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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Already/Not Yet, Christian apologists, News, The problem of evil, The problem of good, theodicy |
A particularly thorny dilemma for Christian apologists over the centuries has been the challenge of “theodicy” — or providing a justification for how an all-powerful, all-loving God can co-exist with the very real and palpable evil we see in the world.
Read MoreOver the past half-decade or so, blogs – which along with discussion boards of various types, had long provided the main venues for conversation and expression on the Internet – have been thoroughly usurped by […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 11, 2021 / 05:27 pm (CNA).- The kidnappings of Catholic priests and others in Nigeria must end, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja said this week.He spoke during his visit to a church whose priest was abducted and released just weeks b…
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 11, 2021 / 05:06 pm (CNA).- The Diocese of Buffalo released thousands of clergy abuse documents and related records to abuse victims and their lawyers this week as part of an agreement in ongoing clergy abuse negotiations during its bank…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, christ the king, Corpus Christi parish, Echoes of Catholic Minnesota, Eucharist, Falcon Heights, History, National Eucharistic Congress, News |
At the corner of Buford and Cleveland in Falcon Heights stands a stone and copper building. The copper is new, but the stone structure that faces the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota was built in 1940 in anticipation of one of the crowning events in the history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Read MoreQuestions Covered:
21:22 – What is a “right and just” that you have found in the Catholic Church that Protestant and Lutheran preachers today, in North America, just don’t seem to see?
31:45 – Practically speaking, is it going to tak…
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Jan 11, 2021 / 04:47 pm (CNA).- The Dominican bishops’ conference issued a statement Sunday rejecting a proposal to decriminalize abortion under certain conditions in a newly revised penal code being debated in the Dominican Congress.
“Life is the first civil right that is mentioned in our Constitution in its art. 37, which reads: ‘The right to life is inviolable from conception to death.’ Life is a right prior to all legislation. Without life there are no possibilities to enjoy any other right,” the bishops said in the Jan. 10 statement.
Despite the fact that the nation’s constitution rejects the possibility of legalizing abortion, radical feminist activists have been trying to de facto legalize it via a “decriminalization” using the penal code.
“According to our own Constitution, the State cannot apply the death penalty even to the worst offenders, since it says: ‘The death penalty may not be established, pronounced or applied, in any case.’ So, how to accept that in our country abortion is consecrated, in the so-called three causes, in which innocent creatures are killed, the nasciturus (the unborn child)?” the bishops’ document says.
In December 2020, the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, told the left-leaning Spanish newspaper El País that “I disagree, as does the majority of the population, not only in the Dominican Republic but also in the world, with free abortion, but I do think that there must be grounds that allow the interruption of the pregnancy. That has been the official position of our party.”
The Dominican congress, with the president’s support, is debating legalizing abortion in the cases pertaining to “the health of the mother,” rape, and “severe fetal malformation.”
According to the bishops’ conference, “Incorporating abortion into our legislation, in any circumstance, is a flagrant constitutional violation, and a blow to the social and democratic state of law. Approving the so-called three grounds would be a serious violation of the right to life that could only be based on a wrong interpretation of the Constitution.”
“We are shocked to know that in our society there are those who think that sacrificing innocent children under euphemistic names such as ‘a decision about one’s own body,’ ‘women’s empowerment’ or ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ can be seen as part of authentic progress.”
Regarding “therapeutic abortion,” the bishops explain that “Medical ethics indicates that in the case of complications in a pregnancy, efforts should be made to save mother and child and never see the premeditated death of one of them as an easy way out, as established in the official protocols of the Ministry of Public Health, which have been used in public hospitals in our country for many years.”
“Let us promote the approval of a Penal Code in accordance with our Constitution, one that shows to the world that Dominicans love life, and that motherhood is one of the great treasures that the Dominican woman and our Nation have.”
Questions Covered:
18:48 – Do we take the ages of people in the bible literally?
33:30 – How can I read the Bible in larger doses? How do I handle more than just a small dose?
40:00 – Given the more recent non-literal interpretations…
Francis also urges Americans to protect democracy
Read MoreWashington D.C., Jan 11, 2021 / 03:34 pm (CNA).- In a joint statement Jan. 11, the U.S. bishops’ domestic justice chair Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, joined by pro-life chair Archbishop Joseph Naumann, called for a stop to planned fed…
Read MoreThe challenging of creating true, life-giving communities of support within Catholic parishes
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