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“Disarming Beauty” takes on the question of the Church’s relevance amid modern society’s most pressing challenges. From terrorism to consumerism, “rights” culture to marriage and family, the book examines the plight of our current world and invites Christians to respond – not from a place of fear, but from the joy of their original encounter with the living person of Christ. “The fact that the Church is no longer a moral majority is liberating; it allows us to rediscover the hea...

Credit: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jan 28, 2021 / 11:15 am (CNA).- Catholic and pro-life leaders condemned the White House’s planned repeal of the Mexico City Policy on Thursday. The policy prevents the use of tax dollars from going to foreign organizations that perform or promote abortions. The White House announced on Thursday morning that President Joe Biden would be repealing the policy later in the day, among his executive actions on health care. Jeanne Mancini, pre...

The increasing number of young girls wanting to switch gender has become an explosive subject as parents, scientists and campaigners warn of the irreversible, life-changing dangers. When ABIGAIL SHRIER, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, investigated the issue for a book, her first prospective publisher pulled out following protests by staff.  Then, amid a furious row over free speech, an English professor at one of Americas top universities suggested the book should be burned. And when Shr...