By Phil Lawler
Is a Catholic politician morally obligated to oppose the legal distribution of contraceptives? That question has come to the fore because of a surprisingly contentious Congressional campaign in Virginia.
The Catholic Church is praised by the mainstream media whenever the political positions its leadership takes coincide with the policies of the Obama administration.
In view of the June 26 Supreme Court decisions on “gay” marriage, it is time for serious Catholics to examine how this perverted situation came to pass.
By Jennifer Fulwiler
A few weeks ago, our front door broke. The handle became completely useless, to the point that there was no way at all to open the door.
It was the year 2000 and the state was California. In a court case that rocked many believing Catholics, a lower court judge decided that denying contraceptive coverage to Catholic Charities’ employees put an undue burden on those employees.
By Samuel Aquila
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the sort of timeless morality tale students read as an antidote, or at least an objection, to the hedonism that seems to follow naturally from youthful ideas about immortality.
By Kenneth D. Whitehead
You don’t have to go out of your way today to be confronted with the subject of contraception.
Contraception has ensnared women in more ways than one.
Ever since Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical, Humanae Vitae, Catholic dissidents have tried their hardest to misrepresent the teaching.
“Suffering is part of saying ‘yes’ to the Lord,” Sue Hilgers said. “We were ignored and ostracized by our community, other doctors and even priests. But our work has been as much of a gift to us as we have hoped it would be to others.”
Precisely when Humanae Vitae was being publicly rejected by many bishops and priests, scientists were enrolling their parishioners into the three landmark contraceptive studies of the 1960s finding excess suicides