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Statement By Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland
Separation of Church & State: What Does The Constitution Really Say?
Vatican Ban on Women Priest Is Infallible
Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective in the UN System
U.N. Members Debate the Meaning of Family At Pre-Istanbul Meeting In NYC
UN Clueless In Copenhagen
The UN Is At It Again!
Of Truth and Tolerance at Easter
The Church in East Timor: Voice of the Silenced
Orthodox Church Body Seeks Tighter Restrictions on Religious Freedom
Do We Have To Pay Taxes If the Money Is Used to Support Abortion?
Women's Ordination: Taking No for an Answer
Syro-Malabar Rite Debates Liturgical Patrimony
Sullivan and Infallibility
The Great Holy Shroud Dating Fraud of 1988
Pontifical Science Academy Banks on Stellar Cast
Baby-Killing Vaccine: Is It Being Stealth Tested?
The Sacraments & Authentic Womanhood
Apostolic Letter Anticipates New Springtime of Christian Life
UN Agency Opposes Helping Women Solve Practical Problems
Cong. Smith on Partial-Birth Abortions
Conditions of A Just War
Sincere Gift: The Pope's 'New Feminism'
Shroud of Turin Given New Life
Understanding the Infallibility Teaching
Sex Education Programs Subject Latin American Youth to Wholesale Immorality
God and the Sexes
Sex Education--New Vatican Guidelines
We need a Crusade to Save the Soul of America
The Dilemma of Same-Sex Marriage
Do We Still Have A Rule of Law
Rosemary Radford Ruether Unmasked
Religious Left Coalitions
The 'R.A.I.N. people' and AIDS
Feminist Assault on Reasonableness
Holy Mother Church, Holy Mother Oppressor
Letter to Roy Disney
Planned Parenthood Promotes 'Free Sex' by Employing These Harmful Deceptions
Planning For The Millennium: Where Is The 'Amchurch' Heading?
Is 'Ordinatio Sacerdotalis' an Infallible Exercise of the Extraordinary Papal Magisterium?
Political Confusion at the Catholic Conference
Paul VI Was Right
What is a Partial-Birth Abortion?
Ordinatio Sacerdotalis: Exercise in Infallibility
Single Issue Voting
Nurse Persecuted by Army Hospital for Being Pro-Life
Not So Christian America
New Evidence of Human Rights Abuse in China's One-Child Policy
The Gospel of Life
Congress Poised To Mandate Government Registration and Tracking of All Americans
Message to the Fourth UN Women's Conference
No Mere Creatures
Media Internet Addresses (may contain out-of-date information)
Looking More Like America?
The Retreat of Liberation Theology
On the Ordination of Anglican Bishop Leonard as a Roman Catholic Priest
Reinventing Religion
The Center Of Concern- Another Bernardin Legacy
Revealing Lawsuits Delay RU-486 Deployment
Media View of Pope John XXIII
Kinsey's Fraud and Its Consequences For Society
Bishop Keating Issues Pastoral on Morality and Conscience
John Paul Stands Firm
Inside Call to Action
Homosexual Marriage-The Marginalization of Women and the Family
Parochial Councils--Hits or Misses?
High Court's Double Offensive in the Culture War
Population controllers, pro-life activists go head-to-head at U.N. Food Summit
In Search Of The Holy Grail
Goliath Won--Barely
Senate Takes Giant Leap Forward to Nationalize Public Education
Giggling For God: A New Spirit Of Hysteria Is Spreading In Church
A Gender Gap in the Church?
Gender & the U.N.
Gender Benders
'Gay' Marriage: Hawaiian Test Case Forces Debate
Gays, Giuliani, and Catholics
GATT & the Flesh Trade
Gore Makes Veiled Attack on Catholic Church
Gambling in America
Are We Really Serious When We Ask God to Deliver Us from War? The Catechism and the Challenge of Pope John Paul II
The Popes and Slavery
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Freedom or Bondage?
Our Freedom of Belief is in Peril
Separating Church and State
'Homophobia' at Seton Hall University: Sociology in Defense of the Faith
The 'Three Waves' of American Society
The Laity: Shock Troops of the Church Militant
The Pope's Siege Mentality
Elizaveta Volkonskaia's On the Church: A Russian Defense of Catholicism
A Flawed Translation?
Feminism and the Launch of the Catechism
Feminism
Problems of Artificial Feeding
More False Advice
Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium
A Doctor Looks at Medical Ethics
U.N. Uses 'Eradication' Programs to Fight Poverty
On Receiving Anglican Clergy Into the Catholic Church
The End of the Irish Century
Congress Will Require Home Schoolers To Be Certified Teachers
'Yes' Vote On Divorce Heralds A Secularized Ireland
Ex-Jesuit's Book Links Dissident Theologians To Homosexual Movement
Catholic Dissidents
How a Bishop Is Deposed: The Latest Case
Death Comes to Cyberspace:..
Hard Truths About the Culture War
Call to Action Turns Twenty: From Bicentennial Celebration to Excommunication
Mindszenty Report (November 1994)
The Crisis of Faith
Priestly Crimes in China
Pastoral Care for Homosexual Persons
Contracepting Social Security
Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results
Communion and Liberation: Crusaders for Catholic Integrity
Catholic League Survey Yields Surprising Results
The Catholic Church in Africa
Christian Ecology
Why the U.S. is Closing the Door on the Chinese
How the U.S. Helps China Control Births
A Threat to America: the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
Chesterton's Wit Gives Catholics A Rule of Action
Chesterton-Shaw Debate Speaks to the Present Crisis
CELIBACY ISN'T THE PROBLEM
Catholics in Vietnam Still on a Short Leash
The Living Miracle
A Case for Censorship
'Right-to-Die' Advocates Pushing Hard In Canada
An Interview With Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz
Statement on His Affiliation with Rome
The Biography That Might Have Been
Of Biochemistry and Belief
Bad Becomes Worse
Australia's Unjust Legislation on Chinese Refugees
Social Teachings At Risk In The American Catholic Church
Anti-Semitism & Our Common Future
Americanism: Then and Now
The Policy Of Madeleine Albright
Woman's Authority in the Church
Assisted Suicide Is Abominable Crime
The "Three Waves'' of American Society
Pakistani Christians: Second-Class Citizens?
What Women in Crisis Really Need
Wicca's World
Whose Conscience? Which Religion? The Enemy Is Partially Us
Dangerous Flirting: Russian Wonders Why West Is Enamored With Socialism
The Warning to Pro-Abortion Politicians Was Right
Critique of Voice of the Faithful
Rock Music Plays Role in Nun's Murder in Italy
A Patient in a Vegetative State Is a Human Person
Regent Restates Vatican's Anti-Masonry Position
Van Thuân Observatory on Laity
Using Vaccines Obtained From Intentionally Aborted Human Embryos
New Catholic Political Movement in U.S.
Erroneous U.N. Population Count
An Interview With Dr. Zugibe
The Tyranny of Liberalism
Tua Res Agitur: It Concerns You
The Truth Behind The Da Vinci Code
Transhumanism and the Perfection Imperative
Myths Aside, Traditional Families Protect Kids Best
Escaping Poverty: Interview With Archbishop Silvano Tomasi
Why Time Magazine Misses the Point
More Testimonies Defend Pius XII
Tactics to Promote Euthanasia
Suffering and Depression as Means for Growth
The Church's Strict Patrol Against Pedophilia
When Stem Cell Research Gets Personal
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Same-Sex Marriage: Not in Kids' Interest
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Same-Sex Marriage and Its Relation With Contraception
Dangers of Same-Sex Couples Adopting Children
Searching for Solutions to AIDS
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
Seminary Reform Needed in Wake of Sex Abuse Study
Redefining Sects in Latin America
No More Secrets, Visionary Said in 2001
When Bioethics Turned Secular
Licit Forms of Natural Family Planning
Catholic Psychiatrists Look at Roots of U.S. Scandals
Is Science Compatible With Free Will?
Science and Faith: A Search for the Truth
Why Science Needs Catholicism
Terri Schiavo's Brother on Euthanasia
Commencing Badly: Scandalous Speakers at Catholic Graduations
The Scandals in the U.S.
Documents Reveal Pius XII Saved 11,000 Roman Jews
Same-Sex Marriage Flounders
A Righteous Gentile Defends Pius XII
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Roots of the Culture of Death
Why Rome Supports the United Nations
The Positive Role of Religion
Russian Orthodox Church on Discrimination Against Christianity
Rights Versus Religion
Adoption Isn't a Right for Gays or Others
Are the Rich to Blame for Poverty?
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Religious Symbols in the Cross Hairs
Religion Restrictions
A Guide in an Age of Religious Pluralism
Religious Liberty in the US on Its Way Out?
Is Religion Only in Your Head
Relativism: The Erosion of Human Rights
Carrying Out End-of-Life Refusal Orders in a Culture of Refusal
Reform After the Abuse
Redeeming Eugenics?
The Redefinition of Marriage: The Fight Is About Justice
Setting the Record Straight
To Radical Feminism and Back
Quality of Life — Its Bioethical Downside
God's Role in Public Life
Public Employee Unions and the Common Good
The Psychology Behind Homosexual Tendencies
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
The Importance of the Priest in Sanctifying the Church
Is Proportionalism Reasonable?
Promoting and Defending Marriage in the USA
On Catholic Politicians and Faith
Prenatal Testing: A Double-edged Sword
George Weigel on Pre-emption, Just War and the Defense of World Order
The Church as a Powerful Voice for Abuse Victims
Pornography: the Degrading Behemoth
Time to Defuse a Demographic Bomb
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Politically Incorrect Numbers
Recalling the Polish Clergy Imprisoned in Dachau
On a Catholic-Protestant Philosophical Alliance
Smear Campaign Against Pius IX on Eve of Beatification
World Press Unmasks Fallacies in Book Defaming Pius XII
Cornwell's Pope: A Nasty Caricature of a Noble and Saintly Man
Jewish Recognition of Pope Pius XII’s Support
Phenomenologist: Suffering Youth See Satan as Angel, Friend
Catholics and Public Institutions: a New Phase of Difficulty?
Pedophilia's Roots and the Catholic Church
Stem Cells and Parthenogenesis
Parents Are the Solution, Not the Problem
The Fight Against Gender Stereotypes and Parental Rights
Real Science Is Not the Realm of Atheists or Egoists
Benedict XVI's Papacy a Failure?
The New Pangenderism
Pius XII's Aid to Jews Stirred Protests
For Berlin, Pius XII Was a Subversive
Three Cheers for the CDF: A Long Overdue Admonition
The Erosion of Ethics in Organ Transplantation
The Morality of Jesus' End-of-Life Decisions?
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Archbishop Chullikatt's Address on the Nuclear Question
George Weigel on the National Review Board's Report
New Age Is Mistaken Answer to Search for Meaning
Christian Judgment on Neo-liberalism
Why New Age Is a Challenge for Christianity
Catholicism's Antidote to Multiculturalism
Levi-Mortara's Testimony for Beatification of Pius IX
The Morality of Organ Transplants
Modern Forms of Slavery
What the Islamic Riots Reveal
The Right to Migrate, According to Catholic Social Thought
Middle Eastern Priest Explains Islam
The Civic State and Middle East Christianity
When Medical Care Gets Expensive
The Meaning of Marriage
May Researchers Use Biological Material Unjustly Obtained?
Masonry, Atheism and Catholicism
Marriage Tribulations
Markets and Morality
Man-Woman Relationship Is Not a Rivalry
Archbishop Lori on Weapons for Defending Freedom
God as Logos, Allah as Will
Mary Ann Glendon on the Reform of Lay Catholics
Just-War Principles
The Gospel of Judas
Study: No Single Cause of Clergy Abuse in US
Understanding Islam and the Theology of Jihad
Janet Smith on the Right to Privacy
Christians in Lebanon Face Challenges of Islamization
Islamic Law and Its Democratic Potential
It Pays To Be Ethical
Document Shows Homosexuals Much Sensitivity
Ray Flynn on Politically Homeless Catholics
On Wars Thought Holy
A Triumph-of-the-Cross Homily From County Cork
Handiphobia Leading Cause of Euthanasia
Halloween's Origins
Senator Santorum Tells Graduates to Rebel Against Culture
A Government Cannot Oblige Religions to Go Against Their Convictions
A Psychologist's Look at the Gosnell Case
What Every Parent Should Know About The Golden Compass
Giving to God, Giving to Caesar
The Mistake of Attributing Globalization to the Devil
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Dealing Girls a Raw and Racy Deal
Why Would the Leader in Embryonic Stem Cell Research Drop Out?
On Politics and Conscience
Generation X and the Turn to Christian Orthodoxy
Gambling With Morality
Gambling Fever
Freedom, Freedom of Religion, Christian Freedom
Theologian Luigi Iammarrone on St. Francis and Ecology
Church in Seville Warns About TV Fortunetellers
Vatican Told Nuncio to Forgo Praise of Hitler
Boom and Bust
Lots of Data Point to Fewer Births
Young Women Exploited by Fertility Industry
A Return to the Female Biblical Role
Giving Politics a Faith Lift
Legalizing Euthanasia by Omission
European Court Rules in Favor of Family
Woman Episcopalian Priest Converts to Catholicism
Commandments for the Environment
We Are Fighting an Enemy of Two Civilizations
Bioethics and End-of-Life Issues
The Encyclical That Infuriated Hitler
The Status of the Embryo and IVF
Education and Gender
Economics, Reproductive Health and the Integrity of the Family
If the Woman Had Been a Man...
Cardinal Dulles on Communion and Pro-Abortion Politicians
Doubts About Condoms
Do No Harm? Should Patients Still Trust Their Doctors?
Donating One's Body to Science
The Keys to Conquering Racism
Scholar: Ordaining Women Is Disrespectful
Scholars Decry Distortion of Pius XII Quotation
Vatican II, 40 Years Later:Dignitatis Humanae
When Deviant Behavior Gets Respectable
Conscience in Developing Countries
Demoting Humans
Western Defense of Conscience
Decline in Institutional Religion in the United States
Debunking the Papal So-Called Euthanasia
Da Vinci's Secret Christian Message
Debunking The Da Vinci Code
Da Vinci Code's Devilish Gaffes
Culture of Life Remains in the Balance
The Crucifix Decision: A Victory for Europe
Why 20 Nations Are Defending the Crucifix
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Where to Draw the Line on Cooperating With Evil
Challenges of Christian Converts From Islam
Catholic Teaching on Contraception: For Married Couples Only?
Conscience Objections and Religious Liberty
Christian Conscience on the Critical List
What Comes First, Conscience or the Pope?
Cardinal Expands Debate on Condom Use
Condom Conundrums
Cohabitation: a Recipe for Marital Ruin
Abortion: A History of Coercion and Destruction
Cardinal Coccopalmerio on Annulments, the Synod and Ministry to Couples
Cloning Takes a Giant Step Forward
Clergy Sexual Misconduct: Some Reflections From Asia
Civil Responsibility of Catholics
A City's Soul in the Balance
Bishop Wuerl on Faithful Citizenship in 2004 Election
Christian Unity and the East-West Divide
The Church's Response to AIDS
Church and State: To Separate, or Set Against
Law and Morality in Public Discourse
Faith and Politics: Better Together
Archbishop Chaput's Column on Catholic Citizenship
Logic and the Myth of Centrism
Catholic Psychology and Sexual Abuse by Clergy
A Quandry of Catholic Pharmacists
Law From a Catholic Lens
Where the Catholic Church Stands
Canada's Push for Euthanasia
U.S. Presidential Candidates Differ Widely on Issues
Campaign Reform: Against Corruption or Free Speech?
Globalization's Bum Rap
Birth Control for the Disabled?
Dan Brown and the Catholic Church
Transplants From Murder Victims
Bishops Actually a Step Ahead in Addressing Scandal
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Donated Body Parts: the Moral Criteria
Cardinal Bertone on Pius XII
Breaking the Bonds of Biological Parenthood
Belloc Would Not Have Been Surprised at Sept. 11
An Axis of Secularism
Age of Atheism or Religious Revival?
The Atheistic Delusion
The Future Is Reserved to God
Anti-Depressants and the Dying
Why Human Rights Come Before Animal Welfare
Angels
Address at Hispanic Leaders Conference
Putting the Care Back in Health Care
Church-State Relations in America and Europe
The Lure of Alternative Religions
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Allies Urged Pope Pius XII
Alice Von Hildebrandt on Feminism and Femininity
AIDS Policy Lethal Mix of Ideology?
AIDS in Africa: Abstinence Works
Why BBC Was Wrong About AIDS Prevention
An African View of Church and HIV
5 Phases of an Adolescent's Slide Into Satanism
Sex Abuse Symposium a Lead-up to Further Response
Abstinence Education Shows Its Wisdom
What Abstinence Education Gets Right
Abortion and Mental Health
Abortions's Ethics
Study Published on Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights
90 Million Missing Females, and a $45 Trillion Gap
5 Wars Raging Behind the Bioethics Debates
3 Arguments Against IVF
2-Parent Families and Poverty
10 Points to Ponder In Examining the Cloyne Report
Reflection on Youth and the Drive To Be Beautiful
PIUS XII AND THE JEWS
The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
Vatican Meeting of U.S. Cardinals on Sex-Abuse Scandals in the United States
Clear and Total Disclosure
Stem Cells That Become Embryos
Use of Outer Space Calls for Ethical Standards
Sin To Vote For Pro-Abortion Politicians?
Sydney Archbishop on Same-Sex Marriage
Secularism, Morality and Politics
Refusing Food and Water to Non-Dying Patients
Exorcist Warns of Satanic Youth
Defamation campaign in Rwanda
Review of Pierre Blet's Book
As Fruits of the Same Tree: The Abortifacient Nature of the So-called 'Morning-after Pill'
Conclusions of the 2nd Meeting
Discussion Regarding the Revised Good Friday Prayer
The Retreat of Liberation Theology
The Church's Response to Sex-Abuse Scandals
The New Religion of Politics
Religious Liberty
Religion and the Common Good
If Relativism Becomes a Norm
Ethical Reflection on Scientific Advances
Reflection on Dignitatis Personae
Reflection on Dignitas Personae
Legal Recognition of Homosexual Unions
Kinsey's Flawed Research
The World Over: Cardinal Ratzinger Interview
The Question of Sex Education
An Urgent Message for Lawmakers, Voters, and Those Running for Public Office
Response to an Erroneous Interpretation of "Prophylactics or Family Values?"
Mother Teresa at the National Prayer Breakfast
Harry Potter Books
Post-Conciliary States of Mind
Pius XII: The Martyrdom of Silence
The Good Samaritan: Jewish Praise For Pope Pius XII
Sacrament of Penance - Common Issues
Partial Birth Abortion and Catholics
A Papyrus Adrift
On Palestinian Refugees
Declaration by Pius XII Relator on Historians Panel
PIUS XII AND THE JEWS
Statement of Reconciliation and the Decree of Reconciliation of Fr. Tissa Balasuriya, O.M.I.
There Was No Cover-Up
Mother Teresa Takes Pro-Life Message to the Supreme Court
Statement to Cairo Conference on Population
Why the Church Cares About the Women's Issue
Medicine and Morals
Ban on Medjugorje Tours
Media Twists Papal Statement on Evolution
The Commitment of the Church Against the Abuse of Minors
Is Marriage Just Discrimination?
Pro Life, Civil Law and Individual Duty
There Is No Way to Justify Evil
History Will Render Justice to Pope Pius XII
May We Rediscover Our Full Communion
Interview with Cardinal Sodano
Interview with Mons. Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library
An Interdisciplinary Look at Evolution
Inaugural Address: European Symposium of University Professors
Moral Aspect of Heart Transplants
Homosexual Marriage: Much to Fear
Homosexuality and Gospel Truth: Towards Effective Pastoral Care
Homily: Thursday, Week II, Ordinary Time
U.S. Congress Supports Holy See's Presence at UN
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Pius XII: Guilty as Charged?
From 'Cold War' to Guerra Fria?
Immigration and the Next America: Perspectives from Our History
GLOBALIZATION
The Surprise of the Gentiles in Sweden
Commentary: The Problem of Gender Feminism
Towards Preserving the Universality of Human Rights
French vs. American Models of Freedom and Religion
Euthanasia Case Prompts Concerns
On Ecclesia in Europa
Ruling in Favour of Human Dignity
Europe and the Crucifix
The Dangerous Error of Ethical Relativism
Edith Stein on the Education of Women
Is the End Near?
Preventing Violence and Building Peace
Economists According to Aristotle
Mother Teresa: The Early Years
Conversation with Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York
The Defence of Life in the Context of International Policies and Norms
Democracy and Natural Ethics
Dismantling the Da Vinci Code
Critical Reviews of The Da Vinci Code
The False Contraposition Between Darwinism and the Church
Evolutionary Theory from Darwin to Popper
The Risks of Pushing Towards Perfection
How to Win the Culture War
Courage
The Moral Cost of Cooperation in Evil
Contemplation and Controversy
What Are We Doing to the Young?
Commentary on Therapeutic Cloning
Commentary on the Relationship Between Men and Women
The Commission That Couldn't Shoot Straight
An Examination of Therapeutic Cloning and Cybrids
The Catholic Church and Galileo
Christian Witness and the Challenge of Atheocracy
On the Separation of Sense and State: A Clarification for the People of the Church in Northern Colorado
Commentary: Catholic Feminism vs Equality Feminism
Commentary: Catholic Feminism vs Equality Feminism
On Cases of Sexual Abuse
Catholicism & Capital Punishment 
Bishop Burke Releases Pastoral Letter, Notification on Political Responsibility
The Inviolable Dignity of Man Under Attack
Book Review: Archbishop of Denver, U.S.A., On Politics and Religion
Evolutionary Accident or Everlasting Architect??
MYTH: The recurring accusations against Pope Pius XII
1952 Adress by Pope Pius XII to the Medical Community
Bio-politics and Person: An Ethical Reflection in the Age of Globalization
Biological Identity v. Geographical Boundaries
At Varese, Italy
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba
Historically Senseless Hypocrisy
On Benedict XVI's Addresses in Bavaria
Why Having a Heart of God Is Not What Christianity Is About
Gay Marriage and the Breakdown of the Moral Argument
Why Goodness Depends on God
The Authority of the Church
A Comprehensive Strategy to Combat Modern Slavery
From Sister to Sister
Causing Animals Needless Suffering Is Contrary to Human Dignity
The Gospel as Good News for Europe Today
Commentary on Advance Directives Concerning Treatment
63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly
12 Things Every Catholic Should Know About the U.S. Scandals