The Holy See at the UN Calls for Urgent Measures to Protect Families Worldwide
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia urged the protection of the most vulnerable, especially children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and victims of war.
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia urged the protection of the most vulnerable, especially children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and victims of war.
The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has not addressed concerns that his recent remarks may contradict the Church’s moral teaching on bodily integrity.
The declaration, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in April, addresses growing concerns such as gender theory, sex changes, surrogacy, and euthanasia in addition to abortion, poverty, human trafficking and war.
COMMENTARY: Is Divine Revelation, embodied in Scripture and the Catholic Church’s tradition, real, and does it have binding authority over time?
In the letter, Archbishop Porteous reiterated the Church’s teaching on the complementarity of the sexes, the sanctity of marriage, and the protection of life from conception to natural death.
Much in this document deserves pondering. Too bad readers of certain news outlets wouldn’t know that.
The new declaration on human dignity has been well received, but its impact on topics like the Synod on Synodality and the Church’s pastoral response to gender theory remains to be seen.
EDITORIAL: While the Vatican’s document ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is morally coherent, the Republican presidential candidate’s abortion-related announcement, issued the same day, was anything but.
COMMENTARY: The exploration of what dignity means in different contexts will open new avenues for discussion, apologetics and evangelization.
‘Surprising’ document offers a compelling affirmation of Church teaching on sex and gender, which some experts are calling a game changer.
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