Selected Analysis and context articles

An unexpected trip to Auschwitz to confront the reality of evil. Richard Britton. Catholic Herald.

Why do so many Catholics use contraception? Experts weigh in. Daniel Payne. CNA.

El problema no es Francisco. Luis Santamaría del Río. Alfa y Omega.

Quell’inutile nostalgia del mitico ’68. Luca Ricolfi. Il Giornale.

Biden: Cafeteria Catholic or Something Far More Dangerous? David Carlin. The Catholic Thing.

Challenging liberal Christianity: Jesus gave very clear warnings about losing ‘saltiness’. Niall Gooch. Catholic Herald.

True and False Democracy in the Catholic Church. Larry Chapp. N. C. Register.

To end the week we leave some interesting articles to deepen and broaden the view on some current issues.

• Venerable Mindszenty and the battle for the Church under Communism

• Diane Montagna Interviews Edward Feser on ‘Dignitas infinita’

• Transhumanists set their sights on China

• Ideologies increasing exponentially and risk replacing God with individualism

• The Nature of the Moment

• Transparently bad faith: Answering “LGBTQ” critics of Dignitas Infinita
• Global fertility rates: Here’s how majority-Catholic countries rank against rest of world

• The Times They Are A-Changin’

• Our anti-Christian culture is turning democracy into a busted flush

• What would JFK think of Catholics and today’s US politics?

• The unique selling point of the church is Jesus

To end the week we leave some interesting articles to deepen and broaden the view on some current issues.

• New document from the Vatican on Apparitions and Miracles?

• An Evaluation of Controversial Statements in Etica Teologica Della Vita. (Read the article).

• We Don’t Care About Persecuted Christians … Because We Don’t Want to Join Them

It is difficult to know the real motivation behind many things that happen in the Vatican and this week we have had a good example of this. A few days ago the Pope issued a Motu Proprio changing the legislation concerning Vatican judges. Here are two articles with plausible and very different interpretations.

• Following Italian lead, Pope creates civil liability for Vatican judges, prosecutors

• L’ultimo regalo di Bergoglio: l’impunità divina ai giudici vaticani

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