Search Results: Development

Teen Porn Addiction

By Susan Ciancio / April 9, 2021 /
teenage girl on her phone in a coffee shop

…increase in sexual preoccupancy, lower sexual satisfaction with partners, and an escalation in body surveillance. In other words, porn affects brain development. It affects personality development. It affects current and…

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The Teaching of the Prophetic Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Part VII)

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / July 23, 2021 /
huge packed crowd

…These issues are: The myth of “overpopulation” The changed role of women in society A supposedly “greater” appreciation of conjugal love Scientific and technological development   1) The Myth of…

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Statement from Fr. Shenan J. Boquet on the Passing of Pope Benedict XVI

By HLI Staff / January 3, 2023 / Comments Off on Statement from Fr. Shenan J. Boquet on the Passing of Pope Benedict XVI

…his numerous writings, statements, and publications, I found Benedict XVI’s third encyclical letter, Caritas in veritate, of fundamental importance to the pro-life movement in its advancement of authentic human development

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Why Our World Needs the Good News of Marriage

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / February 19, 2024 /
cross with wedding rings

…or even denigrated in international fora.” Archbishop Caccia was addressing the 62nd Session of the Commission for Social Development at the United Nations in New York. He noted that even…

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Steps to Build a Community that Welcomes People with Disabilities

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / March 21, 2024 /

…Life within your parish! Fellowship for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Fellowship for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities – Word on Fire Living a Culture of Life Podcast…

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Dealing with Same-Sex Attraction through the Sacred Heart

By Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro and Fr. Peter West / June 4, 2015 /
Sacred Heart of Jesus

…Faith to the Bishops on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons specifically asks Bishops “to support, with the means at their disposal, the development of appropriate forms of pastoral care…

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Review of Robert Cardinal Sarah’s “God or Nothing”

By Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro / December 10, 2015 /
book review newspaper

…of Dakar and apostolic delegate for French Africa, was very important for the development of evangelization.” He shows how Paul VI had to cope with upheavals. “The world was changing…

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Eliminating Down Syndrome? Or People with Down Syndrome?

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 2, 2017 /

…this phenomenon, Benedict said: What must be forcefully reemphasized is the equal dignity of every human being according to the fact itself of having life. Biological, psychological or cultural development

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What is Historical Church Teaching on Contraception?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / May 3, 2018 /

…the development of sexual life lies in becoming subordinate to the purpose of reproduction. Everything that happens before this turn of events and equally everything that disregards it and that…

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Profile: The United Nations Population Fund

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 16, 2017 /

…the very peak of Western hysteria over the “population bomb.” Its current primary goal is universal access to reproductive health in pursuit of United Nations Millennium Development Goal #5. As…

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