Taking Action for Family Values and a Christian Civilization
Coming out of a lengthy interview with the pope on 29 October, President Biden told reporters that the Pontiff had encouraged him to continue receiving Holy Communion: “‘We just talked about the fact that he was happy I was a good Catholic,’ adding that the pope told him to ‘keep receiving communion.’”1 Did the president […]
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With the stroke of a pen, Pope Francis has taken concrete steps to abolish in practice the Roman Rite of the Holy Mass. Substantially in use since Saint Damasus, at the end of the fourth century, and with additions by Saint Gregory the Great at the end of the sixth, the 1962 Missal promulgated by
The new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (hereafter FT), is an atypical papal document. First, because, contrary to tradition, it is not addressed to the Catholic bishops, clergy, or faithful.1 Instead, it is written for “all people of goodwill, regardless of their religious convictions.”2 Second, because it is not inspired by Sacred Scripture, Fathers or Doctors of the
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It is a well-known tactic, already explored by Machiavelli; it consists of using a trusted intermediary to launch borderline ideas and trends that dazzle by their extremism. The trusted man plants a flag beyond the boundaries of the acceptable or even the reasonable. He provokes, unsettles and knocks things down. If the majority rejects him,
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In a press conference at the Vatican Radio headquarters, the web site La Nuova Busssola Quotidiana, reported, Most Rev. Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Rite said he warned the Pope about statements by the Holy See which might be associated with Russian propaganda. Archbishop Shevchuk was on his ad limina visit to Rome along with more than
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Pope Francis’s encyclical Fratelli Tutti presents a dilemma for all who defend the right of private property. On the one hand, the teaching document Pope Francis signed on 3rd October questions this right. On the other, past popes, theologians, and canonists have always taught that private ownership, as it is largely practiced, is just and necessary
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The radical movement’s agenda includes communist ideals and goals opposed to traditional Church teaching about God, society, and human nature. As leftist activism and violence increase, Americans must understand that the leftist agenda represents not just a political movement but a worldview contrary to that of the Catholic faith. Wherever the left has dominated, a
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In September 2018, the Vatican and Communist China signed a landmark agreement, in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agreed to recognise the Catholic Church as a legal entity in China. In exchange, the Vatican conceded to the CCP the power to appoint bishops, over which the Vatican retains the right of veto. Although both
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In recent developments, there has been a growing debate over the question of the death penalty. On the one side, the liberals are clamouring that taking the life of an offender is always immoral (though they don’t scruple to defend the “right” to destroy the innocent lives of the unborn). The other end of the
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The once Christian Western world is gradually sinking into a sea of mud in ever-thickening darkness. Vice and error are glorified as virtue and truth is persecuted. People no longer boast of moral righteousness and of the rule of reason, but of libertinism, irrationality and the “deconstruction” of the concepts which sustain the life of
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