John Smeaton: Why the pro-life movement needs the Catholic Church
John Smeaton, Chief Executive of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and co-founder of Voice of the Family,…
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Cardinal Müller and the defence of sacramental marriage
This article was written by Maike Hickson and first published in The Wanderer. It is reprinted with kind permission. Ignatius…
READ MOREWhat does the Bible teach about marriage?
The Instrumentum Laboris, which is intended to guide the deliberations of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, begins with a…
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Introduction The Church has consistently taught that parents are the first and foremost educators of their children. They have the…
READ MOREArchbishop Kaigama attacks anti-family population control lobby at Synod
By John Smeaton Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama (pictured to the right in the photo) President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of…
READ MOREArchbishop Fisichella promotes false understanding of conscience once again
By John Smeaton Once again, Archbishop Salvatore ‘Rino’ Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, employs…
READ MORECardinal Wuerl confuses faithful about Holy Communion
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, has given an interview outside the Synod in which he said: “When we talk…
READ MOREResponse to Bishop Vesco: a failed marriage is still indissoluble; reconciliation for those in second unions
Msgr. Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Oran in Algeria, in a text published by the weekly magazine La Vie (English translation)has said:…
READ MORESynod testimony on welcoming gay couples is ‘damaging’, says pro-family coalition
ROME, 7 October 2014: A testimony given to the Synod about welcoming homosexual couples has been called ‘damaging’ by a…
READ MOREKey extracts from Familiaris Consortio
Key extracts from Familiaris Consortio, the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II promulgated following the 1980 Synod of Bishops…
READ MORECatechesis, not confusion, needed to reclaim families for Church, says Cardinal Burke
Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Church’s highest judicial authority, has given a wide-ranging and particularly hard-hitting…
READ MORECardinal Brandmüller says family care must conform to doctrine
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, has given a strong interview to the Catholic…
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