Archive for August, 2011
Catholic Charities Assisting in Wake of Irene
Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) reports that its east coast agencies are assessing the damage created by Hurricane Irene and are fully prepared to assist families and individuals with shelter, food, and other immediate and long-term needs. “In many ways, we were blessed — Irene came with less intensity and impact than what we expected [...]
Birth Control and Marriage
For an act of sexual intercourse to be “marital” and hence legitimate, the act must be consistent with the two chief goods of marriage, which are procreation and unity. If either the unitive or the procreative goods of marriage are positively willed against, then although the [...]
Biden Perfects the Kowtow
The Vice President is being hammered for seeming to condone Chinese-style population control. Answering a question about the one-child policy, he seemed to go out of his way to be noncritical, saying that he “fully understands” the one-child-per-family policy and was not “second-guessing” it. His defenders maintain that this does not constitute an endorsement of the policy, tacit or otherwise [...]
HHS Language is Too Restrictive
Several Catholics known for supporting Obama administration policies are opposing the lack of religious conscience protections in rules requiring most new health plans to cover contraception and sterilization. In an open letter issued August 26 [...]
Normalizing Pedophilia
Given the sexually dysfunctional nature of modern society, it was only a matter of time before proponents of pedophilia would actively seek to promote adult sex with children as a normal, healthy endeavor. It should also come as no surprise that the very language being used to promote the mainstreaming of “minor attracted people” is [...]
Human Costs and Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy
The annual Labor Day statement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers Catholics an opportunity to reflect on the state of unemployment and the American economy, and how Catholic teaching can guide a response. The full text of the Labor Day statement follows.
Each year Americans celebrate Labor Day as a national holiday to [...]
World Youth Day: The World’s Best Kept Secret
Last year at this time the Catholic Church was licking its wounds after its biggest public relations shellacking in many years. Newspaper columnists sneered that the scandal caused by a few priest paedophiles was the beginning of the end. Its followers were so disgusted that they were said to be turning in their membership cards. But [...]
An Open Letter to Joe Biden
I write concerning the remark you made Sunday during your official visit to China: “Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family.”
Closing Homily for WYD
Dear young people,
In this celebration of the Eucharist, we have reached the high point of this World Youth Day. Seeing you here, gathered in such great numbers from all parts of the world, fills my heart with joy. I think of the special love with which Jesus is looking upon you. Yes, the Lord loves [...]
Stop the Birth Control Mandate
The St. Gianna’s Physician’s Guild, a group dedicated to promoting and defending “Catholic principles in a public way by word and example,” is circulating a petition in an attempt to withdraw all references to contraception and contraception counseling from the “Guidelines for Women’s Preventive Services” under The Affordable Care Act. Under the new mandate, coverage [...]
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