Morals and Culture

Fr. Serpa's Sub-Catholic Answer Regarding the Birth Control Pill ~By Ben Douglass. Why Fr. Vincent Serpa, OP is wrong to assert that a sexually active woman may take the birth control pill for "medical reasons."

Right and Necessity: Fr. Neuhaus on Abortion and the Popular Vote ~By Ben Douglass. A commentary on my exchange with Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in the February 2008 First Things.

A Catholic Utopia ~By Richard J. McHugh. McHugh, writing in The Irish Ecclesiastical Record in 1886, describes the beautiful and integral Catholic society of Tyrol in the Austrian Alps.

A Civilization of Love: The Pope's Call to the West ~Catholic magazine editors assert the West's need to change lifestyles and economic structures in order to create a just social order.

St. Thomas Aquinas on Temporal Power ~The Angelic Doctor teaches on the ends, forms, and bearers of civil authority.

Why Do We Murder Down Syndrome Babies? ~By Charles and Donna James. How our selfish desire for perfect babies is robbing the world of beautiful souls.

The Primary End of the Family ~By Celestine Strub, O.F.M. A beatiful and passionate exposition of a truth which is sadly neglected in the modern Church: the duty of spouses to be fruitful and multiply and the positive good of large families.

Abortion is Murder ~By Ben Douglass. The proposition proved by simple reason.