The very probability that we may be faced with a human person in the full sense constitutes, in my opinion, an absolute veto against any type of [in‑vitro] experimentation. ― Father Bernard Häring.1 Introduction Assisted reproductive technology is one of the most complex moral fields debated today. It is [...]
Few doctrines are so vehemently opposed as that of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. Every good Catholic instinctively knows that science always supports the teachings of the Church, particularly with regards to matters of sexual morality. Those who avoid abortion, extramarital sex, pornography, divorce, contraception, sterilization and other sexual sins [...]
Why be pro-life if God allows babies to die in the womb all the time? If the pro-abortion movement is justified in claiming that God is an abortionist, certainly its opponents have a serious problem to consider. "God Is an Abortionist": The Atheist View Several major studies of pregnancy have revealed [...]
Pro-abortionists sometimes claim that there is nothing forbidding abortion in the Bible. For example: Ex-priest Daniel C. Maguire says, "There has been no systematic thinking in Jewish Christian tradition on abortion. There is nothing in the Bible on it."1 Roy Bowen Ward, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at Miami University [...]
Once any human being becomes worthless or expendable, all are reduced from an absolute to a relative value and no two human beings would be of equal worth, thus demolishing the very foundation of moral order....By devaluing life ― the life of the unborn, the elderly, the comatose patient, the [...]
What Exactly Is Excommunication? Excommunication is a sanction that deprives a Catholic of all participation in the common blessings of the society of the Church.1 It is the most serious penalty the Church can inflict, and is used only in the most severe cases. The excommunicated person remains a Catholic [...]
The explicit root-and-branch rejection of morality by gays has been real, pervasive, and baleful in its effect on both the quality of life that we create for ourselves within the [gay] community, and our P.R. [public relations] with straights....There's a simpler, darker reason why many gays choose to live without [...]
Most women understandably feel some degree of guilt about having an abortion. After all, abortion is a grossly unnatural act, and people who believe in God (as most aborting women do to varying degrees) have difficulty justifying the deliberate killing of a child that they know was willed into existence [...]
The Dignity of the Human Person, Work, and the Common Good “In work, the person exercises and fulfills in part the potential inscribed in his nature. The primordial value of labor stems from man himself, its author and its beneficiary. Work is for man, not man for work. Everyone should [...]
Faith in Jesus Christ, who is “the way, the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6), calls Christians to exert a greater effort in building a culture which, inspired by the Gospel, will reclaim the values and contents of the Catholic Tradition. The presentation of the fruits of the spiritual, intellectual [...]
