http://catholicpreaching.com/true-versus-false-human-rights-the-anchor-february-23-2018/ [Pope Francis gave] s a powerful address in which he challenged the growing tendency to trample person’s and people’s human rights in the supposed name of human rights, which sets the tone for the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration and the context for the continuation of the rights it enumerates. It’s of interest…
http://www.fargodiocese.org/Humanae-Vitae-and-the-single-girl Humanae Vitae is a reassuring sanity-check for single Catholics. It says (implicitly) that love is possible and can be expected, and that it’s worth sacrifice. To a single woman like me, it says that I am worthy of respect and love and that no man has the right to intimacy without marital commitment. Intimacy…
Smith.9 Irreducibility Nova Smith.ConsciousParenthood Smith.intellectual-tasks-of-the-new-evangelization Smith.NovaetVetera10.2Smith Krakow commentary Smith.NovaetVetera10.2Wojtyla Karkow Papers Smith.Sensus Fidelium edited Nov17
http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/09/01/cardinal-sarah-critiques-fr-james-martin-on-homosexuality/ quoting / republishing https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-catholics-can-welcome-lgbt-believers-1504221027 as a critique of Martin’s Building a Bridge book: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Bridge-Relationship-Compassion-Sensitivity/dp/0062694316 with response: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/08/31/cardinal-sarah-offers-critique-lgbt-book-father-james-martin-responds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-catholics-can-welcome-lgbt-believers-1504221027 “The Catholic Church has been criticized by many, including some of its own followers, for its pastoral response to the LGBT community … This criticism deserves a reply, not so much to defend the Church’s practices reflexively, but to determine whether we, as the Lord’s disciples, are reaching out effectively to a group in…
