Does Abortion Spare the Child Pain?
In discussions surrounding abortion and disabilities, we should make sure we're asking the right questions.
In discussions surrounding abortion and disabilities, we should make sure we're asking the right questions.
The path to restoring home-life will be in restoring the ordinary.
In August 2018, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania released a Grand Jury report on clergy sexual abuse cases in most of the Commonwealth's Catholic dioceses.
Faithful Catholics will affirm, with the Second Vatican Council and with the papal magisterium, that the Jewish people are indeed "the good olive tree onto which the wild shoot of the Gentiles has been grafted," that God's original Covenant with his chosen people is unbroken and unbreakable, that our bond with the Jewish people is a spiritual bond, rooted in a common spiritual patrimony, and that our Jewish neighbors are indeed our brothers and sisters in faith.
'A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God,' says Benedict XVI, 'and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak.'
The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for 35 years—first as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, later as Pope Benedict XVI and then Pope Emeritus—was a brilliant, holy man who bore no resemblance to the caricature that was first created by his theological enemies and then set in media concrete.
One of the geniuses of our great nation has always been its disposition towards honest debate on matters of great import, coupled with a respectful tolerance of other people’s deeply held beliefs and moral convictions.