NFP vs. Sex Ed
by The EditorsThe First Things Podcast, Episode 4. Also featuring: Catholic voting patterns and women deacons. Continue Reading »
The First Things Podcast, Episode 4. Also featuring: Catholic voting patterns and women deacons. Continue Reading »
A week’s worth of commentary on Fr. Jacques Hamel. Continue Reading »
A response to Rocco Buttiglione’s reading of Amoris Laetitia. Continue Reading »
Plus: Pokémon Go and American Insecurity. First Things Podcast, Episode 2. Continue Reading »
Healing people’s wounds means counseling them with the love of Christ, but never misleading them with erroneous teachings or allowing them to abuse Holy Communion. Continue Reading »
Last weekend, Pope Francis made an apostolic journey to Armenia, a small, landlocked country of three million in the South Caucasus, bordering Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The official motto of his journey was “Visit to the First Christian Nation,” a reference to Armenia’s being the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?”Continue Reading »
—Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939
The Church affirms that human beings are by nature suited to contract marriage, and she teaches that Christian couples can call upon the graces of the sacrament of Matrimony in living out the marriages they contract. Against such an ancient and affirming tradition, Francis’s assertion that “the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null” shocked both common sense and Catholic sensibility. Continue Reading »
Francis reminds us that the Eucharist is not “a prize for the perfect.” But marriage, apparently, is. Continue Reading »
If the sincere exchange of vows doesn’t make their marriage valid, what does? Must all sacramentally valid marriages resemble my friends', beginning only after a few years of theological study, during a Mass set to music by Mozart? Continue Reading »