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Oklahoma City, Okla., May 1, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Editor’s note: Below is the full text of Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley’s pastoral letter “On the Unity of the Body and Soul: Accompan… […]
It’s a good thing Pope Francis never actually said, “Tinder is normal.” Nobody wants to have to write: “No, Holy Father, Tinder is not normal.” That’s a sentence for an opening line to a parody. […]
Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five children aged ten to seventeen in Oregon whose husband died six years ago in a car accident unsuccessfully attempted “to adopt siblings from foster care,” both of whom […]
Not too long ago, Randall Smith accused Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of playing Jenga with Catholic theology. Jenga is a game in which players take turns removing crisscrossed wooden blocks that make up a tower, […]
When I was a young seminarian I studied moral theology under the tutelage of the late, great Germain Grisez (1929-2018). I did not agree with all aspects of his “new natural law” theory, but his […]
Editor’s note: This essay contains frank discussion of sexuality. “END WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE!” According to legend, these words were emblazoned upon a sign at a booth taking signatures for a petition at a Lilith Fair, a […]
I came of age in the 1960s. It was an era of civil unrest, race riots, anti-war protests, and the sexual revolution. One of the popular bumper stickers at the time stated: Question Everything. These […]
The so-called “sexual revolution” has wreaked havoc on the foundations of our society. Some of the most fundamental building blocks of day to day life – sex, procreation, marriage, family – are under attack, and […]
The recent ceremony at the White House for signing the so-called Respect for Marriage Act encapsulates the state of public thought today. The Act requires the federal and state governments to treat same-sex “marriages” as […]
An Embarrassment – “As a father and as a Catholic intellectual, I’m really concerned about what the Pontifical Academy for Life is and the picture of the Church that it’s portraying to the world,” said […]
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