Given the early age at which youth seek treatment for transsexual attractions (TSA) and gender dysphoria, and given the serious risks associated with such treatment, it is essential that family and youth be advised about these risks, and … [Read more...]
Articles
Transsexual attractions and sexual reassignment surgery
Risks and potential risks
August 29, 2016 by Dr. Richard P. Fitzgibbons, MD
God’s Armor versus the Devil’s Stratagems
Spiritual Combat Revisited
August 29, 2016 by Fr. Andreas Hoeck, SSD
Introduction To say that we are living in thoroughly trying times is unfortunately neither an exaggeration nor a platitude. We are witnessing the symmetrically opposite progression of falling ethical standards on the one hand, and rising … [Read more...]
Feminine Empathy in Two Daughters of Israel
August 29, 2016 by Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, OP
On the feast of St. John of the Cross, 1934, Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (St. Edith Stein) highlighted the age-old battle between good and evil, sin and death: The sight of the world in which we live, the need and misery, and an … [Read more...]
Holy Communion and the Importance of Marriage
August 29, 2016 by Michael Gorman
As is now widely known, there have been calls from some high-ranking prelates, chief among them Cardinal Walter Kasper, to reconsider the Catholic Church's practice with regard to holy communion for Catholics who have validly married but … [Read more...]
The Slant of Glory
August 1, 2016 by J.T. Knox
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Glory be to the Father…” (Ps 126:1) (Introit from the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.) In America, the gravity of major weekend games, … [Read more...]
Amoris Laetitia, the Human Person, and the Meaning of Marital Indissolubility
August 1, 2016 by Jeffrey Tranzillo
Since the release of Pope Francis’s Post-Synodal Apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, on April 8, 2016, numerous articles and statements disagree as to whether the pope either has opened the possibility of admitting civilly divorced and r … [Read more...]
The Church Just Did for Movements What She Did for Religious in 1978, Only Better
August 1, 2016 by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC
The Church does not rush to judgement, but reflects and ponders clearly to ascertain what is God’s will. This can take years, even decades. Vatican II renewed many aspects of Catholic life: the sacramental character of a bishop’s con … [Read more...]
Sacramental Fruitfulness and the Power of Pentecost
August 1, 2016 by Dr. Ralph Martin, STD
It has become quite evident that there is something like a “sacramental crisis” occurring in the Church today, that Sr. Sara, in her opening remarks, referred to as “this extraordinarily critical moment.” I would like to briefly explore thre … [Read more...]
Summer Poetry
But Then I Met Jesus By David Barton I sought pleasure, but pleasure didn’t satisfy. I courted riches and they impoverished me, Fame and it degraded me, Power and it corrupted me. I gave myself to charitable causes, But, despite t … [Read more...]
Thomistic Reflections on Divine Mercy and Divine Justice
June 30, 2016 by Matthew Minerd, Ph.D.
Many paths can be taken during this Year of Mercy. Above all, we must tread the path of experiencing mercy—in our own participation in the Sacraments, and in our extension of Divine Mercy to others. Nevertheless, knowledge of the faith and, … [Read more...]
Conflicting Interpretations of Lumen Gentium 16
June 30, 2016 by Eduardo Echeverria
Fr. Gerald O’Collins, S.J., has recently claimed that Ralph Martin “egregiously misrepresents Vatican II’s teaching {in LG 16}.”[1. Gerald O’Collins, S.J., The Second Vatican Council, Message and Meaning (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical … [Read more...]
The Trinity, Sexual Complementarity, and Authentic Marriage
June 30, 2016 by David H. Delaney, PhD
One of today’s most pressing errors is concerned with the confusion about the human person as male and female, and the increasing rejection by Christians of the revealed truth about authentic marriage. This is significant because it affects … [Read more...]
A Revolutionary Attraction
June 30, 2016 by Stephen G. Adubato
Americans have been living in an historical moment during which their existential awareness of what it means to be human has been drastically altered. Many of these changes are the consequence of a more extensive series of shifts in … [Read more...]
Pentecost, the New Babel
June 30, 2016 by Scott Pauline
One of the most beautiful and profound parallels of our dear Catholic faith is the notion of types and analogies. This means that many things in the Old Testament are foreshadowing of things in the New, or that certain things that were … [Read more...]
Worth a Thousand Words: Iconography as Language
June 13, 2016 by Nicholas Senz
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” as the saying goes. This common phrase hints at something deeper: the profound ability of images to communicate ideas. This should not surprise us. Words are signs, pointing to something beside … [Read more...]
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