Catholic Women and Contraception

April 7, 2013
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From Those Catholic Women Who Use Contraception They explained that they had not fully understood that the Church was serious about this teaching until the blowup surrounding the HHS Mandate; before then, they explained, it was easy to assure themselves that contracepting must be fine since so many other people in the pews were doing […]

Tocqueville, Self-Interest and the Government

February 26, 2013
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The problem, to be blunt, is government. You have a choice, in Tocqueville’s view, between a government that protects freedom and a government that provides material security. You cannot have both. And if you choose comfortable slavery you cannot have community. Tocqueville explained this phenomenon in his discussion of “soft” or democratic despotism. By doing […]

Sexual Orientation: Human Right?

February 24, 2013
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Such non-discrimination would mean changes in marriage laws, adoption laws, and even the use of public restrooms. It would mean such notions couldn’t be kept out of any level of schooling including grade schools. As often as not, such claims of non-discrimination end up discriminating against Christians and others who have moral and religious objections […]

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Pope Benedict on Homosexual “Marriage”

February 18, 2013
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From Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin: The issue of homosexual “marriage” is a controversial one today. It is being voted into law, or imposed by courts, across the United States and across the world. What does the Catholic Church have to say on the subject, and why does it teach what it does? Read the rest […]

Natural Law and Marriage

February 17, 2013
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Marriage has its roots in the mutual attraction of the man and the woman which leads them to conjugal love. This love is at the root of the marriage partnership. Although Christianity has raised marriage to the level of the personal love of spouses, this phenomenon is a universal one. It is enough to see […]

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