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What Comes After the Synod
Whatever Pope Francis does in the wake of the Synod on the Family, we have a new Humanae Vitae moment on our hands. Decades of relentless infighting over what...
A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph
When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of the authors of the Appeal—but as I studied the paragraph more carefully,...
Are We Obsessed?
A few passages from Pope Francis’ famous interview published in America have unsettled some people for many reasons. My reason for being unsettled is that it would not be...
Why Tollefsen and Pruss are Wrong about Lying
The response by Christopher Tollefsen and Alexander Pruss to my piece, “Fig Leaves and Falsehoods” indicates, I hope, that the needed conversation about the morality of all false signification...
Fig Leaves and Falsehoods
The exposé of Planned Parenthood engineered by Live Action has not only disclosed some illegal and immoral operations of Planned Parenthood, it has also revealed sharp divergences in the...
Good History, Bad Argument
Catholics and Contraception: An American History by Leslie Woodcock Tentler Cornell University Press 335 pp. $29.95 Leslie Woodcock Tentler maintains that mature Catholics reject their Church’s teaching on contraception....
