The Joy of the Truth

Well, it finally happened. A modernist has revealed the true beliefs behind the Culture of Death. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has written an article in The New Republic (May 28, 2008) called "The Stupidity of Dignity." As the title indicates,...

The American Papist blog drew my attention to an article by Father Richard P. McBrien about Humanae Vitae. Fr. McBrien is an old-school "liberal" who just can't seem to recognized that the Church as moved on from the 1960's. However, some of his...

The 40th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI stirs in me a mixture of joy and sadness. This is the 40th anniversary of the Catholic Church holding the line of Truth against a very popular cultural shift. It is the 40th...

Most people who have heard anything at all about Humanae Vitae assume that this encyclical's main message is that Catholics are to use natural family planning rather than contraception. However, as David M McCarthy reminds us in "Procreation, the...

Humanae Vitae, the encyclical by Pope Paul VI that upheld the Church's constant teaching that rendering the sexual act sterile through contraception and sterilization is opposed to the true meaning of the act, has been criticized as being out of step with...