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Dating as a counter-cultural project
A new documentary from PureFlix and Paulist Productions follows the lives of five single Christians over the course of a year as they attempt to […]
Humanae Vitae
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Misunderstanding NFP: Where Catholics and non-Catholics get it wrong
Dr. Janet Smith, a professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and a Catholic speaker and author on marriage and family, on what Humanae Vitae […]
Analysis
“Humanae Vitae” and the Catholic Church in England: Signs of hope
Fifty years after Humanae Vitae’s promulgation, promoting its teaching still brings immense challenges. But the news isn’t all bad. […]
Essay
The Francis Reformation
We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of […]
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Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation
Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]
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“Humanae Vitae” and the key to the mighty mystery of sex
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 […]
Features
“Ecclesial reception” in the Era of Francis
Out of more than 5,000 bishops in the universal Church, I don’t think we can consider supporters of the problematic practice of permitting divorced and remarried […]
Editorial
Catholics aren’t obsessed with sex—they are obsessed with life
There seems little doubt, at this point, that 2018 is going to witness yet another great clash over Paul VI’s encyclical—arguably the most contested and […]
Opinion
Sexploits and crisis: Is it 2002 revisited?
The current drama of Hollywood stars, media types, athletes and politicians is the fruit of the hyper-sexualization of society as a whole for decades at […]
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Our ugly progressive culture’s desperate need for authentic love and the Faith
By divorcing human intimacy from the context for which it was created our secular progressives have reduced it to simply pleasure, or what use to […]