Book Review: Papal Teaching on Private Property – 1891 to 1981
Or at least, that is acceptable logic now for the youth, who want to be “responsible” by using birth control, but don’t want to be responsible enough to pay for it:
Of course responsibility today doesn’t mean waiting to have sex until you have the means to support children (as if self-control is far too much to ask of the youth)… How did American liberalism get freedom so wrong?
Abortion apologists often talk about how abortion is a necessary evil, and a hard moral choice for many women. Not only does this rhetoric contradict the idea that a baby is “just a tissue or blob of cells” as is regularly stated (why would it be a moral choice if it is just a tissue? Is having your tonsils removed a moral choice?), but it simply isn’t true. People want more abortion in the name of sexual “freedom”:
More than anything, this all just makes me sad. We are a society in great pain…
My birth control dissent (from the official Catholic teaching) is being published this week in the academic journal Charter at Gonzaga. I have the longest article ever printed (at 14 pages), and I believe I am the only non-priest to be included in this issue on Catholicism…
Even so, a great article on contraception and principled sexuality appeared this past week on CERC. Even though I have some qualms about a few points, it is worth a serious read and reflection. Additionally, a blog post about the efficiency of NFP is stirring the pot in the Catholic blogosphere…
That’s about it for now on sex…
The top video makes me, quite frankly, despairing. I know of no other word for it.
The working title for that thing ought to be, "We are animals, we cannot help ourselves; hence, the government must protect us from ourselves."
Absolutely. Our culture is one of a dying conscience…