Scotland’s birth rate at its lowest since 1855, the year it started keeping records
Meanwhile, Scotland – like the rest of the United Kingdom – actually funds, with taxpayer dollars, both abortion and birth control.
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Articles tagged First Things
Notre Dame provost says DEI ‘equally important’ as Catholic faith in hiring process
University of Notre Dame Provost John McGreevy told faculty that it is just as important to hire ‘women and underrepresented minorities’ as it is to hire Catholic faculty ‘deeply committed to our mission.’
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Archbishop Chaput slams Pope’s ‘extraordinarily flawed’ comment that ‘every religion is a path to God’
Archbishop Charles Chaput said Pope Francis' religious pluralism comments are 'extraordinarily flawed' and 'drains martyrdom of its meaning.' The Pope has repeatedly made statements suggesting different religions lead to salvation.
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Abp. Chaput: Fiducia Supplicans ‘a doubleminded exercise’ in ‘affirming and undercutting Catholic teaching’
'Deliberate or persistent ambiguity—anything that fuels misunderstanding or seems to leave an opening for objectively sinful behavior—is not of God,' Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput said.
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New pro-abortion legislation is unmasking the GOP’s pro-life sellouts
It is enlightening to discover who viewed pre-born lives as props to further their political or media careers and who genuinely believed in the sanctity of human life.
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Cardinal Müller: Pope would ‘automatically’ lose his office by teaching heresy
‘The pope is the perennial principle and foundation of the unity of the Church,’ Cardinal Müller writes in a new essay for First Things. ‘But the Church is not centralized in him, as if he were the supreme leader of a totalitarian party.’
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Former Philly archbishop: Biden ‘not in full communion with the Catholic Church’
'By his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,' wrote Archbishop Charles Chaput.
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Conservative civil war erupts after writer blasts ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’
According to Sohrab Ahmari, the mainstream conservative approach has failed to halt the advancement of the far left's agenda and the degradation of America. Something new must be tried.
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75 clergy, scholars appeal to Cardinals: Urge Francis to ‘withdraw’ death penalty teaching
The appeal comes just two weeks after Pope Francis ordered the teaching changed on capital punishment.
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‘A Conservative Catholic now backs gay marriage’: that Joseph Bottum essay
Try as I might, I cannot find any argument in Bottum’s piece more persuasive than that notion: that public acceptance of same-sex marriage is inevitable, and resistance is making the Catholic Church unpopular.
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