Some people believe that Vatican II was a pastoral council, therefore it must have taught no doctrine. That view leads to comments, such as: Vatican
In recent years there have been criticisms of the concept of the living magisterium (magisterium vivum). People have said: [The]… “living Magisterium” is… usurping the
Until Vatican II (1965) the Catholic Church carried out missionary activity to convert Jews to Christianity. In 2015 the Vatican said that “it neither conducts
Why Contraception Is Morally Wrong The belief that contraception and other forms of artificial birth control are not contrary to God’s law and to ethical,
It is interesting the small things which can cut through the monopoly of our own thoughts: an unexpected hello from a stranger on the street,
To whom do we look at for faith? It is a curious question. The first apostles met Christ and all of us who came after
Humanae Vitae (HV) is a dynamic, challenging and life-transforming encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and promulgated on July 24, 1968. It coherently follows the
This week I attended a Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the famous papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae, at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in
Truth, by which the world is held together, has sprung from the earth, in order to be carried in a woman’s arms. — St. Augustine Blessed
Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has had the presence of mind to call two synods on the family to develop pastoral consensus on the
I have long heard about Pope Paul VI having referred to the “smoke of Satan” having entered the Church. Usually most references to it do
