AIDS in Africa: An Interview With Expert Matthew Hanley By Carrie Gress In the fight against AIDS, abstinence-based programs that focus on changing behaviors rather than handing out condoms simply work better, says an AIDS expert. Matthew Hanley has been a HIV/AIDS technical adviser at Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for the last seven years and…
NEW YORK (zenit.org) — Though not a single U.N. human rights treaty mentions abortion, treaty bodies have pressured 93 nations 122 times to legalize abortion in the last decade, says the executive vice president of a lobbying group. “Though not a single U.N. human rights treaty mentions abortion, treaty bodies have pressured 93 nations 122…
An Interview With Kevin Burke of Rachel’s Vineyard KING of PRUSSIA, Pa. (zenit.org) — One man’s sharing gives other men permission to examine their own role in abortion and the impact it has had on their lives, said counselor Kevin Burke. Burke, the associate director of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries, and pastoral associate at Priests For…
Many times Catholics of good faith and good will, starting with the same understanding of their moral obligations, may legitimately arrive at very different conclusions and advocate divergent alternative solutions to given social concerns. Catholics for the Common Good avoids getting involved in these kinds of issues, since they offer no possibility for united Catholic…
New Studies Reveal Close Relationship By Fr. John Flynn ROME (zenit.org) — The fortunes of family life and religion may well be linked, say experts in recent studies. W. Bradford Wilcox, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, is the author of a research brief published in May by the Institute for American…
ROME (zenit.org) — Giving full legal status to marriage between persons of the same sex continues to be a hotly debated topic. On Thursday in the United States the New Hampshire senate voted in favor of a bill granting same-sex couples virtually all the legal rights heterosexual spouses enjoy, reported the Washington Post the same…
Sgreccia Links Strong Families to Healthy Economies ROME (zenit.com) — Laws allowing de facto unions will hurt many people, and Catholics will “do everything possible” to prevent their passage, said the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Bishop Elio Sgreccia said this at the launch in Rome of Carlo Casini’s book “Unioni di fatto,…
Abortion providers target black and Hispanic neighborhoods By Edith Black In 1963 I stood before the Lincoln Memorial and heard the Reverend Martin Luther King tell the nation about his dream. I have a dream, he said, that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we…
Don’t despair. Headlines like the following, which is from the Sept. 15, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle, are pure spin to mislead the public. “Massachusetts lawmakers defeat bid to halt gay marriages” “157-39 vote reflects growing acceptance of same-sex nuptials among state residents” What they didn’t tell you is that groups opposing “same-sex marriage” in the…
With President Bush’s nomination of District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John Roberts to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Catholics for the Common Good is calling Catholics to action to help assure that he does not fall victim to religious discrimination in the confirmation process as…
By Bill May California and the nation dodged a huge bullet when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the “same-sex marriage” legislation on September 30, 2005, that the legislature had put on his desk earlier in the month. The fact that such legislation could pass any legislative chamber in the country is a shock and should…