And Tucho “declares” what he wasn’t allowed (?) to put in the document sheer gall: At a Vatican press conference introducing the new document, Cardinal Fernandez offered a pre-emptive defense against his critics. First he defended the controversial DDF statement Fiducia Supplicans, which has been widely criticized for recommending church blessing of same-sex couples. Then he …
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75 years ago, the law in virtually every State in the Union punished abortion as a felony as serious an offense as murder or rape. 51 years ago, the Supreme Court nullified every one of those State laws in its decision in Roe v. Wade. In the fifty years since, two generations of Americans grew …
“Reading the Declaration on Human Dignity (“Infinite Dignity”), issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) yesterday,” writes Robert Royal, in a measured but candid assessment. It “reminds me of an old teacher-student story. A student submits an assigned essay, and the teacher returns it with the comment, “What you’ve written here …
The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has released “Dignitas Infinita” (a “Declaration on Human Dignity.”) The document addresses “the indispensable nature of the dignity of the human person in Christian anthropology and illustrates the significance and beneficial implications of the concept in the social, political, and economic realms.” Read the full text here For an overview, see …
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Eva Edl spent her childhood in one of Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps. Now, at 89, she faces a life term in one of Joe Biden’s. Her Crime Against the State? She’s pro-life. Read more here.
PRI’s Director of the Humanae Vitae Project reviews Steven Mosher’s new book, “The Devil and Communist China,” recounting how Mao Zedong was “the killings ruler in history.” “Mosher offers us a scholarly portrait that digs behind the headlines and reveals the spirit of the ongoing Communist revolution there. Lucifer, the enemy of God and the …
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Archbishop Charles Chaput offers a thoughtful, balanced, and honest appraisal of Fiducia Supplicans, the recent document from the Vatican Dicastery For The Doctrine Of The Faith. Archbishop Chaput focuses especially on the document’s treatment of the family, seen from the Catholic point of view, affirming the Church’s teaching that goes back some 2000 years. Read here
In a 2017 address in Rome, Dr. Thomas Ward, President of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family, recounted how both Western European bishops and Planned Parenthood’s “Friends in the Vatican” almost succeeded in removing the rights of parents and of poor Third-World families from the Charter of the Rights of …
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In addressing the Catholic bishops of Africa, the brilliant Anthony Esolen explains the true meaning of culture, which requires virtuous habits – often called “prejudices” by ignorant snobs. “They have prejudices, we are told by high Church figures – cultural prejudices. Thank God for cultural prejudices, if that is what they are; a cultural prejudice …
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PRI President Steven Mosher, a member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family, reports that “the Academy has formally requested that Pope Francis dismiss Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández.” The academy’s membership comprises noted scholars and scientists from all over the world. Fernández’s has a troubled history of “authoring scandalous books …
