Contraception and Infallibility — Part 1
COMMENTARY: Despite opinions circulated by Pontifical Academy for Life, the Church’s perennial teaching on the immorality of contraception is settled and unchangeable teaching of divine law.
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Contraception and Infallibility – Part 2
COMMENTARY: Some Pontifical Academy for Life theologians seem to fail to take into account the other way that Church teaching can be proclaimed infallibly: worldwide teaching by the ordinary magisterium.
How Can Stock Trading (or Any Other Job) Be a Path to Sainthood?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: Anyone, including a stock trader, who lives his livelihood in a Christlike way, is of incalculable worth to the Kingdom.
Is There Marriage in the Heavenly Kingdom?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: In heaven, we will not share bodies in the procreative way married persons share them here. We will share them in a metaphysical way.
Living or Not Living? That Is the Question
COMMENTARY: The debate over brain death has no easy answer but requires astute attentiveness to science, Church teaching and the sanctity of human life.
I’m Worried That My Baptism Was Invalid — Am I Still a Pagan?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: “In case of necessity, any person can baptize provided that he have the intention of doing that which the Church does and provided that he pours water on the candidate’s head while saying: ‘I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.’” (CCC 1284)
The Validity of the Eucharist and Mortal Sin
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: A question on celebrants and recipients of Holy Communion while in a state of grave sin.
12 Ways to Overcome a Scrupulous Conscience
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: The good news is that scrupulosity is not incompatible with holiness. More good news is that the malady can be overcome. Here are 12 points of advice for doing so.
Can We Patronize Businesses That Support Planned Parenthood?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: It is good if these things bother you. They should bother all of us.
Software Piracy and a Classic Case of Doubt of Conscience
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: If we are contemplating some behavior that we believe might be wrong, we should refrain from acting until we settle the question.
