Responding to such intimate and consequential questions is a tremendous responsibility, one that can only bear good fruit when it is founded in prayer.
Modern culture is inundating us with gender ideology, the belief that everyone can choose for themselves whether they are male, female, both, neither, or something in between.
It has been nearly 40 years since Pope St. John Paul II, in his magnificent encyclical Evangelium Vitae, exhorted “all people of good will” to build a “culture of life” to counter the “culture of death” that was all too evident in the history of the 20th century.
Mark Houck, a steady, peaceful activist on behalf of the unborn, has been prayerfully present for years at Philadelphia’s Planned Parenthood, the largest killer of babies in Pennsylvania, to witness and counsel mothers, dissuading them from the tragedy of handing over their child to abortionists.
It is common to hear from certain groups, especially those with an interest in promoting birth control, that increased access to and use of contraception will reduce the numbers of abortions.
Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah. Anna and Elizabeth. The stories of these women and their anguished cries to God for the gift of children are deeply ingrained in the Tradition.
Making sound moral judgments takes a variety of skills. Obviously, one must have a general sense of right and wrong and be able to apply that knowledge to the case at hand.
In September, a federal judge ruled that two Texas business owners cannot be forced to provide health insurance coverage for “PrEP” drugs if it violated their religious beliefs.
In Evangelium Vitae, his 1995 landmark encyclical on the “Gospel of Life,” Pope St. John Paul II wrote: “Especially significant is the reawakening of ethical reflection on issues affecting life.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of pregnancies and abortion-vulnerable women coming to the St. John Paul II Life Center and Vitae Clinic in Austin, TX, greatly increased.
The moral acceptability of using abortion-derived cell lines in research has been an area of debate in Catholic bioethics for some time. The Magisterium first weighed in over a decade ago.
Catholic schools operate on a shoestring, struggling to stay open each year. Does the Church have the bandwidth to assume the education of children with special needs?
During the past year and a half, individuals, families, and communities have experienced the fullness of social isolation, unfamiliar public health restrictions, long-term uncertainty, elevated anxiety, depression, suicidality, and escalations of mental health uncertainty.