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Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here’s Why

February 17, 2023 Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ 30

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 […]

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Cardinal Eijk: Same-sex blessings undermine Church teaching on marriage, sexual ethics

September 30, 2022 Catholic News Agency 14

Same-sex wedding cake. / Sara Valenti/Shutterstock

Denver Newsroom, Sep 30, 2022 / 02:00 am (CNA).
The Archbishop of Utrecht has urged that the Flemish bishops be asked to withdraw their statement introducing blessing ceremonies for same-sex co… […]

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Cardinal Arinze explains why Belgian bishops can’t bless same-sex couples

September 26, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Cardinal Francis Arinze. / Padre Mimmo Spatuzzi via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Denver Newsroom, Sep 26, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
The Belgian bishops’ introduction of blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples has drawn rebuke from Cardinal Francis A… […]

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Humpty Dumpty, the Corruption of Language, and the Destruction of Society

June 11, 2022 Robert R. Reilly 50

Almost everyone is familiar with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. In one of its most famous passages, Carroll neatly encapsulates the central issue in the use and abuse of language: “When I use a […]

The Dispatch

Sodomy, smoking, and and the inversion of vices

March 29, 2022 Stephen G. Adubato 9

“You must have a cigarette.” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. “A cigarette is a perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can […]

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