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William Birmingham and Joseph E. Cunneen (ed.) - Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality - Pantheon - 1964

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Unnatural Lawyering: John Finnis’s brief against traditional Catholic teaching on capital punishment

Ed Feser tells fools who believe that the death penalty is principally inadmissible that they’re wrong

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Ours has become a neo-pagan culture, and that can be even worse than a simple pagan culture

By Father George Rutler Last week the Church celebrated the feast of the Martyrs of Uganda. In the late nineteenth century, French and ...

"Pagans did not know about Christ, while neo-pagans do know about him and reject him.”

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Quick question for Catholic Tumblr:

Suppose there’s a piece of media that has a pressing social/cultural importance that happens to contain (or may potentially contain) scenes of immorality (for example, someone taking the Lord’s Name in vain, brief moments of explicit sexuality, etc.).

If one is willing to take the necessary steps to avoid said scenes of immorality, would it be sinful for one to partake of something that is of social/cultural importance? If so, would it be mortally sinful?

(I know this sounds oddly specific, but it’s actually an issue that pops up a lot in my life, so if any Catholics have any input, that would be much appreciated. God Bless!)

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To educate for growth

Catholic moral teaching is not a mere code of prescriptions and prohibitions. It is not something that the Church teaches merely to keep people obedient, doing violence to their freedom. Rather, Catholic morality is a response to the aspirations of the human heart for truth and goodness. As such, it offers guidelines that when followed will make these aspirations grow and become strong under the…

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Philippines Contraception

The Philippines has the highest birthrate in South East Asia. In 1990 there were 60 million Filipinos. Now there are more than 95 million and the government wants to slow this down. It has put forward a reproductive health bill that includes a provision to give out free contraception and family planning advice to couples that want it. But in a country where more than 80% of the population is Catholic the bill is facing fierce opposition from the Church. This will be the fourth time a family planning proposal has been put forward. The other three times the Church and its political allies managed to block the plans from ever becoming law. But supporters of the bill hope that this time the situation will be different. In the past, the sitting president was either against contraception or tried to abstain from such a controversial debate. Now President Benigno Aquino is one of the main backers of the current bill. Kate McGeown reports for Assignment from the Philippines on how the reproductive health bill is dividing Church and state.

More evidence of the Catholic church working against the interests of poor women across the globe. Every day 11 women die in the Philippines from pregnancy or childbirth, but the church continues to teach that contraception = abortion and that it's moral to die in pregnancy or to have a 10th child when you're too poor to support the 9 you already have and immoral to get an IUD. Stay classy, Catholicism!