Dec 17, 2020 catholic news service
Demonstrators are seen near the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., showing their opposition to the death penalty July 13, 2020. (Credit: Bryan Woolston/Reuters via CNS.)
A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.
Cardinal Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, delivered the
Bampton Lecture at Columbia University on Monday, Jan. 29.
Addressing Columbia students and faculty, Erdo warned about the dangers of moral relativism, and discussed the necessity of the Church in a secular state.
The cardinal said that relativism the inability to declare something as objectively right or objectively wrong is a “grave crisis” of modern secular states. Without a foundation in natural law, he argued, societies become unstable, and moral evil becomes permissible.
“It is difficult for the state to decide what is good for man,” said Erdo, without some foundation in natural law and a religious worldview. Absent natural law and “by a weakening of belief in the rationality of the world,” societies lose trust in democratic institutions.
family matters
“A family record of Jesus Christ.” Matthew 1:1
Wait! Don’t skip the genealogy! Because we love the Lord, we can’t wait to learn more about Him. Here are a few things God reveals about Himself in St. Matthew’s genealogy:
Jesus Christ is “truly God and truly man,” God made man (see
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 467-468, 470).
Jesus is God, the Messiah, born of a virgin (Mt 1:16, 18).
Family comes first these are the first verses of the New Testament, and God can’t wait to introduce His family.
God works through people lots of them.
God loves families. Jesus lived in one for thirty years.
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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ
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as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.
All Christian should argue for the integrity of every individual person made in the image of God, and that the gospel, if we re going to be faithful to that gospel and faithful to biblical anthropology, requires us to be engaged as advocates for the sanctity of human life wherever we encounter it.
December 17, 2020
In a series of articles by its editorial board, media columnist Margaret Sullivan, and former Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett, the Washington Post has mounted a coordinated attack on Robert R. Reilly, the new nominee for VOA director, claiming he is an existential threat to the organization’s mission to provide independent reporting to foreign audiences.
The reason they deem Reilly disqualified to serve as VOA director isn’t about a lack of credentials. He was director from 2001 to 2002 and for a decade before that produced a weekly talk show on VOA. No, according to Bennett and WaPo, Reilly is “dangerous” because he believes what the Catholic Church teaches on sexuality which is ironic, to say the least, given legacy media’s favorable coverage of Joe Biden’s Catholic faith.