I was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the famous Haight-Ashbury district. It gave me a front-row seat at the beginning of what we now refer to as the sexual revolution. I watched as the young women around me gave in to the onslaught. It was only later . . . . Continue Reading »
The discipline of medicine is an art of dynamic tension. Continue Reading »
July 25 is the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of love and the appropriate means of family planning. Continue Reading »
As the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae approaches, we should resist the temptation to see the encyclical as the standalone work of a trailblazing pope. Continue Reading »
One recurring theme in Pope Francis’s teaching is that human realities trump scholarly abstractions: “La realidad es superior a la idea.” His signature phrase about pastors who have the “smell of the sheep” is the folk version of this maxim. Cautions about “rigidity,” “empty . . . . Continue Reading »
Natural Family Planning is licit not because it is “natural,” but because it respects the divine blueprint for conjugal love. Continue Reading »
The fruit of contraception is abortion; we should stop insisting that the two are separable. Continue Reading »
Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae, which turns fifty this year, is the foundation of the Church’s uncompromising pro-life position. Continue Reading »
Protestants are not known for their familiarity with papal encyclicals. We pride ourselves in doing things our own way, often in order to distance ourselves as far from Rome as possible. There is one teaching in particular that most Protestants readily recognize as Catholic, and it is usually . . . . Continue Reading »
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