Search Results: Robert Cardinal Sarah

The Sacrament of Marriage

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / April 23, 2021 /
book of ephesians from the bible

…Tobias and Sarah joined in prayer, asking the Lord to protect them; He did, and they were able to consummate their marriage (see 8:4-19). The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah

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Defending Truth, Life, and Family: Benedict XVI’s Legacy

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 9, 2023 /

…the family. The central importance that Cardinal Ratzinger placed on the Church’s teaching on life comes through loud and clear in an address he gave to the Consistory of Cardinals…

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The Strange World of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 18, 2017 /

…writers said that Church teaching should simply conform to current thinking. Robert N. Ford held: If one’s religion does not coincide with or include this highly moral code of Birth…

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The Scourge of Pornography: Provoking Violence and Debasing Human Sexuality

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 23, 2023 /
Pornography: Provoking Violence, Debasing Human Sexuality

…However, as Cardinal Robert Sarah suggests in the quotation at the beginning of this article, this absolute prohibition on pornography is simply the natural corollary of the Church’s rich, positive…

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The War on Marriage and Family

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 29, 2016 /
happy newlyweds

Robert Cardinal Sarah sheds a different light — the light of faith – on these same realities. Without God, man builds his hell on earth. Amusements and pleasures can become…

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Can a Pro-Lifer Be a Feminist?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / May 6, 2020 /
woman sad pensive looking out window

…no more regard for abortionists and abortion mills now than they did then; Sarah Norton called them “child murderers” and “infant butcheries.”9 These and other quotes show that today’s self-proclaimed…

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Does Contraception Lead to Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 6, 2017 /
contraception

…greater promiscuity and carelessness, which inevitably leads to more abortions. Dr. Robert Kistner said, “For years I thought the pill would not lead to promiscuity, but I’ve changed my mind….

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A Merciful Decision to Deny Joe Biden Holy Communion

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / November 11, 2019 /
St. Padre Pio, priest and stigmatist, bled during the consecration of the Mass.

…Sunday, Oct. 27, Fr. Robert E. Morey at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, South Carolina, refused to give Holy Communion to Biden. Fr. Morey cited Biden’s pro-abortion stance as…

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The Simplicity and Silence of Bethlehem

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / December 22, 2017 /
nativity scene in bethlehem, christmas

Robert Sarah opens his recent book The Power of Silence with this quotation from Romano Guardini’s The Lord, a passage in which Guardini is meditating upon the Christmas story: The…

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Looking to St. Joseph for Inspiration

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 18, 2021 /
Reclaiming Fatherhood

…out two characteristics of this great saint, the Patron of the Universal Church. The Primacy of Contemplation Firstly, St. Joseph was a man of contemplation. As Cardinal Sarah notes in…

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