Ahead of the March for Life in Berlin scheduled for Saturday, the Chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference has called for vigilance. “Anyone who wishes to protect human life cannot at the same time pit people against one another, exclude them or relativise their dignity,” said Bishop Heiner Wilmer in his message to the march…
Of all the discourses he delivered in his nearly eight-year pontificate — with the exception of his 2013 resignation — Pope Benedict XVI’s September 12, 2006, address at the University of Regensburg sparked unprecedented global reaction. During his address, the pope cited the 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus’ views about the relationship between…
Around the lamb I saw angels hovering during the whole time, for the space of one hour and a half or longer; I saw their wings fluttering, but I did not perceive their heads or faces, which were not turned to me’’ (Patrick Hill, witness). The angels seen at Knock belong to a reality deeply…
A federal judge on September 11 temporarily blocked Illinois from enforcing the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide, against Catholic entities that challenged it in court. The judge granted a temporary restraining order to Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns,…
Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, apostolic nuncio to the United States, discussed the need for a “moral voice” in artificial intelligence (AI) development during a panel discussion hosted by Georgetown University on September 9. The panel, titled “AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s Invitation to Dialogue with the World,” examined Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica…
Companionship, family, security, marriage gives us all of these. But what is God’s plan in designing it this way? We would like to share three principles, each drawn from Sacred Scripture, and each quietly at work in every ordinary marriage, including our own. Marriage is a sign, not just an arrangement St Paul writes in…
For every generation of Christians, it is the saints who invite us to think differently and creatively about God, the universe, the person of Christ, human beings and how they all relate, one to the other. In the words of Bishop Robert Barron: “Each of the Saints in his or her own utterly unique manner,…
The Archdiocese of Chicago will pay out more than $5 million to a small number of abuse victims after a recent settlement, attorneys said this week. Lawyers with Jeff Anderson & Associates, a law firm that specialises in abuse cases, announced at a press event on September 10 that they had settled with the archdiocese…
I know officially the Catholic Church is against the death penalty, but what about Genesis 9:6? A: It looks like there are two dimensions to your question: the Church’s teaching on the death penalty, and how we are to read the Old Testament as Catholics. Starting with this latter aspect, it’s good to keep…
UK lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. Following an impassioned four-hour debate in the elected House of Commons, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was rejected 286 to 270. The outcome was somewhat surprising given that an almost…
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