idea! Why not, Mindy says, instead of just wrapping a pair […]

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McCarrick and theological dissent in the Sixties: Observations of a contemporary

December 13, 2019 John F. Kippley 33

The investigation into how the former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was promoted up to the level he enjoyed before his misdeeds became public knowledge is necessary and may yield helpful results. However, besides the question of […]

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A concise, accessible presentation on Paul VI, the Pill, and the Sexual Revolution

October 22, 2018 Nick Olszyk 2

MPAA Rating: Unrated at the time of this review USCCB Rating: Unrated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Reading Humanae Vitae in 2018 – fifty years after its […]

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Chesterton and the current crisis: “If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst”

October 14, 2018 Dale Ahlquist 18

In every Catholic Church, there is a gruesome sight. It is the image of a man being tortured to death. We should turn away from it in horror, but instead we don’t even notice it, […]

The Dispatch

On ‘Humanae vitae’—Pope Paul VI did not act alone

July 19, 2018 Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Agency 7

The book “La nascita di un enciclica” (The Birth of an encyclical), written by Professor Gilfredo Marengo, argues that Humanae vitae is not a “pre-conciliar” encyclical […]

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“Humanae Vitae” and the key to the mighty mystery of sex

February 5, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 7

St. Paul rhapsodized on the beauty of marital love as a great mystery, indeed the sign of Christ’s love for His Church. Contraceptive intercourse, on […]

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Paul VI, Prophet

November 28, 2017 Bishop Robert Barron 21

Does anyone doubt that, in the last fifty years, we have seen a profound attenuation of marital fidelity? Could anyone possibly contest that the last […]

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