http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/08/22299/ According to sociologist Mark Regnerus, the birth control pill and the rise of internet porn decreased the cost of sexual access so substantially as to affect a fundamental shift from a world in which sex served higher goods to a world in which sex is the higher good.
Left to right: Orthodox theologian Nikolay Nikolayevich Afanasiev in undated photo (orthodoxwiki.org); Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, N.Y., is pictured in a 2015 photo in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller); Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the USCCB’s annual spring assembly in July in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/08/07/the-current-crisis-and-the-order-of-the-laity/ One of the most…
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/08/enough-already/ Let us hear no more from priests, prelates, and Catholic writers dissenting from the truth – from reason, from Scripture, from the constant and clear teaching of the Church in the matter of the creation of mankind male and female, the one-flesh union willed by God from the beginning, the raising of boys to…
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/08/albany-bishop-independent-lay-commission-needed/ “What is needed now is an independent commission led by well-respected, faithful lay leaders who are beyond reproach, people whose role on such a panel will not serve to benefit them financially, politically, or personally,” Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany wrote in a statement released Aug. 6. “I think we have reached a point…
https://georgiabulletin.org/news/2018/08/archbishop-wilton-d-gregorys-statement-in-response-to-the-resignation-of-theodore-mccarrick/ “As shepherd of the Catholic Church in Atlanta and united with my brother bishops under Pope Francis in service to Jesus Christ and His Church, I express my profound anger, sadness, and distress concerning sexual abuse by Church leaders of children, young people and those over whom they exercised authority. My anger and disappointment,…
