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The Cost of “Making a Mess”

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

Dr Thomas Ward: The War on Parents and Humanae Vitae

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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Anthony Esolen “Thank God for Cultural Prejudices”

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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The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family formally requests Pope Francis to dismiss Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández.

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 …

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Arlington Bishop Speaks Out Against Biden’s Abortion Campaign

While most Catholic bishops refrain from criticizing Joe Biden, he sometimes flaunts his passion for murdering unborn children so brazenly that they break their silence. This week, Joe Biden brought Kamala Harris to a Virginia town some 30 miles from PRI’s headquarters to sell his administration’s radical support of abortion up to birth. That appearance …

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The Rapid Growth of the Catholic Church in Africa is Agitating for the Dissident Left

In Africa the Catholic Church is growing faster than anywhere else on earth.  This troubles the dissident Left: they complain about the tenacious orthodoxy of Africa’s bishops regarding morality and the objective evils involved in sexual sin, but they ignore the ongoing slaughter of African Christians by Islamic terrorists throughout the continent. The rest of …

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How “Extinction Agenda” Advocates Threaten Humanity

Dr. Everett Piper, former President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, offers a searing look at the “Extinction Agenda’s” elite promoters who advocate not only population control, but population reduction that would grind all human life on earth to a halt. More religious leaders should condemn this enterprise that violates not only the Fifth Commandment but the …

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Pope Francis Condemns the Surrogacy Racket

 Every year, the Holy Father addresses a gathering of ambassadors from every country that has diplomatic relations with the Holy See. This week, Pope Francis Pope Francis hit the bull’s-eye, condemning a billion-dollar human trafficking enterprise that exploits poor women around the world, stealing their children under the color of contract and international law. “In …

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Recent Federal Court Decisions Clash with Biden Administration’s Abortion Mandate

The Biden Administration has made abortion its prime mandate since the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health decision that came down in June 2021, and two important federal court decisions protecting the unborn were announced this past week. First, the U.S. Supreme Court  “granted an emergency request to Idaho officials Friday, which allows the state to enforce its …

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Four documents clearing the air on family, marriage, children, and openness to life

“Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, once an opponent of same-sex marriage, said Thursday his views on the matter have shifted, citing the Vatican’s recent document on same-sex blessings as evidence that ‘even the Church is changing.’” So reported the Catholic News Agency. And Mr. Christie is not the only casualty of the confusion surrounding the Vatican’s  Fiducia …

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