…kill the children you created. It is not lost on Mr. Davis how the passion of the Christian right in its effort to abolish abortion and curtail access to birth control now mirrors the efforts of clergy members 40 years ago to do the opposite. "They’re a religious tradition, too, and they are moved by…

Bishop Murphy of Rockville Center, in Newsday One of the great losses in our country has been the diminishing number of "intermediate institutions," including church agencies and others in our communities. The government, especially the federal government, has tended to become the all-powerful determinant of all aspects of social life, thus marginalizing legitimate intermediate institutions.…

Check out this book edited by Erika Bachiochi, and published by Encounter Books We are now more than thirty years away from the Supreme Court case of Roe vs Wade, yet the controversy over abortion has not diminished. Although the "pro-choice" forces increasingly acknowledge the central claim of the "pro-life" side–that abortion is a morally…

She’s had a very busy week, and has fantastic photos – read this post as an intro, then go back to the main page and enjoy: It was a week in which, as one of our house members said, "I was proud to be Catholic" and "so happy for the gift of faith"! This past…

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