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“Contrary to Christian Moral Teaching”
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“Contrary to Christian Moral Teaching”
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“Contrary to Christian Moral Teaching”

In a blow to Catholic-Orthodox relations, Fiducia Supplicans has elicited a scathing theological analysis from the Russian Orthodox Church By Robert Moynihan Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary, chairman of the Russian Orthodox Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission, with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ The Vatican on December [...]

Fiducia Supplicans in the real world
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Fiducia Supplicans in the real world
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Fiducia Supplicans in the real world

Fallout from the Church's new document on blessing "irregular relationships" continues By Christina Deardurff Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros, 71, and Pope Francis, 87, at a Vatican meeting a year ago, May 11, 2023 The declaration Fiducia Supplicans, released just a week before Christmas of 2023 by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the [...]

Is “Covaxin” the Answer?
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Is “Covaxin” the Answer?
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Is “Covaxin” the Answer?

Tempering hopes for an ethical Covid vaccine By Tad Wójcik LifeSiteNews published an article on October 18, 2021, on Covaxin, a vaccine (a bona fide inactivated virus vaccine, not an mRNA neologism) developed by Bharat Biotech in India. It could potentially prove a breakthrough in many Catholics’ long wait for a vaccine that would satisfy the [...]

A Tale of Two Synods

Pope Francis thanks the media as he leaves the concluding session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family at the Vatican October 18. One Synod took place inside the Synod Hall from October 5 to 19. The other Synod took place outside the hall... in the world’s media. On October 19, the [...]

America and Catholic Social Teaching: An Urgent Warning

One of the leading economic historians of our time, Dr. Rupert Ederer, an expert on the thought of Father Heinrich Pesch, SJ (1854-1926), takes a look at our present economic crisis. For anyone who takes Catholic social teaching seriously, specifically in the context of the present woeful condition of the American economy, it is necessary to [...]

President Obama vs. the Catholic Church

An analysis of why US President Barack Obama chose to challenge the power of the Catholic Church during this election year The Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council, Father Peter West, vice president for missions of Human Life International, and Gary G. Dull, pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Altoona, Pennsylvania, pray as [...]